Sorry, but I'm wanting to stick to the 4 series as most of my existing Pies are OLD and I don't want to update to the latest release if it is 64 bit and they aren't.
Yes, this is a new Pi (5 with 8GB ram) but......
To keep things consistent over my network.....
I went thorough and was asked the questions.
"Theme" and I picked DARK.
(Guess what.)
It isn't.
Burns my eyes.
How do I get the dark theme working in the editor?
I've looked at the settings.js file. I see the dark set.
Help please.
To share:
(part of the settings file)
/*******************************************************************************
* Editor Settings
* - disableEditor
* - editorTheme
******************************************************************************/
/** The following property can be used to disable the editor. The admin API
* is not affected by this option. To disable both the editor and the admin
* API, use either the httpRoot or httpAdminRoot properties
*/
//disableEditor: false,
/** Customising the editor
* See https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/configuration#editor-themes
* for all available options.
*/
editorTheme: {
/** The following property can be used to set a custom theme for the editor.
* See https://github.com/node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection for
* a collection of themes to chose from.
*/
theme: "dark",
/** To disable the 'Welcome to Node-RED' tour that is displayed the first
* time you access the editor for each release of Node-RED, set this to false
*/
//tours: false,
palette: {
/** The following property can be used to order the categories in the editor
* palette. If a node's category is not in the list, the category will get
* added to the end of the palette.
* If not set, the following default order is used:
*/
//categories: ['subflows', 'common', 'function', 'network', 'sequence', 'parser', 'storage'],
},
Then I tried installing node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection, now I get a startup warning [warn] [@node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection] Node module cannot be loaded on this version. Requires: >=5.0 (so why did it install on v4 then?)
I am sorry that I have started 2 threads just now. But they are kinda different.
Well: they are.
This thread:
Yes, I have a brand spanking new Pi 5. (8GB).
I installed node-red for reasons mentioned in the other thread.
As said earlier:
I want to keep all my pies as compatible as possible and most of the others are 3 B+ and the like.
(No 4's and ONLY THIS ONE 5)
I read somewhere that the new release is 64 bit or something and specifically needs things I don't think a 3(b)+ would support.
So I installed 4.1.11
Went through the Q/A during install. Do you want Pi specific nodes? (etc)
Then it got to some new stuff which I kinda like/d.
All my other machines run 4.0.9 and I got caught with this project thing popping up each time I go to the editor.
(It was discussed and anyway....)
Do you want projects enabled? (or something like that.) Wow! Love it! What theme do you want? and a list. I chose dark.
And so on.
It installed and I loaded the editor.
Not a dark theme.
Though it didn't bother me with the project export thing.
(But maybe because there wasn't anything in the editor at that time.)
I'm going through bad times with software installation just now and want to check it is not me that is stuffing it up.
The install script asked, I answered/chose and I didn't gt what I chose.
As I understand it, the 3b will run NR 5 provided you have the 64 bit version of the pi OS installed. To check, run dpkg-architecture
It will tell you whether you have the 32 or 64 bit OS installed.
Ubuntu 22.04 is supported till April 2027, and if you register it for ESM (Extended Security Maintenance?), which is free for up to three machines per personal individual, then you get security updates for another five years.
I think 22.04 was available in 32 and 64 bit so my suggested check is still valid.
I think it's because node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection has recently been modified to require Node-red v5.
Look in the startup log:
[warn] [@node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection] Node module cannot be loaded on this version. Requires: >=5.0
You could try checking what version of the theme collection is installed on one of your other Pies (from package.json), and force installation of that version on your Pi 5.
I feel that clinging to previous versions of the OS or Node-red for the sake of consistency across your devices is just storing up troubles for the future.
Your Pi 3Bs should be capable of running Node-red 5, as long as you have the 64 bit OS installed.
The rub for me is this:
I have something like node.js at about 18.
I ran the install script for 4.1.11
So given I told it to install 4.x and the theme required 5.x why would the install script prompt me for a non-supported option?
--
That is for the EXISTING machines.
This is for a brand new machine.
Please put the existing Pi 3B+ (and others) out of the scope.
I (regrettably) mentioned it because someone said to update to Version 5 on the OTHER machines.
That is outside the scope of this thread.
So - please - back to the question.
Side question:
Is version 5 compatible with 4.x?
As most of my machines are 4.x and if I install 5.x on the NEW machine am I making a problem?
I'd go into the other stuff, but it is not helping this question.
As I understand it, the changes from Node-red 4 to 5 mainly affect the appearance of the editor.
This has scope for confusion, for example the buttons to control which sidebars are shown have moved from the top of the page to the bottom.
However, there should be no compatibility issues when you copy a flow from NR4 to 5 or vice versa.
Possibly the script should not give you that option if you are installing an old version of node red. Whether it is worth the effort of fixing it is debatable.
