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Difficulty defining repeating annual period
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I have tried numerous ways to define a recurring annual period, for example from December 15 to January 15. No matter which method I try - after and before, between, after and/not after, Reactor reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date. Some constructs also seem to cause Reactor to hang, timeout and restart. For example "before January 15 is evaluated as true, but reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date". Does anyone have a tried and true method to define a recurring annual period? I think the "between" that I used successfully in the past may have broken with one of the updates.
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Need help with sequence
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Good evening all, For about the past week or so, I've been having problems with a specific rule in my home automation that controls when my home goes from an Away mode to Home mode. One of the conditions it checked for was my alarm panel, when it changed from Armed Away to Disarmed. There seems to have been a firmware update on the panel that added an intermittent step of "pending", and I can't say for certain it happens 100% of the time. Is there a way to write a condition that so it changes from one condition, to the next, and then another condition? As in, Home alarm changes from armed_away to pending to disarmed. Thanks.
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[Reactor] Bug when sending MQTT boolean payloads
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Possible feature request?
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No idea how easy this would be. During my migration away from Z-wave I've been replacing the Z-wave devices with Sonoff which has broken some of my automations. Any chance of a 'Test Reaction' function to call out which ones are broken because an entity no longer exists? Without actually running the reaction? Or does this exist already and I'm just not aware of how to do it? Obviously I can see entities that are no longer available, but not quite what I'm looking for. I guess it's something of an edge case so no huge issue. TIA! C
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Copying a global reaction
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With build 25328, if you copy a global reaction, a new reaction does not appear in the UI unless you do a refresh. I recall this used to work without needing this page refresh? Anyway, only a minor nuisance.
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Logic Assistance: Exterior Lights on when Illuminance Below Threshold
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Time series documentation
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Is the current manual (incl. examples) up to date with how retention value is handled in time series configuration? Referring to this post
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MQTT templates for ZIgbee scene controller, or a better way?
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Reset a delay
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I'm sure this has been asked, and answered, but damned if I can figure it out Use case: I have a rear garden with lights. A door from the kitchen into the garden and a door from the garage. Currently if I open the kitchen door the lights come on (yay) and a 3 minute delay starts. After 3 minutes, no matter what else happens, the lights go off (Boo! But also yay!) What I would like is for the 3 minute delay until the lights go off to start from the latest door open event. That is, if I'm going from kitchen to garage, and back again, the lights stay on until there's three minutes of no activity. I've tried 'hacking' with a virtual switch, but can't seem to stop the delay. Any pointers? TIA C
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Constraints states visually do not match actual
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[Solved] Error: Command timeout
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at _ClientAPI._commandTimeout (http://192.168.1.100:8111/client/ClientAPI.js:807:179 Seeing this randomly when returning to open browser tab after being away awhile. Once, maybe twice a day. "What did you do to trigger it?" Literally nothing, just walked away and returned and there it was. Actions taken in reasonably close proximity to this particular instance of it popping up: I'd restarted the MSR container in Portainer. I'll try to grab some logs here shortly.
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Issue with MSR UI becoming unresponsive
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I'm having an issue with MSR's UI being very unresponsive. It started happening a couple days ago and I didn't make any changes that would have caused this except adding some meross lan devices in HA. When I go into an entity action and use the search functionality, it usually will start filtering and then get to a place after a few letters are entered where it will take 30 seconds or more (sometimes minutes) for the UI to show what I am typing. During this time MSR ui is completely unresponsive. I've tried multiple browsers and multiple computers. HA and MSR are both deployed in docker. I have run HTOP on the host and when the problem happens there are no CPU/Memory spikes at all. From a functionality standpoint MSR is working perfectly. This seems to be an UI issue only. Do i need to ditch Docker and run MSR on a Proxmox VM? I have both stand alone Docker and Proxmox environments. I dont mind doing that I just want to be able to use the UI again... Installation method Home Assistant Container Core 2025.7.3 Frontend 20250702.3 nothing crazy in the logs except some openweather map stuff that doesn't make any sense as it is working fine in MSR Any help would be greatly appreciated Reactor latest-25328-b2ed1365 app 25328 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.843Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-25328-b2ed1365 starting on v24.11.1 /usr/local/bin/node [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #161-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 22 14:25:40 UTC 2025; locale (undefined) [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.865Z <app:null> Resolved timezone=America/New_York, environment TZ=America/New_York; offset minutes from UTC=-300 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <default:null> Module i18n v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <app:null> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Loaded locale en-US for en-US [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Local date/time using configured timezone and locale formatting is "11/30/2025, 3:01:53 PM" [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.889Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v25326 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.890Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v24312 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.904Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.923Z <Timer:null> Module Timer v25279 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.924Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v25314 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.927Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v25251 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.929Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v25253 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.930Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v25318 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v25283 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.942Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v25258 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.953Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.956Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.958Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v25292 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.959Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.964Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.972Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 24138 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:54.179Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.797Z <OWMWeatherController:null> Module OWMWeatherController v25268 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.800Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.807Z <MQTTController:null> Module MQTTController v22092 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:20.630Z <OWMWeatherController:CRIT> FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: [-] FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/opt/reactor/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1501:11) at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:508:28) at ClientRequest.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorEvent (node:_http_client:108:11) at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:575:5) at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:508:28) at TLSSocket.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8) at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:89:21
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Timers in my log

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    toggledbits
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    OK. If it is 21058, please open a PR. Then stop Reactor, clear the log files (delete), and then start Reactor. Let it run for 15-20 seconds, and then stop it again. Gather the log file, compress, and email as attachment to the address in the Support section of the About tab.

    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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      Will do 🙂

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        Oh, and can you screen shot a couple of those rules as well? If you click on the rule name in the Rule Sets tab, it will open rule status and show you the ID for the rule. Just match that up to two or three of logged rules.

        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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          #9

          Ok, I have reported it. Sent you an e-mail with the logs and left some screen shots in MBT. But every rule works fine but my logs ar flooded 🙂 You said that you left some "hooks" in the earlier problem with rules spanning over mid-night. Could it be related?

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            Im seeing the same as @Matohl . Let me know if you want me to supply some logs too.

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              Ok, I have reported it. Sent you an e-mail with the logs and left some screen shots in MBT. But every rule works fine but my logs ar flooded 🙂 You said that you left some "hooks" in the earlier problem with rules spanning over mid-night. Could it be related?

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              @matohl No, I don't think it's related. There are some tricky side-effects with doing math with JavaScript dates, and I imagine something is running into a condition where it's hitting that. Everything the log says is correct, it's just not doing what it says it's going to do. It says it's going to sleep until a certain time, and then sleeps for no time at all, so I'm 99% its to do with the delay calculation in the timer object, which is as straight stupid simple as you can imagine it to be, and yet, not working, apparently, at least in some cases. And of course, I don't see it on mine. 😕

              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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                Can you also look and see if there's a console.log file in your logs directory, and if it has any messages, and especially, rolling error messages at the same pace as the timer messages?

                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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                  On it ...

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                    OK... in taking a second look at the logs, no two condition IDs are the same. You seem to use date/time conditions a lot?

                    So is this happening only when the Engine starts, or is it continuous in the logs?

                    Edit: FYI, these messages are at log level "always" from previous debugging, so I would expect a lot of them at engine startup, but once the engine starts, then really, it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled. And these may be the only messages you have. I guess I assumed they were rolling, but the log snippet you posted doesn't show that, so I need a better picture of when this is happening, and what's actually going on. I don't see email yet with the log file.

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                      A really long file. Nope, no rolling error messages related to the timer messages. Should I send it?

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                        To answer your question, it is continuous

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                          OK I need that log file, then.

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                            Ok. sent

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                              OK... in taking a second look at the logs, no two condition IDs are the same. You seem to use date/time conditions a lot?

                              So is this happening only when the Engine starts, or is it continuous in the logs?

                              Edit: FYI, these messages are at log level "always" from previous debugging, so I would expect a lot of them at engine startup, but once the engine starts, then really, it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled. And these may be the only messages you have. I guess I assumed they were rolling, but the log snippet you posted doesn't show that, so I need a better picture of when this is happening, and what's actually going on. I don't see email yet with the log file.

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                              @toggledbits said in Timers in my log:

                              ... You seem to use date/time conditions a lot? ...
                              I change it every room individually. With lights sensors, time and sunrise/sunset conditions.

                              ... "or is it continuous in the logs?" ...
                              Yes, it is continuous

                              ... "it should quiet down to only when a timer expires and is rescheduled" ...
                              I don't see that in the logs

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                                "You seem to use date/time conditions a lot"
                                I live in Sweden were light changes dramatically over the year and we have sun from the east and darkness in the west in the morning and the opposite in the evening. After a few seasons I realize I had to change it individually for each room. Works perfectly in MSR, I use a SSD to my Pi so if the log is large it could probably handle it 🙂 Due to this perhaps it is normal and I could move on but @kfxo signaled something similar.

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                                  OK. Non-problem. Everything is fine. These are just debug messages from my previous investigation into scheduling of re-evaluations on time-based rules (PR #34 and 44 specifically). For that, I used the "always" log level (hence the "null" reported where the level goes in the logged messages). This is just normal start-up. When you start Reactor and it brings up the Engine, it reads all the rules, does an initial scan for dependencies, then evaluates all the conditions, which sets the timers for the next event based on current (post-startup) conditions. All is well.

                                  The logs do not show they are rolling. If you had a continuous stream of timer messages, that would be noteworthy, but getting a timer messages for every time condition in any rule is expected at start-up. If there were further timer messages at unexpected time, the logs provided don't show that.

                                  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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                                    No problems, everything is working well. I will check my logs in the coming days.

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                                      That actually makes perfect sense and upon further inspection I see that the timers I was noticing in the logs are with respect to one rule that I had recently turned on that resets often.

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                                        I'll put a proper level on that debug now that I'm not targeting that area as well. That will keep the log chatter down.

                                        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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                                          Thank you Patrick, the MSR is awesome 🙂

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