Migrating node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket flows to node-red-contrib-home-assistant

Ricardo_Franco · December 31, 2019, 1:02am

Hi guys,

I’ve been running Node-Red on a separate server from my main HA instance but installed HA on a NUC today .

Since I have more horsepower available I want to run all my flows inside Node-Red addon in Hassio .

The problem is that all my old flows were using the node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket to communicate with my HA instance and I want to change the home-assistant nodes to the native ones in node-red addon .

Any way I can achieve this without replacing the nodes 1 by 1 since I no longer need to use the websocket version of these ?

Thanks

eggman · December 31, 2019, 1:18am

I don’t use hassio but surely the add on uses node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket?

Ricardo_Franco · December 31, 2019, 1:25am

Nope, the websocket version is a fork from https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-home-assistant, which is what the addon uses ! No need for websockets in the addon …

eggman · December 31, 2019, 1:36am

Well, that’s not been updated for nearly two years. If the hassio add on still uses it, I’d stick with what you’ve got. You’ll loose a lot of functionality that’s been added since it was forked.

Just checked the package.json for the add on. It uses the websocket version.

github.com

hassio-addons/addon-node-red/blob/8425fd110ccd0a140e2be6034c3caeb02dc0752e/node-red/package.json

{
  "private": true,
  "name": "hassio-addon-node-red",
  "description": "A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things",
  "homepage": "https://addons.community",
  "repository": "https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red",
  "license": "MIT",
  "main": "node_modules/node-red/red/red.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node $NODE_OPTIONS node_modules/node-red/red.js",
    "snyk-protect": "snyk protect",
    "prepublish": "npm run snyk-protect"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "bcryptjs": "2.4.3",
    "js-yaml": "3.13.1",
    "node-red": "1.0.3",
    "node-red-contrib-actionflows": "2.0.3",
    "node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill": "0.1.17",
    "node-red-contrib-bigtimer": "2.2.5",

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paulstronaut · December 31, 2019, 1:39am

+1 to what @eggman said. Keep with the -websocket version. The original non-websocket version is missing a lot of functionality that has been added in the past two years.

Ricardo_Franco · December 31, 2019, 2:31am

Thanks, think I got confused because I had to install node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket on the Node red previously running on a separate server !

All running smooth after importing and changing server settings