Hi all, I would like to make a button in the dashboard to execute a script. This script updates Node-Red like this: bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered) In this previous post @TotallyInformation suggests that I use an e…

If it is just node-red that you want to update then you could run directly using an exec node sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red and then force a node-red restart or a reboot. Edit - corrected command above.

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SuperNinja 17 July 2020 16:34 5

the goal is to display on the Dashboard if a new version of NR is available online :

and if there is one, be able to update always from the Dashboard by clicking on a button which executes the update command or script.
Indeed, we do not see the errors but it avoids connecting to ssh and typing in the terminal to the update command.

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