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.
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.That's probably more appropriate to post on Mantis for @toggledbits, but since I know there's at least @Crille publishing templates, my intent with this post is to open a broader discussion.
Long story short: I'm starting to slowly add new template for Shelly Plus and I noticed I'll end up with a dozen more templates, all similar but simply different in trivial details, all sharing a large amount of code and all needing special cares when fixing bugs/adding features (as the latest wifi_status addition).
So, I'm wondering if it's time to start thinking of some sort of inheritance in templates, where I could just create a generic shelly_gen1 and use it as a base for shelly_relay, and this be used as the base for shelly_relay_power and so on.
I could probably achieve this with some sort of scripting on my side to generate templates via code, but maybe there's a better way of doing this, or it's already on the radar.
Good morning,
I'm running userauth-24137-57b41335 on Fedora 39, bare metal installation.
ZWaveJSController 0.1.23254
Home Assistant:
Core, 2024.5.3 Supervisor, 2024.05.1 Operating System, 12.3 Frontend, 20240501.1I'm trying to troubleshoot a Dynamic Group Controller and notification alert that I've set up for low battery level.
In my Reactor.config, I have the following lines:
name: "Dynamic Group Controller" implementation: DynamicGroupController config: groups: "zwavejs_dead": select: - include_group: "zwavejs" filter_expression: "entity?.attributes?.zwave_device?.status == 3" group_actions: true "low_battery": select: - include_capability: battery_power filter_expression: > entity.attributes.battery_power.level < 0.35The idea here is that I should only have members of this group that have a battery level below 35%. When I go into Entities, I show a whole slew of devices, none of which have a battery level below the threshold.
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I also tried setting up a rule to generate a push notification once a day, but with all of the group members, I've had to disable the rule. I believe I have it set up correctly, but I'm not 100% sure. I want the notification to tell me the battery level for that device as well.
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Can anyone point to me what I may have misconfigured to get these results?
I should also note I'm only interested in ZWaveJS devices. It's showing me battery status for my iPad and car as well, which I don't need it to send me.
I have a case where I'm trying to send a MQTT message similar to the example below:
Topic: pool/set { "command": 4, "value": 1, "time": 0, "interval": 0 }But I need to set "value" so that it is an integer between 20-30. I thought I could use "dimming" capability here, but there's probably a better way. @therealdb ?
(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.
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 12.0TTS in MSR?
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Hi!
In Home Assistant I sometimes uses the TTS, either to my Sonos or Google speakers. With reactor in Vera I also use TTS.
But in MSR I can't select the TTS-service. It's simply not there. Am I missing something, or is this the case, so far?
Thanks!
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In MSR, try the following action (assuming you have the Sonos_TTS plug-in running on Vera):
[ Entity Action ] [ Sonos device ] [ x_vera_svc_micasaverde_com_Sonos1.say ] where these fields are all (mostly) optional: Text:, Language:, Engine: [AZURE], Volume:, SameVolumeForAll:, GroupDevices:, GroupZones:, Chime:, Repeat:, UnMute:, UseCache:
Hope I'm pointing you in the right direction, as that's what I see in my (only) rule that produces TTS output.
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Home Assistant does not enumerate the full list of services supported by a device in any of its APIs. It's a bit of a hole (but not unusual -- Hubitat is the same).
You can tell MSR that a device supports a service by creating a file
local_hass_devices.yaml
with contents similar to the following (modify the entity ID as needed):# This file has local definitions for HomeAssistant devices. entities: # This media player is a Sonos device, so it supports the Hass "tts" service "hass>media_player_portable": services: - tts
Remember YAML indenting is done with spaces, not tabs; two spaces per level. Use yamlchecker.com for check/diagnostics.
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@toggledbits That worked as a charm!
A new question; I send the TTS-message to a Nest smart display. Is it possible to have the text visible on the screen? Or even a selected picture? Maybe that's to much... But it would still be cool!Thanks for giving me the TTS option!
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@toggledbits, I wounder if it's possible to use the "PlayURI" command, as in the Reactor in Vera. The aim is to play a certain Sonos playlist. My Sonos is visible both as a Vera integration and a HA integration. The Vera integration shows up as an option, but doesn't work. The HA integration don't seem to have that option in MSR. I tried to add it using the same method as you descriped above, but that didn't work. Do you know how to fix this?
Best regards,
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For Hass, the
x_hass_media_player.play_media
action is the one to use, but the parameters are platform (Sonos) dependent and you need to figure them out. The Hass documentation for the Sonos component has some information, but it's anything but user-friendly. Google is your friend.For Hubitat, I've never had any luck getting Sonos to play queues, even from the Hubitat's own UI.
I will say, this is a reflection of how much the Sonos plugin on Vera simplifies the use of the zone player, because the Hass and Hubitat interfaces are pretty raw/low-level, and Sonos is complex.
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@toggledbits And in Hubitat?
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I think I answered that.
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This news just in from Microsoft:
"Thanks for using Azure Text-to-Speech. We would like to share the great news that we have recently released 12 new regions. We also released neural Text-to-Speech in 10 more languages, a new neural voice (Jenny Multilingual) that speaks 14 languages, 11 more neural voices in American English and 5 more neural voices in Chinese. When using neural voice, synthesized speech is nearly indistinguishable from human recordings."
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@librasun . I'm trying to add Microsofts TTS service, but it doesn't work. I got a API key and everything. Still doesn't work. My aim is to use a swedish neural voice instead of Googles voices. Is it working for you?
EDIT: I got it working! The neural voices don't support my region, so I had to change the region (created a new service), when I was logged in at Azure.
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I am trying to enable MSR TTS on Google home devices. I found the local_hass_devices.yaml file already existed with the above example.
So in the true spirit of cutting and pasting while not knowing what I am doing I ended up with the following file:# This file has local definitions for HomeAssistant devices. --- entities: # Entry shows how an entity can have a service added and its name forced "hass>sensor_connected_clients": name: "WebSocket Clients" services: - homeassistant # Sample Sonos device, add the Hass "tts" service for text-to-speech capability "hass>media_player_sonos_living_room": service: - tts # Sample Sonos device, add the Hass "tts" service for text-to-speech capability "hass>media_player.family_room_speaker": service: - tts
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What you've done here (correct approach, one little error, see below) is declare that those two
media_player
devices have thetts
service as an additional declared service. That will cause MSR to bring in the attributes and actions of that service as supported for the device.Hass doesn't publish what Hass services a Hass entity supports through its API. The only service that can be known for certain is the one that is part of the Hass entity ID (e.g. the Hass entity ID
media_player.family_room_speaker
tells you that it will support themedia_player
service). Any other supported services (liketts
) aren't enumerated by the API, sadly (in a few cases, they can be inferred as related in a bit mask, but this is an extension and highly implementation/component dependent, not consistent at all, but I try to pick this up when known). This manual way of connecting additional services/capabilities to the entities is the best I could do at the moment.Other things you can do in this file are override the name of the device (by supplying
name: "myoverridename"
at the same indent level asservice:
), and change the primary attribute (primary_attribute: "servicename.attributename"
). When setting/overriding the primary attribute, the service must be supported by the device (so known by the device ID or added viaservices:
in this file).One small correction, though: the canonical ID for the third entry
hass>media_player.family_room_speaker
-- the dot (.
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Picking up on my old thread. I just got Alexa working with tts in Home Assistant. Is it possible to get it to work with MSR as well? I added the speakers to my local_hass_devices.yaml, and then I got the same tts options as with google speakers. But that don't work for sending tts messages. In HA I have to add "Type: tts" for it to work. I also don't see the native Alexa voice as an option, only the same as the google speakers. It's not a personal big deal, but would be a fun and maybe useful feature in the future.
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Let me play around with this a bit. You can add the
notify
service to the entity (have you done this?), but I'm not sure about the rest of the parameters. Some are tricky. But I want to get something like this going in my house, so good excuse to figure it out... -
@toggledbits said in TTS in MSR?:
You can add the notify service to the entity (have you done this?)
@toggledbits No, I haven't used the notify service. I might give it a try later this week. If you (or anyone else) figure it out, please share!
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@fanan Per this topic https://smarthome.community/topic/744/sending-a-service-request-to-home-assistant?_=1638829172919 I couldn't get Alexa tts to work in MSR, but I do have it working in openLuup with the following code that sits inside a simple plugin:
myEchoDevice = "alexa_media_".. myEchoDevice myEchoMessage = table.concat(myEchoMessage) local request_body = json.encode {message = myEchoMessage, data = {["type"] = "announce",method = "all"}} local response_body = {} local theURL = 'http://'..HomeAssistantIP..':'..HomeAssistantPort..'/api/services/notify/'..myEchoDevice r, c, h = http.request { url = theURL, method = "POST", headers = { ["Content-Type"] = "application/json", ["Authorization"] = "Bearer ".. HomeAssistantToken, ["Content-Length"] = request_body:len() }, source = ltn12.source.string(request_body), sink = ltn12.sink.table(response_body) }
The variable "myEchoDevice" is the exact name of the specific echo device (or device group) as presented in the Amazon Alexa app. I typically broadcast to all my devices via a group, intercom style, so I catch the message wherever I am in my home. The variable "HomeAssistantToken" needs to be created in HA. "myEchoMessage "is a lua table in the above code, but you could just as easily capture the message as a string, and then trim the string prior to sending it to the HTTP post request.