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node-red-contrib-jacdac
Advanced tools
Node-RED nodes to talk to Jacdac.
Jacdac is a bus-based plug-and-play hardware and software stack for microcontrollers and their peripherals. Jacdac is primarily designed for “modular electronics” scenarios that support rapid prototyping, creative exploration, making and learning through physical computing. Jacdac is designed to be cheap, flexible and extensible.
The nodes connect to a Jacdac bus via a USB and allow to listen for events or sensor readings.
Use Palette manager in node-red or run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red
npm install node-red-contrib-jacdac
This node uses node-usb which has specific installation requirements. If your node-red process crashes with
LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED
, your USB setup is not right.
You will need to connect a device with Jacdac firmware and USB port. You can learn more about compatible hardware at https://aka.ms/jacdac.
If you have a micro:bit V2 at hand, you can convert it into a Jacdac device by dropping custom firmware.
Extensions
Servers
to start which sensor you wantThis node listens for Jacdac events and send them in the payload. You can browse the services specification catalog to discover which events are available.
This node reads Jacdac registers and send them in the payload. You can browse the services specification catalog to discover which registers are avilable are available.
By default, the node looks for sensor reading, value and intensity registers. But you can override this behavior by customizing the register filters by name or code.
This node sends Jacdac commands to services. The results of command can be inferred from the content of the registers.
You can browse the services specification catalog to discover which commands are available and how their payload should be formatted. The payload can either be a number, string or boolean for simple t ypes. Or an array or JSON object for complex requests.
You can quickly scaffold a new node and add it to the node set. Use the following command to create my-new-node-type
node:
yarn add-node my-new-node-type
The node generator is based on mustache templates. At the moment there are three templates available:
blank
(used by default) - basic node for Node-RED >=1.0blank-0
- node with a backward compatibility for running on Node-RED <1.0config
- configuration nodeTo generate a node using a template, specify it as the third argument:
yarn add-node my-new-node-type blank
or
yarn add-node my-new-node-config config
Build & Test in Watch mode:
yarn dev
Create a production build:
yarn build
This repo was built using the node-red TypeScript starter.
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.
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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
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FAQs
Microsoft Jacdac for Node-Red
The npm package node-red-contrib-jacdac receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, node-red-contrib-jacdac popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-red-contrib-jacdac demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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