Set up the TeamViewer IoT Node-Red Plugin

What you will need

Make sure that you have prepared the following points:

• Access the Edge Device via Remote Terminal.
• On the edge device Node-Red is installed (see https://nodered.org/).

Setup

1. Access the edge device remotely (Access the Edge Device via Remote Terminal).
2. Edit the ~/.node-red/settings.js file in your user directory and uncomment the contextStorage section.

contextStorage: {
 default: {
  module:"localfilesystem"
 },
},

Note: The location of the file is depending how you start the node-red. Could be under root or your user directory.

3. Install Teamviewer IoT Node-Red Plugin directly from the Node-Red environment.

Access your Node-Red webpage. From the menu, select Manage Palette, search for “teamviewer” and click Install.

4. Alternatively, install Teamviewer IoT Node-Red Plugin using npm by running in terminal the command:

npm install @teamviewer/node-red-contrib-teamviewer-iot