Installation

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

Method A - Node-RED Palette Manager

This is most common installation method for the most common Node-RED systems.

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

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

Confirm installation.

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, with archive file.

Download an archive of node-red-contrib-aprs

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. Locate the node-red-contrib-aprs-latest.tgz file on your system.

5. Select Upload.

Confirm installation.

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 i node-red-contrib-aprs
node-red-admin restart