NodeRed Beagleboard module not part of default image?

[Niels Jakob Buch]

Taking the BeagleBone Blue for a spin, and trying out NodeRed.

Works fine, but the IO interfacing is missing...? 

This library http://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-beaglebone is installed, but not working?

Trying the install fails:

debian@beaglebone:~$ npm install node-red-node-beaglebone

/

> i...@0.2.3 install /home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/i2c

> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/i2c/build'

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/i2c/src/i2c.o

  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/i2c.node

  COPY Release/i2c.node

make: Leaving directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/i2c/build'

> ep...@0.1.21 install /home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/epoll

> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/epoll/build'

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/epoll/src/epoll.o

  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/epoll.node

  COPY Release/epoll.node

make: Leaving directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/epoll/build'

> seria...@4.0.7 install /home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/serialport

> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(404): https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAdvisors/node-serialport/releases/download/4.0.7/serialport-v4.0.7-node-v46-linux-arm.tar.gz

node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for seria...@4.0.7 and no...@4.8.3 (node-v46 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)

make: Entering directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/serialport/build'

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport.o

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport_unix.o

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport_poller.o

  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/serialport.node

  COPY Release/serialport.node

make: Leaving directory '/home/debian/node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone/node_modules/octalbonescript/node_modules/serialport/build'

node-red-nod...@0.1.8 node_modules/node-red-node-beaglebone

└── octalbo...@1.3.1 (ver...@1.8.1, de...@2.6.7, i...@0.2.3, ep...@0.1.21, seria...@4.0.7)

What am I missing?

[Niels Jakob Buch]

Realised that the Nodered Beaglebone library is depending on the Node serial library which has no platform support of this.

https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAdvisors/node-serialport#platform-support

I guess this requires some substantial hacking...?

I had hoped this worked out of the box as advertised.