EspruinoHub & Headless

Hi all,

I am looking into EspruinoHub to get some basic HTTP capabilities with Puck explored. I used the minimal raspbian image and then initially had some issues with the node installation - but I managed using the nodesource installation guide. doing a sudo apt-get install node basically did not work for me, it installed but node was not available in the end.

I am trying to understand why node-red and mqtt are part of the installation guide. All I need is HTTP features, .e.g. I want to use http from the puck.js js code. Is there a recommendation when it comes to setting up a headless version of the EspruinoHub?

Thx
Sven

it installed but node was not available in the end.

Because it's an old node, it might be available as node and not nodejs (or vice-versa?).

Or just try using the non-minimal image. 4GB SD cards are pretty cheap nowadays :)

MQTT's there because it also relays advertising data down MQTT. At the moment you can't disable this so you will need the MQTT server installed.

However you can leave node-red off. That's just for linking things together graphically - everything will work without it