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[Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
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Hello all.. been a minute! I recently rebuilt my Z wave network and migrated to a new z wave stick. In order to prevent any downtime I kept my original z wave network up and ran a docker version of Z Wave JS UI with my new controller. This way I could add device by device without having any devices down. I finally moved all the devices over to my new stick today. The final step was to migrate everything from my Docker instance of Z Wave JS UI to the HA add-on of Z Wave JS UI. However during this migration some of the names didn't populate correctly which I later managed to import back into Z Wave JS UI. The issue was in Reactor it is stuck on the default names and the entities are not updating. I removed the controller from Reactor, restarted, hard refreshed, and added the controller back however the new entity names have not updated. Also it seems like the old entities from my previous instance of Z Wave JS UI are lingering and not being marked as dead (I believe a certain amount of time needs to lapse before they're marked as dead in Reactor). My goal is to basically purge all the entities for the 'ZWaveJS' controller in Reactor so it can pull all the updated entity names and only the entities that exist in Z Wave JS UI. I cannot find a quick way to do this, I know entities can be deleted one by one, but with over 100 entities this would take long I am guessing that if I added the controller with a new name in in the Reactor config it would pull the updated entities and names but I think that would break my rules since the entity IDs would change (I made sure to name all the entities the exact same as they were previously to prevent this issue).
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I’ve added a couple of Shelly Wave i4 as scene controllers and I’m planning to add more, since I can just use standard buttons instead of battery-powered scene controllers, which also looks better aesthetically. That said, I’m struggling to figure out how to write a simple rule that cycles between states every time I press a button. Example: Light 1 ON → OFF, then Light 2 ON → OFF. The part I can’t get right is handling the case where Light 1 or Light 2 might already be ON independently of the rule. Maybe it’s just too much sun and relaxation clouding my brain, but any hint would be appreciated.
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Timers in my log

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    Matohl
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    Question about my logs. My logs are filled with timers, even with the log-level 4. Is this expected or why are they here?
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      Version 21058, or other?

      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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        I updated to 21058

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          ... but I will check my logs again

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            Yes, still there

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              OK. If it is 21058, please open a PR. Then stop Reactor, clear the log files (delete), and then start Reactor. Let it run for 15-20 seconds, and then stop it again. Gather the log file, compress, and email as attachment to the address in the Support section of the About tab.

              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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                Will do 🙂

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                  Oh, and can you screen shot a couple of those rules as well? If you click on the rule name in the Rule Sets tab, it will open rule status and show you the ID for the rule. Just match that up to two or three of logged rules.

                  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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                    Ok, I have reported it. Sent you an e-mail with the logs and left some screen shots in MBT. But every rule works fine but my logs ar flooded 🙂 You said that you left some "hooks" in the earlier problem with rules spanning over mid-night. Could it be related?

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                      Im seeing the same as @Matohl . Let me know if you want me to supply some logs too.

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                        Ok, I have reported it. Sent you an e-mail with the logs and left some screen shots in MBT. But every rule works fine but my logs ar flooded 🙂 You said that you left some "hooks" in the earlier problem with rules spanning over mid-night. Could it be related?

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                        @matohl No, I don't think it's related. There are some tricky side-effects with doing math with JavaScript dates, and I imagine something is running into a condition where it's hitting that. Everything the log says is correct, it's just not doing what it says it's going to do. It says it's going to sleep until a certain time, and then sleeps for no time at all, so I'm 99% its to do with the delay calculation in the timer object, which is as straight stupid simple as you can imagine it to be, and yet, not working, apparently, at least in some cases. And of course, I don't see it on mine. 😕

                        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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                          Can you also look and see if there's a console.log file in your logs directory, and if it has any messages, and especially, rolling error messages at the same pace as the timer messages?

                          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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                            On it ...

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                              OK... in taking a second look at the logs, no two condition IDs are the same. You seem to use date/time conditions a lot?

                              So is this happening only when the Engine starts, or is it continuous in the logs?

                              Edit: FYI, these messages are at log level "always" from previous debugging, so I would expect a lot of them at engine startup, but once the engine starts, then really, it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled. And these may be the only messages you have. I guess I assumed they were rolling, but the log snippet you posted doesn't show that, so I need a better picture of when this is happening, and what's actually going on. I don't see email yet with the log file.

                              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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                                A really long file. Nope, no rolling error messages related to the timer messages. Should I send it?

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                                  To answer your question, it is continuous

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                                    OK I need that log file, then.

                                    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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                                      Ok. sent

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                                        OK... in taking a second look at the logs, no two condition IDs are the same. You seem to use date/time conditions a lot?

                                        So is this happening only when the Engine starts, or is it continuous in the logs?

                                        Edit: FYI, these messages are at log level "always" from previous debugging, so I would expect a lot of them at engine startup, but once the engine starts, then really, it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled. And these may be the only messages you have. I guess I assumed they were rolling, but the log snippet you posted doesn't show that, so I need a better picture of when this is happening, and what's actually going on. I don't see email yet with the log file.

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                                        @toggledbits said in Timers in my log:

                                        ... You seem to use date/time conditions a lot? ...
                                        I change it every room individually. With lights sensors, time and sunrise/sunset conditions.

                                        ... "or is it continuous in the logs?" ...
                                        Yes, it is continuous

                                        ... "it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled" ...
                                        I don't see that in the logs

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                                          "You seem to use date/time conditions a lot"
                                          I live in Sweden were light changes dramatically over the year and we have sun from the east and darkness in the west in the morning and the opposite in the evening. After a few seasons I realize I had to change it individually for each room. Works perfectly in MSR, I use a SSD to my Pi so if the log is large it could probably handle it 🙂 Due to this perhaps it is normal and I could move on but @kfxo signaled something similar.

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