Installation

There are 3 methods of installing this Node, chose the method that fits your environment.

Method A - Node-RED Palette Manager with Internet access

This method requires Internet access for the system running Node-RED. This is most common use-case for the most common Node-RED installations.

1. Click the "hamburger" menu in the upper right.
2. Click Manage Palette.

3. Select Install tab.
4. Enter tak in search box.
5. On the node-red-contrib-tak entry, Click Install button.

After about a minute you should see a success message.

You can confirm installation by clicking the Nodes tab:

Method B - Node-RED Palette Manager without Internet access

This method requires Internet access to download a package, but does not require Internet access on the system running Node-RED.

• I. From a system with Internet access, download an archive of node-red-contrib-tak
• II. Copy node-red-contrib-tak-latest.tgz to a USB drive (or other removable media).
• III. Insert USB drive or media into system running Node-RED.

1. Click the "hamburger" menu in the upper right.
2. Click Manage Palette

3. Select Install tab.
4. Click the Upload module tgz file button.

6. Select Upload.

After about a minute you should see a success message.

You can confirm installation by clicking the Nodes tab:

Method C - NPM with Internet access

This method requires Internet access for the system running Node-RED and command-line (terminal, SSH or serial) access to the system running Node-RED.

Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red, then restart node-red:

cd ~/.node-red
npm install node-red-contrib-tak
node-red-admin restart