Help with userDir option needed

[Claudiu O]

I followed the steps in the Running Nodered on Rasp Pi unattended post and everything went great - thanks a lot to everyone posting steps/scripts: you guys are awesome! There is only one thing: node-red got installed under usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red so the flows are saved in that location. I would like to have the flows in pi's home directory so I thought I could use the userDir option but I can't get it to work (I guess I can redo the installation of node-red and not install it with -g but if userDir would work as I thought it should, there is no need for that).

I tried all kinds of combinations: -userDir /home/pi/flows, -userDir=/home/pi/flows, -userDir /home/pi/flows/, --userDir /home/pi/flows and many others but no matter what I try I get:

[red] Loading flows : /home/pi/flows/

[red] Error loading flows : Error: EISDIR, read

I even created a file flows_raspberrypi.json in that dir and still no success. I am obviously doing something wrong. Do I need to copy more files in that dir, like settings.js or create other subdirs or something else?

I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thank you!

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Hi,

you set userDir in your settings.js, not on the command line.

Nick

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[Claudiu O]

Only if I paid more attention to the configuration page...

Thanks a lot for your help!

   claudiu

[The ThingBox]

And how can I have access to the userdir from a function node?

They are set as:

var settings_nodered = {

httpAdminRoot:"/",

httpNodeRoot: "/api/",

userDir: "/root/userdir/",

flowFile: "/root/userdir/flows/local/flows.json",

verbose: true,

flowFilePretty: true,

functionGlobalContext: {

wpi: require('node-red/node_modules/wiring-pi')

,settings: settings_ttb

}

};

// Initialise the runtime with a server and settings

RED.init(server,settings_nodered);

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Hi,

If you want to expose something to the Function node, you must place it under functionGlobalContext.

For example:

var userDir = "/root/userdir/";

var settings_nodered = {

httpAdminRoot:"/",

httpNodeRoot: "/api/",

userDir: userDir,

flowFile: "/root/userdir/flows/local/flows.json",

verbose: true,

flowFilePretty: true,

functionGlobalContext: {

wpi: require('node-red/node_modules/wiring-pi')

,settings: settings_ttb,

                userDir: userDir

}

};

And then reference it as `context.global.userDir` in the Function node.

Nick

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