Having a lot of internet outages and just wondering if there is an explanation for this phenomenon. My node-red instance is on my Cerbo within the OS Large package and the Cerbo is connected by ethernet to my router as is my monitor screen and a few other things. I would have thought that the Cerbo (so Node-red as well) and the screen would always be in communication but node -red is “stopped in safe mode” and the Remote console accessed from the screen can’t stay connected for 2 minutes.
Any ideas what I can do to access Node-red during these outages ?
Do you use both interfaces on the Cerbo? Make sure the active one and no other is set to “internet access” in the network settings.
There should be no reason why you can’t access it independently of internet access.
Does trying via it’s IP work or are you using the mdns name?
You would need to dig into the node red logs and see why it is defaulting to safe mode.
Do you have any special nodes loaded?
Any flows that rely on internet access?
Yes screen is a linux pc on LAN, remote console does connect but disconnects after a very short time. It is accessed by IP. Node-red is accessed by venus.local. It is visible but says “stopped in safe mode”, no inject nodes respond. i don’t know what both interfaces on cerbo are.
I suppose there are plenty of nodes that need internet, timers etc
Looks like the flows are working now, I had refreshed the page a dozen times but it seems it wanted me to do any edit just so that I could redeploy. However, remote console still goes disconnected after a very short time. It will reconnect but can’t get it to stay open. In settings ethernet is active, wifi not.
What I suggest. Enable ssh to the cerbo.
Go to /var/log
There you will see folders and files for nodered, you can check the current log to see what it is doing when this happens.
You can do the same with the venus log.
This will help narrow down what the issue might be.
If you disable nodered completely (doesn’t affect config) does the remote console behave normally on internet loss?
I have diasbled Node-red so we shall see what happens. Also I noticed in the the settings that node-red was “enabled safe mode” plus i keep getting “bms lost connection” errors.
Maybe consider reflashing your GX and starting clean. Export your flows and import them afterwards again (after loading manually added nodes from palette manager).
SSHing I have tried scp -r root@IP_ADDRESS:/var/log/node-red-venus ~/Documents hoping it would copy the log folder to the local laptop/Documents but..nah
