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Way to search for rules (rule state) in other rules
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@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
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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
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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
toggledbitsT
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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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rules
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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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Moving MSR from a QNAP container to RP 5 - some issues
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Deleting widgets
tunnusT
Hopefully a trivial question, but how do you delete widgets in a status page? Using build 22266
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MQTT configuration question
tunnusT
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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System Configuration Check - time is offset
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Hi! I get this message when I'm on the status tab: System Configuration Check The time on this system and on the Reactor host are significantly different. This may be due to incorrect system configuration on either or both. Please check the configuration of both systems. The host reports 2025-04-01T15:29:29.252Z; browser reports 2025-04-01T15:29:40.528Z; difference 11.276 seconds. I have MSR installed as a docker on my Home Assistant Blue / Hardkernel ODROID-N2/N2+. MSR version is latest-25082-3c348de6. HA versions are: Core 2025.3.4 Supervisor 2025.03.4 Operating System 15.1 I have restarted HA as well as MSR multiple times. This message didn´t show two weeks ago. Don´t know if it have anything to do with the latest MSR version. Do anyone know what I can try? Thanks in advance! Let's Be Careful Out There (Hill Street reference...) /Fanan
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Synology Docker installation

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  • toggledbitsT toggledbits

    I don't have any docker containers yet. The bug list is looking pretty quiet for things urgent at the moment, so maybe I'll spend an hour or two seeing what I can get built. I also have a Synology NAS, so I have a ready test platform. The image/container itself is easy, but I'm still figuring out the correct (Synology) way to do the volumes (or bind mounts, whatever they use) for the config and data.

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    LibraSun
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    #1

    @toggledbits I followed to the letter your excellent step-by-step guide on launching a Docker container from the image I fetched from PR #58 this morning.

    All proceeded swimmingly – folder creation, image upload, settings & parameters, etc. – until the moment of actual Launch.

    Whereupon, Docker threw up the following on-screen "Stopped Unexpectedly" warning (which repeated every 30 seconds or so until I Stop'ped the container from running/restarting):
    docker_msr_stopped.png

    Concurrently, every attempt to access http://<mySynNAS_IP>:8111/ resulted in a "This site can't be reached" error page in Chrome (under Windows, mind you).

    Immediately, I took the liberty of inspecting and Export'ing the logfile (Container ► Details ► Log) as an HTML file, which I attach below (oops, no attachment feature in this forum, so here is the direct link) for your inspection.

    Hope you find some clues, because I'm not at all sure where things went wrong. (The only facet of setup where I expressly deviated from your typed notes involved creating a "Shared" (i.e. top-level, rather than under /home) folder called "Reactor" with r/w access, under which I created a subfolder named "Data", to which I pointed /var/reactor during container creation.)

    Excellent write-up and thanks for the chance to test this out!!

    • Libra

    FOLLOW-UP NOTES
    I do see where Container ► Edit ► Environment ► variable PATH has a value of "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" which strikes me as odd, but maybe that's normal nomenclature? (By contract, Windows and DOS always use semicolons, not colons, to separate PATH variable entries.)

    RESOLVED
    Noting that the Log displayed an error message related to /var/reactor/config, I went and created a folder named 'config' (all lowercase) under the NAS's top-level Reactor\Data folder, then restarted the container. It's running fine now, and I'm able to access the :8111 interface for the first time.
    Log ► "Configuration path: /var/reactor/config resolved /var/reactor/config"

    SUGGEST
    Please add explicit declaration in your How-To regarding the need for a /config underneath the data folder.

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      #2

      If someone smarter than me wishes to volunteer a simple write-up on the exact steps required to get MSR up and running on my Synology NAS (with Docker installed and active), I'd be delighted to give it a try. I realize a dedicated Docker-ized version of MSR is perhaps ideal -- and I'm happy to wait for that to manifest -- but if, in the meantime, someone out there can propose a build-your-own solution with minimal footprint, I'm game.

      Unspoken here is how much I cringe when dealing with anything Linux, because for me it's like reading Chinese. But I can follow written instructions very well and provide meticulous feedback. 😉 So thanks in advance...

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        I don't have any docker containers yet. The bug list is looking pretty quiet for things urgent at the moment, so maybe I'll spend an hour or two seeing what I can get built. I also have a Synology NAS, so I have a ready test platform. The image/container itself is easy, but I'm still figuring out the correct (Synology) way to do the volumes (or bind mounts, whatever they use) for the config and data.

        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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          @LibraSun

          I would encourage you to open a new thread? I will fork it if you don't mind.

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            Concur, and let's get @toggledbits ' earlier Docker-related notes copied into this thread as well. Dunno if they were higher up in the "MSR Available" thread?

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              #6

              Hopefully not about to ask the world's dumbest question, but here goes...

              I'm stumped at Step 1 of the "Getting Started" docs (https://reactor.toggledbits.com/docs/Getting-Started/), since I'm unable to locate the referenced reactor.yaml file.

              The only files I see under my <reactor-data>/config folder are:
              all-json.out (2 bytes)
              all-yaml.out (3 bytes)

              IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm running MSR under Docker on my Synology NAS, but I believe it behaves identically in all respects to bare metal (Linux) installs. I'm wondering if it's possible that the desired YAML file exists within the distributed image, but is not being exposed yet by the container running MSR.

              Will not proceed until advised by someone more knowledgeable. Until then, I have no "Hub/HA" defined, so cannot do anything, really, with MSR. (Makes me kinda wish these settings lived within MSR's panels and not a YAML file, LOL!)

              Thanks - Libra

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                The docker container is slightly different in that the data folder does not live within the container, it lives on a volume that the container mounts separately. This is so that the container can read and write data as needed and it is not destroyed when the image or container is replaced (e.g. you would otherwise lose your config and all your rules and reactions), and so you can edit your config without having to breach the walls of the container.

                The install steps for the docker container has a step for you to create a directory that would become this volume. To confirm you are looking in the right place, open Docker via the package manager. Go to Container, then click the Reactor container. Hit the Details button, and then the Volume tab. The line that shows the mount path "/var/reactor" is the place where your config and data are stored (not /var/reactor, the path to the left of that under File/Folder. So check that to make sure you are looking in the right place. You should see config, logs and storage at a minimum, and possibly also local and sys.

                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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                • toggledbitsT toggledbits

                  The docker container is slightly different in that the data folder does not live within the container, it lives on a volume that the container mounts separately. This is so that the container can read and write data as needed and it is not destroyed when the image or container is replaced (e.g. you would otherwise lose your config and all your rules and reactions), and so you can edit your config without having to breach the walls of the container.

                  The install steps for the docker container has a step for you to create a directory that would become this volume. To confirm you are looking in the right place, open Docker via the package manager. Go to Container, then click the Reactor container. Hit the Details button, and then the Volume tab. The line that shows the mount path "/var/reactor" is the place where your config and data are stored (not /var/reactor, the path to the left of that under File/Folder. So check that to make sure you are looking in the right place. You should see config, logs and storage at a minimum, and possibly also local and sys.

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                  #8

                  @toggledbits said in Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE:

                  You should see config, logs and storage at a minimum, and possibly also local and sys

                  In that folder (which in my case happens to be Reactor/Data, I only see the following subfolders:
                  config
                  storage

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                    LibraSun
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                    #9

                    (Dang it, I should have posted this latest question under the "Synology Docker" thread... @rafale77 can you please bump us over??)

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                      OK, then somehow the initial data didn't get copied. If you haven't already, open a PR for that on Mantis, and I'll post the two files so you can put them into the folder yourself, and I'll hunt down why it didn't copy them in the first place.

                      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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                        #11

                        @LibraSun
                        sitôt dit, sitôt fait. (sorry I don't know the equivalent in english)

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                          "no sooner said than done" I believe.

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                            I like, "Your wish is my command." ✌

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                              #14

                              FYI, I can move them also.

                              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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                                Beneath your pay grade sir.

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                                  No job too big or too small. If it needs to get done, I'm happy to do it.

                                  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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                                    #17

                                    Strictly FYI, I've gone ahead and installed NODE.JS v12 on my Synology NAS in anticipation of attempting the Reactor backup conversion to MSR Rulesets. In my Linux-challenged mind, that's a step in the right direction. Next, I'll need to (re-)learn how to SSH into the NAS for executing Terminal commands. Will let you know if this gets me further along that trajectory.

                                    EDIT: Nope, I was clearly jumping the gun. Will have to take another tack.

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                                      I've also rolled 21062 (today's daily build) into a docker container for Synology. Link is in PR #58 on the bug tracker.

                                      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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                                        Installed. Works like a charm. Your instructions were spot on, as per usual.

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                                          We can both thank @kfxo for those instructions!

                                          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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