Switching tabs Node Red Dashboard

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello everyone,

I’ve installed the Node-RED Dashboard add-on (ingress plug in) besides the official Node-RED add-on in Home Assistant and created two dashboards (tabs): “Home” and “Test.” [1] Unfortunately, I can only see the “Home” dashboard and cannot switch to the “Test” tab. I expect a hamburger menu. [2]

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this issue or how I can fix it? I’ve already checked the configuration and restarted the add-on, but that hasn’t helped.

Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Best wishes

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Is there any chance to switch between the tabs?

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This is not an issue I have ever observed. Both my Home Assistant machines with Node-RED as add-on display the NR dashboard with a tab list.

Getting at Node-RED dashboard when it is an HA add-on can be a little tricky and does not always work. If you have the Node-RED Dashboard add-on added correctly, this should offer the NR dashboard from the HA menu, and you seem to have that working fine. Worth, as always, clearing the web browser cache and trying another browser (and restarting HA from a base machine reboot up so as to restart all the add-ons too).

Worth going back to Node-RED directly to check that your additional tab is actually working in NR. You can get to this using the ‘open dashboard’ icon - see the debug>dashboard window you have in your screenshot, upper right after the three tabs Layout/Site/Theme. This works some of the time, and directly opens the NR dashboard in a new full browser window.

If this link icon does not work, then the following link, typed directly into a browser, is working for me. There are other options via HA ingress (see ‘open UI’ in the NR Dashboard add-on configuration), but again it works on one of my (identically configured) HA machines and not the other.

http://homeassistant.local:1880/endpoint/ui/

where homeassistant is the server name given to your device…

If Node-RED itself is not showing the tab list, then I suspect that NR is being upset by your node-errors that you have. You appear to have at least 8 HA WebSocket nodes with issues. Node-RED editor and Node-RED dashboard all operate in the web browser, and are sensitive to problems with the browser and with the NR server. Problematic nodes will cause editor issues, so routinely ensuring that NR is up to date and that all Palette nodes are up to date, and that there are no node issues cannot be ignored.

Of course, you can always go into the NR debug window, in the configuration tab, and check the ui_tab section (usually at the bottom of the list). Each tab has a configuration node, with settings for enabling the tab, and hiding the tab on the display. It goes without saying that, if you have set the tab to ‘disabled’ then it will not show in the display and will be missing from the tab list.