[api-call-service] SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:3) about node-red-contrib-home-assistant HOT 6 CLOSED

Just for info for anyone else getting this error, it is caused by running an older version of node_js. When I installed everything on ubuntu 16, I followed the instructions here: https://tecadmin.net/install-latest-nodejs-npm-on-ubuntu/ to install version 8 of nodejs, then re-installed nodered and this module and everything works fine now.

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This looks like it could be due to data you're passing into the API node. Maybe I can improve / add validity checks if they aren't there already. Could you provide some more details on how the flow was configured within node-red?

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This seems to be the underlying issue:

26 Nov 21:01:12 - [info] Waiting for missing types to be registered:
26 Nov 21:01:12 - [info] - server
26 Nov 21:01:12 - [info] - api-call-service

I have installed the addon in node-red, and upon refreshing the page I get exactly the same types to be missing. Deployment fails after that.

If I then reboot node-red (as instructed) none of the addon types are available anymore. They are available in the addons page, so it is installed. But the nodes are not available from the workflow pallet nor are the recognized once embedded in a flow already.

Perhaps something is missing from the latest release ?

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I've installed node-red today and have the same issue. After installing node-red I installed node-red-contrib-home-assistant and after starting node-red I got the following output;

3 Jan 17:11:51 - [info] Node.js  version: v4.7.2
3 Jan 17:11:51 - [info] Linux 4.10.0-42-generic x64 LE
3 Jan 17:11:51 - [info] Loading palette nodes
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] ------------------------------------------------------
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [rpi-gpio] Info : Ignoring Raspberry Pi specific node
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [api-call-service] SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:3)
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [api-current-state] SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [api-get-history] SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [api-render-template] SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [server] SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [server-events] SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] [server-state-changed] SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [warn] ------------------------------------------------------
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Settings file  : /home/node-red/.node-red/settings.js
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] User directory : /home/node-red/.node-red
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Flows file     : /home/node-red/.node-red/flows_HASS01.json
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Creating new flow file
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Starting flows
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Started flows
3 Jan 17:11:52 - [info] Server now running at http://127.0.0.1:1880/

When I insert a Home Assistant node in the flow an configure the server I get an error in the webinterface Cannot GET /homeassistant/entities.

In node-red I see:

3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info] Installed module: node-red-contrib-home-assistant
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info] Added node types:
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:api-call-service : SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:3)
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:api-current-state : SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:api-get-history : SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:api-render-template : SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:server : SyntaxError: Unexpected token =
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:server-events : SyntaxError: Unexpected token = (line:2)
3 Jan 17:13:46 - [info]  - node-red-contrib-home-assistant:server-state-changed : SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

And after trying to deploy the flow;

3 Jan 17:15:39 - [info] Stopped flows
3 Jan 17:15:39 - [info] Waiting for missing types to be registered:
3 Jan 17:15:39 - [info]  - server
3 Jan 17:15:39 - [info]  - server-state-changed

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I migrated away from this addon to:

*) node-red-contrib-home-assistant-ws

no problems ever since.

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I still can't reproduce this however I did release 0.2.1 today, only an NPE fix really however there is an automated dev/test environment that may prove useful here. Check the README.md on master if you're interested in giving it a go, details at the bottom. You'll need Docker and Docker Compose installed but after that should be a 1 command spin up of HA/Node Red all configured and working OOTB. If you can find steps to reproduce in that environment let me know and I'll troubleshoot. Going to close this for now, feel free to reference in a new issue with repro steps in the dev environment however and I'll check it out asap.

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