Hello. I installed Node-RED and the documentation stated that it was self-contained and everything was included. When I tried to start Node-RED the add-on would not start and kept looping to ask me to start or stop the start-up. I checked the log and found a missing SSL certificate, and I was unable to find the Node-RED file to change the security from “true” to “false”. The long version of the log file follows:
App: Node-RED
Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things
App version: 21.0.3
You are running the latest version of this app.
System: Home Assistant OS 17.1 (aarch64 / green)
Home Assistant Core: 2026.3.1
Home Assistant Supervisor: 2026.02.3
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s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service init-nginx: starting
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations: starting
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations successfully started
s6-rc: info: service init-nodered: starting
[01:38:26] FATAL:
[01:38:26] FATAL: SSL has been enabled using the ‘ssl’ option,
[01:38:26] FATAL: this requires an SSL certificate file which is
[01:38:26] FATAL: configured using the ‘certfile’ option in the
[01:38:26] FATAL: add-on configuration.
[01:38:26] FATAL:
[01:38:26] FATAL: Unfortunately, the file specified in the
[01:38:26] FATAL: ‘certfile’ option does not exist.
[01:38:26] FATAL:
[01:38:26] FATAL: Please ensure the certificate file exists and
[01:38:26] FATAL: is placed in the ‘/ssl/’ directory.
s6-rc: info: service init-nodered successfully started
s6-rc: info: service nodered: starting
[01:38:26] FATAL:
[01:38:26] FATAL: In case you don’t have SSL yet, consider getting
s6-rc: info: service nodered successfully started
[01:38:26] FATAL: an SSL certificate or setting the ‘ssl’ option
[01:38:26] FATAL: to ‘false’ in case you are not planning on using
[01:38:26] FATAL: SSL with this add-on.
[01:38:26] FATAL:
[01:38:26] FATAL: Check the add-on manual for more information.
[01:38:26] FATAL:
s6-rc: warning: unable to start service init-nginx: command exited 1
/run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init: warning: s6-rc failed to properly bring all the services up! Check your logs (in /run/uncaught-logs/current if you have in-container logging) for more information.
/run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init: fatal: stopping the container.
s6-rc: info: service nodered: stopping
[01:38:26] INFO: Service Node-RED exited with code 256 (by signal 15)
s6-rc: info: service nodered successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service init-nodered: stopping
s6-rc: info: service init-nodered successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations: stopping
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully stopped
s6-rc: warning: service s6rc-oneshot-runner is marked as essential, not stopping
Thank you for any insight.
