Wally, what was the original purpose of this post ? E.G. what was it your buddy wanted to accomplish ? If it's just twiddle a couple of GPIO's and read an ADC or two. That can be done fairly easily in Nodejs, without even any plugins. So not need for Node-RED, or C/C++ if not wanted.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I will definitely look into this if I find nodejs or node-red > useful to my projects, but I'm setting up a system to get a non-programmer > started with an automation project using a BBG as an alternative to wiring > up a bunch of relays and timers. I'm going to give it to him tomorrow and > show him some simple demos I've set up. He's ~80 miles away, being > "off-grid" with only limited Internet access via cell phone tethering so > there are some serious obstacles for a programming newbie. > > > > On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 3:56:41 PM UTC-6, john3909 wrote: >> >> Why don’t you use C/C++ addons for Nodejs? >> >> https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v5.x/docs/api/addons.html >> >> With Nodejs C/C++ addons, you can interface to any I/O on the BBB. >> >> Regards, >> John >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:39 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think its pretty sweet to have node-red running "out of the box" but >> without the BoneScript access to the GPIO and A/D pins (I assume BoneScript >> PWM is still broken) its nowhere near as neat as it could be! >> >> If I "downgrade" to 3.8 kernel, what else is required to get BoneScript >> working beyond installing the Beaglebone nodes with npm? >> >> >> I'm having issues with this image getting the "gadget" to connect -- it >> seems to only work from a cold start -- when I first plug it in the FAT >> partition mount but the gadget hangs "waiting for IP address" If I press >> reset it may or may not start after the reboot. So far its always started >> if I hold the powerbutton down until it shuts off, and then press it again >> to do a cold boot. >> >> Some of it may be that I'm using Ubuntu-Mate 15.10, I try it later on my >> main Ubuntu 10.04 which has been mostly reliable mounting the gadget >> Ethernet. >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 10:41:29 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Howdy! >>> > >>> > So there's a little something new in this week's snapshot (lxqt not >>> console): >>> > >>> > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2016-01-31 >>> > >>> > http://beaglebone.local:1880/ >>> > >>> > nodered.org v0.13.1 >>> >>> On earlier jessie/stretch rootfs, then can now be installed via: >>> >>> sudo apt-get update >>> sudo apt-get install bb-node-red-installer >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Robert Nelson >>> https://rcn-ee.com/ >>> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
