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.
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?
@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.
[Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default.
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Installing
latest-24052-d039d560and I did a dumb thing: moving too quickly, I deletedpackage.jsoninstead ofpackage-lock.jsonbecause the latter didn't exist.Ran the installer script - but in the wrong directory so I moved
package.jsonmanually.Everything has come back EXCEPT for my MQTT Cloud OwnTracks entities. They're erroring because of this:
(Don't heckle my folder structure - it's run this way for three years)reactor.yamlis fine, all MQTT configs exactly as they should be.The folder
mqtt_templatesis present:
The file it says is "unreadable" is present and hasn't changed (today's date is the
Changeddate because I did a quick nonsense edit to see that it was not corrupted in some way).
The logs show:
[latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.320Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_cfg, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_mfg_spec, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_ver, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.322Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_values, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.323Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded zwavejs capabilities ver 23194 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.338Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded implementation data ver 23254 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.339Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.345Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.572Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.574Z <HassController:WARN> HassController: implementation of capability battery_maintenance does not provide attribute state [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.577Z <HassController:WARN> HassController: implementation of capability input_select.selector does not provide attribute values [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.586Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt can't read/load templates from /home/reactor/Documents/reactor/config/mqtt_templates/owntracks_sensor.yaml: [Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.595Z <MQTTController:CRIT> Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. at Object.safeLoad (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/node_modules/js-yaml/index.js:10:11) at MQTTController._load_implementation (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:807:38) at async MQTTController.start (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:95:13) at async Promise.allSettled (index 3) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.597Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 can't read/load templates from /home/reactor/Documents/reactor/config/mqtt_templates/owntracks_sensor.yaml: [Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.603Z <MQTTController:CRIT> Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. at Object.safeLoad (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/node_modules/js-yaml/index.js:10:11) at MQTTController._load_implementation (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:807:38) at async MQTTController.start (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:95:13) at async Promise.allSettled (index 4) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.608Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.1.198:8123/api/websocket [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.616Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt instance topic ident is mqtt [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.617Z <Controller:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.619Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt connecting to broker at mqtt://192.168.1.198:1883/ [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.691Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 instance topic ident is mqtt2 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.692Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14p uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.697Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone8 uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.726Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14jay uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.730Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14jen uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.735Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14addie uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.768Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14bella uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.773Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_androidaa uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.777Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_androidaa no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_androidaa for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.781Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14addie no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14addie for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.786Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14bella no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14bella for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.790Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14jay no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14jay for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.794Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14jen no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14jen for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.798Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14p no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14p for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.802Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone8 no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone8 for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.807Z <Controller:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.808Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 connecting to broker at mqtts://7ef71f0117fe40d28c2df12205c4a0d0.s2.eu.hivemq.cloud:8883 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.816Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Driving Flag - 2 (virt1) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.826Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Far Away Flag - 2 (virt2) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.827Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Garage Door Momentary Contact vSwitch (virt3) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.828Z <Controller:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.829Z <ZWaveJSController:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs connecting to ws://192.168.1.198:3000 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.836Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller VirtualEntityController#virtual is now online. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.839Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.845Z <httpapi:NOTICE> httpapi: starting HTTP service on port 8111 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.854Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.856Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.857Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.880Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.421Z <Engine:INFO> Data check complete; no corrections. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.571Z <Rule:NOTICE> Driving Flag (rule-l97r2umw in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.572Z <Rule:NOTICE> Driving Flag - Far Away (rule-l97r814k in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.573Z <Rule:NOTICE> DST (rule-l118lzpd in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.573Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Cooling Master (Local APIs) (rule-ktinsq18 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.574Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Heating before Alarm times (rule-l7hirm3d in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.574Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Heating Master (Local APIs) (rule-ktio3vc1 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.575Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Neutral Master (rule-ktint8c3 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.575Z <Rule:NOTICE> It's Raining (rule-lfs6r1lq in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24I'm flummoxed.
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@therealdb Have you deployed the new MSR release? Is this fine for you (you wrote the OwnTracks template so if there was something amiss there it would impact you as well).
*Hubitat C-7 2.4.2.129
*Proxmox VE v8, Beelink MiniPC 12GBs, SSD*HASS 2025.7.2
w/ ZST10-700 fw 7.18.3*Prod MSR in docker/portainer
MSR: latest-25139-fbd67abc
MQTTController: 25139
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@therealdb Have you deployed the new MSR release? Is this fine for you (you wrote the OwnTracks template so if there was something amiss there it would impact you as well).
@gwp1 not at the moment. I usually do my stuff around the weekend, so I'll take a look at this in friday considering I'll work from home.
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What version of MQTTController do you have installed? If it's older than 24049, please update and try again.
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What version of MQTTController do you have installed? If it's older than 24049, please update and try again.
@toggledbits MQTTController-23254
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What version of MQTTController do you have installed? If it's older than 24049, please update and try again.
@toggledbits And there it is. Updated to latest for MQTTController (and ZWaveJSController as well) and errors gone,
Entitiesrestored.How did I miss the announcement on the new versions of both of these?
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@toggledbits And there it is. Updated to latest for MQTTController (and ZWaveJSController as well) and errors gone,
Entitiesrestored.How did I miss the announcement on the new versions of both of these?
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Sorry about that! I'll fix...
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Sorry about that! I'll fix...
@toggledbits It's ok - but that's your "one" for 2024
All kidding aside, glad it was that easy. I'm working up the nerve to containerize this when I have some time to focus on it and not screw it up.
Thank you, as always!
*Hubitat C-7 2.4.2.129
*Proxmox VE v8, Beelink MiniPC 12GBs, SSD*HASS 2025.7.2
w/ ZST10-700 fw 7.18.3*Prod MSR in docker/portainer
MSR: latest-25139-fbd67abc
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@toggledbits It's ok - but that's your "one" for 2024
All kidding aside, glad it was that easy. I'm working up the nerve to containerize this when I have some time to focus on it and not screw it up.
Thank you, as always!
@gwp1 said in [Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default.:
It's ok - but that's your "one" for 2024
Then I'm doomed.
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