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node-red-node-serialport
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<a href="http://nodered.org" target="_new">Node-RED</a> nodes to talk to
hardware Serial ports.
Install
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This node is usually installed by default in Node-RED so should not need to be installed manually.
Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory (typically `~/.node-red`):
npm i node-red-node-serialport
For versions on node.js prior to 4.x (ie v0.10.x and v0.12.x) please install using
sudo npm i -g npm@2.x
npm i node-red-node-serialport
You may also have to install or upgrade GCC to be version 4.8 or better.
Alternatively you can simply install the older version of this node.
npm install node-red-node-serialport@0.0.5
During install there may be multiple messages about optional compilation.
These may look like failures... as they report as failure to compile errors -
but often are warnings and the node will continue to install and, assuming nothing else
failed, you should be able to use it. Occasionally some platforms *will* require
you to install the full set of tools in order to compile the underlying package.
Usage
-----
Provides two nodes - one to receive messages, and one to send.
### Input
Reads data from a local serial port.
Clicking on the search icon will attempt to autodetect serial ports attached to
the device, however you many need to manually specify it. COM1, /dev/ttyUSB0, etc
It can either
- wait for a "split" character (default \n). Also accepts hex notation (0x0a).
- wait for a timeout in milliseconds for the first character received
- wait to fill a fixed sized buffer
It then outputs `msg.payload` as either a UTF8 ascii string or a binary Buffer object.
If no split character is specified, or a timeout or buffer size of 0, then a stream
of single characters is sent - again either as ascii chars or size 1 binary buffers.
### Output
Provides a connection to an outbound serial port.
Only the `msg.payload` is sent.
Optionally the new line character used to split the input can be appended to every message sent out to the serial port.