node-red-start/stop commands are not working.

General Discussion
1

Hi,

I am very new to this. I installed Node-Red on DietPi. When using Raspberry Pi OS, I was starting Node-RED with

node-red-start

and then stopping it with

node-red-stop

. But in DietPi, I am getting following error:

/usr/bin/node-red-stop: line 1: dietpi-services: command not found

However running

node-red-log

starts the Node-RED.

What is the problem?

Thanks.

Edit: I can see node-red-start and node-red-stop under /usr/bin.

2

Hi,

how did you installed NodeRed? DietPi is offering an own installation script for this. Usually this will setup as well a service that can be started and stopped.

3

Hi Joulinar,

I installed via dietpi-software.

dietpi-services start node-red

and

dietpi-services stop node-red

works fine.

But, I wanted to simulate the behaviour of node-red-start and node-red-stop, hence I added customized scripts to /usr/bin. The difference is node-red-start starts the node-red log as well, hence I can debug during development.

Based on this discussion https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dietpi-installation-lacks-basic-commands/10388/2, I am now able to simulate the desired behaviour.

4

on DietPi we start Node-Red via systemd service as we store node-red on a custom file system. Command we use is following as user nodered

/mnt/dietpi_userdata/node-red/node_modules/.bin/node-red -u /mnt/dietpi_userdata/node-red