Remote access of Zwave stick from Z-wave server

[CatmanV2]

Morning world. Looking for some thoughts on recent experience

Yesterday my ISP had something of a catastrophic failure (in theory not yet fixed but seems OK for now)

While this is annoying for several reasons, one thing that I wasn't expecting was for AltUI to become pretty much un-usable.

Unless I have a tab already open and active, connecting to the Home page is pretty much random / impossible, just presenting with a white page and (sometimes) 'Waiting for initial data' on the bottom. Everything works (i.e. where I have controllers or Reactions I can trigger, they function flawlessly) it's just something of a pain since 99.9% of my control is via Alexa now, and not being able to access devices in AltUI makes things like turning some lights of a bit tricky

I suspect that this is due to AltUI trying to pull licence info and Weather data, and failing. What I should do is probably access the OpelLuup console direct and see if that works better in future.

Does that make sense to anyone, or am I completely off track?

Cheers

C

[a-lurker]

I had this problem a long time ago:

You need to set up the required files locally somewhere. On a local directory, NAS, USB stick, web server etc. You then have the responsibility of keeping them up to date. Some things may still not work like Goggle charts.

amg0 set up a variable in the AltUI plugin labelled "Local CDN ?" that can be used to point to the new local file source. So it's not hard to switch back and forth.

In normal operation (ie using the internet) this variable is blank. You can read amg0's doco from here at GitHub

The old forum discussion here.

[CatmanV2]

Super, thanks!

C

[CatmanV2]

Hmm, had a quick scan and looks like it might be rather heavy duty for the rare occasions. I think I'll try the Console next time!

C

[akbooer]

Yes, if it’s openLuup, then I was going to suggest that… rather depends on what you were trying to do.

[CatmanV2]

Only to flick some switches on (or off) I think the only one that might have an issue is the thermostat, but there's a reaction in MSR that handles that, so should be good.

Thanks!

C

[a-lurker]

Just on AltUI:

The browser would be downloading any number of resources first time round from various servers. But I would have thought the majority of servers would be using some sort of cache control header combinations to the command the browser's caching. You don't need to be downloading jquery every time you hit a web page and I think it's unlikely that would be happening.

So I would have thought that the browser (for AltUI) could have cached most of what AltUI needed? What resource is the browser calling up that it can't download with the internet connection down? Maybe AltUI could have functioned but in some sort of reduced capability mode?

But yes the openLuup console, as I understand it, has been written to not rely overly on outside resources. Surprising akbooer could get it work!!