Using Rfxcom from node.js & node-RED

[maxwellhadley]

Hi,

I am in the process of developing a node-RED (http://www.nodered.org) node to drive the rfxcom transceiver. This is based on Kevin McDermott's node-rfxcom package, but to allow me to do all I want to do I have forked it and added many new capabilities, supporting additional devices and commands. So far I have concentrated on Lighting devices and weather sensors (temperature, rainfall, uv, wind, etc.) My fork is not available as an npm package, but you can pull it from https://github.com/maxwellhadley/node-rfxcom, and copy the files manually to the right place in your node-modules directory. I have submitted a pull request for this to Kevin, so hopefully it will become official one day.

Please try it out! Any tests you are able to carry out with different devices would be most welcome.

If you are using node-RED and would like to try out the nodes, they are available in the rfxcom branch of my fork of node-red-nodes at https://github.com/maxwellhadley/node-r ... /io/rfxcom (alternatively just download the two files 43-rfxcom.html and 43-rfxcom.js from this branch & copy to the 'io' nodes directory)

Thanks,

Max

[maxwellhadley]

A release version of the node is now available to install from npm: node-red-contrib-rfxcom. It installs as any other npm-installable node-RED node. As well as the initial devices listed above, it now handles data from OWL energy monitors

Max