Node-Red Upgrade to Version 0.18

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Has anyone succeeded in upgrading to Node-Red version 0.18 from Node-Red version 0.17.5 that comes on the latest Beaglebone Black Wireless Debian images (Debian 9.2 2017-10-10 4GB SD IoT and Debian 9.3 2018-01-28 4GB SD IoT)? I tried using the instructions on the upgrade page (https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/upgrading.html) but failed miserably. I encountered various issues about the unavailability of port 1880, about encryption, etc.

Before I start trying to debug what went wrong, I’d like to know if this is even the right process. I see that there is a special process for the Raspberry Pi, but from what I’ve read, the BeagleBone Black has a different, incompatible setup.

The main reason I think I want the new version is for its WebSocket support for MQTT nodes.

Thanks for pointers to the right path.

Richard

PS Apologies for double posting, but my query on the Node-Red forum has gone unanswered for days. Maybe nobody has upgraded successfully!

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sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade bb-node-red-installer

Just rebuilt 0.18.1 last night. (i try to rebuild it once a month)

Regards,

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Thank you! and again, THANK YOU!!
~R

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PS, let us know if we need any more modules, currently i'm pulling in:

node-red
node-red-node-mongodb
node-red-node-serialport
node-red-contrib-can
node-red-contrib-gpio
johnny-five
beaglebone-io

Regards,

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Hi.
I use
node-red-dashboard
It’s not a high priority, because it’s easy to add using (three bar) menu | Manage palette | Install.

Thanks,
Richard

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Another idea: Dave C-J, the manager of the Node-Red forum, suggested to me (see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/node-red/OmwzwS8611w ).

Or indeed (now that you have contacted them… :slight_smile: ask them if they would like to send a pull request to our docs to point out the goodness they now have ?
(PS … we shipped out 0.18.2 today with some more fixed to the projects feature… )
(PPS… if you don’t use projects then now worries - you can probably hang on for 0.18.3 :wink:

Cheers,
Richard

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and rebuilt for 0.18.2 (we actually build against git, so it's:
0.18.2-2f6ac42) and pushed out..

Regards,

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Not wanting to be annoying, but I am of a similar stance.

Though I have a RPI.

At this point I have 0.17.5.

Going to the pages I read many posts about updating from the original version supplied to 0.17.?

But no where can I find a walk through that explains going from 0.17.5 to 0.18.1

This is the link I am using:
https://nodered.org/docs/hardware/raspberrypi

But it is dated 2015. So I am guessing it isn’t for the latest release.

Thanks.