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General discussion on all things MQTT.
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Hi,
Is there a guide somewhere on how to submit images/attachments from a smart device ?
As someone who accesses this forum from an iPad/iPhone, I don’t have the ability to drag / drop images into any posts.
What are other people doing (who are not using a traditional PC/MAC) ?
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I am a pretty active forum user over on the QNAP forum and there has been a number of viral threads there and on reddit about the spread of ransomware on these NAS.
I wanted to post here to say that this is a fresh reminder to be very cautious with the current state of the affair when it comes to smarthomes and the trend towards IOT we are observing from all these companies attempting to make our homes cloud dependent, opening so called "secure tunnels" to their servers which can turn into very real exposures to your LAN (home network).
In order to mitigate it, QNAP released a firmware which now has autoupdate enabled by default (reminds me one other company...) and IMHO is the climax of absurdity but in fact when I come to think about it is how the amazon echos and ecobees work for example without even offering the ability to disable.
I am in no way a security expert but have had enough exposure and interest about it to recommend using a real firewall for your home network to block these backdoors if you have a smarthome and avoid these cloud oriented platforms and devices as if they were COVID.
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Ezlo have made an announcement about their new web GUI.
Apr 26 EZLO WEB UI in Beta EZLO WEB UI in BetaEzlo WEB UI Beta release notes: We are releasing ability to do backup of all user data for Linux controllers with Ezlo WEB UI. It will be possible to: Create a backup. Restore from the backup Have the visibility for backup creation progress Settings Ezlo mobile apps already have support for...
Its very alpha however. Hopefully their dev's can get it in to shape and add our feature requests ?
Can you banned guys still see the screen shots on the threads?
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Hi,
I have a piece of code that returns the Watts used by all the PoE devices on my home network. I’m trying to set it up on Vera so that can retrieve that value in a similar way I would retrieve a Vera variable via a http request.
The function works returns the total value when run via LuaTest, but when I try to retrieve it via luup.register_ handler, for some reason it returns the entire UniFi json file ??
Please could some help me with what’s wrong, my goal is to be able to retrieve the value , like an api so I can use it elsewhere ..
luup.register_handler("UnifiControllerPoE","UnifiWatts") function UnifiControllerPoE() local unifi_username = "unifi" local unifi_password = "unifi" local unifi_controller_ip = "192.168.1.207" local unifi_controller_port = "8443" local cookie = "/tmp/unifi_cookie_lua" -- Temp cookie file local tempfilename = "/tmp/UnifiController.tmp" -- Temp JSON output file local device = 'api/s/default/stat/device' local f = io.popen("stat -c %Y " .. tempfilename) local last_modified = f:read() --if (os.difftime (os.time(), last_modified) > 30) then -- URL for logging in, query and logging out url_login = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure -H \'Content-Type: application/json\' -X POST -d \'{"password":"' .. unifi_password .. '","username":"' .. unifi_username .. '"}\' https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/api/login' url_open = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure -s -o '..tempfilename..' --data "json={}" https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/' ..device url_logout = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/logout' -- Execute url -- Execute url read_login = os.execute(url_login) read_open = os.execute(url_open) read_logout = os.execute(url_logout) --end local line local file = io.open(tempfilename, "r") if file then line = file:read("*a") file:close() end return line end --print(UnifiController()) local readings = {} local total = 0 local json = require "dkjson" local u = json.decode( UnifiControllerPoE() ) --print('\n') for key,value in ipairs( u.data ) do for n, p in ipairs( value.port_table ) do --print('\t'.. tostring(p.port_idx), p.poe_enable, tonumber(p.poe_power)) -- print(p.port_idx) table.insert( readings, { value.name, tonumber(p.poe_power)}) -- populate readings table end end for _, reading in ipairs(readings) do local Variable = reading[1] local Value = reading[2] or 0 total = total + Value if Value ~= 0 then --print(Variable.. " - ".. Value, total) end end print("Total watts = " ..total) local html = "<html><head>" .. "</head>" .. "<body>" .. "<b>" .. tostring(total) .. '</b>' .. "</body></html>" return html, "text/html" -
Has anyone successfully incorporated incoming call(er) information** within an automation workflow?
I'm talking about having Alexa speak out the name and/or phone number of a caller, or activating a routine/scene based on that info.
Always been a dream of mine. Wouldn't know how to achieve it! Do they make an Ethernet/WiFi-connected CallerID box?
**from a LANDLINE, not a MOBILE PHONE (although in the case of my Google Voice #, both lines ring, and if my smartphone is home and turned on, I could see invoking Tasker somehow)
REFERENCES:
NCID - Network Caller ID
[Please file under proper category, as you see fit]
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Hi all
I’ve recently started to build out my own ‘Homer’ dashboard (https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer) and I must admit I really like what it’s given me.
Thinking about future use-cases. I can see potential for this being an alternative (albeit simple ) UI for Vera/OpenLuup..
Is anyone else using Homer ?
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Some of you may know that I took at shot at building an alternate geofencing solution for Vera. The core of it was system agnostic, using the OwnTracks application and AWS lambdas to track devices and keep a central data, then disseminate that to the Vera via a websocket-based plugin. It worked with other apps as well, including Tasker and GPSLogger, but of the dozen people that were testing it, most used OwnTracks.
A lot was learned in the process, not the least of which is that the success of any such solution is highly dependent on the phone and its settings. Phone manufacturers love to set things up for the longest battery life, of course, but that's usually very anti-geofencing behavior. In the case of at least one brand, it was unusable and the settings could not be modified. It was also cost-prohibitive to maintain on Amazon, as AWS grabs a dime here and a dollar there and before you know it, it added $100/month to my AWS bill, which my wife deducted from my Scotch budget. Unacceptable.
But it's quite reasonable to use OwnTracks to a local endpoint, and I could pretty easily replicate the functionality as a local application, or maybe even as an additional endpoint built into MSR's API (still separate port and process, but in the package).
So the question really is... would you do it, or would you be too concerned about the security risks associated (e.g., dynamic DNS and NAT mapping in the firewall necessary for the phone to contact the service when not on LAN)?
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After having optimized my video processing integration of 8 cameras into my openLuup based automation, I have been wondering what I could possibly improve on my setup. Instead of pestering @akbooer with petty localized console optimizations I am looking at these Apple Homepod minis as a potential improvement from my alexa based voice command system. openLuup is presently already bridged to both platforms using habridge and homekitbridge.
I am seeing two issues with Alexa:
Speed. The cloud processing of the voice commands takes ~1s (I don't use anything cloud to cloud) and I would really prefer it to be local. These devices can go a bit crazy when they lose DNS connections and sometimes do random things. Privacy because all the recordings go to the amazon cloud all the time.I have been exploring open source solutions for this but I would lose the benefit of optionally being able to go to the cloud for search information.
The downside of the homepods are that siri is not nearly as good in terms of helpfulness as alexa at this point. They also don't have a version with a screen which I found to be very useful at a couple of locations on the other hand, the sound quality of the homepod minis seem to be better than the echos...
What do you guys think?
This thread from longtime vera user @dJOS inspired me
Feb 4 Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOW Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOWHowdy all, I got a HomePod Mini very recently for my study (the audio quality is great and hand-off is magical) and to replace my iPad as the main HomeKit controller for my house (we use HomeKit mainly for Presence detection which is IMO best in class). We also have a dozen Amazon Echo's of...
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Hi
Go with me here... I recently pick up a unresponsive Vera Secure from eBay for next to nothing, thinking I’d could have a go at trying to restore it, if only as a play thing..
Situation - The power led comes on, but the internet and service leds just flash - no connection made (and even using a direct cable and Wireshark, I can’t see an arp request being made to see if it has a default in address) - I’ve also tried various reset button combinations - no luck.
Perhaps this post is a long shot, but seeing so many familiar ex Micasaverde/Vera forum names - i thought I’d at least ask - just in case anyone had any guidance/advice etc. I could use ..
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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who...
Reposting an article I got from a reddit thread.
I won't stop advocating against cloud dependence and unnecessary cloud reliance especially in the field of smarthomes.
I divested from a fairly large ubiquiti unifi system almost a year ago and I never connected my controller to their cloud service but as some may have sensed, it was a direction they were going towards. What got me off of it actually was the large disparity in product performance and a decreasing trust in the company with large amount of dubious advertising, inconsistent products for some of which the hardware could obviously not meet the marketing promises. -
So have been migrating a bunch of automations to MSR from Hubitat and no I feel like I want to have an SSD instead of SD card on my Pi3.What is an Easy way to convert to SSD from SD card on Pi with MSR. What files do I need to copy to keep my rules?
/Mattias
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I want to set something up natively if possible on Vera, so a virtual motion sensor device is tripped / not tripped by following the tripped variable state of a real device.
This LUA code works if I run it manually but I don't know how to have this running all the time and watching for that "tripped" variable to change ?
local istripped = luup.variable_get("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", 100) --Real Device luup.variable_set("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", istripped,101) --Virtual Motion Sensor Device return trueHow do you add something like this in to Vera's startup LUA feature ?
Thanks
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@mrFarmer I'm trying to add my Ezlo devices to Homebridge via openLupp Ezlobridge using the Vera plugin for Homebridge.
Do you or anyone else know why they are ignored. My devices provisioned by Verabridge is visible in Homebridge but not those from Ezlobridge. -
I have a Reactor set up to extend an outside awning when the OAT reaches 26C and it's after 1100, that part is straightforward enough, however I wanted to take it one step further and rather than it being either fully out or the reverse I'd like to have the ability to increment it either In or Out by a certain distance (typically 500mm) every 120 secs or so.
I had tried to do this with PLEG based on Sun position but failed miserably and never attempted to do this with distance and time.
I have looked at adding it to the current Reactor but not being fully fluent in Reactor I've hit a brick wall and don't see if it can be done - anyone point me in the right direction is is this something that Reactor can't do? -
Hello
I have a 64GB SD card in my Raspberry Pi.
I read some guides online and the ones that looked easy to follow use a program call Win32 Disk Imager to make an image of the entire SD card.
I shutdown the Pi and when I insert the SD card in to my Windows 10 PC, I can see drive letter D:\ appear and its label is "boot"
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Looking at this disk in Windows Disk management it looks a bit strange however as it has a massive unallocated area.
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Anyway I proceeded to backup the disk D:\ using Win32 Disk Imager program.
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It took a long time but it has created an .img file which is 27.4GB in file size.
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I then put the SD card back in to the Pi and powered it on.
Here is a "df" output from the Pi
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Looks like I am not using the full 64GB of the SD card.
When I first setup the Pi I was using a much smaller SD card and then I bought a decent Sandisk 64GB card and followed some other user guide found online to clone my original smaller card to the new card and expand etc.
So have I actually just backed up the Pi's SD card and all its contents successfully ?
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My turn now... Shit Ezlo CEO is really on slipper ice.
I sak that in the thread that someone has contacted his wife and is Boeing concerened about his behavior.
When you read the mail you clearly read that its someone close to him at the Company...
Sad that he is ruining his Company and allt of peoples Jobs at risk.
/M
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Some of my favorite projects I have been using on my setup for over 5 years:
bwssytems/ha-bridge bwssytems/ha-bridge
Bridge the vera or openluup to amazon echo through a local hue emulator. A much faster solution than the vera native bloatware as the only cloud service is used by this alternative is the voice recognition. It was initiated for vera control but later expanded to many other platforms like the logitech Harmony and other controllers. No cloud to cloud so no need for mios servers:
Home automation bridge that emulates a Philips Hue light system and can control other systems such as a Vera, Harmony Hub, Nest, MiLight bulbs or any other system that has an http/https/tcp/udp int...
The equivalent for Apple Siri:
Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge
Contribute to Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Alternative SONOS TTS implementation from all the plugin versions applicable for any platform since it is an API you can call. It is run also locally on a MacOS desktop in my case but can run on anything running nodeJS. For the TTS to be fully local though, you will need a mac or bear with the robotic voice of maryTTS. I have been hesitant to move my TTS to the amazon echos (project by @therealdb), but the echos lack synchronization and are cloud dependent which causes a 3-5s delay I do not have with this local solution, so this remains my choice:
jishi/node-sonos-http-api jishi/node-sonos-http-api
An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar. - jishi/node-sonos-http-api
Use my fork if you need to install on Catalina because some fixes are needed and my pull request from months ago has not yet been merged.
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Got banned quite quickly from Vera/ezlo forum, without any warning. I was kinda asking for it, but still, they could have some sense of humour over there 🙂
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This morning I signed up for Starlink internet. This is the Musk project that has been aboard many of the SpaceX launches for some time. I watched this morning's launch (60 additional Starlink satellites), and they announced that the Beta was open in some areas. I went to the site, and it was open in my area.
The site (starlink.com) quoted $99/mo with $499 initial equipment and setup. I realize that's pretty pricey compared to Internet access in many areas, but I currently pay a fair amount more (monthly) to my current cable- (TV) based ISP, quality and speed are inconsistent, and every year I have to fight their customer retention staff to keep my pricing from nearly doubling as my "special offer" expires.
Verizon, the dominant cellular carrier where I live, has been slow to roll out home-based Internet on 5G. This is another alternative I've been excited to investigate, but still waiting.
I'm pretty excited. Yes, I'm a Musk fan-boy. Don't judge me. 🙂
Starting with smart home development
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Hi,
I hope this is the correct place to ask. I wanted to start with developing smart home systems where I use a raspberry pie as a server and communicate through a phone or tablet.
But I do not know where to and how to start, I have knowledge in developing Web Application, Java and a bit react native.But which Development Language is good for smart home development? Would it be possible to achieve smart home projects with Webapplication and smarthphone app if they communicate with the same server?
Which additional knowledge do I need except development language? I looked on the internet a bit, but kinda got lost with all the information in it right now about smart home.
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Are you looking to implement a smart home as a user, or learn about developing a smart from (either from scratch or as developer)?
Welcome BTW!
C
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Hi what do you mean with "developing a smart"? I wanted to learn how to develop smart home systems but with my own application and not predefined ones.
For that I wanted to learn which language would be prefereable for smart home systems, and which additional skills do I need? For example is networking needed or anything else like that.
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It's a big question you are asking here and you seem to want to start from scratch.
My question to you is why? Some of your ideas have been explored and executed for years and there are also already commercial offering in that direction with various levels of success.
I will give you just my opinion:
Development cycles for me go in this chronological order:- Make it work (design)
- Make it reliable (debug)
- Make it fast and efficient (optimize, often skept these days)
Now with more freed resource, you can have new ideas and repeat the cycle.
What language you want to use is up to you. There is no right or wrong answer. It ranges from Java/JS on NodeJS to Python to lua to C. There are examples of all of them and it is all a matter of taste and support.
JS example: iobroker
Python: Home Assistant
lua: openLuup
C/C++: many others mostly commercial solutions.The raspberry pi with a web server is one of the most common platforms and a good, but not great place to start: As you grow your system beyond the phase 1 of "Make it work", You may start finding limitations of capability, reliability and efficiency.
Also, the mobile app ideas are pretty common but... I am partial to eliminate them as much as possible because there are too many of them already and ideally, for the sake of efficiency, you would not need them if the home was ultimately "smart". Any configuration would have to be done on the server but mobile apps would be too limiting/small to handle the complexity. I see the mobile apps as a patch/addition maybe temporary convenience and not anything I would base/develop my system around. I am trying to eliminate the need for them and have been pretty succesful. If you need a dashboard, it can be done through a mobile page on the webserver.
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@rafale77
I wanted to make this commercial so start doing business with it, thats why I wanted to implement my own systems. What would you recommend insteat of a raspberry pi? And what would I need alongside development? In order to achieve what I want ? How could I make my raspberry pi, smartphone app and for example a door lock communicate with each other? Would that be
Networking?What would be alternatives to control the smart home systems? if not by phone
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So you mean like use a webapplication which communicates with the server and is just displayed on the phone/tablet right?
My biggest question is which skill I need to learn for comunication between the devices is it Networking or anything else?
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My smarthome system has very little interaction with my phone/tablet except for the localization and voice control. I use no apps for these. In case of other failures only do I need a display but this can be done through a web browser on the mobile device though I use Homewave for convenience. Under normal conditions, I would not need any display on my phone or tablet.
For device, you can look at nVidia's Jetson or celeron based mini PCs. Skills you need are both around networking and also the various wireless stacks and APIs for smarthomes: Zigbee, Zwave, Thread. You could also just stick with wifi devices which seems to be the trend lately but I see this as less secure, more cloud prone, less efficient but more convenient.
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@rafale77
Hey thanks you helped me a lot I at least am a bit smarter now
I have just a few more questions haha if I may.- What are wifi stacks?
- And do you know which skill is needed to assembly your own smart device? I would think a small pc like raspberry pi or an alternative with modules like wifi, bluetooth etc right?
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wifi stack is a standard (802.11a/ac/ax) and you probably don't need to learn much about it. The wireless stacks I was speaking of were the others: zwave and zigbee in particular. For wifi, devices usually have a local API you can work with.
I don't know how to answer your second question... You can buy these all made and use USB modules for them.
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Thanks for the answer you really helped me out
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You are welcome. Not sure if I can answer all of your questions but it doesn't cost anything to ask. This forum has a lot of folks who started with a commercial solution which ended up being a dead end and decided to go off on mostly open source platforms, many developed, discussed and shared here.
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@rafale77
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Do not underestimate the amount of effort and time this is likely to take... especially when you get a few users on board.
