Pixaroma Help

Help & setup

Update ComfyUI and the Pixaroma nodes, install them, fix the common problems and run the workflows you download here. Pick what you need.

New to ComfyUI? Start here Learn ComfyUI From Scratch, the full 5 hour course (Ep01)

How to install ComfyUI with Easy-Install, and how to use it step by step.

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Update

Two presses in the EZi Launcher. Close ComfyUI first.

One command for the nodes, one for ComfyUI. Close ComfyUI first.

1Update Easy-Install and the Pixaroma nodesUpdate the Pixaroma nodes

Open the ComfyUI EZi Launcher and press Easy-Install under UPDATE. It updates Easy-Install itself and pulls the newest Pixaroma nodes, in one go.

ComfyUI EZi Launcher
-- DESKTOP --
ComfyUI EZiKitchenAttnSageAttn
-- BROWSER --
ComfyUI EZiKitchenAttnSageAttn
-- UPDATE --
Easy-InstallComfyUI StableComfyUI LatestComfyUI + Nodes
OutputInputWorkflowsModels

No launcher? Run Update Easy-Install.bat in your ComfyUI-Easy-Install folder. It does the same.

About Easy-Install: ComfyUI Easy-Install is made by ivo (Tavris1), a moderator on our Discord, for the Pixaroma community. It comes with the Pixaroma nodes already in it.

  1. Open your ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Pixaroma folder. Click the address bar, type cmd and press Enter.
  2. Run this command:
    git pull

Using ComfyUI Manager? It installs from the Comfy Registry, which is often a few versions behind, so its Update can finish and leave you on an old version. If the version does not change, use git pull above.

2Update ComfyUI

In the same launcher, press ComfyUI Stable. That is the right choice almost every time.

ComfyUI EZi Launcher
-- DESKTOP --
ComfyUI EZiKitchenAttnSageAttn
-- BROWSER --
ComfyUI EZiKitchenAttnSageAttn
-- UPDATE --
Easy-InstallComfyUI StableComfyUI LatestComfyUI + Nodes
OutputInputWorkflowsModels
ComfyUI LatestThe newest development version. Only when an episode says a brand new model needs it.
ComfyUI + NodesStable ComfyUI plus an update of every custom node you have. It can look frozen for 2 to 3 minutes while it fetches the node list, that is normal.
Windows portable ComfyUI

Run update_comfyui_stable.bat from the update folder inside your ComfyUI_windows_portable folder.

Installed with git
  1. Open your ComfyUI folder, click the address bar, type cmd and press Enter.
  2. Get the newest ComfyUI:
    git pull
  3. Install what it needs, with the same Python that runs your ComfyUI:
    python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Then start ComfyUI and press Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on a Mac) in the browser once, so it loads the new node files instead of the old saved ones.

3Check that it worked

Worth ten seconds, because an update can finish with a tick and still leave you on the old version. Your version should match:

Newest Pixaroma nodes: see GitLab

Read live from GitLab when you open this page.

Quick lookIn ComfyUI open the Help window (the orange ? in the top toolbar) and read the version in the bottom right corner.
Version Check nodeDouble-click the canvas, type Version Check and add Version Check Pixaroma. It shows your Pixaroma, ComfyUI and frontend versions, and turns orange if the browser is still running the old code (then press Ctrl+Shift+R).

4Still the old version? Reinstall cleanly

If an update keeps failing, a fresh copy of the Pixaroma folder fixes it. You need git for this (get it here).

  1. Close ComfyUI.
  2. Open your custom nodes folder: ComfyUI-Easy-Install/ComfyUI/custom_nodesComfyUI/custom_nodes
  3. Delete the ComfyUI-Pixaroma folder. Do not just rename it and leave it there, ComfyUI would load both copies.
  4. In that same custom_nodes folder, click the address bar, type cmd, press Enter and run:
    git clone https://gitlab.com/pixaroma/comfyui-pixaroma.git
  5. Start ComfyUI and press Ctrl+Shift+R in the browser.

Nothing of yours is lost: your own fonts (ComfyUI/models/fonts) and saved presets live outside this folder. Only sounds you added yourself to the Notify node (its assets/sounds folder) live inside it, so copy those out first.

Install the Pixaroma nodes

Free custom nodes, used by many of the workflows. They live on GitLab (the old GitHub repo is no longer used).

✓Already included

Easy-Install comes with the Pixaroma nodes, so there is nothing to install. Keep them current with Update.

1Install with git

  1. Make sure git is installed. Don't have it? git-scm.com/downloads
  2. Open your ComfyUI/custom_nodes folder. Click the address bar, type cmd and press Enter.
  3. Run this command:
    git clone https://gitlab.com/pixaroma/comfyui-pixaroma.git
  4. Restart ComfyUI.

ComfyUI Manager can also install it (search "Pixaroma"), but it installs from the Comfy Registry, which is often a few versions behind. git always gives you the newest.

No ComfyUI or Easy-Install yet? Episode 1 of the free course shows how to install it, with the Pixaroma nodes included.

Installed it from GitHub before? Run "Update Easy-Install", or repoint it once with git remote set-url origin https://gitlab.com/pixaroma/ComfyUI-Pixaroma.git

Run a downloaded workflow

  1. Download an episode from the Workflows page and unzip it.
  2. Copy the .json files into your ComfyUI workflows folder:
    ComfyUI/user/default/workflows/
    They then show up in the Workflows tab inside ComfyUI.
  3. Open and run the workflow in ComfyUI.

Quick option: you can also drag a .json file straight onto the ComfyUI canvas to load it right away.

Something not working?

Click what you see.

Buttons or widgets missing on a nodeAlmost always the browser cache, not a broken install

After an update your browser keeps serving the old node files. Work through these in order.

First, a hard refresh: press Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac). Most of the time the buttons come straight back.

Still missing? Reload with the cache off:

  1. Press F12 to open the developer tools.
  2. Click the Network tab and tick Disable cache.
  3. Keep the tools open and refresh the page (Ctrl+Shift+R).
  4. Once the buttons are back, press F12 again to close it.

Why this happens: the browser saves the code that draws each node so the page loads faster. After an update that saved copy is out of date until you force a clean reload.

Red "missing nodes" when opening a workflowA node pack is missing or too old
  • Pixaroma nodes (their names end in "Pixaroma"): the workflow uses a newer node than you have. Update, then restart ComfyUI.
  • Other nodes: the episode's notes inside the workflow say which pack and where to get it.
  • Updated and still red? Reinstall cleanly, then press Ctrl+Shift+R.
The update finished but the version did not changegit could not update the folder

Usually a file in the Pixaroma folder was changed by hand, or it was installed from the old GitHub address. The quickest fix is a clean reinstall: delete the folder and clone it again, it takes a minute.

A red "flagged" label, or Manager stuck on 1.4.144The nodes are safe, here is why

The Pixaroma nodes are safe, and the pack is not banned. Its status on the Comfy Registry is Active.

What is going on: the registry now checks every new version of a node pack with a strict automatic review. Our versions after 1.4.144 are marked flagged by it, with no reason given. Two things follow from that:

  • ComfyUI's node manager can show a red "flagged" label next to Pixaroma. The nodes still work normally.
  • ComfyUI Manager only offers 1.4.144, so it misses every newer node. That is why this page uses Easy-Install or git pull to update.

Check it yourself: the pack's status and every version's status, straight from the registry.

Saw "banned for security reasons" before? That was an earlier registry ban on our versions, lifted on 11 September 2026. No Pixaroma version is banned today.

Need help?

Stuck or found a bug? The community and I are happy to help.

  • Discord: for problems with the Pixaroma nodes, post in #pixaroma-nodes.
  • YouTube: leave a comment on the episode video.

Tip: add the Version Check Pixaroma node, press its Copy button and paste that with your question. It tells us your versions in one go.

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