README
node-red-contrib-sm-8mosind
This is the node-red node to control Sequent Microsystems 8-MOSFETS Stackable Card for Raspberry Pi.
Manual Install
Clone or update the repository, follow the instrutions fron the first page.
In your node-red user directory, tipicaly ~/.node-red,
~$ cd ~/.node-red
Run the following command:
~/.node-red$ npm install ~/8mosind-rpi/node-red-contrib-sm-8mosind
In order to see the node in the palette and use-it you need to restart node-red. If you run node-red as a service:
~$ node-red-stop
~$ node-red-start
Usage
After install and restart the node-red you will see on the node palete, under Sequent Microsystems category the "8mosind" node.This node will turn on or off a mosfet.
The card stack level and mosfet number can be set in the dialog screen or dinamicaly thru msg.stack
and msg.mofet
. The output of the mosfet can be set dynamically as a boolean using msg.payload.
Important note
This node is using the I2C-bus package from @fivdi, you can visit his work on github here. The inspiration for this node came from @nielsnl68 work with node-red-contrib-i2c.Thank both for the great job.