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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
Tom_DT
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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Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements
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Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here. Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions; Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating; Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later; Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase; Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions; Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.
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R
Hi guys, Just wondering how you guys organize your rule sets and rules. I wish I had an extra layer to have some more granularity, but my feature request was not popular. Maybe there are better ways to organize my rule sets. I use the rule sets now primarily for rooms. So a rule set per room. But maybe grouping by functionality works better. Any examples/ suggestions would be appreciated.
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Installing MSR on Windows

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    Did you PM me your full name and email? I don't think you did, but then, I've been a bit distracted today...

    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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      Did you PM me your full name and email? I don't think you did, but then, I've been a bit distracted today...

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      @toggledbits

      Nope, have not done that. Coming right up!

      I don't know were that information is, but you maybe can add it in your first post in this thread to help others in the future?
      Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE:

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        I split this off to its own thread...

        You know, I don't know. I just checked it and rolled on. I may have to uninstall/reinstall later and see if it makes a difference. But I went with it on to start.

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        @toggledbits said in Installing MSR on Windows:

        I split this off to its own thread...

        You know, I don't know. I just checked it and rolled on. I may have to uninstall/reinstall later and see if it makes a difference. But I went with it on to start.

        So now MSR is up and running ✌

        I start without adding the extra "Chocolatey" stuff in the Node.js install, so we will see if this comes back and bite me later on.
        But I try to have a little stuff on the system as possible.

        Rest of installation went as expected.
        When extracting using 7-zip there was some error messages, but I don't what that means or if it have anything to do with MSR.
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          OK. I'll look into those. If it interferes with anything, it will be the dashboard, not Reactor itself, it looks like.

          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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            #8

            Yay, proud of myself getting MSR v.21068 installed and running on a clean Windows 10 machine, just for fun.

            My next plan, if it's possible, is to configure MSR to work with the ezlo Plus I have running at that location.

            Will check the YAML files...

            EDIT: Nope, not yet implemented. Still can play with the UI and do bug reports in the meantime!

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              #9

              LOL, even dug up my ol' trusty Vera 1 and am putting it through its initial Setup paces (not going smoothly -- "Update" fails, it wants to run Adobe Flash, which has since been discontinued, etc.). We'll see what MSR has to make of this dinosaur.

              EDIT: Quite shockingly, even my old Z-Wave dongle, which I thought had bitten the dust, appears to be working!?!? Also managed to log into extremely old MIOS1 servers with un/pw.

              EDIT 2: MSR no likey! When I enabled the Vera controller IP in reactor.yaml, and restarted MSR, it just kinda hung. Had to CTRL-C my way out. Oh, well! 😞

              EDIT 3: Nope, I spoke too soon. Even with Vera > enable: false, MSR seems to hang about 3 minutes on startup, then magically pops up with 21068 in the upper right corner. Will continue exploring what else may be hanging MSR up.

              EDIT 4: Reactor's fully up and running, connected to my Vera 1. A quick reboot of the host PC seemed to help!

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                #10

                Hi

                Life has kept me busy this year so I haven't had time to tinker with any fun smarthome stuff for a long while.

                So I was set to upgrade to latest version 21275 and install MSR as a service.
                It have not gone well 😞

                The service stops directly.
                Info from daemon\reactor.err.log

                Logging stream path spec may be using pre-21075 form; please remove ./logs/ from the path!
                internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:883
                  throw err;
                  ^
                
                Error: Cannot find module 'ws'
                Require stack:
                - C:\reactor\server\wsapi\wsapi.js
                - C:\reactor\app.js
                    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:880:15)
                    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:725:27)
                    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19)
                    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
                    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\reactor\server\wsapi\wsapi.js:239:30)
                    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
                    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
                    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
                    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
                    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19) {
                  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
                  requireStack: [ 'C:\\reactor\\server\\wsapi\\wsapi.js', 'C:\\reactor\\app.js' ]
                }
                

                When I tries to start MSR normally i get a "NODE_PATH is missing" but I have set this, and with correct casing.

                ||PS C:\reactor> set NODE_PATH=C:\reactor
                PS C:\reactor> node app.js
                basedir C:\reactor
                confdir C:\reactor\config
                datadir C:\reactor\storage
                logsdir C:\reactor\logs
                plugindir C:\reactor\ext
                module.paths [ 'C:\reactor\node_modules', 'C:\node_modules' ]
                NODE_PATH undefined
                Required environment variable NODE_PATH is missing; can't continue.
                Logging stream path spec may be using pre-21075 form; please remove ./logs/ from the path!
                2021-10-03T21:55:13.989Z app:null Reactor latest-21275-df3d784 starting on v14.16.0
                2021-10-03T21:55:13.990Z app:INFO Process ID 8800; platform win32/x64 Windows 10 Education; locale (undefined)
                2021-10-03T21:55:13.990Z app:INFO Basedir C:\reactor; data in C:\reactor\storage
                2021-10-03T21:55:13.990Z app:INFO NODE_PATH (undefined)
                C:\reactor\app.js:233
                throw new Error(a0_0x52b285(0x1c5));
                ^

                Error: Required environment variable NODE_PATH is not set
                at Object.<anonymous> (C:\reactor\app.js:233:11)
                at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
                at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
                at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
                at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
                at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:72:12)
                at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47||

                Please help 🙂

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                  wrote on last edited by toggledbits
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                  Logging stream path spec may be using pre-21075 form; please remove ./logs/ from the path!

                  Tells me you have a really old configuration that needs to be updated. At least copy the dist-config/logging.yaml file to the config directory to start over with that part of your config. The other parts of your config are likely OK.

                  Error: Cannot find module 'ws'

                  Tells me that you haven't installed the prerequisite dependencies, which is part of the installation instructions. Did you follow the installation instructions for Windows?

                  When I tries to start MSR normally i get a "NODE_PATH is missing" but I have set this, and with correct casing.

                  If you think you set it, and it says you didn't, then most likely you didn't use the correct command for the shell you are in. The instructions are different for CMD.EXE vs Windows PowerShell. The installation instructions cover that, too.

                  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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                    Solved it! ✌

                    After updating config files i got a new error message that told me what dependencies that was missing. Some Popper thing...
                    So for now it is up and running again 🙂

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                      Logging stream path spec may be using pre-21075 form; please remove ./logs/ from the path!

                      Tells me you have a really old configuration that needs to be updated. At least copy the dist-config/logging.yaml file to the config directory to start over with that part of your config. The other parts of your config are likely OK.

                      Error: Cannot find module 'ws'

                      Tells me that you haven't installed the prerequisite dependencies, which is part of the installation instructions. Did you follow the installation instructions for Windows?

                      When I tries to start MSR normally i get a "NODE_PATH is missing" but I have set this, and with correct casing.

                      If you think you set it, and it says you didn't, then most likely you didn't use the correct command for the shell you are in. The instructions are different for CMD.EXE vs Windows PowerShell. The installation instructions cover that, too.

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                      @toggledbits said in Installing MSR on Windows:

                      Tells me that you haven't installed the prerequisite dependencies, which is part of the installation instructions. Did you follow the installation instructions for Windows?

                      Well, i did not download the node.js install package since I did that when i installed one of the first MSR-previews.
                      Otherwise i followd all steps.
                      (Except that i miss the config files because i was only updating in my mind and had no idea that CMD & PS makes a difference - You learn every day)

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