Node Red Not Working

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello
I'm getting this error message when ever I open Node Red from the HA side bar. I've stoped and started the App, but it doesn't resolve the issue. None of my lights are going on when they are suppose to. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

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Remove the Dashboard package, it was depreciated:

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The original node-red-dashboard set of nodes was bundled into the Node-RED App. For version 22+ these have been removed. You can't see or remove the node package, since it will no longer be in the palette of nodes.

Even if you did not actually use or add a Node-RED dashboard, the base configuration node used by the dashboard 'ui_base' can be / is often added automatically.

Hence you always had an unused 'ui_base' configuration node. This no longer has a definition, hence a) the configuration node will appear as 'unknown' with a random id and b) Node-RED will complain because it is missing the definition for this node.

Solution 0: Before you upgrade, remove the node-red-dashboard module from the palette, deleting any in-use nodes first...

Solution 1: you have no NR Dashboards
Go to the debug Configuration window (now in a new place after the update to NR V5)
Delete the offending configuration node
Redeploy

Solution 2: you have active NR Dashboards
Short term - add back in the missing node-red-dashboard package
Long term - load the alternative @FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard package and convert all your dashboards

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Solution 3:
Downgrade to previous version, so it will appear as dashbord-node again.
Delete that one and upgrade again

:slight_smile:

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Hello!
Updated NR and installed flowfuse dashboard it is require autentication. Tried my login and admin login but it is not allowing me log in. Please help. Old dashboard did not required authentication.

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Hello
Thanks to everyone for their help. I couldn't understand the instructions I was being given, so I asked Co-Pilot AI. The answer is below and it corresponds with instructions given by Geoff Biscuit in Solution 1. From Co-Pilot:" :puzzle_piece: Correct method (v5 and later)

  1. In the Configuration Nodes panel, click the unknown node (ab9904ee.37ed2) to highlight it.
  2. Press your keyboard’s Delete key.
  • Or right‑click the node and choose Delete from the context menu (if available).
  1. Click Deploy (top‑right).

That removes the broken configuration node and clears the “missing node types” error."

Thanks again for the help.

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Well.

I hadn't seen the NR ui for a while. It was working OK. But now looking at it I do have these unknown nodes ( a lot) and the ui has no ha nodes in the pallette.

I never had a dashboard, there are all HA nodes unknown.

So I've tried solution 0: there's no option to remove the node-red-dashboard, but I can disable them all and a see a list of ui_xxxxx nodes flash up and disappear.

If I try to deploy the dialog says there's a long list of unkown nodes so I cancel deploy.

I can try Solution 1 but ultimately that leaves the flows broken so I restore the backup.

I'm about to try the @Flowfuse/node-red-dashboard Solution 2

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here is what I did to fix this (do before update, might work after not sure)

search flows for "dashboard"
double click on Node-red Dashboard at the end of the list and delete
deploy
update