yep for future reference.
if for some reason your
- AliceNodes have issues connecting to the mqttbroker with above errors
- or by default you have a white theme
then chances are you may want to try re installing Node red on Alice as something is not right with current install
The steps taken where
this takes you into the node red directory from there you need to trigger alice to re install node red. She will do that if you
I also found doing the following helped in some cases
in fact deleting any of the files in ls -l didn’t really hurt as Alice will rebuild them as long as you leave the main node-red directory in place.
then
and you can keep a eye on the node red install by doing
Now open Alice senarios on the web ui and the theme should be a dark theme by default and alice nodes should work again
Some potential extra steps
You may or may not notice that some nodes are missing like inject node and template node and a handfull of other node red core nodes. They don’t appear in the pallette as they are core nodes. So in that case go back to the terminal
if that command doesnt work then
npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red-admin
now type the command
You should see a list of “disabled” core nodes. re enable the one you want with
node-red-admin enable node-red/trigger
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(replacing trigger with the node you want to re enable) refer the list of suggested options below
Restart Alice and you should be back up and running
Happy flowing 🙂
