GE Green-Bean Laundry Monitor with Node Red

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Connecting the Green Bean Module to Node Red for laundry monitoring.

Daniel VanVolkinburg

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1. Load raspbin onto a raspberry pi. I used the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B as I have a few laying around, and loaded 2019-09-26-raspbian-buster-lite onto it.
2. Install Node Red - I used the bash script
  bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered)
3. Start Node Red as a service: sudo systemctl enable nodered.service
4. Install GIT: sudo apt install git
5. Install node-gyp: sudo npm install -g node-gyp
6. Install USB Lib: sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
7. Install Libudev: sudo apt install libudev-dev
8. Plug in module connected to device
9. Install Green Bean, in the node red directory
  cd ~/.node-red
  npm install green-bean
10. Add Green bean to the settings.js file for node red: Add greenBean:require("green-bean") to functionGlobalContext function
11. Change user permissions of the HID hardware- /dev/hidraw0 with the following VID/PID: 04d8:fcf0
  echo "KERNEL==\"hidraw*\", SUBSYSTEM==\"hidraw\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"04d8\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"fcf0\", MODE=\"0666\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/greenbean-hid.rules

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