I use Virtual Entity Controller virtual switches which I turn on via webhooks from other applications. Once a switch triggers and turns on, I can then activate associated rules.
I would like each virtual switch to automatically turn off after a configurable time (e.g., 5 seconds, 10 seconds).
Is there a better way to achieve this auto-off behavior instead of creating a separate rule for each switch that uses the 'Condition must be sustained for' option to turn it off?
With a large number of these switches (and the associated turn-off rules), I'm checking to see if there is a simpler approach.If not, could this be a feature request to add an auto-off timer directly to the virtual switches.
Thanks
Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-26011-c621bbc7
VirtualEntityController v25356
Synology Docker
Using build 25328 and having the following users.yaml configuration:
users:
# This section defines your valid users.
admin: *******
groups:
# This section defines your user groups. Optionally, it defines application
# and API access restrictions (ACLs) for the group. Users may belong to
# more than one group. Again, no required or special groups here.
admin_group:
users:
- admin
applications: true # special form allows access to ALL applications
guests:
users: "*"
applications:
- dashboard
api_acls:
# This ACL allows users in the "admin" group to access the API
- url: "/api"
group: admin_group
allow: true
log: true
# This ACL allows anyone/thing to access the /api/v1/alive API endpoint
- url: "/api/v1/alive"
allow: true
session:
timeout: 7200 # (seconds)
rolling: true # activity extends timeout when true
# If log_acls is true, the selected ACL for every API access is logged.
log_acls: true
# If debug_acls is true, even more information about ACL selection is logged.
debug_acls: true
My goal is to allow anonymous user to dashboard, but MSR is still asking for a password when trying to access that. Nothing in the logs related to dashboard access. Probably an error in the configuration, but help needed to find that. Tried to put url: "/dashboard" under api_acls, but that was a long shot and didn't work.
TL;DR: Format of data in storage directory will soon change. Make sure you are backing up the contents of that directory in its entirety, and you preserve your backups for an extended period, particularly the backup you take right before upgrading to the build containing this change (date of that is still to be determined, but soon). The old data format will remain readable (so you'll be able to read your pre-change backups) for the foreseeable future.
In support of a number of other changes in the works, I have found it necessary to change the storage format for Reactor objects in storage at the physical level.
Until now, plain, standard JSON has been used to store the data (everything under the storage directory). This has served well, but has a few limitations, including no real support for native JavaScript objects like Date, Map, Set, and others. It also is unable to store data that contains "loops" — objects that reference themselves in some way.
I'm not sure exactly when, but in the not-too-distant future I will publish a build using the new data format. It will automatically convert existing JSON data to the new format. For the moment, it will save data in both the new format and the old JSON format, preferring the former when loading data from storage. I have been running my own home with this new format for several months, and have no issues with data loss or corruption.
A few other things to know:
If you are not already backing up your storage directory, you should be. At a minimum, back this directory up every time you make big changes to your Rules, Reactions, etc.
Your existing JSON-format backups will continue to be readable for the long-term (years). The code that loads data from these files looks for the new file format first (which will have a .dval suffix), and if not found, will happily read (and convert) a same-basenamed .json file (i.e. it looks for ruleid.dval first, and if it doesn't find it, it tries to load ruleid.json). I'll publish detailed instructions for restoring from old backups when the build is posted (it's easy).
The new .dval files are not directly human-readable or editable as easily as the old .json files. A new utility will be provided in the tools directory to convert .dval data to .json format, which you can then read or edit if you find that necessary. However, that may not work for all future data, as my intent is to make more native JavaScript objects directly storable, and many of those objects cannot be stored in JSON.
You may need to modify your backup tools/scripts to pick up the new files: if you explicitly name .json files (rather than just specifying the entire storage directory) in your backup configuration, you will need to add .dval files to get a complete, accurate backup. I don't think this will be an issue for any of you; I imagine that you're all just backing up the entire contents of storage regardless of format/name, that is the safest (and IMO most correct) way to go (if that's not what you're doing, consider changing your approach).
The current code stores the data in both the .dval form and the .json form to hedge against any real-world problems I don't encounter in my own use. Some future build will drop this redundancy (i.e. save only to .dval form). However, the read code for the .json form will remain in any case.
This applies only to persistent storage that Reactor creates and controls under the storage tree. All other JSON data files (e.g. device data for Controllers) are unaffected by this change and will remain in that form. YAML files are also unaffected by this change.
This thread is open for any questions or concerns.
Just another thought. Adding devices from my Home Assistant / Zigbee2MQTT integration. Works perfectly but they always add as their IEEE address. Some of these devices have up to 10 entities associated, and the moment they are renamed to something sensible, each of those entities 'ceases to exist' in MSR. I like things tidy, and deleting each defunct entity needs 3 clicks.
Any chance of a 'bulk delete' option?
No biggy as I've pretty much finished my Z-wave migration and I don't expect to be adding more than 2 new Zigbee devices
Cheers
C
Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here.
Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions;
Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating;
Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later;
Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase;
Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions;
Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases);
Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.
I have tried numerous ways to define a recurring annual period, for example from December 15 to January 15. No matter which method I try - after and before, between, after and/not after, Reactor reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date. Some constructs also seem to cause Reactor to hang, timeout and restart. For example "before January 15 is evaluated as true, but reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date". Does anyone have a tried and true method to define a recurring annual period? I think the "between" that I used successfully in the past may have broken with one of the updates.
Good evening all,
For about the past week or so, I've been having problems with a specific rule in my home automation that controls when my home goes from an Away mode to Home mode. One of the conditions it checked for was my alarm panel, when it changed from Armed Away to Disarmed. There seems to have been a firmware update on the panel that added an intermittent step of "pending", and I can't say for certain it happens 100% of the time.
Is there a way to write a condition that so it changes from one condition, to the next, and then another condition? As in, Home alarm changes from armed_away to pending to disarmed.
Thanks.
No idea how easy this would be. During my migration away from Z-wave I've been replacing the Z-wave devices with Sonoff which has broken some of my automations.
Any chance of a 'Test Reaction' function to call out which ones are broken because an entity no longer exists? Without actually running the reaction?
Or does this exist already and I'm just not aware of how to do it? Obviously I can see entities that are no longer available, but not quite what I'm looking for.
I guess it's something of an edge case so no huge issue.
TIA!
C
I'm sure this has been asked, and answered, but damned if I can figure it out
Use case: I have a rear garden with lights. A door from the kitchen into the garden and a door from the garage.
Currently if I open the kitchen door the lights come on (yay) and a 3 minute delay starts.
After 3 minutes, no matter what else happens, the lights go off (Boo! But also yay!)
What I would like is for the 3 minute delay until the lights go off to start from the latest door open event.
That is, if I'm going from kitchen to garage, and back again, the lights stay on until there's three minutes of no activity.
I've tried 'hacking' with a virtual switch, but can't seem to stop the delay.
Any pointers?
TIA
C
[SOLVED] Fatal error on upgrade to 22021 / Raspberry Pi4 Docker
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I attempted to upgrade my Docker container to "toggledbits/reactor:latest-raspbian-armv7l" and the container started but the Reactor interface wouldn't load in the browser. The logs showed this:
# # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbec2458c # # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbedec58c # # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbed3358c # # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbef7f58c # # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbedd958c # # Fatal error in , line 0 # unreachable code # # # #FailureMessage Object: 0xbe86958cThe logs continued throwing errors with different object IDs.
I removed the container and tried to install again using toggledbits/reactor:1.0.2-raspbian-armv7l and now the container won't start and the logs show this:
NODE_PATH /opt/reactor FileLogStream { type: 'file', name: 'reactor.log', mode: 438, maxsize: 2, keep: 5 } [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.715Z <app:null> Reactor "1.0.2-21350-252f948" starting on v16.11.1 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.717Z <app:INFO> Process ID 1; platform linux/arm #1457 SMP Tue Sep 28 11:26:14 BST 2021; locale (undefined) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.718Z <app:INFO> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.719Z <app:INFO> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.727Z <app:INFO> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.786Z <app:INFO> Loaded locale en-US [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.812Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.890Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v21186 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.902Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.908Z <default:INFO> Module Entity v21334 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.916Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.917Z <default:null> Module Structure v21338 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.934Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v21096 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.935Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v21096 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.956Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.986Z <default:null> Module Rule v21348 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.994Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.997Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.998Z <default:null> Module Engine v21346 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:21.999Z <default:null> Module httpapi v21345 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.004Z <default:null> Module httpproxy v21333 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.037Z <default:null> Module wsapi v21334 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.048Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Structure... [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.131Z <InfluxFeed:null> Module InfluxFeed v21345 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.135Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 starting plugin influx (InfluxFeed) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.137Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface hubitat (HubitatController) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.162Z <HubitatController:null> Module HubitatController v21338 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.174Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface hubitat_11705 (HubitatController) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.180Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface weather (OWMWeatherController) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.194Z <OWMWeatherController:null> Module OWMWeatherController v21313 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.198Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface reactor_system (SystemController) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.205Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v21345 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.211Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface mqtt (MQTTController) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.223Z <MQTTController:null> Module MQTTController v21361 [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.227Z <Controller:CRIT> Controller: failed to load mqtt implementation file:///var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js: [TypeError]TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.229Z <Controller:CRIT> TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function at Object.<anonymous> (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:14:53) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:29) at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:183:25) at async Loader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:178:24) at async importModuleDynamicallyWrapper (node:internal/vm/module:437:15) Trapped unhandled Promise rejection TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function at Object.<anonymous> (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:14:53) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:29) at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:183:25) at async Loader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:178:24) at async importModuleDynamicallyWrapper (node:internal/vm/module:437:15) TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function at Object.<anonymous> (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:14:53) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:29) at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:183:25) at async Loader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:178:24) at async importModuleDynamicallyWrapper (node:internal/vm/module:437:15) { <rejected> TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function at Object.<anonymous> (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:14:53) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:29) at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:183:25) at async Loader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:178:24) at async importModuleDynamicallyWrapper (node:internal/vm/module:437:15) } Trace at process.<anonymous> (/opt/reactor/app.js:267:142) at process.emit (node:events:390:28) at process.emit (node:domain:475:12) at emit (node:internal/process/promises:136:22) at processPromiseRejections (node:internal/process/promises:242:25) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:97:32) [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.234Z <app:ERR> Trapped unhandled Promise rejection: [TypeError]TypeError: require(...).requires is not a function [1.0.2-21350]2022-01-22T14:35:22.234Z <app:ERR> Please refer to the console log for traceI noticed the reference to MQTT so I changed MQTT controller to enabled:False in my reactor.yaml file. I tried reinstalling latest with the same results as before. I was then able to install 1.0.2 successfully and Reactor is running. I'm only getting this error on the status page:
An Entity Attribute condition in rule "Notify when Reactor Alert is raised" failed because the referenced entity Reactor System (reactor_system>system) does not have attribute reactor_system.alert_lastI assume that 1.0.2 was prior to that feature being implemented.
Any advice on how to successfully upgrade to 22021 would be appreciated. I saw the instructions for bare metal, but I don't think that applies when I'm pulling the docker image and creating a new container.
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@toggledbits Setting aside the hijack of my Raspberry Pi Docker thread by a Windows bare metal issue... any thoughts on why my docker install of "latest" failed?
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@Alan_F version 1.0.2 will not support the version of MQTTController you are using. I have no issue starting a container on latest; not getting the error you are reporting (and I ran the container before deploying it and didn't see it then, either).
I think your first step should not be going backwards, but reinstalling the current version. If MQTTController won't load on latest, then disable it via config and try restarting. Post overall doesn't have much context (log snippet needs more context).
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That wasn't a log snippet... at least not the first one. That was the entire log after upgrading to latest. The issue doesn't appear to be that MQTT controller won't load on latest. With MQTT set to false I still get nothing in the log file but "Fatal Error at line 0".
I assume something in my config file is the issue, so I'll start commenting out sections that aren't default and hope I can get it working.
Edit: I think I see one source of confusion... that first set of log entries is from the logs of the docker container, which I pulled from Portainer (used to manage my Docker containers). While Portainer shows the container as running, Reactor itself is not saving any logs at all. I guess that makes sense if it crashed out on line zero...
How can I get a new/clean version of reactor.yaml? I tried deleting my docker image, renaming the existing file, and pulling/running the docker image again, but it doesn't create a new reactor.yaml.
I also tried making sure my RPi4 was up to date (apt update / apt full-upgrade) then rebooted, but I'm still stuck.
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After barking up many wrong trees I found this: https://www.giters.com/SensorsIot/IOTstack/issues/401
Which provided these steps to fix the issue
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 --recv-keys 04EE7237B7D453EC 648ACFD622F3D138 $ echo "deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free" | sudo tee -a "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.list" $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libseccomp2 -t buster-backportsAfter running those command, MSR is back in business on the latest build.
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Interesting, so I found Sam Cater's blog, the source for your first link. That was necessary to build the image for RPi because docker would not even build the container on Alpine 3.13 or 3.14 without the patch. I did not anticipate that effect of the patch would penetrate the container, but I can see how it could.
I'm not inclined to back off back to 3.12, though. As your link points out, newer versions of Grafana and Mosquitto are affected in the same way, and I'm sure the other tools mentioned will soon follow. We're all in the same boat. So, I'm going to incorporate this step into the installation instructions for docker container users on Raspbian Buster.