To be able to easily invoke the Watson AI services from Node-RED, we will be using the node-red-node-watson package (created by Soheel Chughtai @chughs and a growing groupo of maintainers and contributors)
Check down the left side of your Node-RED development environment - you should have something like:
If you don't have the nodes installed, you will need to use the Manage Palette option from the Node-RED menu:
, select the Install tab, and enter node-red-node-watson in the search area.
You should see one (or perhaps two) results:
Click on the Install option for node-red-node-watson and when the installatoin completes, return to the Node-RED IDE.
Check again for the presence of the Watson nodes:
Now let's get on with the next lab.