I have installed node-red on Bookworm, RPI5. I can start it manually but cannot get it enabled with systemctl to start at boot. Blockquote Jun 13 17:46:04 RPI5 systemd[1]: nodered.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jun 13 17:46:04 RPI5 systemd[1]: nodered.service: Scheduled restart job, r…

For the sake of clarity: How did you install Node-Red? What command did you use to auto-start Node-Red?

[image] bgrattan3: I can start it manually Do you mean that sudo systemctl start nodered works, or you can start it with the node-red command? After you reboot and it falls over, what does journalctl -t Node-RED --since today --no-pager output?

I am able to start it manually: bg@RPI5:~ $ node-red 14 Jun 16:55:11 - [info] Welcome to Node-RED =================== 14 Jun 16:55:11 - [info] Node-RED version: v3.1.10 14 Jun 16:55:11 - [info] Node.js version: v18.20.3 14 Jun 16:55:11 - [info] Linux 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 arm64 LE 14 Jun 16:55:11 …

How about journalctl -u nodered --since today --no-pager Also show us what is in /lib/systemd/system/nodered.service

And what does node-red-start report ?

I'm not familiar with that inline authentication method. On my Pies I use sudo sudo systemctl enable nodered or sudo systemctl start nodered According to the internet, so it must be true :laughing:, error 217 means the service is setup with a username which does not exist. Please show us your /li…

Ok, that did it. nodered.service had pi as user and I’m bg. Bookworm seems to boot and start NR correctly. Much appreciated for the help in figuring this out!! I may be back but this is a great start. Cheers, Bob

Can you explain how you installed Node-red, what username you used, and when you created the username bg? Is your Node-red directory /home/bg/.node-red ? The Raspberry Pi install script is certainly supposed to set up the service to run as the user who installs it, but there could still be a bug.

Much easer and safe is just install it in docker and write restart: unless-stopped in docker compose config, It is not really good idea to install things to host itself.

Although I normally would somewhat agree with this statement - but for node-red it is definitely not always the best option, especially when interfacing with devices on hardware level as node-red will not have access to those, one will need to go through quite some hoops to make that work within doc…

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Colin 15 June 2024 21:09 19

Yes, you are right, I had forgotten the other two.

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