I have been using Node Red for several years without issue. For a few months now, when I am in the integrations page of HA, I see that the Node Red integration says its not loaded, however, Node Red is working perfectly. I remember reading something about a change with one of the past updates but I can’t find anything about it now. Do I need to do anything with Node Red to fix this issue or at least make the not loaded error go away?
I presume that you are talking about the Node-RED Companion (Integration) which is separate to the Home Assistant Node-RED app.
Node-RED, as the HA App, may well be running quite nicely.
The Node-RED Companion is part of the HA WebSocket nodes setup. Whilst the HA WebSocket nodes sit in Node-RED, the Companion (as an integration) sits in HA and manages the ‘entity’ nodes. If you have any HA entities created from Node-RED [sensors, binary sensors, text etc] then you will need this running.
The NR Companion has dependencies on the HA version, and I think the WebSocket nodes version, so it can fail to load (and run) if it is not updated in line with everything else. The current version of the NR Companion is 4.2.3, and you can easily find out what version you are running by looking at the integration page. Anything less than 4.x is almost certainly in need of updating.
Updating is done using HACS or manually. Details can be found at