More and more, programs are appearing through which you can program without having to strictly code, as is the case with Node-RED.

In this blog post, we will make a small application in which we will receive data from input from the PLC, and we will send it to the database.

Do you want to know how? 

So, there are three nodes that we will need that are not installed by default with Node-RED and that we are going to install. Go to the Menu > Manage Palette > Install, and type and install these three:

1. node-red-contrib-postgresql
   
2. node-red-dashboard
3. node-red-contrib-rpiplc-node

Once installed, let's develop our flow!

• On one hand, add an inject node, and repeat an interval every 5 seconds.
• Add an analog read node from Industrial Shields, select your model and the input where you will add some voltage.
• Right after the analog read node, wire a switch node and set the property msg.payload to two conditions:
  
  
  1. otherwise
  2. > (number) 1023
• From output number 1 (otherwise), we will connect a debug node, where we will see the values every 5 seconds.
• From the output number 2 of the switch node, add a function node with the following condition:
  
  var now = new Date().toLocaleString("es-ES");
  msg.time = now;
  return msg;
• After the function node, we will add a postgresql node. We will configure a server. As we did in the blog post of the previous reading, we are going to set the following parameters in the postgresql node:
  
  Host: 127.0.0.1
  Port: (number) 5432
  Database: (String) isdb
  SSL: false
  
  In the Security tab, set a user and a password.
  
  In the Query section, we are going to add the following query:
  

  INSERT INTO myIStable VALUES ('I0.7', '{{msg.payload}}', '{{msg.time}}');

• On the other hand, add a postgresql after the inject node with the same server, and add this query:
  

  SELECT * FROM myIStable ORDER BY datetime DESC;

• Get the information by adding a debug node with the output set to msg.payload[0];
• Finally, we are going to add the text nodes. 
  In the first one, we are going to set the label to "Input", and the value format to: "{{msg.payload[0].name}}".
  
  
  On the second one, we will do the same but setting the label to Value, and the value format to {{msg.payload[0].data}}
  
  
  Finally, we will add a third text dashboard node, with the label: Datetime and the value format: {{msg.payload[0].datetime}}

This is how the basic structure of our database looks like.:

If you could not manage to make your flow run, compare it with our flows.json and start your application!

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