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Good morning all,
I'm working on weaning myself off of being totally Vera dependent. I've installed MSR on my Fedora home server, and I've been migrating luup Reactor rules over little by little. My hope is to use Vera as a bare bones z-wave hub, until I replace it either with Ezlo (not so sure about), or perhaps Hubitat. I'm just tired of zero new development in Vera, empty promises of native device integration, and cloud services that go down and leave my automation hanging.In any case, I digress. I've attempted to use Gcal3 on Vera to integrate Public calendars, such as Federal Holidays, School Calendars, etc. It use to somewhat work, but more often than not, all I get from Gcal3 is "token error code: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request". The developer no longer is active, and it's effectively not working anymore.
I'd like to use these public calendars as Entity Attributes or Constraints in MSR. For instance, if it's a Federal Holiday, I don't have to work, and I may want to sleep in, which means lights may not come on as early, window coverings in the bedrooms may open later in the day, etc. Similar idea with a school calendar. If "closed" is in the event, my daughter may want to sleep in, and not want the window coverings opened as early.
I'm aware that Ezlo has integration through NuCal to all sorts of web based services, including Google Calendar, but as I stated earlier, I'm undecided on going down that path. Is there anyway to do this on MSR through any of it's abilities, such as HTTP calls or MQTT ( not experienced in MQTT, so I don't know now it works really).
Has anybody already done this?
Thanks for any advice in advance.
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Hello all, I am finally ditching my Vera and moving to HA using a Zooz ZST10 Z wave stick. I have around 50 Z wave devices with a good mix of battery devices, locks, sensors and switches. The plan is to include all the AC powered devices first, starting from the ones closest to my Z wave stick then moving outwards. Once that is complete I will go back and include all battery powered devices in the same fashion.
My question is there any quick way to exclude all my Z wave devices from Vera, or should I just delete all devices without excluding them and factory reset each device before pairing to HA?
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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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The Debian Linux machine that MSR is running on, has developed an issue and I can no longer login to it via SSH or directly on its terminal.
It was fine earlier this morning I connected to it via WinSCP to copy all the MSR files down for a backup to my laptop.
Then a bit later I could no longer connect to it. Either in WinSCP or Putty SSH, it now says access denied, even though my password is correct.
I then connected a monitor and keyboard up to the Debian box and I cannot login to it directly either, I put in the username and hit enter and I am not given a password prompt to enter it and something I could not read flashes up on the screen very fast and then disappears. I had to record a video and skip through it to capture what is says, see screen capture below.
I tried logging in as user root and my own username same thing happens, it does not even give me a prompt to enter a password.
If I boot the box in to Debian recovery mode instead I am able to login as the root user OK.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks
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Sigma have released a new Z-Wave Product that may be or interest to some here.
ThunderBoard Z-wave development board.More details are here....ThunderBoard
Also Dr Z-Waves blog link text
Makes for interesting reading.
It's attractively priced at $64.95 and might be a Z-UNO alternative? -
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Is the Smarthome company still existent? If so, are SwitchLinc switched still available?
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Hi! I want to install a smart lock on my front door, but I don't know which one to choose. There are many different models available on the market. Do you have a reliable model to recommend?
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Hi
I’m looking to rework some code I found online so I can use it on Vera, and while I’ve managed to translate / convert a number of things, I’ve got stuck on a few things it does, around encryption/decryption etc.
All the original Lua code is here - > (https://forum.logicmachine.net/showthread.php?tid=232&pid=16580#pid16580 )
Plus there looks to be a python version too here - > (https://github.com/florianholzapfel/panasonic-viera/issues/9#issuecomment-476919658)
Here’s an extract of the code where AES 128 CBC is required?
function encrypt_soap_payload(data, key, hmac_key, iv) payload = '000000000000' n = #data payload = payload .. string.char(bit.band(bit.rshift(n, 24), 0xFF)) payload = payload .. string.char(bit.band(bit.rshift(n, 16), 0xFF)) payload = payload .. string.char(bit.band(bit.rshift(n, 8), 0xFF)) payload = payload .. string.char(bit.band(n, 0xFF)) payload = payload .. data aes_cbc, err = aes:new(key, nil, aes.cipher(128, 'cbc'), { iv = iv }, nil, 1) ciphertext = aes_cbc:encrypt(payload) sig = encdec.hmacsha256(ciphertext, hmac_key, true) encrypted_payload = encdec.base64enc(ciphertext .. sig) return encrypted_payload end function decrypt_soap_payload(data, key, hmac_key, iv) aes_cbc, err = aes:new(key, nil, aes.cipher(128, 'cbc'), { iv = iv }, nil, 0) decrypted = aes_cbc:decrypt(encdec.base64dec(data)) decrypted = string.gsub(string.sub(lmcore.strtohex(decrypted), 33), '%x%x', function(value) return string.char(tonumber(value, 16)) end) return decrypted endI can get to the point where I can create the parameters for the payload encrypt request (example below), it’s just the encryption/decryption I cant do..
data="1234" key="\\S„ßÍ}/Ìa5!" hmac_key="¹jz¹2¸F\r}òcžÎ„ 臧.ª˜¹=¤µæŸ" iv=" {¬£áæ‚2žâ3ÐÞË€ú "I’ve found this aes.lua (https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-string/blob/master/lib/resty/aes.lua ) module online, but that requires loads of others modules too, most notably ffi.lua. Which I’d ideally like to avoid.
I also came across this aes128.lua (https://github.com/somesocks/lua-lockbox/blob/master/lockbox/cipher/aes128.lua ) but i’m not sure how that handles all the other parameters e.g specify the cbc aspect etc.
Finally there’s this aes256ecb.lua script (https://github.com/idiomic/Lua_AES/blob/master/AES.lua) , could that be converted to aes 128 cbc and then used in the above?
Any help/advice on this would be appreciated..
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I just upgraded the firmware for the inverter for my solar panels and that made it possible to enable Modbus TCP.
At a glance that would be perfect for live production data fed into my home automation environment but my lack of knowledge about the protocol and how to put the data where I want it failed me.What I have:
MSR
openLuup
Vera Secure
Ezlo Plus
Mosquitto
Homebridge
Windows Server
Ubuntu Server
Quite decent PowerShell skills
Enough Lua knowledge to write my own functions and handlers
The inverters Modbus interface definitionsWhat I want to achive:
Something that can be run by systemd och anything else monitoring the status and keeping the Modbus connection alive.
Publish readings over MQTT or whatever fits my setup, the goal is to feed the data into openLuup in someway so Historian can log the data for Grafana and display current production to HomeKit (as a mqttthing light sensor, since there is no other accessory suitable at the moment).Anyone implemented Modbus TCP in similar projects or have any guidance on how to reach my goal?
Open for alternative solutions as well, all suggestions are appreciated!
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Hi to all,
I am user of vera controller. I have a dahua door intercom with relay. Relay activates with username and password authentication. I can activate the relay http://admin:a1234567@192.168.1.111/cgi-bin/accessControl.cgi?action=openDoor&channel=1&UserID=101&Type=RemoteAs you can see intercom username admin and password is a1234567 I build a scene with luup code luup.inet.wget( "http://admin:a1234567@192.168.1.111/cgi-bin/accessControl.cgi?action=openDoor&channel=1&UserID=101&Type=Remote" ) But can not activate relay. Is there any idea?
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Hi to all, I have a bricked vera secure that is replaced with new one. Old vera secure serial numbers are deleted from vera servers so I cannot use it. Vera secure's are orginally Sercomm's NA502 model devices. Recently I install openwrt to the old vera secure unit without problem. Is there any way to use it any automation system with internal z-wave. I install domoticz but I cannot setup internal z-wave unit, it only accept usb zwave radios. Is there any ideas?
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I ordered a Fibaro Dimmer 2 and Bypass device for my upstairs landing / hallway lights.
I have 2 light switches one at the bottom of the stairs and another one upstairs on the landing.
But I am struggling to make sense of my current wiring, more details / photos on the Vera forum.
Jan 27 Anyone good at electrical wiring for light switches? Anyone good at electrical wiring for light switches?Hi I ordered a Fibaro Dimmer 2 and Bypass device for my upstairs landing / hallway lights. I have 2 light switches one at the bottom of the stairs and another one upstairs on the landing. I have no neutral wires in the house behind the light switches. These are photos of the light switch...
Thanks
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Hello,
Looking to all the dev's and tinkerers on this community for ideas on how to implement a solution to my problem. Kind of a long intro, sorry.Problem statement:
I have a geothermal heat pump that has a loop that is slightly undersized. During the cold weather months in the Pacific Northwest (one or two months of the year), the loop can get below 32 degrees. If it goes on for a few days, it can generate significant frost heaving in my yard and under the flagstone deck, Actually fixing the issue is cost prohibitive.Current mitigation:
I have DS18B20 tied into Home Assistant and monitoring the temp of the fluid coming out of the loop and if it drops below 35 degrees, MSR triggers a Fibaro Implant to add a resister into the external temp circuit and fool the Venstar to think the outside temp is below 32 degrees and issue a Heat Pump lockout and switch to AUX heat. While this is working fine and the AUX heat is only coming on once or twice a day, I would like to simplify the setup so it runs on something other than HA and MSR. I think they are overkill for my issue. Also want this to be independent of anything else in the house so it can stay behind if I am not around to maintain.I only have two inputs and one output:
Inputs: Loop temp, Furnace running
Outputs: Switch relay to drop resistance to external thermostat connection on thermostat.
Logic is super simple:
If temp is below 36 degrees and furnace is running, turn on relay
If furnace stops, turn off relay.
I am sure even I can figure that out on Python.Trying to determine the best platform for a set it and forget it black box that works with as close to zero maintenance as possible.
Options I have thought of are:
Pi zero with a GPIO controlled relay ESPHome (Not very knowledgeable about that platform, but willing to explore) Arduino Anything anyone else suggestsAny ideas are appreciated.
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Greetings,
I’m researching a migration from Vera+ to Hubitat C7 and want to know if anyone has successfully connected the Hubitat to the “HA Bridge” for local Alexia calls.
The HA Bridge does not callout Hubitat natively from what I see.Thanks for your assistance.
Starlink Available in Some Areas
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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.
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Interesting. I didn't know they were going to offer service that far south this year. I know some folks who are on the beta in the boondocks of north-central Washington state. They're ecstatic since they only had dial-up previously.
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Starling sounds interesting, On my street were I live(Sweden) I only have 24mbit from a adsl telephone line, feels like im the last house in hole Sweden on copper cable . Almost everywhere here its fiber with 1000mbit .
I tested 5G recently with my iPhone 12 proMax. I went in to Stockholm (20km) and got reception with 5G and did a bandwidth test. Shit!.....777mbit down and 47mbit up. would like that in my neighborhood ..... But I will be stuck with 24mbit for at least 2 year until fiber is coming... -
I have a 500m cable line. Does me just fine
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Public service utility “forgot” to cover my street, so we have no fiber and we’ll probably never get it.
There’s a public plan here in Italy to cover every house in a city with at least 100Mbit “broadband” connection, so they’re now doing FWA (4g+ to a tower, then fiber) and in two years we’ll get 5G.
There are zones where 5G FWA is already active and people are more than happy. I must say I’m happy too with 4G+, since the alternative was 6/0.5 and I’m now on a 40/4 plan, with 100/50 rolling out in the coming months and 1000/500 to be delivered via 5G. I’ll probably take a look at the mentioned service too.
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Well fibre optics were pretty much invented in my town. When it was built, the whole town had cable. In fact TV aerials were not permitted as everything was delivered via that cable.
FFWD 60 years and we have a great cable and fibre infrastructure for much of it (in fact there's a brand new (<12 months old) data centre less than 10 minutes walk from my house.It amuses me when we get ads here advertising boosters to guarantee good wifi in every room of at least 10m......
Finally ditched my cheapo rubbish late last year (was getting about 2m sitting on the damned thing) the spectrum is so polluted. I now have a couple of Ubiquiti APs (previous comments not withstanding) and now happily pull 150+ anywhere in the house.
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Situation in New Orleans, where things (esp. infrastructure and tech) are always behind the rest of the country. Starlink became available a week ago, which surprised me (NOLA is at 30 lat. N). Meanwhile, AT&T Fiber has been rolling out steadily over the past 2 years, so I jumped on board with no regrets. Their middle-tier 300 Mbps offering runs a few bucks less than Cox's 100 Mbps Internet service, and is far more reliably day-to-day. Thing is, when fiber goes out, it's typically out for days, not just minutes or hours like coaxial.
Can't speak to customer service yet. Back in the DSL/dial-up days, AT&T was the absolute worst in that regard, yet (aside from not honoring their sign-up promotional, which I had to kick and scream to receive) I've heard they have improved now. Cox is just a money-making monopoly with little interest in pleasing customers, so we're all thankful to see them get honest competition.
I will continue strongly urging neighbors to give Starlink a try, esp. my neighbor across the street, whom AT&T refuses to set up with Fiber, even though his other immediate neighbor has had the service for 2 years now, and the same poles pass his house. Weird.
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Not so happy with Starlink, myself, as I am an astro-photographer...
SpaceX’s Dark Satellites Are Still Too Bright for Astronomers
The company’s attempts to dim the spacecraft in its megaconstellation fall short of eliminating disruptions to the world’s ground-based observatories
Although we live in a rural area, we have fibre optic to the house with 1 Gb, since the CEO of a company who installs fibres lives in the village!
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I myself am running on dual WAN from both cable (Comcast) and fiber (formerly verizon but got resold twice) Total bandwidth of 1.3Gbps/600Mbps... Had to use pfSense on my QNAP to handle that (load balance+failover) on a 10G home network.
@toggledbits I suppose you drive a Tesla?
In spite of being a tech enthusiast, I am also very wary of the RF pollution these days and was personally absolutely frightened by the spectrum 5G is going after since it obviously will have shorter range and will require more RF power and denser emission points so I will stay off of it.
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Having been in a business on the commercial side of bandwidth, it's still crazy what we have to pay. When I sold my company eight years ago, I was buying at US$1/Mbps commit 95th percentile on the low side (tier one, but not regarded as the best service, but we never had any problems at all), still paying some top tier one providers $30-40/Mbps. I still get emails from various vendors, and recently got one for 10Gbps for $1000, which is $0.1/Mbps. AT&T, owning as much in the ground and on the poles as they do, and all the others, are having a field day in residential, so the more competition there is in the market, the better. Where I live, Comcast is dominant, and AT&T is secondary and still doesn't have last-mile fiber (it's in my neighborhood but not deep enough to reach my house, so I would get fiber to a DSLAM and then copper to premise -- still DSL; my neighbors did it and got about 6Mbps of an 18Mbps promise). Verizon and the other carriers with 5G have threatened to put a serious wrinkle in their monopolies, and that can only be good for pricing eventually (they wouldn't dare price-fix, right?). Having a disruptive player in the market is very welcome.
I suppose you drive a Tesla?
@rafale77 Actually, no, I've got my little hybrid Lexus that's 7 years old and still has near new battery capacity (luckily). I'm a cheapskate with cars. They depreciate too quickly, I have no vanity whatsoever around what I drive, and I'm past the point where I'd use it to attract a mate. It's just a car. I like it spotless clean and running perfectly, but beyond that, I think I could be happy in a Trabant if it had any quality.
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@rafale77 said in Starlink Available in Some Areas:
In spite of being a tech enthusiast, I am also very wary of the RF pollution these days and was personally absolutely frightened by the spectrum 5G is going after since it obviously will have shorter range and will require more RF power and denser emission points so I will stay off of it.
Since we're not be covered with fiber, unless I'll pay for it (at about 5k/10k, probably, and 100+ Eur per month), 5G is the only way to go for me. Good for me that I'm outside the city (at the very border) and the 4G/5G tower is at 1km just in front of my house, so coverage is 5 bars. I was on dual network too (WiFi link + 4G+) until last month, and I'll now transition over two 4G+, or 1 4G + 5G. We'll see.
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Reading your speeds and cost, I'm feeling pretty good about my 500Mbps up/500Mbps down fiber with static IP for $67 a month with the option of 1Gbps up/down for $99 a month no limits. Helps having a small company go all in on fiber and strike a deal with our city to run all fiber within the city owned electric conduit. 300k resident city installed in under 3 years I think. Middle of the US in Nebraska.
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Before the pandemic I used to live in Milan during the week, and I still have 2Gbps/1Gbps at 35 eur/month. In big cities coverage is another story.
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I'm in Michigan and paying $120/month for Gig speeds with no cap. I was checking out Starlink the other day as well, but there's not an actual NEED
