Package won't install.

[marksmanaz]

From the .node-red directory in the pi home directory I tried:

npm install node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill sudo npm install node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill npm install -g node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill sudo npm install -g node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill

None work no nodes show up.

I did try installing from the pallet manager and the nodes showed up for only a moment and then disappear. Not sure whats going on.

Thanks,

Mark

[hardillb]

If you've run all of those then we have a lot of cleaning up to do.

Did you restart node-red after running any of those commands? As stated in the linked to Node-RED documentation, when you install Node-RED modules from the command line with npm you have to restart Node-RED for it to pick up the modules.

First lets clean up, from /home/pi/.node-red run the following:

sudo npm uninstsall node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill
sudo npm uninstall -g node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill

That should have removed both the global and the local copy, you can check they are gone by looking in both the /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules and /usr/lib/node_modeules directories. There should be no directory called node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill in either now.

Now we've cleaned up lets try and work out what is happening. Before trying to install the node again some questions to get a baseline:

• How did you install Node-RED?
• How are you running Node-RED, as a service or from the command line?
• Do you know where the logs are kept and how to view them?

[marksmanaz]

Yes I ran both these uninstall commands:

sudo npm uninstsall node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill sudo npm uninstall -g node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skil

There is no directory called node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill in these directories:

/home/pi/.node-red/node_modules and /usr/lib/node_modeules

Node-red was installed on the rpi when I got it. I entered "sudo systemctl enable nodered.service" on the command line to have it run as service.

I am sure npm and node-red have logs I do not know where they are.

[hardillb]

OK, so you are probably still on the back level 0.15.x and well out of support nodejs 0.10.x.

Follow the upgrading instructions here to move you up to 0.16.x and the supported nodejs 6.x then use the pallet manager to reinstall the node.

For reference Node-RED on a Pi logs to the Syslog and you can use the command node-red-log

npm logs to the console where you run it.

[marksmanaz]

Was there supposed to be a link "here" to upgrade instructions?

[hardillb]

http://nodered.org/docs/hardware/raspberrypi#upgrading

[marksmanaz]

It is now all working perfectly. Thank you for your time and concern.