Node Red config file

[hns80]

The Freemaster + Node Red tutorial is good, but leaves out a step.

After showing how to export the fmcfg file, the instructor does not show how to make Node Red aware of the file.

I tried closing node and relaunching with the fmcfg file as the only argument, but I could not connect to the node server.

How can the variable information be imported to the Node Red project?

[hns80]

Can you provide the config file(s) you used in the Node Red tutorial?

[iulianstan · Accepted solution]

Please find attached the archive containing pmp (FreeMASTER project) and fmcfg (FreeMASTER Lite project) used in the demo. I also included the settings.js (Node-RED configuration) - this one would be automatically generated due to `"node_red": true`, if there is no settings file in any of the default locations.

[iulianstan]

Hi @hns80,

To enable the Node-RED feature you need to specify "node-red" property in the "fmcfg" configuration file (at the root level). It accepts 2 types of values:

• boolean - if set to "true" it will search for a "settings.js" file in default locations usually "~/.node-red" (it uses similar discovery strategy as described in node-red repo). If no file is found in any of the default locations, FreeMASTER will create one and store it in "~/.node-red/settings.js"
• string - path to your custom configuration file (relative path will be resolved with respect to the "fmcfg" file location)

Kind regards,
Iulian