Starting node-red on BeagleBone Black running shipping Debian distro

README.md

Instructions for installing Node-RED on BeagleBone Black.

This was tested with the 10/22/2014 Debian Wheezy image from https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-10-22/lxde-4gb/bone-debian-7.7-lxde-4gb-armhf-2014-10-22-4gb.img.xz. Put the board on the network and run the following commands as root:

git clone https://gist.github.com/ad049193593539cea29e.git install-node-red
install-node-red/install-node-red.sh

install-node-red.sh

#!/bin/sh
npm install -g node-red@0.9.1-nocolors
cp $(dirname $0)/node-red.socket $(dirname $0)/node-red.service /lib/systemd/system/
cat $(dirname $0)/node-red.patch | ( cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red ; patch -p1 )
cp $(dirname 0)/node-red.sh /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red/
systemctl enable node-red.socket
systemctl start node-red.socket

node-red.patch

diff -rupN original/red.js new/red.js
--- original/red.js	2014-11-10 02:05:33.433249478 +0000
+++ new/red.js	2014-11-10 02:06:38.999655735 +0000
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ var crypto = require("crypto");
 var nopt = require("nopt");
 var path = require("path");
 var RED = require("./red/red.js");
+require('bonescript/node_modules/systemd');
 
 var server;
 var app = express();
@@ -182,7 +183,8 @@ RED.start().then(function() {
             }
             process.exit(1);
         });
-        server.listen(settings.uiPort,settings.uiHost,function() {
+        server.listen(settings.uiPort);
+        server.on('listening', function() {
             if (settings.httpAdminRoot === false) {
                 util.log('[red] Admin UI disabled');
             }
diff -rupN original/settings.js new/settings.js
--- original/settings.js	2014-11-10 02:08:45.419577625 +0000
+++ new/settings.js	2014-11-10 02:10:02.405905760 +0000
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  **/
+
+var port = process.env.LISTEN_PID > 0 ? 'systemd' : 1880;
+
 module.exports = {
     // the tcp port that the Node-RED web server is listening on
-    uiPort: 1880,
+    uiPort: port,
 
     // By default, the Node-RED UI accepts connections on all IPv4 interfaces.
     // The following property can be used to listen on a specific interface. For
@@ -121,7 +124,7 @@ module.exports = {
 
     functionGlobalContext: {
         // os:require('os'),
-        // bonescript:require('bonescript'),
+        bonescript:require('bonescript'),
         // arduino:require('duino')
     }
 

node-red.service

[Unit]
Description=Start Node-RED

[Service]
Environment=HOME=/root
WorkingDirectory=/root
ExecStart=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red/node-red.sh
SyslogIdentifier=Node-RED
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

node-red.sh

#!/bin/bash -
export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules
cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red/
/usr/bin/node --max-old-space-size=128 red.js

node-red.socket

[Socket]
ListenStream=1880

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

It looks like the line "cp $(dirname 0)/node-red.sh /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-red/" is missing a '$' character in front of the '0' in the file install-node-red.sh