node-red-node-base85

A Node-RED node to encode and decode base85 format messages.

Install

Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red

npm i node-red-node-base85

Usage

A function that converts the msg.payload to and from base85 format.

If the input is a binary buffer it converts it to a Base85 encoded string.

If the input is a Base85 string it converts it back to a binary buffer.

This ndoe supports three common alphabets:

• ZMP (both 4-byte-chunk limited and not)

• Ascii85(with and without <~ / ~> wrappers)

• BtoA

Sample Flow