node-red-contrib-web-worldmap issues

[Peter Scargill]

I've had a couple of goes at getting a response to this one.... has anyone tried this node?  I cannot get anything out of it - that is - it works - I can see a map of the UK down south - but nothing I put into the payload seems to make any difference to what is on the map. I downloaded the latest version yesterday for the first time - and I've come to a halt.

Anyone done better? Am I missing something - there's an example of a name, lon and lat coordinates in braces as the payload  - does nothing for me?

[Dave C-J]

Peter

the curly braces and the word properties should indicate that it is an object... (and not a string)...  

open the map first... then send a msg

with   msg.payload = {name:"Joe", lat:51, lon:-1.05};

[Steampunk Prof]

Hi,

I've had it up and running and tracking my position quite nicely (used so my son could see when we were getting close to his place and get it tidied). It does seem a bit fussy about how the info is passed into it.
This is working for me, obviously you'll need to change your broker details.:
[{"id":"2a2f5d46.eee39a","type":"mqtt-broker","z":"","broker":"192.168.0.100","port":"1883","clientid":"Device-S1","usetls":false,"verifyservercert":true,"compatmode":true,"keepalive":"43200","cleansession":true,"willTopic":"","willQos":"0","willRetain":null,"willPayload":"","birthTopic":"","birthQos":"0","birthRetain":null,"birthPayload":""},{"id":"8514277e.8776a","type":"worldmap","z":"743a166.a8974e8","name":"Where am I? ","x":390,"y":80,"wires":[]},{"id":"e9b2cb61.410ac","type":"mqtt in","z":"743a166.a8974e8","name":"Shrike","topic":"owntracks/pi/Shrike","broker":"2a2f5d46.eee39a","x":67,"y":82,"wires":[["6ab90cdb.45f7c4"]]},{"id":"6ab90cdb.45f7c4","type":"function","z":"743a166.a8974e8","name":"MQTT to JSON","func":"msg.payload = JSON.parse(msg.payload);\nvar f_lat = msg.payload.lat;\nvar f_lon = msg.payload.lon;\nvar thing = {\n    layer:\"OSM\",\n    name:\"Me\", \n    lat:f_lat, \n    lon:f_lon,\n    icon:\"car\",\n    iconColor:\"red\",\n    zoom:16,\n    extrainfo:\"Some extra information\"\n};\nmsg.payload = thing;\nmsg.payload.command =  {\n     layer:\"OSM\",  \n     lat:f_lat, \n     lon:f_lon,\n     zoom:16\n};\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":217,"y":81,"wires":[["8514277e.8776a"]]}]

[Peter Scargill]

That’s what I did Dave…

 

msg.payload={name:"Joe", lat:51, lon:-1.05};

 

done in a function node feeding the map node – which is fed by a simple injector. Works a treat FOR THE EXAMPLE perhaps with a different name.

 

And if I change it to msg.payload={name:"Brian", lat:51, lon:-1.05};

 

and inject that after hitting refresh on the map – I get the nice red mark again – and it says Brian.. LOVELY.

 

But… if I change the coordinates – even slightly … for example

msg.payload={name:"Brian2", lat:52, lon:-1.05};

 

I get zilch – nothing – no red mark, no moving map to the new coordinates..

 

I am msg.payload = {name:"Pete", lat:37.73, lon:-2.55};

 

Under no circumstances do I see any marker, nor the map whizzing off to Spain.

 

The only thing that seems to work – is the example!   (obviously I have return msg; at the end of the function)

 

 

Pete.

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[Peter Scargill]

I’ve tried again with my Spanish address and realised that in fact I am there – the little red indicator – but the map made no attempt to move to that location – I had to find it. It just stays in England until you manually go zooming out… What am I missing, do you know?

 

From: node...@googlegroups.com [mailto:node...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave C-J
Sent: 30 May 2016 23:26
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Peter

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[Dave C-J]

Did you try hitting the hamburger menu icon top right ?

[Peter Scargill]

Yes thanks once I got your email  - but you have to do that every time you start up the map…. Can we make that the default?  Surely that should be the default behaviour???

 

Pete.

 

From: node...@googlegroups.com [mailto:node...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave C-J
Sent: 31 May 2016 01:06
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Did you try hitting the hamburger menu icon top right ?

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[Peter Scargill]

Re; other email  - so I have to set that pan feature every time I start up the map – also the zoom level is right out – ie when it pans to my address in Spain – I can see most of Spain….yet the original London picture showed a small area. Again am I missing something – can’t see a zoom setting you can do in Node-Red…

 

Pete.

 

From: node...@googlegroups.com [mailto:node...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave C-J

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Did you try hitting the hamburger menu icon top right ?

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[Dave C-J]

Not when you are plotting lots of things. Bouncing around is very annoying. You can change the start position by going to where you want and selecting the map you want. Then going to menu and turn lock on, (and off again).

[Dave C-J]

And zoom is standard + and - top left

[Dave C-J]

Or mouse wheel. Or double click to zoom in.

[Peter Scargill]

Ok, understand – not quite what I thought it was – thanks for the clarification – that’s great….

 

Just a thought – if it were possible to make both zoom and pan options controllable by node-red--- if I were taking in location info from say a moving mobile phone – tracking someone – I’d want it to stay zoomed in and tracking… that was more my line of thinking…

 

Pete.

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[Dave C-J]

Does anyone ever read the documentation ?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap#control

[peters...@googlemail.com]

Rarely :-) Ta.

On 31 May 2016 08:07:27 Dave C-J <dce...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone ever read the documentation ?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap#control

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[peters...@googlemail.com]

That command object... doc says send via websocket. Can you send that directly into the input as per the other input material example you gave???

On 31 May 2016 08:07:27 Dave C-J <dce...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone ever read the documentation ?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap#control

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[Dave C-J]

yes - used to use websocket - now all via the node... - docs now updated (v1.0.5)

[peters...@googlemail.com]

Wonderful. Thank you!!

Pete

On 31 May 2016 10:39:12 Dave C-J <dce...@gmail.com> wrote:

yes - used to use websocket - now all via the node... - docs now updated (v1.0.5)

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[Julian Knight]

Docu-what?

[Peter Scargill]

My thoughts exactly but I’m very grateful for that link because actually, it was easy and solved my problem – maybe- in very FEW circumstances there is some justification for reading manuals. I wouldn’t do it for a living though J

 

 

From: node...@googlegroups.com [mailto:node...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Julian Knight
Sent: 01 June 2016 21:19
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Subject: Re: [node-red] node-red-contrib-web-worldmap issues

 

Docu-what?

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[Julian Knight]

It is certainly a cool tool to use with NR. Now I just need to wire up OwnTracks!

[Peter Scargill]

Yup – that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking – but let us know if you get the latter to work reliably. When I tried Cloudtrax – going in and out of WIFI and GPRS etc… eventually it would lose the plot – it might have improved…

 

Between the two of them – we have ourselves a tracking system J

[Julian Knight]

Yes, I need an Internet facing MQTT server though ... screeetch! Just realised that you can now use OwnTracks with an http(s) end point rather than an Internet facing MQTT server. That's much easier to set up and secure so I should probably give that a go.

I've just been spending what little time I have installing and securing a new router and Wifi access point for chez knight and then reconfiguring the router and my NAS to provide proxied https access to some of the in-house web pages. So setting up an end point for OwnTracks would probably be an excellent next step. I was going to set up MQTT on a spare VPS that is about to be used for my sons Duke of Edinburgh award skills project but that is little way away yet.

By the way, if anyone is currently looking for a new home router and is prepared to work slightly harder to set things up than the standard fair, I can heartily recommend Ubiquiti Networks kit. Just got a massive improvement in throughput, security and WiFi coverage for less than the cost of a decent home Wireless AC router.

[Steve French]

Julian,

Indeed I have had my eye on the products from Ubiquiti networks... like these access points.  Which product are you referring to (one of these?)? Thanks!

-frenchy (Steve French)

www.voltvision.com

[Dave C-J]

We're well off topic now but hey...

I've also just recently installed one of their AC-lite access points. Brilliant so far. Rock solid, better signal range, config was not hard, and so far I seem to be the only 5ghz ap around...

Surely tempted to turn on the visitor landing page with credit card, to limit the kids :-)

[Julian Knight]

Yup. The EdgeRouter Lite 3-port and a UniFi AC-LR. The LR is actually a little cheaper than the standard AC at the moment oddly.

They have transformed my home network from a source of family frustration to a joy! Well that and doubling the broadband speed! The forums are also good and the support team jumped right into one of my questions and came up with a new knowledge article within 24hrs. Documentation can be sketchy in places, especially for the router as EdgeOS builds on Vyetta, an age-old Router OS. Needs a bit of work if you want to go beyond the default settings but well worth the effort. I now have a network-wide dynamically updated firewall that blocks adverts (at work, our only successful malware attack seems to have happened via a drive-by malvert from LinkedIn), known malware sites and the like, updates overnight.

I like Dave's idea of the kids having their own wifi with charges!! My AP now reaches all the way from the loft where the router and AP are located to the basement! No more wifi extenders that don't work properly for us!

[Dave C-J]

Back on thread... I have just pushed version 1.0.12 of node-red-contrib-web-worldmap that lets you set initial start position and zoom and layer within the config of the node.

[Peter Scargill]

Excellent - I've just updated my various installations.

[Marko S]

Dceejay, why this:

[{"id":"81bdd48.4b80428","type":"worldmap in","z":"5cd14454.a32ebc","name":"","x":950,"y":516,"wires":[["53244807.9b6d38"]]},{"id":"53244807.9b6d38","type":"function","z":"5cd14454.a32ebc","name":"filter","func":"if (msg.payload.action === \"connected\") { return msg; }\n\nreturn null;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":1120,"y":516,"wires":[["9c3a4397.a8ea7"]]}]

Doesn't help me that the redmap retains the new maps that I inject? (the mapbox ones)

Dne nedelja, 12. junij 2016 15.17.24 UTC+2 je oseba Peter Scargill napisala:

[Dave C-J]

Sorry - going to need more context... "why this" where ?

that is just an example if you want to use it to see events coming back from the web map... in this case filtering out the connected message in order to trigger some action.

[Marko S]

if I wanted 4 more mapbox maps there in worldmap to be inside the layers dialogue, I have to wait for the worldmap to load then i need to go into the nodered editor and press inject and dunno maybe also reload the map and there they are the 4 additional maps...How would I automate this. That I don't need to press that inject. 

Dne nedelja, 12. junij 2016 18.09.47 UTC+2 je oseba Dave C-J napisala:

[Dave C-J]

that is exactly what that flow snippet does... replaces the inject in you description above. Did you actually try it ?

[Marko S]

Yes I did but I might be using it incorrectly, so I should remove the inject node and connect to the filter...maybe I used it incorrectly..

Dne nedelja, 12. junij 2016 20.45.25 UTC+2 je oseba Dave C-J napisala:

[Marko S]

Yep my bad I was using it wrong :), it works yeah :D.

Dne nedelja, 12. junij 2016 20.50.29 UTC+2 je oseba Marko S napisala:

[Rajat Sud]

This was working for me. I did a update to 0.0.13 and it stubbornly does not update anything. I removed the earlier flows and just tried the examples. The node loads without errors but when inject nothing happens. It opens the map with Winchester at the centre and does not respond to any updates or insertions to add markers. Before the upgrade this was working fine.
Here is the nodeversion and the flow i am executing
18 Jun 12:35:01 - [info] Node-RED version: v0.13.4
18 Jun 12:35:01 - [info] Node.js  version: v4.4.5
18 Jun 12:35:01 - [info] Windows_NT 10.0.10240 x64 LE

 [{"id":"1849c96f.c17aaf","type":"function","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"Add thing to map","func":"var thing = {\n    name:\"Wally\", \n    lat:51, \n    lon:-1.45,\n    icon:\"car\",\n    iconColor:\"darkred\",\n    extrainfo:\"Some extra information\"\n};\nmsg.payload = thing;\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":654.0000305175781,"y":798.86669921875,"wires":[["e3026628.673928"]]},{"id":"9bc5dc6f.61f2e8","type":"worldmap","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","lat":"78","lon":"12","zoom":"12","layer":"Esri","cluster":"12","maxage":"1","name":"","x":857.0000305175781,"y":344.8666687011719,"wires":[]},{"id":"d51ef6be.87e3c","type":"inject","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"none","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":297.0000305175781,"y":304.8666687011719,"wires":[["b26a3734.172288"]]},{"id":"b26a3734.172288","type":"function","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"add new layer","func":"msg.payload = {};\nmsg.payload.command = {};\n\nvar u = 'http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.fr/hot/{z}/{x}/{y}.png';\nvar o = JSON.stringify({ maxZoom: 19, attribution: '&copy; OpenStreetMap'});\n\nmsg.payload.command.map = {name:\"OSMhot\", url:u, opt:o};\nmsg.payload.command.layer = \"OSMhot\";\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":527.0000305175781,"y":304.8666687011719,"wires":[["9bc5dc6f.61f2e8","6721a8b5.cbca98"]]},{"id":"3c1787ac.d215f","type":"function","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"USGS Quake monitor csv re-parse","func":"msg.payload.lat = msg.payload.latitude;\nmsg.payload.lon = msg.payload.longitude;\nmsg.payload.layer = \"earthquake\";\nmsg.payload.name = msg.payload.id;\nmsg.payload.icon = \"globe\";\nmsg.payload.iconColor = \"orange\";\n\ndelete msg.payload.latitude;\ndelete msg.payload.longitude;\t\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":647.0000305175781,"y":444.8666687011719,"wires":[["9bc5dc6f.61f2e8","6721a8b5.cbca98"]]},{"id":"63280f1e.a8f6f8","type":"function","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"move and zoom","func":"msg.payload.command =  {layer:\"Esri Relief\", lat:12, lon:71, zoom:10 };\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":527.0000305175781,"y":344.8666687011719,"wires":[["9bc5dc6f.61f2e8","6721a8b5.cbca98"]]},{"id":"7f93d6cd.d60908","type":"csv","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","sep":",","hdrin":true,"hdrout":"","multi":"one","ret":"\\n","temp":"","x":497.0000305175781,"y":384.8666687011719,"wires":[["3c1787ac.d215f"]]},{"id":"8c494e12.c8ef38","type":"inject","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"none","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":297.0000305175781,"y":344.8666687011719,"wires":[["63280f1e.a8f6f8"]]},{"id":"91764cd3.3068d","type":"http request","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","method":"GET","url":"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/2.5_day.csv","x":377.0000305175781,"y":444.8666687011719,"wires":[["7f93d6cd.d60908"]]},{"id":"1c71c0bd.27767f","type":"inject","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"Quakes","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"none","repeat":"900","crontab":"","once":false,"x":307.0000305175781,"y":384.8666687011719,"wires":[["91764cd3.3068d"]]},{"id":"6721a8b5.cbca98","type":"debug","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","active":true,"console":"false","complete":"false","x":793.4666442871094,"y":251.76666259765625,"wires":[]},{"id":"4f6bf297.30d11c","type":"worldmap in","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","x":515.86669921875,"y":628.86669921875,"wires":[["52a65b1d.5809fc"]]},{"id":"52a65b1d.5809fc","type":"function","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"filter","func":"if (msg.payload.action === \"connected\") { return msg; }\n\nreturn null;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":685.86669921875,"y":628.86669921875,"wires":[["6721a8b5.cbca98"]]},{"id":"e3026628.673928","type":"worldmap","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","x":894.0000305175781,"y":798.86669921875,"wires":[]},{"id":"ef52f385.665a7","type":"inject","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":464.0000305175781,"y":798.86669921875,"wires":[["1849c96f.c17aaf"]]},{"id":"6a778e5e.094e2","type":"comment","z":"73f24cdc.dacce4","name":"Simple map - click inject to send thing to map.","info":"Adds a map at http://(your-server-ip):1880/worldmap. \n\nThe `function` node creates an object with some basic properties required to add to a map.","x":594.0000305175781,"y":738.86669921875,"wires":[]}]

[Dave C-J]

Hi,

well - yes - does highlight something. you have two worldmap nodes with different settings - one of which is set to remove markers after one second... so you are unlikely to see them. It also starts the map somewhere in the sea off Greenland.  Current advice would be to only have one worldmap node on your flow - and make sure the settings are as you expect.

[Ty George]

Anyone got an example flow i can look at that is pushing 2 different cords to the map and drawing a line between them?

I can't seem to figure out the formatting of the payload to generate a line between two places. ... any help would be appreciated :) 

Thanks,

Ty

[Dave C-J]

Hi

the readme should give a clue... http://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap

but for example import this

[{"id":"dae63600.739708","type":"inject","z":"896b28a8.437658","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":123,"y":1008,"wires":[["8d064bf3.4d9f68"]]},{"id":"8d064bf3.4d9f68","type":"function","z":"896b28a8.437658","name":"","func":"msg.payload = {name:\"mytrack\",line:[ [51.05, -0.08], [51.5, -1], [51.2, -0.047] ]};\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":295,"y":1027,"wires":[["a733a03e.317f2"]]}]

[The ThingBox]

should be part of the dashboard!