Node-red serial port & Digital I/O control question

[Michael Dalby]

Hi All

I wondered if somebody can help.

I am trying to get a simple serial port to work with Node-Red on a beagleBone Black running Debian 8.7

The raw install of Debian 8.7 for BBB gives me a pre-installed version of Node-red (V0.15.2). This Node-Red image for BBB has a digital I/O library included  https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-beaglebone. allowing you  read input pins and set outputs.

Unfortunately this image does not include a serial port function as standard - so I have manually added one from https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-serialport

This adds the serial nodes correctly to my panel, but  I found I had to enable the required UART port by appending the following to uEnv.txt: capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART2

The serial port now works but the BBB Digital I/O read/write nodes have disappeared from the node selection panel. 

Does anyone know how can I get the Digital I/O nodes back / to work at the same time as having the serial nodes enabled.

I have tried not using the standard serial Node port in favour of using OctalBoneScript ..... but I couldn't work out how to get the read to work See my previous unanswered question  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/dalby%7Csort:relevance/beagleboard/G5N12N8p2qM/7_WJyaOLBQAJ

All I want is to be able to use a serial port and a digital I/O pin control at the same time.

Any help would be appreciated

Many thanks

Michael