point blinkstick to latest pre-req

and remove rtf tags

hardware/blinkstick/76-blinkstick.html

@@ -34,22 +34,22 @@
 
         <div id="delay-details" class="form-row">
             <label for="node-input-delay"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Delay</label>
-            <input type="text" id="node-input-delay" placeholder="Delay" style="direction:rtl; width:50px !important">
+            <input type="text" id="node-input-delay" placeholder="Delay" style="text-align:right; width:50px !important">
             milliseconds
         </div>
         <div id="repeats-details" class="form-row">
             <label for="node-input-repeats"><i class="fa fa-history"></i> Repeats</label>
-            <input type="text" id="node-input-repeats" placeholder="Times" style="direction:rtl; width:50px !important">
+            <input type="text" id="node-input-repeats" placeholder="Times" style="text-align:right; width:50px !important">
         </div>
 
         <div id="duration-details" class="form-row">
             <label for="node-input-duration"><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> Duration</label>
-            <input type="text" id="node-input-duration" placeholder="Duration" style="direction:rtl; width:50px !important">
+            <input type="text" id="node-input-duration" placeholder="Duration" style="text-align:right; width:50px !important">
             milliseconds
         </div>
         <div id="steps-details" class="form-row">
             <label for="node-input-steps"><i class="fa fa-history"></i> Steps</label>
-            <input type="text" id="node-input-steps" placeholder="Steps" style="direction:rtl; width:50px !important">
+            <input type="text" id="node-input-steps" placeholder="Steps" style="text-align:right; width:50px !important">
         </div>
         <div id="repeat-details" class="form-row">
             <label>&nbsp;</label>
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="blinkstick">
-    <p><i><a href="http://www.blinkstick.com" target="_new">BlinkStick</a></i> output node. Expects a <b>msg.payload</b> with one of:</p>
+    <p><i><a href="http://www.blinkstick.com" target="_new">BlinkStick</a></i> output node. Expects a <code>msg.payload</code> with one of:</p>
     <ul>
         <li>A hex string <b>"#rrggbb"</b> triple</li>
         <li><b>"red,green,blue"</b> three 0-255 values as a string</li>
         <li><b>"random"</b> will generate a random color</li>
         <li><i><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp" target="_new">Standard HTML color</a></i> name</li>
-        <li><b>object</b> can override any of the parameters</li>
+        <li>An <b>object</b> can override any of the parameters</li>
         <li><b>array</b> of colours for a neopixel rgb strip - either name,name,... or r,g,b,r,g,b,... where r,g,b are 0 to 255.</li>
     </ul>
     <p>If using a neopixel strip it <i>must</i> be wired to the red or R channel of the blinkstick.</p>
-    <p>An object payload can override any of the settings on the node. Omitted parameters are left intact. For example:</p>
+    <p>An <b>object</b> payload can override any of the settings on the node. Omitted parameters are left intact. For example:</p>
 <pre>
 { 'color': 'blue' }
 { 'task': 'blink', 'color': 'red' }

hardware/blinkstick/76-blinkstick.js

@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
                     //Sanitize color value
                     node.color = msg.payload.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g,'');
                     if (node.color === "amber") { node.color = "#FFBF00"; }
+                    if (node.color === "off") { node.color = "#000000"; }
                 }
 
                 if (Object.size(node.led) !== 0) {

hardware/blinkstick/README.md

@@ -3,14 +3,27 @@ node-red-node-blinkstick
 
 A <a href="http://nodered.org" target="_new">Node-RED</a> node to control a <a href="http://www.blinkstick.com/" target="_new">BlinkStick</a>.
 
+Pre-requisites
+--------------
+
+Depending on your operating system you may need to install some extra libraries before installing this node... I.E make sure it works outside of Node-RED first !
+
+For more information see <i><a href="http://www.blinkstick.com/help/tutorials" target="_new">BlinkStick tutorials</a></i> or the <i><a href="https://github.com/arvydas/blinkstick-node" target="_new">node module</a></i> documentation.
+
+#### Raspberry Pi / Debian / Ubuntu
+
+    sudo apt-get install -y libudev-dev
+
+Currently you **MUST** run Node-RED as root in order to get sufficient permissions to talk to this USB driver.
+
 Install
 -------
 
-Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install:
+Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install.
+Usually the is `~/.node-red`
 
     npm install node-red-node-blinkstick
 
-
 Usage
 -----
 
@@ -28,5 +41,3 @@ An object payload can override any of the settings on the node. Omitted paramete
     { 'task': 'blink', 'color': 'red' }
     { 'task': 'pulse', 'color': 'gree', 'duration': 500 }
     { 'task': 'morph', 'color': 'orange', 'duration': 500, 'steps': 20 }
-
-For more information see <i><a href="http://www.blinkstick.com/help/tutorials" target="_new">BlinkStick tutorials</a></i> or the <i><a href="https://github.com/arvydas/blinkstick-node" target="_new">node module</a></i> documentation.

hardware/blinkstick/package.json

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
     "name"          : "node-red-node-blinkstick",
-    "version"       : "0.1.8",
+    "version"       : "0.1.10",
     "description"   : "A Node-RED node to control a Blinkstick",
     "dependencies"  : {
-        "blinkstick"   : "1.1.*"
+        "blinkstick"   : "1.1.3"
     },
     "repository" : {
         "type":"git",