I need a handful of victims volunteers to help test previews of the next build of Reactor. A long-standing request was for "a simple login mechanism," but in practice, adding user authentication and competent access control turned out to be a pretty big project with a lot of big changes on both server and client sides. It's a bit more than I'm comfortable testing myself and springing out to everyone at once, so I'd like to work with a small group to put it through "sea trials."
Major changes/features include:
User authentication with hashed password storage; User group configuration with application restriction (admin, dashboard, API); Detailed control over API access, with user- and token-based authentication/authorization; Improvements to the HTTPS service; Improvements to UI coordination with the core for Rules and Reactions.If this sounds like something you'd like to help with, drop me a reply here in this thread or privately.
(Using userauth-24120-7745fb8d build in Docker)
There's a filtering capability for entities in reactor.yaml, but I have a case where I don't want to filter an entity altogether, but would like to "throttle" it, as this sensor updates every 1-2 seconds (and therefore unnecessarily takes database space).
Sensor data comes through home assistant, and seems that there's no way to control update interval at that end.
So I'm asking if plugin configuration could support limiting/throttling updates for certain entities?
Good morning,
Hopefully this is a simple request. I believe the title should be self explanatory, but just in case, I'll elaborate.
On the status tab, we all get alerts if a device state has changed (i.e., been removed). This is great, but when I go into the entities tab, I have to either type the name (or a portion thereof) of the device that has been removed, or I need to scroll all the way through my list of devices. This is infrequent, however, yesterday I replaced a failed device in my HAAS environment. It was a Z-Wave switch that is added using the Smart Scan QR code, which normally makes it pretty easy. However, some devices don't get fully added the first time around, so it'll add multiple entries into HAAS until it get's the S2 authentication correct and the device fully included. It did this to me yesterday, and I had to delete the incomplete device from my installation. MSR still saw the entities of that failed/incomplete switch entity, and I was left with 8 alerts and entities that I needed to removed.
It's not a huge problem, but this example was just one switch. If I were to add replace multiple devices at once, this could be a bit more annoying to remove. It would be helpful to be able to filter by removed entities, so I can find them all quickly and delete them. Continuing that train of thought, it would also be useful to have check boxes next to those lines, and perhaps do a select all type of thing so they could be deleted in one mouse click.
@toggledbits I have finally finished up the SSL using Let's Encrypt and am getting this from my local browser:
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I know you said in the docs that using a self-signed could lead to this but this is LE.
Hi @toggledbits,
I don't know if I'm the only one, so I'm reporting here first instead of opening a bug.
Basically, with the latest 2-3 updates of Reactor and MQTTController, after a restart previous statuses are lost (for both Virtual and MQTT entities), until they're restored.
It's particularly annoying for Virtual Entities, because I have to set them all over again (I've coded some defaults at startup if the values are empty, but sometimes these are not the correct values before the update).
Not easy to reproduce, and logs are gone, but the first time I tought it was me hallucinating, the second one didn't bother too much, after the third I realized it's something not coming from me.
the behavior could be seen in this screenshot:
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Any hint is appreciated.
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.I'm slowly migrating all my stuff to MQTT under MSR, so I have a central place to integrate everything (and, in a not-so-distant future, to remove virtual devices from my Vera and leave it running zwave only).
Anyway, here's my reactor-mqtt-contrib package:
Contrib MQTT templates for Reactor. Contribute to dbochicchio/reactor-mqtt-contrib development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simply download yaml files (everything or just the ones you need) and you're good to go.
I have mapped my most useful devices, but I'll add others soon. Feel free to ask for specific templates, since I've worked a lot in the last weeks to understand and operate them.
The templates are supporting both init and query, so you have always up-to-date devices at startup, and the ability to poll them. Online status is supported as well, so you can get disconnected devices with a simple expression.
Many-many thanks to @toggledbits for its dedication, support, and patience with me and my requests 🙂
Good morning,
So Home Assistant decided to change the default weather home format that I've been using for the past year and a half. I had two Global Expressions set up to pull the high and low temp forecast for the day. Now it's pulling null values.
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In the dev tools, it now uses a new service (Weather. get forecasts), plural, where the old Weather.get forecast is depreciated and now longer functions.
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It shows a templow field, and a temperature field, which I presume is the forecast high.
When I head back over to MSR, I'm having a hard time finding those values in the Entities tab.
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wx.asoftime=null wx.ceiling=null wx.ceiling_unit=null wx.cloud_cover=null wx.condition_code=null wx.description="partlycloudy" wx.feels_like=null wx.humidity=57 wx.humidity_unit="%" wx.icon=null wx.location=null wx.precipitation_1hr=null wx.precipitation_24hr=null wx.precipitation_other=null wx.precipitation_type=null wx.precipitation_unit="in" wx.pressure=30 wx.pressure_unit="inHg" wx.temperature=55 wx.temperature_unit="°F" wx.visibility=null wx.visibility_unit="mi" wx.wind_compass=210.3 wx.wind_conditions=null wx.wind_direction="SSW" wx.wind_gust=null wx.wind_speed=6.28 wx.wind_speed_unit="mph" x_hass.domain="weather" x_hass.entity_id="weather.forecast_home" x_hass.services=["weather"] x_hass.state="partlycloudy" x_hass_attr.attribution="Weather forecast from met.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute." x_hass_attr.cloud_coverage=85.9 x_hass_attr.dew_point=40 x_hass_attr.friendly_name="New Windsor Weather" x_hass_attr.humidity=57 x_hass_attr.precipitation_unit="in" x_hass_attr.pressure=30 x_hass_attr.pressure_unit="inHg" x_hass_attr.supported_features=3 x_hass_attr.temperature=55 x_hass_attr.temperature_unit="°F" x_hass_attr.visibility_unit="mi" x_hass_attr.wind_bearing=210.3 x_hass_attr.wind_speed=6.28 x_hass_attr.wind_speed_unit="mph"There is a x_hass_attr.temperature, but that appears to be the current temperature, not the high that I found on the dev tools screenshot.
Any ideas?
Running:
Core
2024.4.3
Supervisor
2024.04.0
Operating System
12.2
Frontend
20240404.2
MSR: latest-24057-e9add9f5
Hey Patrick, I recently have been noticing that MSR has been acting up ie. it's been needing restarts and has been slow. I began trouble shooting by looking at the logs and have noticed the following errors for a lot of entities. I thought maybe a simple reboot of RPi was needed and I kept seeing the same errors in the system logs. I am oddly enough not seeing these same errors in the MSR logs. Where things started getting weird is whenever I rebooted MSR it wouldn't come back online .I would have to restart the RPi then it would come back online. I just restarted MSR again to capture logs and it restarted fine, so I guess its good for now? I think this is more or so a corrupted SD card issue rather a MSR issue but well being troubleshooting from here. The SD card is about 1-2 years old.
Apologies if this post is everywhere, I cannot consistently recreate any oddities that are happening, that's what is leading me to believe my SD is going bad.
PS: If anyone knows how to diagnose a corrupt SD card please chime in.
MSR latest-24057-e9add9f5
Home Assistant 2024.4.3
Raspberry Pi 3b+
This system has been running flawlessly year after year for the time changes twice a year literally since MSR came out so I was caught off-guard when this happened this morning.
Time in MSR browser is EST, time on RPi is local time (DST).
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I've rebooted the RPi I've restarted MSR after double-checking the time on the RPi. Used a completely different browser to eliminate any caching concerns. Double-checked MSR reactor.yamla5f23151-d691-4343-8499-8e77a55528e5-image.png
What am I missing here @toggledbits ?
Hi,
For the standard capabilities MSR sends both a value record and a units record to InfluxDB. The latter I would like not to send as they are not really any use for me and it will reduce the number of records send to my InfluxDB.
Is there a quick way to do this with a filter_entities line like: *>units?
Or do I have to update all capabilities to read like this:
power_sensor:
attributes:
value: true
Cheers Rene
I'm trying to replicate this
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into a MQTT entity where I could set a number with a min and max value.
I can't find a standard capability that fits or any documentation on local MQTT capabilities and the only post on the forum mentioning local MQTT capabilities is this post, is it even possible in current release?
My trial and error work in local_mqtt_capabilities.yaml isn't much to show as it's just a copy of mqtt_capabilities.yaml with changed names and then I got stuck.
Any guidance, examples, documentation, future feature request or denial would be much appreciated, thanks!
Reactor 24057-e9add9f5 bare metal
MQTTController 24050
Hi guys,
I've recently bought a new Govee outdoor permanent lights set, and I love it. WAF is pretty high, and the product is good quality. I hope to never run lights in the front of the house.
This new addition has found me searching for something to control these lights, locally. Govee has officials remote and LAN APIs and Home Assistant has it supported, but some undocumented stuff that's integrated into an Homebridge plugin that seems very promising. Without this plugin, my playlist is orchestrated via the cloud and that makes zero sense.
In the past I got some inspiration from plugins running on other platforms and Homebridge seems one of the most active. I could map its devices via HomeKit-local on HA, but I've decommissioned Homebridge years ago when we settled to Alexa (and I want to stay simple), so I had an idea: why get inspiration and rewrite things, when you could write an Homebridge adapter that could load any Homebridge plugin and run them natively under Reactor (MSR)?
I'm not sure if that's viable or made any sense, so I'm posting here to get feedback, encouragement and your thoughts. Anyone could be potentially interested in such a thing?
Hi- looking for a hint in where to start. My goal is to set a PIN code in a zwave kwikset lock triggered in a rule.
The device isn’t exposing methods to help. The x-hass.call-service looks promising, but what would the service name be?
Plan b would be send the zwave controller a config command- I don’t see any way to explicitly send a command through JS Zwave in my environment.
Running reactor bare metal. JS Zwave is running as an add on inside HASS OS.
Any tips are appreciated.
Hey crew, I'm trying to use MSR to control the RGB values of a Z-Wave bulb in Home Assistant.
Problem I'm running into - I would like to use 'rgb_color.set' to control this, but it doesn't work, instead it always passes the values '255,255,255' to HA no matter what values I enter within MSR.
More notes and examples below - I'm wondering if this is a formatting issue that I'm missing? Thanks for any help!
NOTES FROM TROUBLESHOOTING:
'rgb_color.set_rgb' works successfully, which seems strange. You'd think they would both be affected I've tried a couple different formats, like adding quotes, adding/removing spaces between the RGB values, nothing has fixed it.EXAMPLES:
When I use 'rgb_color.set_rgb', the values successfully carry over to Home Assistant:
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But when I use 'rgb_color.set', the values DO NOT successfully carry over to Home Assistant:
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DETAILS:
Bulb is LZW42 by Inovelli MSR version: stable-23242-5ee8e1d4HA DETAILS
Core 2024.2.5 Supervisor 2024.02.1 Operating System 12.0Hi,
I’m running MSR in a docker container on my Synology Nas. The container is automatically updated using watchtower weekly.
It was working. Now, after the update, Reactor webpage is able to load, and all indications on the webpage suggests that it is working fine. However, the updated statuses from Home Assistant and Vera are not being detected.
The container logs show the following error
Reactor stable-23344-5aad7754 app 23344 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.516Z <app:null> Reactor build stable-23344-5aad7754 starting on v16.15.1 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #69057 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:02:28 CST 2024; locale (undefined) [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.696Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v23172 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.698Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v23331 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.780Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.790Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.794Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.866Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23069 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.030Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.031Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.066Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v23211 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.581Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v23093 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.595Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.600Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v23107 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.614Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.617Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v23339 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.635Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v23058 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.680Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v23172 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.789Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.790Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v23109 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.971Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v23344 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:51.716Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:52.253Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v23331 i18n: missing en-US language string: The version of nodejs you are using ({0}) is now end-of-life, and so is deprecated for use with Reactor. Please upgrade nodejs to {2}.{3} or higher as soon as possible; the current LTS version is recommended. Releases of Reactor produced after {1} will not run under this version of nodejs at all. [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:52.256Z <Controller:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:464:51 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at SystemController._restoreEntities (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:458:36) at new Controller (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:45:42) at new SystemController (/opt/reactor/server/lib/SystemController.js:29:9) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:101:37 Trace: The version of nodejs you are using ({0}) is now end-of-life, and so is deprecated for use with Reactor. Please upgrade nodejs to {2}.{3} or higher as soon as possible; the current LTS version is recommended. Releases of Reactor produced after {1} will not run under this version of nodejs at all. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:468:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:126:25) at /opt/reactor/app.js:381:140 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:59.313Z <app:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at IndividualFileStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/IndividualFileStrategy.js:114:54) at DelayWriteCacheStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/DelayWriteCacheStrategy.js:87:50) at Container.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Container.js:69:67) at Function.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Data.js:37:179) at Rule.getRuleStates (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:507:100) at Rule.getConditionState (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:538:47) at new Rule (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:378:47) at Function.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:387:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:263:53 i18n: missing en-US language string: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. Trace: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:468:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:126:25) at HassController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:197:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1117:370 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)I’ve tried using “latest-amd64” and it does not work either. The logs show similar json input error.
Reactor latest-24057-e9add9f5 app 24052 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.466Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-24057-e9add9f5 starting on v20.10.0 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #69057 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:02:28 CST 2024; locale (undefined) [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.667Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v23172 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.673Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v23331 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.780Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.787Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.791Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.796Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23069 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.811Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.811Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.821Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v23211 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.890Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v23093 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.958Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.027Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.033Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.036Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v24023 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.042Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.216Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.296Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.297Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v24050 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.365Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v24048 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.659Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.668Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v23331 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.673Z <Controller:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:464:51 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at SystemController._restoreEntities (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:458:36) at new Controller (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:45:43) at new SystemController (/opt/reactor/server/lib/SystemController.js:237:9) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:101:37 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:38.845Z <app:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at IndividualFileStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/IndividualFileStrategy.js:51:45) at DelayWriteCacheStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/DelayWriteCacheStrategy.js:89:49) at Container.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Container.js:69:65) at Data.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Data.js:45:179) at Rule.getRuleStates (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:515:101) at Rule.getConditionState (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:546:47) at new Rule (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:371:47) at Rule.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:380:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:828:53 i18n: missing en-US language string: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. Trace: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:614:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:128:25) at HassController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:197:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1133:374 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)How do I fix this?
Noticed right away last night at closing time that the open/close had become inverted with the update to v23326.
It wasn't an awful bit of lift to change all Reactions to reflect the change but it was jarring initially when everything flipped.
Are there release notes on that version, @toggledbits ?
Installing latest-24052-d039d560 and I did a dumb thing: moving too quickly, I deleted package.json instead of package-lock.json because the latter didn't exist.
Ran the installer script - but in the wrong directory so I moved package.json manually.
Everything has come back EXCEPT for my MQTT Cloud OwnTracks entities. They're erroring because of this:
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(Don't heckle my folder structure - it's run this way for three years)
reactor.yaml is fine, all MQTT configs exactly as they should be.
The folder mqtt_templates is present:
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The file it says is "unreadable" is present and hasn't changed (today's date is the Changed date because I did a quick nonsense edit to see that it was not corrupted in some way).
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The logs show:
[latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.320Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_cfg, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_mfg_spec, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_ver, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.322Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_values, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.323Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded zwavejs capabilities ver 23194 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.338Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded implementation data ver 23254 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.339Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.345Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. 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[SOLVED] Random ghosting of lights when Away
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When using Vera I made use of Deus Ex Machina II after Patrick took it over. Worked brilliantly for ghosting lights on and off when I was away.
Now that my devices are migrated to Hubitat I can't make use of DEMII.
Any thoughts on how to replicate this randomness with two or three lights in MSR?
Solved here: https://smarthome.community/post/8204
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Pretty easy to do with lights to be controlled in an array and a couple of rules to figure out (a) when to be enabled, (b) toggle a randomly-selected light from the array and delay a random time; (c) figure out when transitioning from enabled to disabled and turn off all the lights in the array. That's basically the guts of DEMII.
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@toggledbits Here's a prototype for "Reactor Ex Machina"...
Lights to be cycled are placed in a global expression like this:
This is the "Cycler". It triggers when a variable it owns called
cycler_stim
changes (and is non-zero, which is the resting/deactivated state value).When the cycler is "stimulated", it picks a random device from
REM_lights
and toggles it. Then it goes into a random delay between 10 and 30 minutes, after which it incrementscycler_stim
, effectively stimulating itself (for lack of a better description) and the cycle begins again.This is the "activate" rule. It determines when light cycling should start. It just sets
cycler_stim
to 1, and the Cycler will automatically start going.This is the "deactivate" rule; it determines when cycling should stop. Depending on the complexity of your activate/deactivate rules, you could also do this in the reset reaction of Activate. It sets
cycler_stim
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@librasun This is good to know - I tend to try and keep as much as possible within MSR. Yes, it makes it a SPOF, but it's also better than chasing down troubleshooting in multiple places.
That being said... I do have some things like TV on/off, Night mode on, that are convenience things that ultimately drive back to the root HA system running from within Alexa devices.
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@toggledbits Going to ask a really dumb question: how do I create a variable to use in
Set Variable
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@gwp1 said in Random ghosting of lights when Away:
@toggledbits Going to ask a really dumb question: how do I create a variable to use in
Set Variable
?In MSR, you have two choices. #1 - Create a new Global Expression under (you guessed it) "Global Expressions" on the left-hand menu. #2 - Within any Rule, scroll down to the bottom and click to expand the Expressions pane; there, you can click
[+Add Expression]
. Just type its name (variable names are case-sensitive!), then tab or click into its definition window to begin creating an expression. -
@toggledbits some quick questions about the new
performAction ( )
construct you've just presented:- Will there be a "Builder" button to help create these expressions in the same way
getEntity
currently does? - Is the semicolon
;
a one-for-one alternative to comma,
as a separator in multi-part expressions? or only when used as a terminator foreach
blocks? - Why did you elect to place that
[Set Variable]
sequence inside a separate rule's Set Reaction, rather than have it inside the Reset Reaction of "Active Period". - Any documentation available at this stage for
performAction ( )
showing what the optional{ }
parameters can do?
This is clearly powerful mojo you've just unleashed. And your implementation example takes us into
while
/do
territory without explicitly introducing alabel
/loop
orrepeat
element.(But your example does have me wondering whether "Condition Options" for Triggers and Group Constraints should offer "Randomize" drop-downs in "Pulse" for Output Control?)
e.g. output goes true for [fixed/random] __ (to __) seconds [once/repeat] after [fixed/random] __ (to __) seconds, up to __ times
Thoughts?
- Will there be a "Builder" button to help create these expressions in the same way
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- This is a tough one; which is to say, I'm developing a tough stance around the expressions in general. I'm more likely to remove the existing builder for 1.0. Expressions are an advanced user feature, and putting training wheels around what is really two simple core concepts that are foundational for an MSR user to understand in the system (i.e. how to identify a device and how to pick an attribute from it) isn't helpful in my view. In fact, your earlier suggestion of a full point-and-click expression builder actually set off alarm bells in my head and has pretty much cemented for me where expressions live in this ecosystem. As/if MSR is used by more people, I will be looking at how expressions are used and why, and trying to find ways to address those needs with conditions and actions instead, so that the need for expressions is reduced to the minimum (i.e. make more powerful tools available in the simpler interface, rather than growing the power of the most complex interface). I'm also not afraid to decide that not every automation problem needs an MSR solution. At least for version 1.0, I'm feeling just at or slightly over the limit of what I'm willing to do with expressions until I get more users and more perspective.
- Semicolon and comma are treated the same in lexpjs.
- Which one?
- Yes. Start at the "Manual" link in the left nav, go to Creating Automations, then Expressions.
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@toggledbits said in Random ghosting of lights when Away:
Which one?
I was referring to the placement of the "Reset to 0" action inside of a "Deactivate" rule (see https://smarthome.community/post/7946) rather than just resetting the variable in the Reset reaction of "Active Period" (since I believe, perhaps wrongly?, that the same thing would be accomplished either way).
As for the "Builder", it was just my natural response to an inner dialogue I had upon first seeing
performAction ()
... namely, "How will I ever remember the function 'performAction'?" and "How am I going to keep its syntax straight between uses?" and "What are the myriad valid actions it can perform on a given device?"Such a powerful tool! But chances are, without a Builder, I just would avoid it entirely because I can't keep all that in my mind. Just like I currently use the "Expression Builder" of Reactor for Luup and its counterpart in MSR every single time.
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@librasun As I said, it depends on the complexity of your activation and deactivation. I made them separate because I think that's a more general approach -- not all "not activate" means "deactivate". But for sure, it can be done just in Activate if that is implied.
@librasun said in Random ghosting of lights when Away:
As for the "Builder", it was just my natural response to an inner dialogue I had upon first seeing performAction ()... namely, "How will I ever remember the function 'performAction'?" and "How am I going to keep its syntax straight between uses?" and "What are the myriad valid actions it can perform on a given device?"
Such a powerful tool! But chances are, without a Builder, I just would avoid it entirely because I can't keep all that in my mind. Just like I currently use the "Expression Builder" of Reactor for Luup and its counterpart in MSR every single time.If everybody thought like this, none of us would be here because nobody would use any API and none of these tools or systems would exist. I do not expect users to get through using expressions at all without referring to the documentation from time to time. The R4V "getstate" tool is not an expression builder, it just handles that one function, as does the analogous tool in MSR. But expanding on that seems folly to me, and the more expansive, the more folly. It's anathema to the complexity of the feature (expressions), IMO.
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@toggledbits Agreed. I accept my limitations here, too, just as I have for the past 40 years when attempting to write computer programs. (Ironic, since I taught Applesoft BASIC and LOGO to hundreds of kids in the 1980s.)
For me, composing things like Regex matches, Javascript/Google Apps Script macros, PUT requests, and more generally API calls with code -- even rudimentary Linux commands at the prompt -- means hours of Googling, reading docs, and/or hunting up examples.
So long as we teamwork those MSR docs into something brimming with Pro Tips and Working Examples, I (and 99.9% of users) will be fine. But coming up with Expressions from scratch, on-the-fly with weeks/months between visits to the UI will remain challenging, by design, as you rightly point out.
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That's another reason I really want to see how they get used and what opportunities are possible to add rule or reaction features to alleviate the need. Those interfaces more or less put the options in front of you -- they are Reactor/MSR's expression builders.
On a related note, anecdote: in the late 90s/early 2Ks, I was a Perl power user, big time. Maybe half of my projects and output were Perl at that time. Then tides shifted and until just a few days ago, I had not touched Perl. But I had a file-handling task that was tailor-made for Perl, so I dove in. What a mess. What would have taken me a half hour 20 years ago took me hours that day, much of it Google-searching. C'est la vie.
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@toggledbits Given your affinity for logic charts and equivalences, I think it bears asking at this juncture: What can
performAction()
do that a carefully-iterated Set/Reset Action cannot?After all, if a user can already set up a device array, use Expressions to advance its index step-wise, and loop (or call) a Rule (or Reaction) repeatedly based on Conditions... is there a particular use-case where
performAction()
simplifies things or enables something otherwise impossible?Please show me to the door if I've overstayed my welcome on this topic.
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I'll answer a question with a question: what would the Cycler rule look like without
performAction()
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Here's a naive stab at one solution. It uses a single expression to decide which of N "channels" will get toggled on the next cycle.
The rule itself runs so long as the Trigger condition remains
TRUE
. For testing purposes, I have it set to Pulse true for 5 seconds and repeat every 10 seconds, but the 'Repeat' interval would normally be much longer as in your example, above.Since the 'Reset' reaction would normally engage after each Pulse, I included a Group Constraint to check whether my Trigger condition (in this case, the Fireplace light being ON) has gone
FALSE
. Only then will the ghost lights all be turned OFF.The fun part in between happens in the 'Set' reaction, comprising 3 groups (one for each "channel"):
As should be clear here, I was forced to "hard wire" my selection of ghost lights by naming them explicitly within each Reaction. This illustrates just how convenient the new
performAction()
function is, allowing enumeration of an arbitrary (and easily editable) set of ghost lights listed within a single array as with your example.Unquestionably,
performAction()
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To answer my own question about, "How do you find which Actions a particular device can do using
performAction()
?"The answer is: ENTITIES
Go to the left menu, click Entities, scroll down or filter to find the specific device or class of devices, pick a device and then scroll down to its list of "Actions". There, you will find all possible arguments for
performAction()
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@toggledbits I know you made a conscious decision that
performAction()
should returnnull
, but would you consider having it return an object of the form:{device: "vera>device_138", action: "power_switch.off", parameters: {<parameters>}, time: 1620912239172}
instead? I'd find this useful in troubleshooting Rules, especially those using enumeration as in the above examples, without having to resort to Log inspection every time.
- Libra