Today's question: I have flows which have inject nodes which inject a signal at boot. Fair enough. So what's the difference - as I am sure there is - between a reboot (where the machine reboots) and if I go to the terminal and say node-red-restart It would seem that the inject nodes don't trigge…

I scrolled down to the second post and clicked the link. That is a whole different language to me. Yikes. Sorry, but I can't make sense of it.

I'll try that. But I don't understand what I am doing. To test this, I have to do (rather than node-red-restart) is node-red-stop and node-red-start and watch the log - yes?

Maybe try changing the time to 2 seconds first

Ok, taking what I just wrote as correct, I put an inject node set to inject at boot after 5 seconds. That seems to have changed. No longer says AFTER BOOT This is the node. [{"id":"ca336c07.164e3","type":"inject","z":"8bb4de19.f72c88","name":"This is a test node","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"…

node-red-restart node-red-log is the same as node-red-stop node-red-start To check whether an inject node has triggered at startup configure it to output to the console then the message will appear in syslog and in node-red-log (except that it might be off the front as node-red-log only shows t…

Updated NR as well.... Stopped and started. 10 Mar 20:06:08 - [info] Starting flows TypeError: Cannot read property 'config' of null at addWidget (/home/me/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-dashboard/index.js:73:39) at Object.addWidget (/home/me/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-dashboard/inde…

I posted the entire inject node's code. Where is this output to console? I think you mean in the debug node - yes?

After adding a debug node and setting to output to console (or what ever) I see this: 10 Mar 20:10:28 - [info] [debug:e41494e7.5e59e] TEST MESSAGE Ok.

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Does the 2nd post from dceejay from this topic perhaps explain the behaviour ? or the reply from stefan24 ? (initial firing couple of seconds later)

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