Node Red stopped working after upgrading to 0.83.1

[Bigrob8181]

This is what fixed me up…

Node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

I am no expert but do know some of the basics. A very general high overview of a WebSocket is that it allows for two way communication over a single socket/connection. Unlike an HTTP call where it has to open a new connection for each request that contains headers and authentication that the server has to process for each request. In short, using a WebSocket should be faster and able to process more request in the same amount of time. But running node-RED and Home Assistant on the same server or…

Replace node-red-contrib-home-assistant with node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

It has to do with the authentication. I switched to long lived tokens.