Seeking Advice:

[PerH]

I just installed debian, and then followed the installation guide for openluup.
No errors as i can remember, no.
The log message is from a shift from home to "devices", and is one of many. I assume its how its trying to build the appearance?

Openluup devices:

Permissions in linux is something i have little clue about. I have one admin user and one root user as far as i know. Pretty sure i installed using Sudo.

[sebby]

strangely, i am having the same issue on a fresh install on a Pi.

[rafale77]

Do you guys see the icon files in your openLuup installation folder under the subfolder /icons?
Could be that somehow they did not get downloaded properly from the vera or that the vera now on newer firmwares is storing them in a location where the openLuup installation script is not grabbing them properly?

[akbooer]

Quite likely a permissions issue. Look at a full directory listing of cmh-ludl/ cmh-ludl/icons using the shell command (possibly from AltUI of openLuup Command Line UI)

ls -l icons

giving something like:

For me, this is OK, since openLuup on this machine (unwisely) runs under the root account.

[sebby]

@akbooer said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

Quite likely a permissions issue. Look at a full directory listing of cmh-ludl/ cmh-ludl/icons using the shell command (possibly from AltUI of openLuup Command Line UI)

ls -l icons

giving something like:

For me, this is OK, since openLuup on this machine (unwisely) runs under the root account.

that is exactly it. in mine it's running as pi, so i changed it. all good now

[PerH]

all of mine are there, but is 0 bytes except for 2 or 3 files.. So how do i fix this? How do i set permissions so it can download the files properly?

[rafale77]

Dec 20, 2019  /  post

How to Recursively Change the File's Permissions in Linux

Linux is a multi-user system and access to the files is controlled through the file permissions, attributes, and ownership. In this article, we'll explain how to recursively change the permissions of files and directories.

sudo chmod -R 777 /etc/cmh-ludl

[PerH]

Isn't that one in the install guide? Anyway, i did that, and GetFiles still didnt get the icons.. So i transferred them manually, and now i have icons after a browser cache clear.

Next hurdle is RFX plugin. I tried once, and failed. Mabye the permissions stopped med back then..

[PerH]

Ok, so RFX Plugin is installed and working. Anyone here have it? Mine shows
Firmware Type: false Firmware Version: false

other than that its working.

Also tried to hijack the sensors by changing ID and parent ID. It worked, but the statistics (shown in "Temperature and Humidity Sensor Data") are from the remote unit..
Any tips to making a script that hijacks all sensors?
Then I could exclude the RFX from verabridge, and be one step more along..

[akbooer]

@PerH said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

Also tried to hijack the sensors by changing ID and parent ID. It worked

Did it, really?

I'm not familiar with this particular plugin, but this is very unlikely to be something that you would want to do for any device. What problem do you see this as fixing?

[a-lurker]

@PerH said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

Firmware Type: false Firmware Version: false

Sounds similar this issue. Have a read through the next few posts at that link; may be same.

It would be good, if we could encourage TinMan to place the USB RFXtrx code on GitHub; so any changes could be kept track of.

[CatmanV2]

Ref the icons, you might want to have a read of my thread 'What I did on my holidays'. I ended up transferring mine manually using command line tools.

C

[PerH]

@akbooer said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

@PerH said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

Also tried to hijack the sensors by changing ID and parent ID. It worked

Did it, really?

I'm not familiar with this particular plugin, but this is very unlikely to be something that you would want to do for any device. What problem do you see this as fixing?

If this could be done with a script, i won't have to find, and name about 50 433 devices (including child and group devices)..

The 3 sensors i tried works fine, but i don't know how the device parameters are stored in the system.. I did this earlier between RFX'es connected to the same unit as well, back then i didnt have to change the device ID, just the Parent ID..

@a-lurker said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

@PerH said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

Firmware Type: false Firmware Version: false

Sounds similar this issue. Have a read through the next few posts at that link; may be same.

It would be good, if we could encourage TinMan to place the USB RFXtrx code on GitHub; so any changes could be kept track of.

Same issue, same person.

No conclusion other than inserting ToString(), which removes the symptom, not the problem..

I read your post, and ended up doing the same thing.. i have icons now.

[PerH]

so - if i were to try something like this:

for (all devices) do
   if device.IDparent = 11 then 
      device.IDparent = 72
      device.ID = (next free dev.ID number)
   end if
end for

How would that be done in lua with the openluup device list?

[akbooer]

You’re trying to clone the device, as well as giving it a new parent? Do you know if that’s necessary?

All the usual luup calls for creating child devices are available to you.

[PerH]

Not knowing the system - i'm trying to reassign the device to a new parent.
I tried just changing the parent, but then VeraBridge corrected the variable change on reload.
When i changed the deviceID as well, a new VeraBridge device popped up on reload. I can live with that, when i've reassigned all the 433 devices to the local RFXTRX, i'll just mask out the Vera RFX in vera bridge.

As i don't know the usual luup calls, i was hoping to cut the corner by asking you guys?

[akbooer]

If this is a bridged device, then you’ll have to make the changes on Vera. The openLuup bridge simply reflects the configuration that it sees on the Vera. Anything (except action commands, device name, etc.) sent to the device locally will get overwritten on the next update.

[PerH]

Ok, i'll try to specify more:

The Vera is connected to AltUI using the bridge. The vera has a RFXTRX433 connected with more than 60 child devices.
These are bridged to AltUI, with the 10000 numbers. RFX plugin on vera is device 10011 in AltUI.

The Openluup ALTUI Chromebox that i want to migrate them to Also has a RFXTRX433 connected. This plugin device is AltUI device 72.

If I go to the variables on one of the children of the Vera RFX - say device ID 10237 - and change ParentID from 10011 to 72, and at the same time changes the DeviceID from 10237 to - say 80 - this child device becomes a local device - Child of '72.
When I remove the RFX 10011, all the children also disappears, but I still have the ones i changed, and they now work with the local RFX plugin.

If I could run a script that changes DevID and ParentID, I would get all sensors over without having to set up the names and transfer codes for all devices.
I however don't know the correct lua syntax to do it.

[akbooer]

OK, much clearer as to what you're trying to do. Let me think a while on this.

[akbooer]

@PerH said in Another transition from Vera to OpenLuup - PerH:

so - if i were to try something like this:

for (all devices) do
   if device.IDparent = 11 then 
      device.IDparent = 72
      device.ID = (next free dev.ID number)
   end if
end for

How would that be done in lua with the openluup device list?

Backup first, of course, but let's try this:

local oldparent = 23    -- *** CHANGE THESE ***
local newparent = 315

for i, d in pairs (luup.devices) do
  if d.device_num_parent == oldparent then
    local id = luup.create_device()       -- get a new device (number)
    print (i, d.device_num_parent, id)
    luup.devices[id] = d                  -- apply new device number
    luup.devices[i]  = nil                -- remove it from old one
    d.attributes.id_parent = newparent    -- give it a new parent
    d.device_num_parent = newparent
    d.attributes.room = 0                 -- and a new (no) room
    d.room_num = 0
  end
end

Follws by a restart.

This may, or may not, work. It is trickier that you might suppose, and without a test plugin, I can't really tell...