I created an energy management dashboard 2-3 years ago. It has been working great until about a month ago. On one of my 3 line charts the line disappeared. When I hover over the chart, I can see the data points. My other two charts are fine. I have adjusted the scale, number of points and many other chart items to try and get it to come back, but as you can see, only the "enlarge points" feature provides any help, but still no line. I am using Chrome to display it and it is a problem on all of my devices including my PC, Android phones and IOS IPad. But if I switch to Firefox on my PC, the line shows up. I am running Chrome 86.0.4240.75 (latest).
Anyone have a suggestion (other than switching browsers )
Is the chart line colour the same as the chart plot?
If not, have you used a debug node to look at the data being fed into the chart node. Is there something different about that data compared to the other 2 charts?
Thanks for the suggestion. It is set up just like the other charts and I have never changed any of the colors. None of the colors offer a black choice. But I changed it anyway and it didn't make any difference. The data hasn't changed either, but it clearly shows correctly on the chart when you hover the cursor over the data point. There is just no line between the data points.
Ok, I put a debug node on the output of the chart node that is acting up and there is no error message. I put the debug on the input and got valid data going into it.
Being it works on Edge and Firefox, I am thinking a Chrome bug from a recent update, but I can't be sure.
You may be on to something. I have never updated the Node-Red program since I installed it a couple of years ago, so it is still V 0.17.5 on Raspbian.
I have now issued the command to upgrade NR twice using the syntax:
"sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red"
But the version still shows up as v0.17.5. (after reloading the browser screens)
I am still a bit new to the Pi command line usage. Any suggestions?
Also that isn't actually what I asked, though it might be relevant. The dashboard node version is not related to the node red version. You can upgrade that using Manage Palette. I think you may need to restart node red after upgrading the dashboard too.
Thanks Colin for the specific instructions. I didn't realize the different components needed updating. My Dashboard was significantly older, so I updated it and restarted Node-Red.
On the Pi command line I go the error:
12 Oct 10:30:44 - [info] Waiting for missing types to be registered:
12 Oct 10:30:44 - [info] - ui_base
When I pull up the web site of the nodes and flow, it shows an error:
"Flows stopped due to missing node types. Check logs for details."
and there is no option to open the dashboard.
When I try to open the dashboard thru the URL, I see the error:
"Cannot GET /ui/"
When I open the NODE-RED console on the Pi, it seems to restarting over and over with errors (over and over again):
Welcome to Node-RED
12 Oct 10:48:17 - [info] Node-RED version: v0.17.5
12 Oct 10:48:17 - [info] Node.js version: v6.12.0
12 Oct 10:48:17 - [info] Linux 4.9.59-v7+ arm LE
12 Oct 10:48:18 - [info] Loading palette nodes
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [warn] ------------------------------------------------------
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [warn] [ui_base] SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [warn] ------------------------------------------------------
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [info] Settings file : /home/pi/.node-red/settings.js
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [info] User directory : /home/pi/.node-red
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [info] Flows file : /home/pi/.node-red/flows_raspberrypi.json
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [warn] Communication server error: Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:1880
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [error] Unable to listen on http://127.0.0.1:1880/
12 Oct 10:48:25 - [error] Error: port in use
nodered.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
nodered.service: Unit entered failed state.
nodered.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
nodered.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Stopped Node-RED graphical event wiring tool..
Started Node-RED graphical event wiring tool..
12 Oct 10:48:28 - [info]
Any help would be appreciated. I did some research in the forum for answers, but I could not correlate any thing specific to this. It seems the UI_BASE is the issue, but I am not using this node specifically.
The "unable to listen" error is probably because you already have node-red running, So stop it before trying to restart. I didn't realise you were running on a Pi, so I suggest running the recommended upgrade script first then you will have the up to date start/stop scripts. You can find the at https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi.
Then to stop node red run node-red-stop and to start it node-red-start.
I think that may not fix the ui_base problem though, ui-base is part of the dashboard so I think something went wrong in the update. In a terminal go to your .node-red folder then run npm remove node-red-dashboard npm install node-red-dashboard
Then stop and restart node-red using the commands above.
I ran the upgrade script command, twice and both times it rebooted the Pi halfway through the scripts. Afterwards none of my node-red commands would work from the home/Pi: command line to stop or start. So I ran the remove and install dashboard commands and still no response (command not found) for starting or stopping node red.
Any help would be appreciated.
Here is the latest contents of the nodered-install.log file after all this:
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curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
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Started : Mon Oct 12 16:31:59 CDT 2020
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Wow, I hadn't realised your system was that old. Stretch went out of support over two years ago, and it wasn't even up to date with the latest Stretch even then, with 411 out of date packages even then.
I don't know if the script is supposed to support Stretch any more, @dceejay would have to comment on that.
The script log shows that at least it upgraded nodejs, can you confirm that using node -v
it should show v12.
If it does then go into your .node-red folder and run npm install
and npm rebuild
if those run without error then restart node red and see it it helps.
If it doesn't then I don't know what to suggest other than using an up to date version of the OS (Buster). If you wanted to do that then make a backup of your .node-red folder first, except for the node_modules folder which you should not backup. Hopefully you have the folder backed up already. Then burn Buster onto a card, restore the .node-red folder and run the node-red install script.
Ideally use a new card so you still have the old one in case you have missed backing up something.
Thanks for the tips. Yes, I checked all the notes on the script and it was supposed to work with anything “Jessie” and above, but clearly there is a problem. Regardless, it seems I am back up, but no solution to the original problem. This is a single purpose Pi for just an energy management display, so I am tempted to just leave it alone for now.
One thing that did come out of this is my main display unit, an old iPad original running old Safari is now showing the line chart correctly again. But Chrome on my Android phone and on my PC are not. Since switching the chart to “enlarged data points” now anyway I can at least see the data points, so I can live with it for the time being.
Someday when I am feeling masochistic, I will take a shot at upgrading the Pi to Buster, if that is compatible with my “older” (only 3 years old) Pi hardware.
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Thanks for the help. I'll have to address any remaining issues next week.