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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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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
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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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🎉 My very first MSR controller: OpenSprinkler
therealdbT
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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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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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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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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Expressions and LuaXP Functions

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    LibraSun
    wrote on last edited by LibraSun
    #44

    Wonderful!

    COMMENTS:

    • Yes, brevity counts.
    • Did not know LuaXP (much less lexpjs) has exponentiation with **, only knew pow( )
    • Hadn't used some of the older syntax much like pop or concat, but other power users sure did
    • YES to HSL◄►RGB conversion
    • I'm new to each, first and do but gosh are they powerful!

    Guess you'll have your hands full deciding which to implement and then fleshing out the lexpjs docs!
    Looking forward to it. Thanks again.

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      LibraSun
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      #45

      Does MSR have an equivalent of Reactor's...?

      getattribute( DeviceNum ,'name')
      

      Cannot find such an attribute in Expression Builder.

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        toggledbits
        wrote on last edited by
        #46

        No equivalent function, but the name is available as getEntity( .... ).name

        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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          LibraSun
          wrote on last edited by LibraSun
          #47

          I'll try that, and encourage you to add that to drop-down.

          Also, meanwhile, I'm getting a (null) response with:
          getEntity( "vera>device_337" ).attributes.x_vera_device.device_number
          which IMHO ought to be (number) 337, no?

          EDIT: Solved with a hard refresh of browser! Weird.

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            LibraSun
            wrote on last edited by LibraSun
            #48

            Is there a way to modify the following such that ALL whitespace gets replaced with the underscore (i.e. make the RegExp a 'global')??

            replace(msgText, "\s", "_")

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              toggledbits
              wrote on last edited by toggledbits
              #49

              I'm going to enhance the following functions to work like this. I use the "old school" *nix notation for optional parameters by enclosing in square brackets, so where you see that below, those parameters are optional.

              • match( string, pattern [ , num [ , flags ] ] ) - Find pattern in string. If num is given and the pattern contains regexp groups, the function will return the numth matched group (e.g. match( "The rain in Spain", "r(ai)n", 1 ) returns "ai"; zero is always the full match, and thus the default). If flags is given as "i", a case-insensitive match will be performed.
              • find( string, pattern [ , flags ] ) - Returns the position (0-based) of the matched pattern in string. Returns -1 if the pattern is not matched. The flags have the same meaning as in match().
              • replace( string, pattern, replacement [ , flags ] ) - Replaces the first occurrence (by default) of pattern in string with replacement. If specified, flags have the same meaning as in match(), plus the additional flag "g" (for global) modifies the behavior to replace all instances of the pattern in string (if needed, multiple flags can simply be concatenated, as in "ig" for case-insensitive + global). The replacement string uses $ as a special pattern lead-in, so $` yields the portion of string before the matched pattern, $' yields the portion of string after the matched pattern, $& is the entire matched substring, $n inserts the match of the nth group in pattern, and $$ yields "$" (self-escape).

              Basically, all of this follows JavaScript semantics, which provides the underlying implementation.

              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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                LibraSun
                wrote on last edited by LibraSun
                #50

                Will MSR still interpret the literal \n as a line break (equivalent of <br> in HTML) in text strings? Or is it going to be escaped differently (if used at all)?

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                  toggledbits
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                  #51

                  In what context?

                  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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                    LibraSun
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #52

                    For example, I like to pre-format the messages I send via SMTP, and routinely define:

                    msgText := "Hello from Vera. \n\n I see you are running MSR! \n \n Sincerely, Vera"

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                      #53

                      Yes, will happen. It raises priority on another "to-do" item for the parser, which has rather "blunt" string lexing at the moment. I've got a more formal version working now, but I want to play with it a little more before I commit it to MSR.

                      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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                        LibraSun
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                        #54

                        You make it, I break it.

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                          LibraSun
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                          #55

                          @toggledbits I can't seem to concoct a meaningful example of DO .. DONE, since I'm probably not grasping its intended function within the MSR framework.
                          Does it have a use here, and if so, how would such a statement look? Thanks!

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                            toggledbits
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                            #56

                            do...done is intended to help the first and each statements (but can be used anywhere, really).

                            1. the each and first statements operate only on a single expression;
                            2. do...done encapsulates multiple expressions (separated by comma), but looks like a single expression to each and first;
                            3. The result of a do...done statement is the value of the last expression executed within it.

                            Here from my own configuration is an example:

                            each detector in leak_detectors: 
                            do 
                              d=getEntity(detector), 
                              d.attributes.arming.state && d.attributes.binary_sensor.state ? d.id : null 
                            done
                            

                            There's a separate expression called leak_detectors that provides an array of leak detector entity IDs (canonical, across controllers, of course). The each statement iterates over each of them. The do...done encapsulates two expressions: the fetch of the entity stored to a local variable in the first, and then uses that local variable twice in the second expression. The result of the do...done is the result of the last expression, which is the detector's ID if it is armed and tripped, or null otherwise. With an each expression, any nulls do not appear in the final array.

                            The idea should be familiar from RFV, although the construction is a little different: it's a loop over a list of known leak detectors and builds an array of those that are armed and in alarm (if any, hopefully not).

                            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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                              LibraSun
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                              #57

                              For a lark, I defined a test variable as:

                              testObj = { a:5, b:2, c:"cat"},
                              each num in values(testObj):
                              r = isNaN(num) ? " That's all!" : "Libra owns " + num + " cats"
                              

                              which spits out:

                               ["Libra owns 5 cats","Libra owns 2 cats","Libra owns cat cats"]
                              

                              while I had actually expected (due to the NaN:

                               ["Libra owns 5 cats","Libra owns 2 cats"," That's all!"]
                              

                              Also, am noticing that the Expression 'value' windows always contract to their initial (1.25-line tall) height, rather than remember what the user enlarged them to.

                              Are both of these "expected behaviors" in MSR??

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                                toggledbits
                                wrote on last edited by toggledbits
                                #58

                                The isNaN() is a yes... unlike JavaScript, the lexpjs isNaN() literally tests to see if the argument is NaN, which "cat" is not. You'd need to write your test as r = isNaN( int( num ) ) ? ...etc.

                                I can't store your selected/custom field sizes. I haven't poked harder into getting it to auto-size. I've done that before, but for some reason it isn't working and I haven't bothered to track it down yet.

                                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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                                  LibraSun
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                                  #59

                                  I'm back with another whopper. Variables allow multiple comma-separated statements, like:

                                  b = 3, c = b + 2 // yields 5
                                  

                                  but go bonkers when you try:

                                  testArr = [1,2,3], testArr[1] = 5 // parsing error (similar result with Objects)
                                  

                                  By design?

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                                    toggledbits
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #60

                                    Yes, assignment to simple variables only; the left side of an assignment can only be an identifier (right now).

                                    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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                                      LibraSun
                                      wrote on last edited by LibraSun
                                      #61

                                      This one's got me stumped now:
                                      testCalc =

                                      each num in [4,5,6]:
                                      do
                                      [num, num+1, num+2]
                                      done
                                      

                                      yields:
                                      [[4,5,6],[4,5,6],[4,5,6]]
                                      instead of:
                                      [[4,5,6],[5,6,7],[6,7,8]]

                                      Or have I stumbled again? (I do realize the DO..DONE is a red herring, but removing it doesn't change the result.)

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                                        toggledbits
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                                        #62

                                        Nope, that's clearly wrong. Not hard to fix. I found a spot where the executive was rewriting a variable rather than returning a copy, specific to arrays, so this particular test would hit it, any other data type would not. Good catch!

                                        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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                                          LibraSun
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #63

                                          Already posted as a PR with much-simplified rendering of underlying formula.

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