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On my node.js backend, I initialized a redis server:

const options = {
  host: process.env.REDIS_HOST, // localhost
  port: process.env.REDIS_PORT, // 6379 Redis standard port
  db: 0,
  // reconnect after
  retryStrategy: times => Math.min(times * 50, 2000),
  tls: {}
export const redis = new Redis(options);
Unfortunately, I always get this error message:
[ioredis] Unhandled error event: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT
    at TLSSocket.<anonymous> (/home/pascal/vipfy/vipfy-backend/node_modules/ioredis/built/redis.js:298:31)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at TLSSocket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:442:20)
    at TLSSocket.Socket._onTimeout (net.js:449:8)
    at ontimeout (timers.js:436:11)
    at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:300:5)
    at listOnTimeout (timers.js:263:5)
    at Timer.processTimers (timers.js:223:10)
I installed redis locally and use the redis-cli to ping the local server, no password is set. It always gives a positive answer, but I can't seem to be able to reach it via ioredis. Anybody an idea?
Make sure your redis server is running. You just try without options params, so it will try to connect your localhost redis automatically by host as localhost and port as 6379.
redis = new Redis();
If you don't have any specific advantage try following, I am using following one and works well.
Package : "redis": "^2.8.0" 
Code : 
var redis = require('redis');
var redis_conn = redis.createClient();
redis_conn.set("key", "val");
                As written above, the server is running as I was successfully pinging it via the redis-cli. Also, I explicitly tried using localhost and port 6379. Should make this more clear in my original comment.  Tried your example, but unfortunately, it is the same error. Thanks anyway.
– Gh05d
                Aug 23, 2019 at 8:27
                Seems like my problem was that I did not do redis.createClient. When switching to this, it seems to work.
– Gh05d
                Aug 23, 2019 at 8:44
        
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