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  • rafale77

    @akbooer,

    Have you ever considered running openLuup under LuaJIT instead of Lua5.1 interpreter?

    The LuaJIT Project

    For kicks, I switched my installation to the latest LuaJIT2.1 beta3 dating from 2017 and being a lua5.1 interpreter it is a drop in replacement. I had to move the lfs library from one folder to another likely because of an include path difference but I am seeing a further speed/efficiency improvement vs. lua5.1.
    My CPU load has dropped another 25% to now hover around 2.2% down from 2.8%. I have yet to make sure that everything else works but so far everything appears to be the same.
    The luajit site claims up to 5x speed increase through the interpreter and 120x improvement through the compiler vs the standard lua5.1.

    My initial interest was from being able to access some ffi libraries to handle video streams...

    PS: Wow it is pretty impressive under load... browsing through ALTUI which used to cause spikes of CPU utilization from 2.8% to 4.8% now only go from 2.3% to 2.6%. It almost looks like noise. I am running it on a pretty fast x64 thread so it may not be that significant but this could make a big difference on ARM.

  • P

    While i wait for a replacement app for my local UI devices, i want to use imperihome as long as I can.. But i'm missing a lot of devices!

    All Z-Way bridge devices, all security/smoke and motion sensors (local RFXtrx child devices)..

    Found the "include vera bridge" in imperihome.lua, what else could cause this?

  • P

    I downloaded ZeroBrane Studio to see if I could make sense of this lua language. @akbooer mentioned that this is what he uses for development, and i thought i could learn alot from seeing how openluup runs.

    How do I proceed in order to run openluup in zerobrane? I guess i need to do that to see how scripts like the imperihome ISS script works?

    I installed on a windows machine, will I have to run it in linux for it to work?

  • K

    Hi @mrFarmer,

    I also have a question about ImperiHome:
    I'm trying to configure imperihome with openluup.
    Imperihome recognizes the new system, with all devices, status feedback is perfect.
    If I turn on something on imperihome, it will seem to be temporarily turned on and then turn off. Device does not actually change.
    Can you help me with what could be the problem?
    Thanks.
    Krisztian

  • Elcid

    Hi,

    I have a couple of luup request, one is a request to VeraAlexa pluging to make alexa speak, the other updating a variable in reactor. They all seem to have a 10-20 second delay
    example request
    http://192.168.1.134:3480/data_request?id=action&DeviceNum=44&serviceId=urn:toggledbits-com:serviceId:ReactorSensor&action=SetVariable&VariableName=A_home&NewValue=1

    I can not figure out what is causing the delay, does anyone have any ideas?

  • therealdb

    Hey @akboer I'm working on a new feature for the virtual HTTP device plug-in and I noticed that variables are cut in UI if very long and multi-line values are not supported.

    Plus, RGB are missing a dedicated way to set color and temperature.

  • R

    Hi guys,

    I was wondering what you guys use for push notifications on openluup. I still use VeraAlerts on my vera, but am searching for an alternative that runs on openluup.

    Thanks!

  • DesT

    I'm using RulesEngine plugin for a while, couple of years, and of course, the plugin is not getting any update as @vosmont stop to update/upgrade this plugin!

    I attached one rule, if, by any chance, I would like to convert all my rules to something "native" in openLuup...

    is it something possible ?
    In the PDF you can see what a rule looks...ALTUI.pdf

  • therealdb

    I have some code failing on Vera from time to time. All I got is:

    attempt to call a string value

    and usually a luup.reload will fix it. It should be something related to startup and scene collision.

    Is there a way to really trace lua calls? I'm a DIY regarding LUA and I'm sure there should be a better way to trace and debug errors.

    I'll try to code something in order to detect this situation and reload luup, because it's blocking my scenes.

    Yes, I know I should migrate all my logic to openLuup, but I can't at the moment.

  • R

    Hi guys,

    I’m researching the move away from Vera and z-way has the most chance at this point. However, I came across the geolocation aspect of my setup.

    I now use Vera Proximity. It works, but is not the most ideal solution. This won’t be an option anymore after I’ve migrated, so I was wondering what you guys use for geolocation.

  • therealdb

    so, @rigpapa did it: https://github.com/toggledbits/Vera-Decouple

    It's completely decoupling Vera from the cloud. Very cool stuff. /cc @rafale77 @akbooer

  • Elcid

    Hi akbooer,

    Small issue, i have Reactor running in openLuup, I have a time setting of 7.00, in Reactor it fires at 7.00, But in the browser it show as 8.00. Looking at the time openLuup console the time is showing 1 hour slower than the browser time. Both browser and openLuup are running on same machine.
    I have hunted for setting to adjust time but can not see one. Can you point me in right direction.

  • akbooer

    A long while ago (May, 2015) I wrote my 2000-th post on another forum: openLuup - running unmodified plugins on any machine. Here’s the gist of it:

    ...I want to work in a more open and stable [Vera] environment...

    ...All would be solved if Luup was open source and could be run on the plethora of cheap and reliable hardware available today. But it’s not. But we could get something like that effect if we engineered a sufficient subset of Luup to run on such a platform. Could it be done? What would we need?

    1. UI
    2. scheduler
    3. web server
    4. Luup compatible API
    5. Device and Implementation xml file reader
    6. Zwave bridge to Vera
    7. runs most plugins without modification

    What we wouldn’t need is UPnP.

    What have we (nearly) got already?

    We have, courtesy of @amg0, the most excellent AltUI: Alternate UI to UI7, and that, I think, is probably the hardest one to do in the above list. Items 2 - 5, and 7, I’ve prototyped, in pure Lua, and posted elsewhere: DataYours on Raspberry Pi, running selected plugins unmodified, including: DataYours, EventWatcher, Netatmo, RBLuaTest, altUI. See screenshot attached.

    Is it worth the effort? Probably not. Will I pursue this quest? Yes.

    openLuup was the result.

  • C

    Hi
    Having an odd issue that AltUI keeps prompting me to upgrade to a newer version #2549 of ALTUI is available, do you want to upgrade ?

    But having hit 'Yes' half a doze times and reloading OpenLuup / hard refreshing, the message persists.

    Anything thoughts as to what idiocy I've done now?

    C

  • E

    I think it's a very easy question, but I don't know the answer. On my VeraPlus I use the following lua command luup.call_action ("urn: upnp-org: serviceId: SwitchPower1", "SetTarget", {newTargetValue = "1"}, 143). Where 143 is the deviceID of Vera. I now want to use this in Lua Openluup. I don't know how to do it

  • A

    When I try to access OpenLuup via AltUI from a new PC on my local network that I have not used for OpenLuup/AltUI before I get "Waiting Initial Data" and then it just gets stuck.

    It works when I access the OpenLuup console from the new PC however. It also works via AltUI from my other PC that I have been using before. I am using Firefox on both PCs.

    I am probably missing something obvoius, any idea what the problem could be?

    Edit: I get the same problem i Chrome. I found an old thread with some info. Looked in the Chrome Console and it says:

    //ArcherS

  • therealdb

    I just released v2 of my Virtual HTTP Devices Plug-in. As always, 100% local, 100% standard, mobile friendly and working on openluup/altui as well.
    GitHub

    dbochicchio/vera

    LUA Scripts for the eZlo Vera Platform (UI7). Contribute to dbochicchio/vera development by creating an account on GitHub.

    What’s new in v2:

    Master/Children: now you can just create a master and have any number of children attached. They will still work separately, but this will greatly improve memory consumption on Vera. Please see GitHub for guidance on migration. No need to do it unless you have many devices on your system. async update of device's status. If you want to update the status of your device separately, just return something different than the HTTP code 200/300 family. it’s useful if your device doesn’t complete the response with the call and you want to update its status. Just use a normal Vera call to update the corresponding variable
    -added support for Scene Controllers (see my post in Shelly i3 for a use case) more work around switches/heaters stabilization and fixes

    Get it from GitHub or from AltAppStore.

  • therealdb

    I'm working on a new virtual scene controler plug-in, since I bought a Shelly i3 and it's the right device to have compact scene controller around the house.

    Having said that, I found it difficult to finish the implementation. Based on doc, all I have to do is set variable sl_SceneActivated, but it doesn't seem to trigger a scene:

    Scene #0-1 'Test Scene', trigger 'T1 Virtual Scene Controller: button number 1 is pressed (sl_SceneActivated = 1)'

    Is there something I have to do? Thanks!

  • therealdb

    Hey @akbooer,

    heaters support seems to be broken in the device console:

    it's a D_Heater1.xml/D_Heater1.json/urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:Heater:1 device, that in Vera is rendered like an heating only thermostat. Thanks!

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