# Problems installing openzwave on Node Red

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/problems-installing-openzwave-on-node-red/1194>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [29 June 2018 21:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/problems-installing-openzwave-on-node-red/1194 "2018-06-29T21:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveMann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stevemann/32/3810_2.png) [@SteveMann](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SteveMann)\
**Post date:** [29 June 2018 21:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/problems-installing-openzwave-on-node-red/1194/1 "2018-06-29T21:49:31Z")

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I've just spent most of a day trying to install openzwave for Node Red on my Pi 3. I am hopelessly lost, and worse, the instructions I've found conflict with each other. I never even got to install openzwave, the prerequisites are where I am stuck.

The instructions in the git for openzwave got me the furthest, up to Step 3:

> **[OpenZWave/node-openzwave-shared](https://github.com/OpenZWave/node-openzwave-shared)**
>
> OpenZWave addon for Node.js (all versions) including management and security functions - OpenZWave/node-openzwave-shared

  
README-raspbian.md

Step 3 says: \> cd to the project directory.

What "project directory"? I posted an issue on the git, and Elias Karakoulakis (ekarak) suggested ~/.node-red.  
But when I try to run test2.js from Step 3, I get tons of "Cannot find module" errors.

Any help would be really appreciated.  
Steve