Node-Red - Cannot connect to home assistant

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Running Hassbian on a raspberry pi

I installed node-red, then installed the home assistant component (https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-home-assistant).

I can get to node-red via the browser, but when I try to add my home assistant server to node-red I get the following error: “cannot get homeassistant/entities”. I cannot figure this out. This is only local so no SSL, proxy etc. I don’t even have an api password setup at the moment…

Did i by chance install this in the wrong place? I’ve been scowering the internet, but cannot find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

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If you are running one of the newer version of Home Assistant, you have to create an Long-Lived Access Tokens for Node-Red. This tripped me up as well. If you click on your profile icon at the top left corner it will bring you to your profile and at the bottom you will see Long-Lived Access Tokens. You must create one and copy it to Node-Red where you setup your Home Assistant server. Now, if your not running a newer version of Home Assistant, then you need to supply some more info, like how did you install Node-Red, is it in a Docker, and what version of Home Assistant you are running.

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running the latest 86.4. I did not do the long lived access token. Let me try that.

edit: Ok, added the long lived access token to node red in the api section. That did not work. Still getting the same error. Do I need to restart?

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There is your problem.

That package is outdated and unsupported. use the websockets version

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Ok. I’ll try today. Thanks. All the guides if read said not to use today version for some reason. Appreciate it

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This fixed it, thanks.