node-red-contrib-keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212 1.3.1

Plug and Play Node-RED nodes for a Keyestudio model KS0212 Raspberry Pi Relay Shield

npm install node-red-contrib-keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

A set of Node-RED nodes to control the four relays on a Keyestudio KS0212 relay shield using the RPi.GPIO python library that is part of Raspbian.

If you need more generic control of arbitrary GPIO pins, perhaps for a different relay shield, then consider the node-red-node-pi-gpio node.

This node is based upon node-red-node-pi-gpio and provides plug and play use of the relays on the shield.

Simply plug in the shield, install this Node-RED node, the relays just work with no configuration required.

See the wiki for more details.

Install

You can watch the Youtube video describing how to set up the board: https://youtu.be/VkkeTJV-4gc

Either use the Node-RED Menu - Manage Palette option to install, or run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red

    npm i node-red-contrib-keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

The python library may also work with other distros running on a Pi (like Ubuntu or Debian) - you will need to install the PIGPIO package and run the following commands in order to gain full access to the GPIO pins as this ability is not part of the default distro. This is NOT necessary on Raspbian.

    sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev
    sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
    sudo addgroup gpio
    sudo chown root:gpio /dev/gpiomem
    sudo adduser $USER gpio
    echo 'KERNEL=="gpiomem", NAME="%k", GROUP="gpio", MODE="0660"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/45-gpio.rules
    sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

Usage

Here is a link to the Youtube video describing how to use the software: https://youtu.be/iC77coWWsT0

Also you might want to watch the Youtube video showing electronics test bench performance of the hardware: https://youtu.be/5Al1RFTqQQM

Input

• msg.payload - boolean | number | string

msg.payload containing String set, String true, String T, String H, String on, String 1, Boolean T, or a Numerical 1 will turn the relay on.

msg.payload of any other content will turn the relay off.

Funding

Please consider becoming a patron of Spring City Solutions LLC Your support directly funds the development of new drivers and nodes for Node-RED.

For the latest news, detailed daily dev logs are posted on the Patreon page.

https://www.patreon.com/springcitysolutions_nodered

Links

Hardware Links:

Board Manufacturer Store: https://www.keyestudio.com/keyestudio-rpi-4channel-relay-5v-shield-for-raspberry-pi-ce-certification-p0475-p0475.html

Board Manufacturer Wiki: https://wiki.keyestudio.com/index.php/KS0212_keyestudio_RPI_4-channel_Relay_Shield

Links for the Songle SRD-05VDC-SL-C relay used on the board: http://www.songlerelay.com/Product_show_id_539.htm http://www.songlerelay.com/Public/Uploads/20161104/581c81ac16e36.pdf

Spring City Solutions Links:

Spring City Solutions Node-RED project page: https://www.springcitysolutions.com/nodered

Spring City Solutions page for this node: https://www.springcitysolutions.com/nodered-keyestudio-relay-shield

Spring City Solutions Node-RED project email: nodered@springcitysolutions.com

Spring City Solutions Gitlab for this node: https://gitlab.com/SpringCitySolutionsLLC/keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/springcitysolutions_nodered

Software Links:

Spring City Solutions Gitlab for this node: https://gitlab.com/SpringCitySolutionsLLC/keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

npmjs for this node: https://npmjs.org/package/node-red-contrib-keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

Node-RED flows for this node: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212

Documentation Links:

Gitlab wiki for this node (the master copy of list of links is here): https://gitlab.com/SpringCitySolutionsLLC/keyestudio-relay-shield-ks0212/-/wikis/home

Youtube video "How to set up": https://youtu.be/VkkeTJV-4gc

Youtube video "How to use": https://youtu.be/iC77coWWsT0

Youtube video "Testing Results": https://youtu.be/5Al1RFTqQQM

Trademarks

KEYESTUDIO is a registered trademark of Shenzhen KEYES DIY Robot co., Ltd.

Raspberry Pi is a trademark of Raspberry Pi Trading

Node-RED and node.js are a trademark of the OpenJS Foundation in the United States

Python is a registered trademark of the Python Software Foundation.

Songle is a trademark of Zhejiang Songle Machinery Co., Ltd. Wenling City,Zhejiang CHINA

Peakmeter is a trademark of Shenzhen New Huayi Instrument Co., Ltd.

Rigol is a trademark of RIGOL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

"All trademarks are property of their respective owners"

Copyrights and Licenses

Majority of code Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Spring City Solutions LLC and other contributors and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

NRGPIO.PY Copyright JS Foundation and other contributors and licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0

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