# Restart node-red sever every day

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [28 April 2022 09:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917 "2022-04-28T09:24:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubenbraekman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rubenbraekman/32/58663_2.png) [@rubenbraekman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rubenbraekman)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/1 "2022-04-28T09:24:47Z")

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Hello, node-red noob here, I need help, how do I automatically restart the node-red server completely at let's say midnight everyday?

I want to do this because I want to start a graph everyday beginning at midnight.

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/2 "2022-04-28T09:30:18Z")

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why not just send an empty array to the chart at midnight? That will reset the chart. you can do this with a inject node set to a scheduled time.

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**Author:** ![rubenbraekman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rubenbraekman/32/58663_2.png) [@rubenbraekman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rubenbraekman)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/3 "2022-04-28T09:34:47Z")

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No I need it to restart because I am using some monitoring nodes and they tend to lose connection or throw weird errors from time to time and by restarting they also reconnect properly.

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/4 "2022-04-28T09:43:16Z")

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Then there are many topics on this  
e.g [Restart node-RED via dashboard](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-via-dashboard/15330)

But I would fix the issues with the monitoring nodes, not fix bandaids.

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**Author:** ![hardillb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hardillb/32/12373_2.png) [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/5 "2022-04-28T09:44:59Z")

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The right answer here is fix the monitoring nodes to reconnect properly....

But you've not said where/how you are running Node-RED so this is going to be hard to answer.

Node-RED can not restart it's self (at least not internally).

So taking the most common deployment situtation (Node-RED running as a service on a Raspberry Pi...) use cron to run `service node-red restart` at what ever time you want.

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**Author:** ![rubenbraekman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rubenbraekman/32/58663_2.png) [@rubenbraekman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rubenbraekman)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/6 "2022-04-28T09:47:53Z")

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Thank you for the tip, I would also prefer if the ALPHA ESS MONITORING, SMA WEBCONNECT and SMAPPEE MQTT nodes worked flawlessly... 🙂 but they don't.

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**Author:** ![rubenbraekman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rubenbraekman/32/58663_2.png) [@rubenbraekman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rubenbraekman)\
**Post date:** [28 April 2022 09:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/7 "2022-04-28T09:48:35Z")

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I run node-red on a pc

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [27 June 2022 09:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-node-red-sever-every-day/61917/8 "2022-06-27T09:49:22Z")

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