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Gradually turn on lights.
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I have several lights that I would like to turn on very gradually over 15 or 20 seconds. from 0 to .25 in .01 increments. I have tried a few things that came nowhere near working, so here I am.
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Stop the MSR by an external switch on Hubitat.
wmarcolinW
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?
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Error After Upgrade
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handler
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Need help figuring out how to delay a reset on reaction
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Way to search for rules (rule state) in other rules
T
@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.
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Links to MSR from HA
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I am using Home Assistant a lot recently. On a dashboard showing the devices, I would like to show a link to the MSR rule that controls the devices. Is there a way to link directly into MSR?
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Set Reaction > Script Action
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Errors after updating to MQTTController build 25139
tunnusT
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.
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🎉 My very first MSR controller: OpenSprinkler
therealdbT
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.
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Advice reqeusted to migrate MSR from Bare Metal to Container
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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?
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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rules
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Widget deletion does not work and landing page (status) is empy
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Deleting widgets
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MQTT configuration question
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I have the following yaml configuration in local_mqtt_devices file x_mqtt_device: set_speed: arguments: speed: type: str topic: "command/%friendly_name%" payload: type: json expr: '{ "fan": parameters.speed }' While this works fine, I'm wondering how this could be changed to "fixed" parameters, as in this case "fan" only accepts "A", "Q" or a numeric value of 1-5?
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MSR in Alpine Docker

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    wrote on last edited by PerH
    #20

    Just updated the first post.
    I just noticed that Reactor time wasn't correct, and its probably because of daylight savings time here in Norway.
    I put a Bind mount for /etc/localtime in the docker-compose, and noW it will follow the host machines time.

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      Hi Patrick,

      Do you have a compose file that you're happy with. I'd like to try this on my HA machine which has several other containers, and runs on an Intel Atom with 4gb ram.

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        #22

        To those dreading ssh into their machine, try using WinSCP and setting the file editor to Notepad ++. Makes editing linux files a breeze and you can set up your folder structures and permissions with the winscp gui.

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          Hi Patrick,

          Do you have a compose file that you're happy with. I'd like to try this on my HA machine which has several other containers, and runs on an Intel Atom with 4gb ram.

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          wrote on last edited by toggledbits
          #23

          @buxton said in MSR in Alpine Docker:

          Do you have a compose file that you're happy with.

          Here's what I last used:

          version: '3'
          
          services:
            web:
              container_name: reactor
              environment:
                REACTOR_DATA_PREFIX: /var/reactor
          
              image: toggledbits/reactor:latest
              restart: always
              network_mode: "bridge"
              expose:
                - 8111
              ports:
                - 8111:8111
              volumes:
                - .data:/var/reactor
              tmpfs: /tmp
          

          To those dreading ssh into their machine, try using WinSCP and setting the file editor to Notepad ++. Makes editing linux files a breeze and you can set up your folder structures and permissions with the winscp gui.

          If you're on an RPi (or really anything, but RPi was a breeze), setting up Samba and being able to open the files directly on the host via the share is a great time saver, too. Choices.

          Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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          • PerHP PerH

            Just updated the first post.
            I just noticed that Reactor time wasn't correct, and its probably because of daylight savings time here in Norway.
            I put a Bind mount for /etc/localtime in the docker-compose, and noW it will follow the host machines time.

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            toggledbits
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            #24

            @perh said in MSR in Alpine Docker:

            and not it will follow the host machines time.

            @PerH I'm re-reading this... the bind mount fixes it, right? You meant "now"?

            Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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              #25

              Yes.
              My MSR Container clock was one hour off, and the bind fixed it. 🙂

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                #26

                Ok got the following error:

                Pulling MSR (toggledbits/reactor:latest)...

                ERROR: pull access denied for toggledbits/reactor, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

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                  toggledbits
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                  #27

                  It's not a published image. The only image I make available is for Synology NAS x86. You'll need to build your own image using the generic package download (which you can get from the download button in the MantisBT bug tracker).

                  Have you built docker images before?

                  Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                    #28

                    Yes, I've built some simple ones. I'll need a Mantis login though. Let me know what kind of info you need to set up my credentials.

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                      #29

                      OK. Just PM me your full name and email address.

                      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                        wrote on last edited by PerH
                        #30

                        I'm happy to see an official docker image for MSR!

                        Just thought i'd share my docker-compose.yaml, which is only different in that i use docker volume instead of bind to host folder

                        Not sure if it's better, but i've done this to all dockers in my system.

                        This came up working well immediately, next is to stop the container and add my storage and config data. 🙂

                        version: "3.9"
                        
                        services: 
                          MSR:
                            container_name: MSReactor 
                            restart: always 
                            image: toggledbits/reactor:latest-generic-amd64 
                            ports:
                              - "8111:8111" 
                            networks:                            # Optional for use of static IP inside the docker network. 
                              HAnett:                            # You could replace this and the subsequent lines with " network_mode: "bridge" "
                                ipv4_address: 192.168.0.8 
                            volumes:
                              - type: volume 
                                source: MSR 
                                target: /var/reactor
                              - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro" 
                            environment:
                              - TZ=Europe/Oslo
                              - REACTOR_DATA_PREFIX=/var/reactor
                            tmpfs: /tmp
                            logging:
                                driver: "json-file"
                                options: 
                                  max-file: "5" 
                                  max-size: 2m
                        networks:    #Optional
                            HAnett: 
                                name: HAnett
                                driver: bridge
                                ipam: 
                                    config:
                                        - subnet: 192.168.0.0/16 
                                          gateway: 192.168.0.254 
                        volumes: 
                          MSR: 
                            name: MSR
                        
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                          Nice work there! I'm going to save a copy even though I routinely use the Docker GUI (perhaps not available to all Synology NAS users) to set up MSR.

                          I, too, have been mulling the difference between bind and volume and Googling a while back did not seem to settle it for me. Surely it must make some difference?!

                          Also, I gotta ask: Do you have any Sunrise/Sunset-based Rules? Only asking b/c for me, in 21117, my only Sunset/offset routine somehow failed to launch itself last night, but I'm uncertain whether that constitutes a 'bug' or just a misfire of some other kind.

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                            #32

                            I think the main advantage of volumes is that location is controlled by docker, and these locations aren't as easy to screw up if you mess around with the folder structure.. It also puts all volumes in a common folder (var/lib/docker/volumes) that can be copied to a tar or backup folder using one line, but thats just as easy if you organize bind folders the same way.. Let me know if you find other advatages. 🙂

                            I have no sunrise/sunset rules, i use light sensors for i.e. outside lighting.. I think about 90% of my "MSR bugs" have been PEBCAC, so check your logic. 😁

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