Installing Node-RED on TrueNAS is pretty easy. It’s available from the TrueNAS App Catalog.
Table Of Contents#
Create A Dataset#
First create a Dataset to store your Node-RED flows in. In the TrueNAS web interface, you can do that by:
- Clicking on the Datasets tab
- Navigate to the location you want the dataset to be
- As an example, if I want mine at: SSD/apps/data/node-red
- I would select: SSD/apps/data
- Click Add Dataset in the top right corner.
- Give it a name and choose the Apps preset from the dropdown menu.
- Click Save
Installing Node-RED#
In the Apps tab of the TrueNAS web interface:
- Click on Discover Apps
- Type Node-RED into the search box
- Include the hyphen, using a space instead wont work
- Search for “node-red” not “node red”
- Click on the resulting app, then click Install
- Scroll down to Network Configuration and click Add next to Host IPs
- Write down (or remember) the Port Number above the IP you just added, it will be used to access the Node-RED web interface
- Scroll down to Storage Configuration and change the Type to Host Path
- Use the dropdown to navigate to the dataset you created earlier
- Scroll down and click Install
Accessing Node-RED#
Type the IP of your TrueNAS system into your browser followed by a colon then the port number from before.
Example: http://192.168.1.100:30049
For Insightful Search#
If you’re installing this for Insightful Search (and in the recommended order) continue by clicking one of the following links:
If you missed one or more of the other steps click below: