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hardillb / node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill

A Node-RED node to control things via Amazon Alexa
https://alexa-node-red.bm.hardill.me.uk/
Apache License 2.0
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Not able to uninstall node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill #108

Closed brianblank closed 3 years ago

brianblank commented 3 years ago

I am trying to uninstall the node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill so that I can install another skill that has a naming conflict with this one. However, the uninstall option is not presented to me. I disabled the skill, and also deleted the credentials and removed all uses of the skill. However, it only presents to me the option to disable the skill, but not to uninstall the skill.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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hardillb commented 3 years ago

That just means you didn't install it via the palette manger or by hand with npm into the userDir.

You probably installed it globally, you will have to research how to remove globally installed nodes.

877dev commented 3 years ago

Might be worth checking you have removed all nodes from your flows too.

hex6ng commented 3 years ago

@brianblank Were you able to remove your module? I'm having the same issue and I don't see any way to remove it.

brianblank commented 3 years ago

@brianblank Were you able to remove your module? I'm having the same issue and I don't see any way to remove it. @hex6ng , I went on Discord to get advice from some Node Red experts. They suggested to backup everything and re-install the software without the nodes that I want. I haven't got around to that yet as that seems to be very time consuming and seems a bit excessive of a solution. I just don't understand why I can't uninstall this feature while other node types have uninstall features.

hardillb commented 3 years ago

Being able to uninstall nodes has nothing to do with the node it's self.

You either still have a device node or config node on the system or you didn't install the node originally via the Palette Manager.

You can check by looking in your userDir (most likely ~/.node-red) is the node listed in the package.json under dependencies or present in the node_modules directory?

If you installed it from the command line with npm install and included the -g flag you will have to remove it on the command line the same way with npm uninstall -g node-red....

brianblank commented 3 years ago

Hi @hardillb and thanks for providing some feedback. I definitely would have installed this via the pallete. My command line doesn't even have the NPM command available as the home assistant distribution provides a very minimal Linux command environment. node-red $ npm uninstall -g node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill -bash: npm: command not found My package.json file in /config/node-red directory does not reference this node nor can I find it in /config/node-red/node_modules directory.

hardillb commented 3 years ago

Without npm then pallet manager won't ever work because all it does is shell out that command.

The Home Assistant folks have done some crazy stuff, you will have to take it up with them, I offer no support at all for that setup unless you can reproduce it outside.

compujunk commented 2 years ago

I have the same problem with homeassistant. I can delete all pallets, but not this one. in the .config.nodes.json it says the location "file": "/opt/node_modules/node-red-contrib-alexa-home-skill/alexa.js" only that path doesn't exist. All other pallets are neatly in /node-red/node_modules/. at the home assistant community they refer me to the maker of the pallete in this case so here.