Install Z Wave on Node-RED

openZwave

For installing node-red-contrib-openzwave, it's necessary to install first OpenZWave library and headers.

See details on npmjs

Manually compiling OpenZwave from source

Install libudev-dev

Nodejs already installed

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install -y build-essential libudev-dev

Download and compile Open-Zwave library

Get the unix source

$ wget https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave/archive/<version>.tar.gz

Untar

$ tar zxvf openzwave-*.gz

Compile Open-Zwave

$ cd openzwave-*
$ make && make install

Update the environment variable

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64

Make it permanent by adding it to /etc/environment

$ sudo sed -i '$a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64' /etc/environment

At this step you can ensure Open-Zwave library is correctly installed with

$ MinOZW

Install zwave from Node-RED

Now you can install node-red-contrib-openzwave which process openzwave-shared

$ npm install --save node-red-contrib-openzwave