Help. Node Red Companion integration is not loading. My whole home basically does not work anymore

Third party integrations Node-RED
1

The other day I did a bunch of updates like the newest core etc.

After the restart, I was greeted with an error:

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Turns out it is not NodeRed itself, but the companion Integration that fails. Thats what the Integration looks like:

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And since then basically my whole home went stupid - including water pressure, heating and warm water, that all rely on NodeRed automations (NodeRed itself works fine), that in turn rely on the sensor data provided by the companion integration. I can switch everything manually, but the family-approval factor of HA has taken a really bad hit over the last 48 hours and the pressure for me to find a solution is rising…

Here is, what the log says:

Logger: homeassistant.setup
Source: setup.py:343
First occurred: 14:16:01 (1 occurrence)
Last logged: 14:16:01

Setup failed for custom integration 'nodered': Unable to import component: cannot import name 'DATA_DEFAULT_ENTITY' from 'homeassistant.components.conversation.default_agent' (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/conversation/default_agent.py)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/loader.py", line 1006, in async_get_component
    comp = await self.hass.async_add_import_executor_job(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        self._get_component, True
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 59, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/loader.py", line 1066, in _get_component
    ComponentProtocol, importlib.import_module(self.pkg_path)
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/loop.py", line 201, in protected_loop_func
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1026, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/__init__.py", line 59, in <module>
    from .websocket import register_websocket_handlers
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/websocket.py", line 47, in <module>
    from custom_components.nodered.sentence import (
    ...<2 lines>...
    )
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/sentence.py", line 8, in <module>
    from homeassistant.components.conversation.default_agent import (
    ...<2 lines>...
    )
ImportError: cannot import name 'DATA_DEFAULT_ENTITY' from 'homeassistant.components.conversation.default_agent' (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/conversation/default_agent.py)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/setup.py", line 343, in _async_setup_component
    component = await integration.async_get_component()
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/loader.py", line 1026, in async_get_component
    self._component_future.result()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/loader.py", line 1018, in async_get_component
    comp = self._get_component()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/loader.py", line 1066, in _get_component
    ComponentProtocol, importlib.import_module(self.pkg_path)
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/loop.py", line 201, in protected_loop_func
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/importlib/__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1026, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/__init__.py", line 59, in <module>
    from .websocket import register_websocket_handlers
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/websocket.py", line 47, in <module>
    from custom_components.nodered.sentence import (
    ...<2 lines>...
    )
  File "/config/custom_components/nodered/sentence.py", line 8, in <module>
    from homeassistant.components.conversation.default_agent import (
    ...<2 lines>...
    )
ImportError: cannot import name 'DATA_DEFAULT_ENTITY' from 'homeassistant.components.conversation.default_agent' (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/conversation/default_agent.py)

I don’t really know what to make of it. I obvoiously read around the Forum/Reddit to find solutions, but none have worked so far. Also tried disabling the Google cast integration, since apparently this has been the culprit in similar situations, but that did not help either.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

2

Looks like an issue was raised for this on the october ha beta, and a fix is in the latest version 4.1.3 released 5 days ago.

https://github.com/zachowj/hass-node-red/issues/346

Latest version https://github.com/zachowj/hass-node-red/releases

3

why not follow this explanation?

means ‘a bunch’ simply wasn’t enough, but it’s always a wise idea to check for later version of the things involved in problems.

4

I would have restored my system to a recent backup to get things working. Then I would research the issue and potential solutions.

Finally, I would schedule time to do the update when it would have the least impact on my household and when I knew I could test and do a restore if needed.

See: Disaster Recovery Planning

5

Well, this is a family holiday-home and I’m only here for two weeks, so this IS the moment to do it. This is the only moment I can update, because then I’m on site for the following days, so I can troubleshoot if anything goes wrong so bad, that e.g. remote access does not work anymore. And I’m not gonna go on holidays alone just to do HA updates…

First time for me that I encounter a truly “breaking change” after an update. I’ll be much more cautious in the future.

6

Thank you so much - this indeed solved the issue for me!

Also I did check for updates repeadedly, and installed all that were offered - but it is now becoming clear to me that integrations loaded from HACS apparently do not get checked for updates with the regular “check for updates” function or otherwise? But instead one needs to manually compare version numbers and re-download them from HACS if needed? As a non-techie user I did not even think of this until now - always assumed I’m up to date as long as HA did not tell me otherwise!

Thousand thanks again! You saved my family vacation!