Nodes don't show up in Node-red interface

[Waqas Ahmed]

Hi.

I have tried to add various other nodes but none of them show in node-red interface. I followed the exact procedure described in http://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/adding-nodes.html. 

Here is what I have done.

1)    sudo service nodered stop

2) cd $HOME/.node-red

3) npm install node-red-contrib-mysensors

There is following out put

0.7.5 ../node_modules/node-red-contrib-mysensors

4) sudo service nodered stop

Visited nodered gui but node does not appear there. I have tried with various other nodes such as "node-red-node-serialport" and others, none was observed successful. May someone help me?

[Waqas Ahmed]

I have installed "Command-line Administration" and issued a list command, it give following output which shows new nodes did not installed.

 

[Mark Setrem]

fron the directory you have installed in. Try running node-red directly from the command line eg node-red-pi

Otherwise install the nodes in the .node-red directory of the user you are running node-red as

[Waqas Ahmed]

Hi Guys, I have came up with the solution and wanted to share with you, as I found Node-red installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/node-red. So Here is how the problem solved.

Issue following commands;

1)    cd /usr/lib/node_modules/node-red

Now You can install any node of your choice i.e. 

2)     sudo npm install node-red-contrib-mysensors

Restart Node-red

3)     sudo service nodered restart

Now you can find your installed node in red-node.

[Nicholas O'Leary]

My guess is that as you are running as sudo, $HOME will be roots home not the regular users. You can confirm what userDir it is using as it logged on start up - that is where you should run the npm install command.

Of course, as you've successfully used the node-red-admin tool, you can use that to install nodes:

  node-red-admin install node-red-contrib-mysensors

That will cause the runtime to install the node in userDir for you.

Nick

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