init.d script for Node-RED

README.md

This gist creates an init.d script to automatically run Node-RED at boot time.

To run it as a single step you can cut paste the following single line command

sudo wget -O /tmp/download https://gist.github.com/bigmonkeyboy/9962293/download && sudo tar -zxf /tmp/download --strip-components 1 -C /etc/init.d && sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/nodered && sudo update-rc.d nodered defaults

or click right-click "save as" this link - But please read the script first and satisfy yourself it's safe to execute in your environment...

nodered

#! /bin/sh
# Starts and stops Node-RED
# /etc/init.d/nodered
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:     node-red
# Required-Start:       $syslog
# Required-Stop:        $syslog
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
# Short-Description:    Node-RED initialisation
### END INIT INFO
# Can be downloaded and installed in one go by using this command
# sudo wget -O /tmp/download https://gist.github.com/bigmonkeyboy/9962293/download && sudo tar -zxf /tmp/download --strip-components 1 -C /etc/init.d && sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/nodered && sudo update-rc.d nodered defaults

# This runs as the user called pi - please change as you require
USER=pi

# The log is written to here - please make sure your user has write permissions.
LOG=/var/log/node-red.log

#Load up node red when called
case "$1" in

start)
    if pgrep ^node-red$ > /dev/null
    then
        echo "Node-RED already running."
    else
        echo "Starting Node-Red.."
        touch $LOG
        chown $USER:$USER $LOG
        echo "" >> $LOG
        echo "Node-RED service start: "$(date) >> $LOG
#        su -l $USER -c "cd ~/.node-red && screen -dmS red node-red-pi --max-old-space-size=128"
# or
        su -l $USER -c "node-red-pi --max-old-space-size=128 -u ~/.node-red >> $LOG &"
        echo "Logging to "$LOG
    fi
;;

stop)
    echo "Stopping Node-Red.."
#        su -l $USER -c "screen -S red -X quit"
# or
    pkill -SIGINT ^node-red$
    sleep 2
    echo "" >> $LOG
    echo "Node-RED service stop: "$(date) >> $LOG
;;

restart)
        echo "Restarting Node-Red.."
        $0 stop
        sleep 2
        $0 start
        echo "Restarted."
;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

Hi, I'm trying to run this on a machine with nvm installed. I've set nvm to use 0.12.8 and running node-red from the command line works fine and picks up that version. But using this service, node-red picks up v5.0.0 of node instead. Any idea how I might set version for this script as well?

Hi,

In my case I moved from grep to pidof as I was having strange behavior.
Thanks

@sinewave440hz You'd need to run the nvm script that runs when you use the command line. When you start a shell a file will be run (possibly ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile), and at the end of it nvm appends a line which says something like:

if [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]; then
    . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
fi

You need to add those lines to this script, probably after echo "Starting Node-Red.."

install via curl not working, manual copy to init.d/ works

how did you add node-red as a service i tried runing it from command line it works fine but when i try it running using service node-red start it doesnt start can you help me out