Feedback / solutions with openLuup's built-in Shelly bridge.

I just published an update to my Virtual Devices Plug-in.

What's new in version 1.5:

support for async HTTP (out of the box on openluup, just download https://github.com/akbooer/openLuup/blob/master/openLuup/http_async.lua and copy with the plug-in files on Vera) experimental support for setpoints management in Virtual Heaters (you know, the device will turn itself off if temperature is reached, and automatically on when temperature is not beyond the setpoint) external device for temperature in Virtual Heaters (just set urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VirtualHeater1/TemperatureDevice variable) small fixes, stabilization

Grab your copy from https://github.com/dbochicchio/vera/tree/master/VirtualDevices

As always, 100% local, 100% apps friendly, 100% supported by Alexa (and Google Home, I guess).

Hi @toggledbits and others,

Could you help me out with the following use case? I have a z-wave module that doesn't have scene functionality, but I want to trigger a double click action on the switch.

What is the easiest way to do this in reactor? I'm struggling with this and I think I'm thinking too complex at this point.

Well, I disappeared down a rabbit hole on a different mission and resurfaced with this monstrosity.

What does it do?

It translates button functions for various (certainly not all) IRP protocols to Pronto codes. These can then be sent by a plugin that sends Pronto Codes to IR transmitters - such as the BroadLink Plugin or the GC100 Plugin (or similar).

The IRP protocol "Device", "Subdevice" and "Function" numbers are stored in a json file as buttons for "virtual remotes".

So you could have say three physical IR transmitters and want to command different AV devices (ie TVs, AVR, Xmas tree, etc) in the vicinity of those various IR emitters.

The button codes are far less cumbersome than heaps of pronto codes. You can set up a virtual remote for each AV device in the json file. Each physical emitter can be assigned to any virtual remote. And away you go!

Well - you already have a pile of pronto codes already running just fine? However, as the plugin "manufacturers" pronto codes, you could also use it to scan/search for functions for any AV device you may have. GitHub has an example for Pioneer: SearchForButtonCodes.lua

Read about the IRP protocol

Find "Device", "Subdevice" and "Function" codes:

IR database

Plugin details in:

GitHub

Install via AltUI:

Plugins available via AltUI

Version 0.51
Initial release.

Version 0.52
Add RC6 format: includes Windows Media Center based items eg Intel NUCs, Xboxes, Kodi, etc

Panasonic plasma TV json.jpg

Panasonic plasma TV web page.jpg

This plugin was updated by @vosmont to run under openLuup (and possibly UI7.)

@DesT recently asked for a slight addition to its functionality, so I'm adding this thread to discuss the changes.

@toggledbits Hi Patrick. I had my internet go down for about 12 hours the other day, and that experience encouraged me to work on getting my HA off the cloud to the extent that I can. I have not converted my Veras to local devices yet, though after the next VeraPlus stable firmware release, I will probably run your scripts to localize the device as I don't see Ezlo surviving to maintain Vera firmware.

My question concerns the icons in your plugins. While attempting to mod a reactor sensor during the outage, I could not really do anything (without a sense of risk anyway) as the icons used are pulled from your website. Many Vera plugins operate this way--no doubt to save space on the vera, and my inclination was to manually start downloading what I needed when the outage was over. I run everything on openLuup and space is not an issue. It occurred to me that localizing a plugin could be a button push somewhere in the plugin UI where one could auto download any needed icons and the plugin would recognize the local copy first, before trying the cloud.

Could this be a possible enhancement to your plugins? I don't really have a technical grasp of whether this would be workable or not.

Feedback / solutions for openLuup's built-in Tasmota MQTT bridge.

I reinstalled the AltUi plugin on OpenLuup and I no longer access its web interface
I have the following error:
error in callback [lr_ALTUI_Handler]: ./dkjson.lua:397: bad argument # 1 to 'strfind' (string expected, got nil)
Can someone help me?
OpenLuup version 2021.05.08

Am I losing it or did there used to be a sort either alphabetically or numerically option on devices in AltUI?

Seems to not be there there?

TIA

C

So, Amazon recently released the ability to execute spoken commands.

dbochicchio/VeraAlexa: Alexa plug-in for Vera and openLuup. (github.com)

Using my plug-in, you could just do something like this:

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1", "RunCommand", {Command="-e textcommand:'Alexa, I’m leaving' -d 'Bedroom'"}, 666)

Or any spoken command that's not directly accesible via routines. Something like

"Play music everywhere"
"TV volume to 32"
"Pause TV"

and much more 🙂

Give it a try!

Latest Vera Ecobee Plugin:

rafale77/vera-ecobee rafale77/vera-ecobee

Vera Plugin for ecobee Thermostat. Contribute to rafale77/vera-ecobee development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've got myself a nice Ecovacs Deebot 950, because one of the Roombas is getting really old (12 years and still going strong). It's my first one connected to WiFi, since the others are legacy. I've found a nice mqtt library and it's already pushing to my broker in real time, but I'm wondering if there's a generic device template and/or service, otherwise I'll start building one and I'll try to keep it as much generic as possible.

The plugin has been updated to ver 0.56 which improves the RF learning procedure. It also recognises some of the newer RM4 devices (thanks Bruce Lacey).

Existing uses just need to upload the "L_BroadLink_Mk2_1.lua" file.

RF learning has been improved but is never particularly reliable. You can invoke testing by executing this code in the Lua Test box:

local DeviceID = the_id_of_the_IR_child_device luup.call_action('urn:a-lurker-com:serviceId:IrTransmitter1', 'LearnRFCode', {}, DeviceID) return true

Running the code illuminates the LED on the BroadLink device. If you do nothing at this point, the learning times out after about 24 seconds and the result is "No RF code was learnt".

While in the learning mode, tap the remote button to be learnt, every 2/3 of a second or so. If the LED goes out (typically after about say 5 seconds) some result was learnt.

The result can be found in the parent device by looking at the variable "LearntRFCode". However, it is far easier to look at the log file, which logs the process as it proceeds and also the result. You need to learn a few results to try and determine if the results are at all consistent.

Sharing what I believe is a great way to add support to devices that used to work but since existing plugin haven't been maintain by the original authors (or any other developer in the community) have stopped working as they've abandon or moved to other platform...

Homebridge has a large and very active community and I think this type of plugin will a good way to benefit from it.

It will bring any device that have been configured in homebridge into openluup.

Currently it support, thermostat (Nest and others), Switches (Specially MyQ), Dimmers, Switches, Motion Sensors, Door Lock (Open/close) Support to other type of device can easily be added.

Homebridge2Openluup
Installation:

upload the files to /you_openluup_directory/files/ create a new device with D_Homebridge2openluup1.xml

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Set your hombredige IP, username, password to the deivce's attributes

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Capture the uuid of the device you would like to bring from Homebridge into openluup by looking at your openluup logs when starting

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based on the device type, set DeviceList Variable

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T for thermostat
D for dimmers
S for switches
G for garage doors
L for Locks
A for motion sensors

and build a string device type are delimited by a ; (semicolong) and device's uui by a , (comma) like this:
T:homebridge_thermostat1_uuid,homebridge_thermostat2_uuid;D:homebridge_dimmer1_uuid,homebridge_dimmer2_uuid etc

This still in beta, would love to add async next and support to shades and other sensors.

I've made some mods to Futzle's upnp event proxy and placed it in the AltApp store (with her permission). ie it's here in GitHub.

Now it seems some people say it works with openLuup already. However the version released by Futzle required two things in order to function:

the file L_UPnPProxy1.lua was expected to be compressed, as it would be on a Vera eg: L_UPnPProxy1.lua.lzo

the hardware needs to be running OpenWrt; ie as per Vera does.

I modified the code to fix point 1) (see the script below) but I would like to see point 2) resolved, so a RasPi can be used. That is modify the script to allow a deamon to be run on a RasPi without fiddling around with say "/etc/rc.local".

So has any one got the proxy going on any hardware that is NOT using OpenWrt ? I'm unsure how to do it.

Basically this script and/or the script it includes needs to be modified or even merged to suit. You'll note that after the shebang, it requires the file "etc/rc.common" (reproduced further below). The latter appears to be some sort of template file that is overriden as required by the first script. It cites "$IPKG_INSTROOT", whatever that is. However it may be possible to make use of it somehow on a RasPi?

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common # Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org START=80 PID_FILE=/var/run/upnp-event-proxy.pid PROXY_DAEMON=/tmp/upnp-event-proxy.lua start() { if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then # May already be running. PID=$(cat "$PID_FILE") if [ -d "/proc/$PID" ]; then COMMAND=$(readlink "/proc/$PID/exe") if [ "$COMMAND" = "/usr/bin/lua" ]; then echo "Daemon is already running" return 1 fi fi fi # openLuup: Look for the uncompressed proxy daemon Lua source. if [ -f /etc/cmh-ludl/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua ]; then PROXY_DAEMON_UC=/etc/cmh-ludl/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua elif [ -f /etc/cmh-ludl/files/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua ]; then PROXY_DAEMON_UC=/etc/cmh-ludl/files/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua # Vera 3: Else look for the compressed proxy daemon Lua source. elif [ -f /etc/cmh-ludl/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua.lzo ]; then PROXY_DAEMON_LZO=/etc/cmh-ludl/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua.lzo elif [ -f /etc/cmh-lu/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua.lzo ]; then PROXY_DAEMON_LZO=/etc/cmh-lu/L_UPnPProxyDaemon.lua.lzo fi if [ -n "$PROXY_DAEMON_UC" ]; then cp "$PROXY_DAEMON_UC" "$PROXY_DAEMON" elif [ -n "$PROXY_DAEMON_LZO" ]; then /usr/bin/pluto-lzo d "$PROXY_DAEMON_LZO" "$PROXY_DAEMON" fi # Close file descriptors. for fd in /proc/self/fd/*; do fd=${fd##*/} case $fd in 0|1|2) ;; *) eval "exec $fd<&-" esac done # Run daemon. /usr/bin/lua "$PROXY_DAEMON" </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo "$!" > "$PID_FILE" } stop() { if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then PID=$(cat "$PID_FILE") if [ -d "/proc/$PID" ]; then COMMAND=$(readlink "/proc/$PID/exe") if [ "$COMMAND" = "/usr/bin/lua" ]; then /bin/kill -KILL "$PID" && /bin/rm "$PID_FILE" return 0 fi fi fi echo "Daemon is not running" return 1 }

And here is "etc/rc.common" as found in OpenWrt initscripts. Note the command actions it implements - in particular disable & enable, which set up Sxxy (start) & Kxxy (stop) files in the directory "etc/rc.d", which is not found in the RasPi directory structure:

#!/bin/sh # Copyright (C) 2006-2009 OpenWrt.org . $IPKG_INSTROOT/etc/functions.sh initscript=$1 action=${2:-help} shift 2 start() { return 0 } stop() { return 0 } reload() { return 1 } restart() { trap '' TERM stop "$@" start "$@" } boot() { start "$@" } shutdown() { stop } disable() { name="$(basename "${initscript}")" rm -f "$IPKG_INSTROOT"/etc/rc.d/S??$name rm -f "$IPKG_INSTROOT"/etc/rc.d/K??$name } enable() { name="$(basename "${initscript}")" disable [ "$START" ] && ln -s "../init.d/$name" "$IPKG_INSTROOT/etc/rc.d/S${START}${name##S[0-9][0-9]}" [ "$STOP" ] && ln -s "../init.d/$name" "$IPKG_INSTROOT/etc/rc.d/K${STOP}${name##K[0-9][0-9]}" } enabled() { name="$(basename "${initscript}")" [ -x "$IPKG_INSTROOT/etc/rc.d/S${START}${name##S[0-9][0-9]}" ] } depends() { return 0 } help() { cat <<EOF Syntax: $initscript [command] Available commands: start Start the service stop Stop the service restart Restart the service reload Reload configuration files (or restart if that fails) enable Enable service autostart disable Disable service autostart $EXTRA_HELP EOF } . "$initscript" ALL_COMMANDS="start stop reload restart boot shutdown enable disable enabled depends ${EXTRA_COMMANDS}" list_contains ALL_COMMANDS "$action" || action=help [ "$action" = "reload" ] && action='eval reload "$@" || restart "$@" && :' $action "$@"

Not quite a plugin but just the addition of a barometer device to be used for various integrations (Domoticz or Home Assistant)

Intructions:

Drop the content of this zip file in a folder openLuup has access to (I put mine into the cmh-ludl/files to pretend these were downloaded from a vera)
then create a device and use D_BarometerSensor1.xml as the device file and I_GenericSensor1.xml for the execution file or anything else actually depending on what your integration is.

Barometer.zip

I am looking at making openLuup to act as an MQTT client for a variety of applications. I may write a plugin for it myself based on either of these two libraries:

xHasKx/luamqtt xHasKx/luamqtt

luamqtt - Pure-lua MQTT v3.1.1 and v5.0 client. Contribute to xHasKx/luamqtt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yongke/luamqttc Yongke/luamqttc

A lua mqtt client which support MQTT version 3.1.1 - Yongke/luamqttc

Still have to learn the details of how it would work. If people have ideas, feel free to post here!

Anyone here that has visualized the location from iphone locator in grafana?

found the "World Map" panel for grafana, but haven't figured out how to make it display yet..

As another one asked for it on the other forum, I finally created a new plug-in for Telegram notifications: https://github.com/dbochicchio/vera-Telegram/

You can:

send text messages send (still) images send videos (gif or mp4) send silent notifications

I remember @CatmanV2 was searching for something similar (maybe?).

I'm using it to send push notifications to me and my wife, using a group. I have my own code streaming my cameras and sending a video as gif based on certain events (ie motion sensors or door/entryways left open). While this part is not included into the plug-in, if you're able to get a video yourself (by pointing to a URL), you'd good to go. Still images from cams (or, let's say, your favorite weather map, or any video/gif/image on the Interner ot local) are supported as well.

100% compatible with bot Vera and openLuup (where it was developed, anyway).

Feel free to ask questions or suggest new features.