I don’t know dude. I have never had any issues with my Node Red installs, and connecting to Home Assistant worked on first try. This seems to be a node-red issue and not a home assistant one.
Solution found …
Incompatibility with the version of node and my RPI.
My version of Node: 4.8.2
Issue resolved by following these links:
http://petrkout.com/electronics/install-node-js-6-on-raspberry-pi/
Hope this will help
Hello to @flamingm0e and @fletch.
I know this is an old post, and it was like pulling teeth to read through - BUT I just wanted to say thank you for persisting with your discussion, despite the communication problems back there.
It really is very useful for other people in the world when there’s such an initial misunderstanding, which then gets resolved. It has really helped me to understand “the best way to do things” re connecting NR and HA. So - cheers.