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Gradually turn on lights.
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I have several lights that I would like to turn on very gradually over 15 or 20 seconds. from 0 to .25 in .01 increments. I have tried a few things that came nowhere near working, so here I am.
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Stop the MSR by an external switch on Hubitat.
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Use case: When performing home maintenance, such as air conditioning, I want all rules involving air conditioning to be disabled. To do this, to day, I have a virtual switch that I placed within all rules involving air conditioning, meaning that if I turn it off, none of them work. Then another situation: the water pump system and garden irrigation, another switch. In short, I had to create several virtual switches in Hubitat to disable rules in MSR. Unfortunately, however, I was unable to cover all scenarios, so I wondered if it would be possible for MSR to support a virtual MSR switch, which, when configured in the reactor settings, would function as a general on/off switch for MSR. If it is configured and turned off, the entire rules and actions in MSR stops working, except for the status change reading process, specifically for this switch, which, when turned on, would restart the MSR. Would it be possible to do something like this? Any recommendations from the experts?
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Error After Upgrade
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handler
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Need help figuring out how to delay a reset on reaction
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Way to search for rules (rule state) in other rules
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@toggledbits, not sure if this is a feature request or I'm using the search tool wrong. You have a "Search for rule" in the Rules Set tab in MSR. It works nicely to find a rule and bring up said rule, but can it/could it be used for as a "where used?" global search? For instance, I have a fairly large set of rules, divided up into 10 different rulesets. There's easily a hundred individual rules, and many of the rules have Rule State triggers, which of course refer to other rules. Amongst my troubleshooting today, I came across what may have been a duplicate or troubleshooting attempt, but I can't tell if it's actually used as a Rule State in another rule without opening each rule that I suspect it may be a part of. Thanks.
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Links to MSR from HA
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I am using Home Assistant a lot recently. On a dashboard showing the devices, I would like to show a link to the MSR rule that controls the devices. Is there a way to link directly into MSR?
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Set Reaction > Script Action
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Errors after updating to MQTTController build 25139
tunnusT
I'm running MSR build 25139 on Docker, using MQTT controller 24293, and everything working as expected. But if I try to upgrade to MQTTController build 25139, I'm getting the following errors on MSR UI: An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.god Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.green Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.red Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto run" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.pump Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa watchdog" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.status Last 11:20:37 My MQTT configuration (local_mqtt_devices.yaml) for the related entity is: layzspa_message: type: ValueSensor capabilities: ["temperature_sensor", "value_sensor", "power_sensor"] primary_attribute: power_sensor.value events: "layzspa/message": "power_sensor.value": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.PWR )' expr: "float(payload.PWR)" "value_sensor.air": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AIR )' expr: "float(payload.AIR)" "value_sensor.pump": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.FLT )' expr: "float(payload.FLT)" "value_sensor.god": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GOD )' expr: "float(payload.GOD)" "value_sensor.lock": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.LCK )' expr: "float(payload.LCK)" "value_sensor.unit": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.UNT )' expr: "float(payload.UNT)" "value_sensor.error": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.ERR )' expr: "float(payload.ERR)" "temperature_sensor.green": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GRN )' expr: "float(payload.GRN)" "temperature_sensor.red": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.RED )' expr: "float(payload.RED)" "temperature_sensor.target": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TGT )' expr: "float(payload.TGT)" "temperature_sensor.value": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TMP )' expr: "float(payload.TMP)" "temperature_sensor.virtual": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.VTM )' expr: "round(float(payload.VTM), 1)" "temperature_sensor.ambient": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AMB )' expr: "float(payload.AMB)" "layzspa/Status": "value_sensor.status": if_expr: '! isnull( payload )' expr: "payload" "layzspa/button": "value_sensor.button": if_expr: '! isnull( payload )' expr: "payload" and in reactor.yaml I have: "layzspa_states": name: "Lay-Z-Spa States" friendly_name: 'Lay-Z-Spa States' include: layzspa_message I realize my MQTT configuration might be a bit unorthodox, but could there still be something unintentional in the latest MQTTController build? If needed, I can provide detailed logs.
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Since today is my birthday - and I still pretend to be unconventional - I'm giving away a present to this wonderful community and I'm releasing my first OpenSprinkler controller for MSR. It was real fun to code it - and while it's still WIP, it seems to work OK for me. It's polling-based at the moment, but I'll add support for updates via MQTT very soon (it's already partially coded). Get it at (install is similar to MQTTController and such): https://github.com/dbochicchio/reactor-opensprinkler Feel free to try it. It's beta software, but it's stable. I'll update it weekly until all the tasks from my todo list are empty. Since I've learnt a lot from this controller, I'll explore new controllers soon.
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Advice reqeusted to migrate MSR from Bare Metal to Container
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Good day all, I'm in the process of trying to shut down my 10 year old Linux home server that served many purposes, but primarily it's what I used for my NAS/Plex Media server. I migrated the NAS aspect of the server in November of last year to a true NAS solution (Ubiquti UNAS Pro), which is rack mount and much more efficient than my old tower, which it's only side benefit was heating my home office during the winter. Unfortunately it also means heating my home office during the summer, which were about to be in full swing. I have two things running on this 10 year old server at this point. MSR and pi-hole. I'm running Plex Media Server on Fedora Workstation in Podman on mini PC, which is much more energy efficient than my old tower. My next step is to migrate MSR. I know there are images of MSR out there, and creating it is well documented. I'm going to be using Podman instead of Docker for various reasons, but they work very similar. What I don't know, is what I need to do to migrate my existing Bare Metal installation over to a container. Has anyone done this? Any advice?
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Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements
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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.
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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rules
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Hi guys, Just wondering how you guys organize your rule sets and rules. I wish I had an extra layer to have some more granularity, but my feature request was not popular. Maybe there are better ways to organize my rule sets. I use the rule sets now primarily for rooms. So a rule set per room. But maybe grouping by functionality works better. Any examples/ suggestions would be appreciated.
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Deleting widgets
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Hopefully a trivial question, but how do you delete widgets in a status page? Using build 22266
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MQTT configuration question
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I have the following yaml configuration in local_mqtt_devices file x_mqtt_device: set_speed: arguments: speed: type: str topic: "command/%friendly_name%" payload: type: json expr: '{ "fan": parameters.speed }' While this works fine, I'm wondering how this could be changed to "fixed" parameters, as in this case "fan" only accepts "A", "Q" or a numeric value of 1-5?
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    cw-kid
    wrote on last edited by cw-kid
    #1

    I just restarted MSR and it never came back up again.

    I cannot connect to it now in the browser it says connection refused.

    I can still SSH in to the Debian Linux box OK, so I rebooted that but still no MSR.

    if I run this command:

    systemctl --type=service

    It says "activating" for Reactor all the others say "active".

    I then tried updating MSR to the latest build that seemed to work as normal but MSR is still down and not accessible.

    Not sure what happened, I only pressed the Restart button in the MSR gui.

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      cw-kid
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      #2

      I also have Node Red and HA Bridge running on the same Linux box, I can still access those two OK but not MSR..

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        kfxo
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        Maybe the logs will have a clue? The other day I moved HA to a new computer and MSR was trying to connect to the old machine and MSR would not load. Sure enough the logs indicated that MSR could not connect to HA. Fixed that and all was well.

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          cw-kid
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          #4

          I think you might be onto the right thing. I looked in to the log and it was complaining it can't connect to the InfluxDB running on another Raspberry Pi. That Pi has gone down at the moment and I can't connect to it for some reason.

          I don't know when the Pi went down? Might have been last week for all I know or this evening, I am not sure. So may or may not be related.

          So I edited the Reactor.yaml file and commented out all lines to do with the InfluxDB plugin and rebooted the Debian Linux box where MSR is running, but MSR is also still down and not accessible.

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            cw-kid
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            #5

            This is the reactor.service file I haven't changed anything in there.

            [Unit]
            Description=Multi System Reactor
            After=network.target
            
            [Service]
            Type=simple
            User=stuart
            Environment=NODE_PATH=/home/stuart/reactor
            WorkingDirectory=/home/stuart/reactor
            ExecStart=/usr/bin/node app -p
            Restart=on-failure
            RestartSec=5s
            
            [Install]
            WantedBy=multi-user.target
            

            If I run these commands:

            sudo systemctl stop reactor

            and then

            sudo systemctl start reactor

            and then

            systemctl --type=service

            It still says that the reactor service is "activating"

            reactor.service loaded activating auto-restart Multi System Reactor
            
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              kfxo
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              #6

              The logs dont say anything else? If not I dont know and you might have to wait for @toggledbits

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                cw-kid
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                #7

                The timestamps in the logs don't seem to match the actual time here now, so I am having issues working out what is new or not in the logs.

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                  cw-kid
                  wrote on last edited by cw-kid
                  #8

                  I guess MSR is not currently logging as its down. The last line in the log is this at 16:16 pm which was 4 hours ago.

                  [latest-22053]2022-03-18T16:16:32.655Z InfluxFeed:ERR [InfluxFeed]InfluxFeed#influx write failed (data lost): [Error]Er

                  And there was lost of these lines:

                  [latest-22053]2022-03-18T16:16:29.947Z InfluxFeed:ERR [InfluxFeed]InfluxFeed#influx write failed (data lost): [Error]Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.0.36:8086

                  But I don't know when the Pi went down? and the InfluxDB so may or may not be related.

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                    kfxo
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                    Not sure what else to try as you already commented out the Influx. Maybe back up your MSR files and try a fresh install.

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                      toggledbits
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                      #10

                      Troubleshooting section of the manual.

                      My guess is (a) some hub isn't connecting and you didn't wait long enough for retries to time out (most common, but not only reason), and then you damaged the config file trying to edit out InfluxDB, which won't get in the way, it's just chatty. Follow the steps in the docs. Also, If you installed node-red after MSR, there is a bug in their install script that can corrupt your nodejs install system-wide. Hopefully it's not that. Back on Monday. Good luck!

                      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                        cw-kid
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                        #11

                        Initially I commented out all the plugin lines in the reactor.yaml file. After that didn't work I just deleted the entire plugins section from the file and that didn't work either.

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                          Can't remember if I installed Node-Red or MSR first. Node-Red has been on this Linux Debian box along with MSR since day 1 when I first set it up.

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                            I took a copy of the reactor.yaml file before I edited it, I just restored that and reboot and its still down in the browser.

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                              toggledbits
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                              Again, follow the steps in the Troubleshooting section of the docs.

                              Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                                Again, follow the steps in the Troubleshooting section of the docs.

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                                #15

                                @toggledbits

                                I am trying to download the log files from the /var/log folder now.

                                Is this bad ?

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                                EDIT:

                                Was in the wrong directory, this looks better.

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                                  toggledbits
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                                  You should not be running npm as root.

                                  Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                                    cw-kid
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                                    #17

                                    I normally login as root. When I run it under my name I get this:

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                                      #18

                                      Am I running out of disk space?

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                                        The syslog is massive and I am not sure what I am looking for, however I just saw this:

                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]: NODE_PATH /home/stuart/reactor
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]: node:internal/fs/utils:344
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     throw err;
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     ^
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]: Error: ENOSPC: no space left on device, write
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Object.writeSync (node:fs:884:3)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Object.writeFileSync (node:fs:2159:26)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stuart/reactor/app.js:236:133)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:     at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:   errno: -28,
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:   syscall: 'write',
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]:   code: 'ENOSPC'
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 node[407]: }
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 systemd[1]: reactor.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
                                        Mar 18 18:03:33 HP-Thin01 systemd[1]: reactor.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
                                        

                                        If I am running out of disk space, I am not sure really how and where to find out what is talking up all the space and how to clear it.

                                        I am only running MSR, Node-Red and HA Bridge nothing else on this box.

                                        Thanks

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                                          cw-kid
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #20

                                          OK I have deleted some log files and got some free space back

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                                          /dev/sda2 is the main partition by the looks of it.

                                          However after a reboot MSR still isn't loading up.

                                          So my system is knackered currently as all my automation rules run on MSR.

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