Basic HA Question Regarding Support for NR in 2021

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hey there all, I’m a long time NR and HA user who recently upgraded HA via Docker to find that the two are no longer talking. I noticed this first in HA as it gave me a notification that NR is not a valid integration… which sent off some alarm bells. Then when I looked back at NR I see it’s also not talking to HA with the familiar message;

Node-RED custom integration needs to be installed in Home Assistant for this node to function correctly.

Of course, I’ve done quite a bit of searching, especially against the phrase Breaking Changes but I’m not coming up with anything. What it appears is that the NR integration was removed from HA? It’s not listed on the site and I can’t find references to it anywhere else in the UI except my broken integration…

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I’ve obviously missed a lot of news, haven’t been paying attention because everything was running smoothy and got bored and attempted to try the latest HA image via Docker… so what did I miss to get this back on track?

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Is the integration still listed in HACS / your custom_components folder? I’m running HomeassistantOS and haven’t had any issues.

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It’s not but that wasn’t needed prior, I did bookmark that page in my search… so it was removed from HA core? I have 91 entities that I really don’t want to start over with here. In less than happy about this change, very frustrating. I’d really love to abandon HACS, I get very little value out of it now.

4

As the message says:

It isn’t a core integration and never was one.
What page did you bookmark?

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Sorry, I never installed anything to support it, that’s what I meant by core. Now it requires HACS and a community integration… it’s regressing.

The HACS plug-in GitHub page.

Any clue when this change took place?

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I guess some basic functionalities should be available without the integration. Are all nodes broken?
If yes, you could try reconfiguring your HA server in NR.
I had to use the integration since I started with NR 1,5 years ago.

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I’m likely only using those basics, passing entities into HA and sending service calls - indeed all are broken in HA (not found).

8

What do the logs of

  • nodered
  • supervisor
  • HA
    say?
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If you are creating entities in HA via the entity node, you must have the custom component installed in HACS. It’s been this way since 12/19.

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Got it, I guess that’s the rub, I’ve been integrating the two prior to 12/19 (by a few months).

Nope, I figured it out. I installed it way back prior (I believe) to this being part of HACS. It’s my HACS seutp that’s borked.