Probably a really dumb question.
Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.
Digging around with Home Assistant and toying with some dashboards, is there any way of exposing that sensor to HA trivially? I could set MSR to trip a virtual switch in OpenLuup which can then be exposed to HA (with all my other Vera devices) but that feels a bit in-elegant if I can do it directly.
Any thoughts?
Apologies if the ask is not clear/
TIA
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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?
As there are statements about compatibility for home assistant versions in MSR new version announcements (e.g. "HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.7.3"), I thought it would be good idea to track other controllers as well.
As an example, I can confirm that build "latest-25208-c53e8513" works with Hubitat Elevation C-8 platform version 2.4.2.134 using Maker API.
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 foolishly let my system wipe all cookies this morning and with it my settings for my MSR home page.
Once logged back in I can no longer remove errant panes nor is the + available to add new ones.
Brave Browser v1.80.122 (Jul 16, 2025)
What have I done?!
Will check other browsers on my M1.
UPDATE: Safari exhibits same behaviour.
I've tried both sans last-four public key entry and with - no change.
@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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
[ZwaveJS] Problems with endpoints and Fibaro Double Switch 2 (FGS223)
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Hi @toggledbits,
I'm not sure if it's a bug or something, but I have a lot of Fibaro Double Switch (FGS223) as follows.
In the example, it's
zwavejs>65-2:energy_sensor.units="kWh" energy_sensor.value=0.21 power_sensor.units="W" power_sensor.value=0 power_switch.state=false x_debug.dt={"entity_class":"Switch","match":"deviceClass.generic.key=16","capabilities":["power_switch","toggle"],"primary_attribute":"power_switch.state"} x_zwave_values.Binary_Switch_currentValue=false x_zwave_values.Binary_Switch_targetValue=false x_zwave_values.Meter_reset=null x_zwave_values.Meter_value_65537=0.21 x_zwave_values.Meter_value_66049=0 zwave_device.capabilities=[37,50] zwave_device.endpoint=2 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.impl_sig="23326:1:22315:1" zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=65 zwave_device.version_info=nullWhen operating endpoint 2, it's triggered endpoint 1. Endpoint 1 is fine. This is causing a lot of troubles, as you may imagine.
Also, endpoint 0 is not really a switch, and the associated actions are not doing anything at all. Maybe these could be removed. Also, I see
battery_maintenanceandpower_sourcecapabilities, all with null values.battery_maintenance.charging=null battery_maintenance.rechargeable=false battery_maintenance.replace=false battery_maintenance.state=null heat_detector.state=false power_source.source=null power_switch.state=null x_debug.dt={"entity_class":"Switch","match":"deviceClass.generic.key=16","capabilities":["power_switch","toggle"],"primary_attribute":"power_switch.state","description":"Double Switch 2","model":"FGS223","default_name":"Double Switch 2","manufacturerId":271,"productType":515,"productId":4096} x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_001=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_002=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_slowRefresh=null x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Energy_Reports_Threshold=100 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Operating_Mode=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Power_Reports_Minimum_Time_Between_Reports=10 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Power_Reports_Threshold=20 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Pulse_Time_for_Blink_Mode=5 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Reaction_to_Key_S1_for_Delay_Auto_ON_OFF_Modes=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_First_Channel_Time_Parameter_for_Delay_Auto_ON_OFF_Modes=50 x_zwave_values.Configuration_General_Purpose_Alarm_Response=3 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Include_Consumption_By_Device_Itself_in_Reports=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Input_Button_Switch_Configuration=2 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Double_Click_Value_Sent=99 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Send_OFF_With_Single_Click_2=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Send_ON_With_Single_Click_1=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Send_When_Double_Clicking_8=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Send_When_Holding_and_Releasing_4=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Switch_OFF_Value_Sent=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Associations_Switch_ON_Value_Sent=255 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Send_Scenes_When_Held_Down_and_Released_8=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_1_Time_1=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_2_Times_2=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S1_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_3_Times_4=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Double_Click_Value_Sent=99 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Send_OFF_With_Single_Click_2=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Send_ON_With_Single_Click_1=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Send_When_Double_Clicking_8=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Send_When_Holding_and_Releasing_4=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Switch_OFF_Value_Sent=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Associations_Switch_ON_Value_Sent=255 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Send_Scenes_When_Held_Down_and_Released_8=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_1_Time_1=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_2_Times_2=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Key_S2_Send_Scenes_When_Pressed_3_Times_4=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Periodic_Active_Power_Reports=3600 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Periodic_Energy_Reports=3600 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_During_Blink_Mode=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Energy_Reports_Threshold=100 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Operating_Mode=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Power_Reports_Minimum_Time_Between_Reports=10 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Power_Reports_Threshold=20 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Pulse_Time_for_Blink_Mode=5 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Reaction_to_Key_S2_for_Delay_Auto_ON_OFF_Modes=0 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Second_Channel_Time_Parameter_for_Delay_Auto_ON_OFF_Modes=50 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Send_Secure_Commands_to_2nd_Association_Group_1=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Send_Secure_Commands_to_3rd_Association_Group_2=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Send_Secure_Commands_to_4th_Association_Group_4=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Send_Secure_Commands_to_5th_Association_Group_8=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Smoke_CO_or_CO2_Alarm_Response=3 x_zwave_values.Configuration_State_After_Power_Failure=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Alarm_Response=1 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Time_of_Alarm_State=600 x_zwave_values.Configuration_Water_Flood_Alarm_Response=2 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_manufacturerId=271 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productId=4096 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productType=515 x_zwave_values.Notification_Heat_Alarm_Heat_sensor_status=0 x_zwave_values.Notification_Power_Management_Over_current_status=0 x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmLevel=null x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmType=null x_zwave_values.Protection_exclusiveControlNodeId=null x_zwave_values.Protection_local=0 x_zwave_values.Protection_rf=0 x_zwave_values.Protection_timeout=null x_zwave_values.Version_firmwareVersions=["3.2"] x_zwave_values.Version_hardwareVersion=3 x_zwave_values.Version_libraryType=3 x_zwave_values.Version_protocolVersion="4.5" zwave_device.capabilities=[91,112,113,114,117,134] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=false zwave_device.generic_class="Binary Switch" zwave_device.impl_sig="23326:1:22315:1" zwave_device.is_beaming=false zwave_device.is_listening=true zwave_device.is_routing=true zwave_device.is_secure=false zwave_device.manufacturer_info=[271,515,4096] zwave_device.max_data_rate=null zwave_device.node_id=65 zwave_device.specific_class="Binary Power Switch" zwave_device.status=4 zwave_device.status_text="alive" zwave_device.version_info=[null,"3.2"]Thanks.
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There's another device (Zooz) with a similar report. I'm looking into this now that I'm back from my trip.
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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There's another device (Zooz) with a similar report. I'm looking into this now that I'm back from my trip.
@toggledbits said in [ZwaveJS] Problems with endpoints and Fibaro Double Switch 2 (FGS223):
There's another device (Zooz) with a similar report. I'm looking into this now that I'm back from my trip.
@toggledbits
Thanks for the reminder. I haven't gotten you the correct ZWaveJS logs. I got sidetracked. Let me see if I can get those for you on that thread. -
There's another device (Zooz) with a similar report. I'm looking into this now that I'm back from my trip.
@toggledbits thanks! I've found other quirks, let me know if you want a separate report. Minor things, but differing from Vera's. The most annoying one is
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Each issue has to be case by case. Let's hit them one at a time. I just pushed 24232 of ZWaveJSController as an interim build; I'll do an announced build after we've worked through everything. Check 24232 and see if it improves your double-switch behavior first. Let me know here. New thread for the shades, please.
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I don't know if it's related to this, because I'm running the controller since 12 hours, but after the update my Fibaro Door Window Sensor 2 (FGDW002) is always reporting as open, even if
x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state=23 x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state_simple=23which means that the door is closed. It was working before and I could downgrade to test, if necessary.
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Yeah, that's related to recent changes Z-Wave JS made for similar devices. They are now supporting a command class they didn't before. Start a new thread for it, and I'll run it down.
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