Node Red part of Latest Home Assistant but will not work

[Miketmechanic]

I have the latest version of home assistant running and i have downloaded the current version of node-red from the add on store. I have installed it but it will not work. I am very new to home assistant and slowly learning. I have the logs and have pasted them below. Is it possible anyone can help me out please ?

s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: starting

Add-on: Node-RED
Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things

Add-on version: 14.0.1
You are running the latest version of this add-on.
System: Home Assistant OS 9.4 (amd64 / qemux86-64)
Home Assistant Core: 2023.1.2
Home Assistant Supervisor: 2022.12.1

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s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service init-nginx: starting
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations: starting
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations successfully started
s6-rc: info: service init-nodered: starting
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Configuration of this add-on is incomplete.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Please be sure to set the "credential_secret" option.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: The credential secret is an encryption token, much like
[14:30:22] FATAL: a password, that is used by Node-RED for encrypting
[14:30:22] FATAL: credentials you put into Node-RED.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Just like a password, a credential secret can be
[14:30:22] FATAL: anything you like. Just be sure to store it somewhere
[14:30:22] FATAL: safe for later, e.g., in case of a recovery.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
s6-rc: warning: unable to start service init-nodered: command exited 1
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: SSL has been enabled using the 'ssl' option,
[14:30:22] FATAL: this requires a SSL certificate file which is
[14:30:22] FATAL: configured using the 'certfile' option in the
[14:30:22] FATAL: add-on configuration.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Unfortunately, the file specified in the
[14:30:22] FATAL: 'certfile' option does not exists.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Please ensure the certificate file exists and
[14:30:22] FATAL: is placed in the '/ssl/' directory.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: In case you don't have SSL yet, consider getting
[14:30:22] FATAL: a SSL certificate or setting the 'ssl' option
[14:30:22] FATAL: to 'false' in case you are not planning on using
[14:30:22] FATAL: SSL with this add-on.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
[14:30:22] FATAL: Check the add-on manual for more information.
[14:30:22] FATAL:
s6-rc: warning: unable to start service init-nginx: command exited 1
/run/s6/basedir/scripts/rc.init: warning: s6-rc failed to properly bring all the services up! Check your logs (in /run/uncaught-logs/current if you have in-container logging) for more information.
prog: fatal: stopping the container.
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations: stopping
s6-rc: info: service init-customizations successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: stopping
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: stopping
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully stopped

Many thanks

Michael

[davan153]

I am rather new to Node red but the misstake I did was not to follow the documentation that a cridential sectret needs to be chosen (password).
Your log is indicating this.

[14:30:22] FATAL: Configuration of this add-on is incomplete.
[14:30:22] FATAL: Please be sure to set the "credential_secret" option.