[Reactor] Bug when sending MQTT boolean payloads

[CatmanV2]

Me again
Bare metal install of latest-22274-24dfd72c on Debian Bullseye on an Intel NUC.

I definitely traversed the region boundary this afternoon. In the Mostquito log I can see:

1665508761: Client catmancatmaniphone disconnected.
1665508821: Socket error on client catmancatmaniphone, disconnecting.
1665508821: New client connected from 192.168.70.1 as catmancatmaniphone (c0, k60, u'catman').
1665508821: 	owntracks/catman/catmaniphone
1665508821: Sending CONNACK to catmancatmaniphone (1, 0)
1665508821: Received PUBLISH from catmancatmaniphone (d0, q1, r1, m32, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (241 bytes))
1665508821: Sending PUBACK to catmancatmaniphone (Mid: 32)
1665508821: Sending PUBLISH to reactor_openluup_mqqt (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (241 bytes))
1665508821: Sending PUBLISH to catmancatmaniphone (d0, q1, r0, m264, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (241 bytes))
1665508821: Received PUBACK from catmancatmaniphone (Mid: 264)
1665508825: Received DISCONNECT from catmancatmaniphone
1665508825: Client catmancatmaniphone disconnected.
1665508974: Sending PUBLISH to rachel49610FDD9BED4C648D4F36DC952B61BC (d0, q1, r0, m392, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (195 bytes))
1665508974: Sending PUBLISH to rachel49610FDD9BED4C648D4F36DC952B61BC (d0, q1, r0, m393, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (200 bytes))
1665508974: Sending PUBLISH to rachel49610FDD9BED4C648D4F36DC952B61BC (d0, q1, r0, m394, 'owntracks/catman/catmaniphone', ... (241 bytes))
1665511338: Socket error on client catmancatmaniphone, disconnecting.
1665511338: New client connected from 192.168.70.1 as catmancatmaniphone (c0, k60, u'catman').
1665511338: 	owntracks/catman/catmaniphone
1665511338: Sending CONNACK to catmancatmaniphone (1, 0

The entries at 1665508401 correlate with my phone entering the region and immediately publishing the fact to my wite's pone (which makes sense and seem to indicate that Owntracks and Mosquitto are correctly configured.

1665508401 is 1805 local time (Zulu +1)

MSR logs:

[latest-22274]2022-10-11T16:50:41.344Z <VeraController:CRIT> *Entity#vera>device_20631
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.002Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) starting evaluation; because timer-trigger Timer#rule-l6gxvycu
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.005Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.007Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluation complete
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.007Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) starting evaluation; because timer-trigger Timer#rule-l60fkpo3
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.013Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.014Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) evaluation complete
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.015Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) starting evaluation; because timer-trigger Timer#rule-l6gxvycu
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.016Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.017Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluation complete
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.023Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) starting evaluation; because timer-trigger Timer#rule-l60fkpo3
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.025Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:00.025Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Heating (Rule#rule-l60fkpo3) evaluation complete
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:00:05.003Z <Engine:INFO> [Engine]Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "10/11/2022, 6:00:05 PM" (TZ offset 60 mins from UTC)
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:15:00.008Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) starting evaluation; because timer-trigger Timer#rule-l6gxvycu
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:15:00.011Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[latest-22274]2022-10-11T17:15:00.013Z <Rule:INFO> Morning Lights (Rule#rule-l6gxvycu) evaluation complete

reactor.yaml for the entity:

 - id: mqqt
    enabled: true
    implementation: MQTTController
    name: Mosquito
    config:
      source: "mqtt://192.168.70.249:8883/"
      username: xxxxx
      password: xxxxx
      entities:
        catman_iphone:
          name: "Catman Phone"
          topic: catmaniphone
          uses_template: owntracks_in_region
          region: Home2

Owntracks config screen:

Owntracks region

I'm going away tomorrow. Please save me from myself! TIA

C

[therealdb]

I'm not sure your topic is correct in config. Try owntracks/catman/catmaniphone

I'm away from my PC so I couldn't double check the template, but I'll definitely try it.

[CatmanV2]

@therealdb

Thanks, pretty sure (as mentioned in another thread) it's right. Here's the template:

 # owntracks_in_region
  # Receive OwnTracks location updates and drive a binary sensor that tells if a designated device
  # is in a given region or not (e.g. is Dad home?). The topic is the "Device ID" configured in the
  # OwnTracks app (under Identification). The regionName is the name of a region defined in the app.
  # Requires: topic, regionName
  owntracks_in_region:
    capabilities: [ binary_sensor ]
    primary_attribute: binary_sensor.state
    type: BinarySensor
    events:
      "owntracks/user/%topic%":
        "binary_sensor.state":
          json_payload: true
          if_expr: "payload._type == 'location'"
          expr: >
            ( first region in ( payload.inregions ?? [] ) with region == regionName: true ) ?? false

Still think I I should change. Looks to me like it should just be catmaniphone?

C

[toggledbits]

I see the issue... for some reason, your phone is publishing the topic owntracks/catman/catmaniphone, where it seems most others get owntracks/user/catmaniphone... it must be possible to set the user part somewhere in the app, although I'm not sure where.

No worries. Update the template (in mqtt_device.yaml -- just this once, I normally don't encourage modifying system files) -- make the lines look like this:

    events:
      "owntracks/%user%/%topic%":

And then add user: catman to your entity config indented the same as the topic and name lines.

Edit: also the region line in your entity config should say regionName: Home2

Edit2: Mystery solved. The user portion of the topic is the username defined in the Identification section of Owntracks preferences, and it is set whether login with password is used or not. I've already updated the template for the next version of MQTTController to incorporate the change above.

[CatmanV2]

Fabulous! For once I wasn't being a complete idiot, and now the entity is True (which is sort of what I'd expect) Thanks so much!

C