Hello,
I’d like to see if anyone can help me run a specific Processing sketch through a Node-RED user interface. I’m building a connected desk lamp and would like to be able to change its light patterns from my phone.
I can’t use GPIO pins since designating a specific sketch requires more than a high/low output… what I think I need is some way to specify a string value which can be read into the Pi.
So I thought I could use an exec node to not only pass the string, but to also run the program at the same time.
The above image shows a bash file that I created later on, but originally, I put the following command in a bash file and tried to run it:
processing-java --sketch=/home/pi/Digital-lava-lamp/StartupArraySweep --run
The command works perfectly in the Pi’s terminal but when I try to execute it through Node-RED I get the following error.
I’ve tried to work around this a number of ways, but the same error occurs each time. Here’s everything that I’ve tried so far.
- Running the above os.system command as is
- Adding the above command to a bash file, then running the bash file
- Adding the above command to a Python script, and calling it using os.system
- Checking the msg.payload box in exec node
- Unchecking the msg.payload box in exec node
So does anybody have any suggestions on what I should try next?? I can’t decipher the error to be able to fix it. If anyone can explain what’s wrong here, or maybe an alternate way to accomplish my goal, I’d be very grateful. Thanks.