openwrt-node-red
A packaging up of Node-RED for OpenWRT.
The dist directory contains the .ipk file you need to download and install. For example
opkg install node-red_1.0.6.ipkBuild scripts
The scripts can help you to recreate this yourself.
- buildNR.sh - installs node.js and then Node-RED from npm and then several extra nodes into
/etc/node-red. This is where you can add your customised nodes. - ipk-pack.sh - removes un-needed cruft, creates needed control files, and then creates the .ipk file
- packit - a helper script that can be run on your host machine to automate the packaging by copying the necessary files to the target device, then calling ipk-pack, and then copying the created file back to your host.
Other files
- flows.json, flows_cred.json - Default flow file to load - Customise this if you want to start with something special.
- node-red - the init.d script that starts and stops Node-RED as a service.
OpenWRT admin menu - Luci files
OpenWRT uses Luci as it's admin web UI. The files in the luci directory can be used to add Node-RED to the admin menu so you can easily see the log (usually at /var/log/node-red.log).
The addluci.sh script will copy them into the correct place (as of Oct 2018), you will need to restart luci (or reboot).
The status.lua file currently just copies over the existing one. This may cause problems in the future if the order of items in the default file changes. There doesn't seem to be a good way to contribute an entry dynamically on install. Thus we don't automatically install these files for you. You may need to merge them manually.