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So, I think I'm in a bit of an unusual situation. I work at a camp & retreat center that has wifi throughout. I want to put a few switches in the office that can control outdoor lighting throughout the camp. We currently have switches in each of the buildings, but it is a particularly frustrating job to get all the lights on in the evening when it is brutally cold out or we are short staffed.
Most of our staff is not very tech savvy (my boss literally has his wife print out his emails for him each day!!!) so, I'd love to avoid having to set up any sort of raspberry pi or new phone app.
Is there type of 3-way switch that can connect to the wifi, turn on a light in another building AND turn on an indicator light in the office, without having any sort of wire running between the buildings? Hopefully looking for a simple solution without breaking the bank too.
I greatly appreciate any input that you can give. Thank you!
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I have a X10 wall switch system and I want to get rid of it. What would be the easiest transition to something more modern and easy to use with either wifi/homekit capabilities? My current X10 controls 3 zones in my bedroom. All zones are dimmable.
Zone 1 is 4 canister ceiling lights. LED bulbs
Zone 2 is 1 canister ceiling lights. Halogen Bulb
Zone 3 is 1 canister ceiling lights. Halogen Bulb
I have an old plug-in remote from Radio Shack and a wall switch with 3 buttons, each controlling one zone. (images attached)
My wall switch has one two wires from the wall. One black, one white.Is there any solution easy to install without the need of an electrician? Thanks for any feedback.
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I was just going to add my support for a Update Button for the bare bones version of MSR and find the thread has been removed.
I'm wondering what was so provocative that required it's removal?
Have we become as paranoid as an owner of another forum?Anyway +1 for an Update Button.
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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.
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Two stores apparently have inventory of RPI 4Bs with 2GB RAM. Get them while they last!
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Is the Smarthome company still existent? If so, are SwitchLinc switched still available?
SNMP - Is anyone leveraging info via the Simple Network Management Protocol ?
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Hi
In my ongoing quest to try and retrieve as much information as I can about the amount of energy I’m using , I found out that I could use SNMP to see how much power (watts) my UPS is handling .
To do this, I installed snmpd/snmp on my Vera linked Raspberry Pi, and then ran the following command.
local command = io.popen("ssh -i /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key pi@192.168.102.37 'snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 10.10.10.103' 2>&1") local response = command:read("*a") print(response)Which returned a huge amount of information, which prompted me to ask the community here if there anything on Vera/OpenLuup that people have that can process this sort of information into a new devices and associated variables to then monitor/track going forward ?
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Eaton 5P 1150" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 = OID: iso.3.6.1.4.1.705.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (51435090) 5 days, 22:52:30.90 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0 = STRING: "Computer Room Manager" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 = STRING: "ups239" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0 = STRING: "Computer Room" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.7.0 = INTEGER: 72 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.8.0 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.1 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.2 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.10.3.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.3 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.11.3.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.4 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.15.2.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.5 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.16.2.1.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.1 = STRING: "The MIB Module from SNMPv2 entities" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.2 = STRING: "SNMP Management Architecture MIB" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.3 = STRING: "Message Processing and Dispatching MIB" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.4 = STRING: "USM User MIB" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.5 = STRING: "VACM MIB" iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.4.1 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.4.2 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.4.3 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.4.4 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.4.5 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.1 = INTEGER: 1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1.2 = INTEGER: 2 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.1 = STRING: "LOOPBACK" iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.2 = STRING: "eth0" iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3.1 = INTEGER: 24 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3.2 = INTEGER: 6 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.4.1 = INTEGER: 1500 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.4.2 = INTEGER: 1500 etc.... -
Oh, and if I just want to pull one of the items I just specify the iso number with the snmpget command. E.g
local command = io.popen("ssh -i /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key pi@192.168.102.37 'snmpget -v1 -c public 10.10.10.103 iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0' 2>&1") local response = command:read("*a") print(response)which in this case will just return the first one.
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I use a lua scene to read snmp network usage from my switches. Working great for a couple of years now.
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Hi @prophead - can you share more details on the Scene, is it with Lua/luup code ?
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@parkerc Yes, I have 3 lua scenes, one for each switch for LAN monitoring and one for my Edgerouter for WAN monitoring. Each uses the same basic snmp framework with device specific tweaks and then saves results to an empty device and then I graph those device variables. I'm happy to share my code below:
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@parkerc this is the Dlink 8 port SNMP switch lua:
-- SNMP 8 port BWmon -- read stored in/out values local lines = "" local Din = {} local Dout = {} local Oin = {} local Oout = {} local Nin = {} local Nout = {} local T = {} local i,j --check for switch local ping = os.execute("ping -c 1 192.168.1.11") if ping ~= 0 then luup.log("Dlink 8: Switch down. Aborted.") do return end end for i = 1,8 do -- read stored values local f = io.open("/tmp/8"..i.."I.txt") if f then for line in f:lines() do lines = line end -- for each line f:close() else os.execute("touch /tmp/8"..i.."I.txt") end if not lines then lines = "0" end Oin[i] = lines --print (Oin[i]) local f = io.open("/tmp/8"..i.."O.txt") if f then for line in f:lines() do lines = line end -- for each line f:close() else os.execute("touch /tmp/8"..i.."O.txt") end if not lines then lines = "0" end Oout[i] = lines --print (Oout[i]) end -- for each port read -- parse values for j = 1,8 do Oin[j] = string.match(Oin[j], ".*Counter32: (%d+)") if Oin[j] == "" or Oin[j] == nil then Oin[j] = 0 end Oout[j] = string.match(Oout[j], ".*Counter32: (%d+)") if Oout[j] == "" or Oout[j] == nil then Oout[j] = 0 end -- read snmp lines = "" os.execute("/usr/bin/snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c PASSWORD 192.168.1.11 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10."..j.." >/tmp/8"..j.."I.txt") local f = io.open("/tmp/8"..j.."I.txt") if not f then return end for line in f:lines() do lines = line end f:close() Nin[j] = lines --print (Nin[j]) lines = "" os.execute("/usr/bin/snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c PASSWORD 192.168.1.11 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16."..j.." >/tmp/8"..j.."O.txt") local f = io.open("/tmp/8"..j.."O.txt") if not f then return end for line in f:lines() do lines = line end f:close() Nout[j] = lines --print (Nout[j]) --parse Nin[j] = string.match(Nin[j], ".*Counter32: (%d+)") if Nin[j] == "" or Nin[j] == nil then Nin[j] = 0 end Nout[j] = string.match(Nout[j], ".*Counter32: (%d+)") if Nout[j] == "" or Nout[j] == nil then Nout[j] = 0 end --print (Nin[j]) --print (Nout[j]) --deltas Din[j] = Nin[j] - Oin[j] Dout[j] = Nout[j] - Oout[j] local max32 = 4294967295 --local max32 = 4294966864 -- handle rotation if Nin[j] < Oin[j] then Din[j] = max32 - Oin[j] + Nin[j] end if Nout[j] < Oout[j] then Dout[j] = max32 - Oout[j] + Nout[j] end if Din[j] > max32 or Din[j]<0 then Din[j] = 0 end --math.max(Oin[j],Nin[j]) end if Dout[j] > max32 or Dout[j]<0 then Dout[j] = 0 end --math.max(Oout[j],Nout[j]) end end -- end for each port write -- add real time interval tracking -- read old time lines = "" local ot = "" local f = io.open("/tmp/lastDlink8run.txt") if not f then os.execute("touch /tmp/lastDlink8run.txt") return end for line in f:lines() do ot = line end f:close() if not ot then ot = "300" end -- default to five minutes -- write new time local nt = tonumber(os.time()) local t = assert(io.open("/tmp/lastDlink8run.txt", "w"), "Failed to open lastDlink8run.txt") t:write(nt) io.close(t) -- delta seconds local nds = nt - ot -- bounds if nds < 24 then nds = 24 end if nds > 900 then nds = 900 end -- debugging local t = assert(io.open("/tmp/Dlink8nds.txt", "w"), "Failed to open Dlink8nds.txt") t:write(nds) io.close(t) -- maths for k = 1,8 do Din[k] = ((Din[k]/nds)/1024) if Din[k] > 1500000 then Din[k] = 0 end Dout[k] = ((Dout[k]/nds)/1024) if Dout[k] > 1500000 then Dout[k] = 0 end T[k] = Din[k]+Dout[k] end -- end for each K conversion -- set luup device variables for device 12, LAN luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DoorBirdINKBps", Din[1] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DoorBirdOUTKBps", Dout[1] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DoorBirdKBps", T[1] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "RoomHubINKBps", Din[2] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "RoomHubOUTKBps", Dout[2] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "RoomHubKBps", T[2] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "BedroomINKBps", Din[3] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "BedroomOUTKBps", Dout[3] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "BedroomKBps", T[3] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DownstairsINKBps", Din[4] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DownstairsOUTKBps", Dout[4] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "DownstairsKBps", T[4] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "LivingRoomINKBps", Din[5] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "LivingRoomOUTKBps", Dout[5] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "LivingRoomKBps", T[5] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "KitchenINKBps", Din[6] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "KitchenOUTKBps", Dout[6] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "KitchenKBps", T[6] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "UpstairsINKBps", Din[7] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "UpstairsOUTKBps", Dout[7] , 12) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "UpstairsKBps", T[7] , 12) -
Many thanks for sharing @prophead
QQ - How did you get smtpget installed on your Vera ? (I don’t have smtpget listed in usr/bin ?)
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Altui on a pi
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@parkerc then I use grafana to graph
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@parkerc I’m going to point you here:
For more energy centric metrics then snmp. I love the vue devices and the grafana integration with this link is stellar for really understanding your energy use.
jertel/vuegraf
Populate metrics from your Emporia Vue energy monitoring devices into an InfluxDB - jertel/vuegraf
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Impressive stuff, thanks for sharing @prophead ..
Earlier you mentioned ‘ Edgerouter’ , does that mean you have a Ubiquiti router ? If so would you be able to share the scene Lua for that, as I have a Unfi set up so would love to test that out..
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-- SNMP BWmon -- read stored in/out values local files = "" local f = io.open("/tmp/INO.txt") if not f then os.execute("touch /tmp/INO.txt") end for line in f:lines() do files = line end f:close() local OINO = files local f = io.open("/tmp/OUTO.txt") if not f then os.execute("touch /tmp/OUTO.txt") end for line in f:lines() do files = line end f:close() if not files then files = "Counter32: (0)" end local OOUTO = files -- parse values local ROINO = string.match(OINO, ".*Counter32: (%d+)") local ROOUTO = string.match(OOUTO, ".*Counter32: (%d+)") -- read snmp os.execute("/usr/bin/snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c PASSWORD 172.16.0.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4 >/tmp/INO.txt") local f = io.open("/tmp/INO.txt") if not f then return end for line in f:lines() do files = line end f:close() local INO = files --print (INO) files = "" os.execute("/usr/bin/snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c PASSWORD 172.16.0.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.4 >/tmp/OUTO.txt") local f = io.open("/tmp/OUTO.txt") if not f then return end for line in f:lines() do files = line end f:close() local OUTO = files --print (OUTO) --parse local RINO = 0 RINO = string.match(INO, ".*Counter32: (%d+)") local ROUTO = 0 ROUTO = string.match(OUTO, ".*Counter32: (%d+)") --print (RINO) --print (ROUTO) --maths local RINB = 0 RINB = RINO --* 8 local ROINB = 0 ROINB = ROINO --* 8 local ROUTB = 0 ROUTB = ROUTO --* 8 local ROOUTB = 0 ROOUTB = ROOUTO --* 8 --deltas local INt = 0 INt = RINB - ROINB local OUTt = 0 OUTt = ROUTB - ROOUTB local max32 = 4294966864 --debug --luup.log ('RINB ='..RINB..', ROINB ='..ROINB) --luup.log ('ROUTB ='..ROUTB..', ROOUTB ='..ROOUTB) -- handle rotation if RINB < ROINB then INt = max32 - ROINB + RINB end if ROUTB < ROOUTB then OUTt = max32 - ROOUTB + ROUTB end if INt > max32 or INt<0 then INt = max(RINB,ROINB) end if OUTt > max32 or OUTt<0 then OUTt = max(ROUTB,ROOUTB) end --luup.log ('INt ='..INt..', OUTt ='..OUTt) -- 60 is 1 min interval and 1024 makes kBps local kbpsINt = ((INt/60)/1024) local kbpsOUTt = ((OUTt/60)/1024) local total = kbpsINt + kbpsOUTt luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "ComcastKBps", total, 11) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "ComcastInKBps", kbpsINt, 11) luup.variable_set("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:altui1", "ComcastOutKBps", kbpsOUTt, 11) -
@parkerc as you can see it's virtually same because SNMP is pretty standardized. Yes, this is the ubiquity edgerouter, a great $60 piece of kit. I use it for ISP failover and firewall.
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Many thanks @prophead - I’m going to try and use this with my UniFi Switch this morning..
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Quick observation, if I try the following against my UniFi (USG) Router
local command = io.popen("ssh -y -i /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key pi@192.168.102.144 'snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c public 192.168.102.1 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4' 2>&1") local response = command:read("*a") print(response)it times out..
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.102.1.Yet if I try this against a UniFi Switch,
local command = io.popen("ssh -y -i /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key pi@192.168.102.144 'snmpget -r 1 -v1 -c public 192.168.102.7 iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4' 2>&1") local response = command:read("*a") print(response)it works fine.
iso.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4 = Counter32: 29157590Hummm..
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I tried an snmpwalk on the UniFi (USG) Router too,
'snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 192.168.102.1' 2>&1and that timed out..
More digging is needed later, as all seem to have SNMP enabled..
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@parkerc sounds like a permissions issue. Debug on command line before trying to script. I would also avoid use of the public access to snmp as it’s a potential security issue. I always setup private domain the proceedure differs by manufacturers. You can use snmpwalk for debugging then move to snmpget once you’re ready to drill down. Good luck.
