The Node-RED ha entity node is deprecated in favour of four individual home assistant entity nodes (Sep 2022)

Third party integrations Node-RED
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There are several posts in the forum regarding how to solve issues with deleting entities.

If you do not have this entity in any HA entity configuration node, and you do not have it in any of the old HA entity nodes, and you do not have any HA API nodes set up to create this entity, then it should be orphaned and will eventually show up as such.

The usual statements of rebooting HA etc apply, as does clearing the browser cache, especially for Chrome.

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I looked again… now it’s gone :man_shrugging:

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I’m also not getting entities or devices to appear in my HA, and seem to be running the latest installations of everything (but also getting the banner about the version).

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HACS:
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The integration (I don’t know why it called itself ‘name’):
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Running the flow to return the component version shows A WebSocket request requires a 'type' property in the data object. in the debug console.

Node-Red is running as an addon, config secret is set, nothing obviously wrong in the logs:

 Add-on: Node-RED
 Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things
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 Add-on version: 14.1.5
 You are running the latest version of this add-on.
 System: Home Assistant OS 10.1  (amd64 / qemux86-64)
 Home Assistant Core: 2023.5.2

I get many repetitions of this in the Node Red logs:

10 May 23:09:12 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connecting to http://supervisor/core
10 May 23:09:12 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connected to http://supervisor/core
10 May 23:09:13 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connection closed to http://supervisor/core
10 May 23:09:13 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connection closed to http://supervisor/core
10 May 23:09:13 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connecting to http://supervisor/core
10 May 23:09:13 - [info] [server:Home Assistant] Connected to http://supervisor/core

My HA setup is a VM running only HA:

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I do get a sensor to say ‘connected’, but it doesn’t appear in HA:
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I have rebooted HA (and rebooted the whole VM), uninstalled/reinstalled Node Red (including wiping its config directory) no difference.

Any ideas on how I could debug this?

Thanks in advance!

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I can read from an HA entity to Node-Red without any trouble

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Progress (in terms of eliminating root causes anyway) – installing a separate node red instance on another server and connecting via HTTP worked immediately.

This led me to using the HTTP connection (ie manual setup vs ‘I am using the addon’) and that works for me.