NodeRED for Lynx
About
Lynx is a general purpose IoT Platform with a lot of integrations. This package provides integration for NodeRED.
Provided Nodes
Lynx Server
The configuration node used to set the server URL and the API-Key used to authenticate the client on both MQTT and in API:s.
Lynx-in
The node let users select a function and one of the topics specified for that function. If a value is published on that topic it will be sent to the output of the node as an object.
Lynx-out
The node let users select a function and one of the topics specified for that function. The object accepts a value as a number or an object containing the following data.
| Key | Type |
|---|---|
| value | number |
| msg | string |
| timestamp (optional) | number |
Lynx Get Metadata
The node injects metadata into the flow. Can be used to attach values from lynx
to the msg object. All data is injected as msg.meta. The node can be chained
after the lynx-in node so that the same functions meta is added as the input
function.
Lynx-get-status
The node fetches the latest known value for a function when a message is received. Can be used to compare values between different functions.
Lynx-notification
Implementation for editing and sending notifications in the IoT Open Lynx platform. See Lynx documentation.
Running
With master branch in NodeRED
Using NPM:s link feature it is possible to run NodeRED with this plugin from
the source folder.
- Run
npm install - Run
npm link - Navigate to NodeRED config folder, on linux this is usually
~/.node-red - In that folder, install plugin with
link
npm link @iotopen/node-red-contrib-lynx - Start/Restart NodeRED