New installation - full raspbian - today

Pete
what I just did is start with clean Raspbian Stretch install (I used minimal to test)

  • set up ssh, change hostname, password, set overclock as required.
  • run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
  • reboot
  • run our bash install/upgrade script from the docs

That gets me node 8.11.4 and npm 5.6.0 and Node-RED with serialport.
Then

  • cd ~/.node-red && npm i node-red-node-arduino
  • node-red-stop && node-red-start

And then I have both serial and arduino nodes.