uninstalling rpi.gpio brings the rotary encoder back to life.
but is a dependency for the ADC hat! and current sensing is a dependency for this project, sadly. will have to see if I've got time to roll my own SPI query-er.
I've not coded within node-red before. can things like SPI be used inside a function node or does this have to be packaged as a module? I guess I'm asking what kind of limitations a function node has versus the javascript run directly with node?