(Release 2024.9.1) Nodered-sil is broken, but a git cherry-pick fix it

[cakira]

Describe the bug

Short Explanation

I am unsure about the maintenance policy for older EVerest releases, but I discovered that the Node-RED SIL web interface is broken in both EVerest 2024.9.0 and 2024.9.1.

If maintaining these versions is worthwhile, the issue can be resolved by applying commit 55fbf4d, which was used in EVerest 2024.10.0. The fix can be seamlessly applied to 2024.9.1 with:

git cherry-pick 55fbf4d

This could be used to create a 2024.9.2 release.

Long Explanation

I have EVerest 2024.9.0 installed on an embedded system and also installed 2024.9.0 (and later 2024.9.1) on my PC for debugging. Following the "A Kind Of Quick Guide To EVerest", I attempted to start the Node-RED SIL web interface by running:

everest-core/build/run-scripts/nodered-sil.sh

However, in both 2024.9.0 and 2024.9.1, the web interface did not open as expected. The terminal output included the following warnings:

31 Jan 16:41:52 - [warn] [node-red-node-ui-table] Node module cannot be loaded on this version. Requires: >=3.0.0  
[...]
31 Jan 16:41:53 - [info] Waiting for missing types to be registered:  
31 Jan 16:41:53 - [info]  - ui_table  

After applying the cherry-pick mentioned earlier, the issue was resolved. The updated log confirms that flows started successfully:

31 Jan 17:00:52 - [info] Starting flows  
31 Jan 17:00:52 - [info] Started flows  
31 Jan 17:00:52 - [info] [mqtt-broker:fc8686af.48d178] Connected to broker: mqtt://localhost:1883  

Since the fix is already part of EVerest 2024.10.0, I did not submit a pull request. However, I wanted to report this in case maintaining 2024.9.x is of interest (though 2024.9.1 is now two months old).

EVerest Domain

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Affected EVerest Module

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To Reproduce

Follow the A Kind Of Quick Guide To EVerest until the command in section "3.3.2. Software in a loop"

{EVerest Workspace Directory}/everest-core/build/run-scripts/nodered-sil.sh

Anything else?

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