# Node Red Websocket Error

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-websocket-error/73360>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** external-package\
**Created:** [8 January 2023 08:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-websocket-error/73360 "2023-01-08T08:51:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2023 09:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-websocket-error/73360/2 "2023-01-08T09:08:50Z")

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Did this ever work?  
if it did, do you know what you changed?  
Are you using HomeAutomation?  
Can you create a small flow demonstrating the issue? If so please export it and paste it to a reply

You can start node-red with the --safe option `node-red --safe` and it won't run anything until you do a reply.

It looks like you have two dashboards installed - `node-red-dashboard` and `node-red-contrib-polymer`. If you look at the flow page for [node-red-contrib-polymer](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cannot-access-node-red/5225) you will see it is unmaintained and over three years old. I would suggest removing it.

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