Limited acces to node-red

GS

Hello unipi,

we are working on a node-red project (Neuron M20.) and it seems like we have limited access to the original functions of node-red and npm. Started with your image 1.0.6, now on 1.2.5. Some basic commands lines line "node-red-stop" - and for example commands for installing own nodes for testing - seems not to work in the console.

Are there special limitations to your delivered image with node-red?

Is it possible to update node-red using the node-red script descriped on "Running on Raspberry Pi"? After doing that, more commands - not all - work but node-red seems not to be stable.

Looking forward to your reply.

Best regrads
GS

Martin Kudláček

Hello @GS,
the Node-RED is maintained by a systemd service. To start and stop it use:

sudo systemctl start node-red
sudo systemctl stop node-red

The image versions you have mentioned (1.0.6, 1.2.5) are not versions of any of our images. The images are versioned by the date when they were built, such as neuron-node-red_image-20201119.0.zip

Martin Kudláček

And this is the installation script we use:

set -e

# don't ask question
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# gnupg for apt-key
# g++ for the node-red NPM package
echo "installation of dependenicies"
apt install -y --no-install-recommends wget curl gnupg g++ make

# add unofficial NodeJS repository and install the nodejs
# https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#debmanual
echo "Installation of nodejs and npm"
wget -O - -q https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x buster main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
apt update
apt install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs

# installation of npm
curl https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | bash

# Node-RED installation
echo "Installation of node-red via npm"
npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red

# install the Node-RED systemd service
echo "Setting up the Node-RED to be run via systemd"
cp "${SCRIPT_FILES}/node-red.service" /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable node-red