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    (Last Updated: May 30, 2021)

    • Ways to identify and calculate energy usage (watts) ?

      parkerc

      Hi all

      I’ve been on a mission for a while now to try and track down where all the energy we use is going (so I can explain the exorbitantly high electricity bill !) .

      I’ve done a few posts on this subject already, see below..

      https://smarthome.community/topic/534/unifi-energy-report-how-can-i-retrieve-the-value-via-http/6 https://smarthome.community/topic/584/luup-hue-energy-watts-calculator/17?_=1623603224863

      Plus I’ve got various energy meter plugs around the house to help me too, but when compared to my CurrentCost (whole house) energy meter, I’m still unable to account for 200+ watts when i believe everything of note are switch off (so no dishwasher, no washing machine running etc.)

      Tracked items so far include.. Media Centre (TV/NAS etc.), Office Desk (Laptop/PC/Monitor etc.), Hue Lights, Fridge…

      What items/devices could I be missing ? What else could i create a pseudo energy (watts) calculations for ?

      For example (2), I‘ve got a couple of Sonos Music players, which are always on, so I’m thinking as they are a media device that report their status, i can calculate a pause/stop watts rating vs a play rating..

      Any thoughts on what the missing power hungry items are in a normal house, and/or any new pseudo watt calculator ideas?

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    • Homer Dashboard - Vera/OpenLuup

      parkerc

      Hi all

      I’ve recently started to build out my own ‘Homer’ dashboard (https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer) and I must admit I really like what it’s given me.

      Thinking about future use-cases. I can see potential for this being an alternative (albeit simple ) UI for Vera/OpenLuup..

      Is anyone else using Homer ?

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    • Alexa TTS is sloooooooow

      CatmanV2

      Morning, gurus. Hope all is well.

      Recently some of my voice activated actions have felt very laggy. Digging into it reveals that it's not the action that's slow, but the response from Alexa, To test I ran a simple speak from Reactor by pressing the 'play' button and there's a 10+ second lag between the command being queued and the voice confirmation in Alexa.

      While this is not critical in terms of operation it is making some of my activities with multiple voice feedbacks take enough time to think stuff is broken 🙂

      Quick log snippet (which I hope is enough shows the lag:

      2021-05-28 09:46:43.371 openLuup.server:: POST /data_request HTTP/1.1 tcp{client}: 0x55fc83df7e28 2021-05-28 09:46:43.372 luup.call_action:: 22.urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1.Say 2021-05-28 09:46:43.373 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa: addToQueue: added to queue for 22 2021-05-28 09:46:43.373 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(addToQueue@226): addToQueue: before: 0 2021-05-28 09:46:43.373 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(addToQueue@243): addToQueue: after: 1 2021-05-28 09:46:43.374 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(checkQueue@200): checkQueue: 22 - 1 in queue 2021-05-28 09:46:43.374 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(checkQueue@208): checkQueue: 22 - play next 2021-05-28 09:46:43.374 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","OneTimePassCode","",22) old value "" 2021-05-28 09:46:43.374 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(sayTTS@313): Executing command [TTS]: "-e speak:'<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" />' -d \"Everywhere\"" 2021-05-28 09:46:54.309 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HaDevice1","CommFailure","0",22) old value "0" 2021-05-28 09:46:54.309 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","LatestResponse","sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI",22) old value "sending cmd:speak:<s>Sonic Deadline is down</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI" 2021-05-28 09:46:54.309 luup.variable_set:: 22.urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1.LatestResponse was: sending cmd:speak:<s>Sonic Deadline is down</s><break time="0s" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3... now: sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time="0s" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3... #hooks:0 2021-05-28 09:46:54.309 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(nil@270): Response from Alexa.sh: "sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI" 2021-05-28 09:46:54.310 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(sayTTS@327): Queue will be checked again in "3" secs

      Any ideas on cause / troubleshooting / resolution?

      TIA

      C

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    • Security exposure with internet connected homes

      rafale77

      I am a pretty active forum user over on the QNAP forum and there has been a number of viral threads there and on reddit about the spread of ransomware on these NAS.

      I wanted to post here to say that this is a fresh reminder to be very cautious with the current state of the affair when it comes to smarthomes and the trend towards IOT we are observing from all these companies attempting to make our homes cloud dependent, opening so called "secure tunnels" to their servers which can turn into very real exposures to your LAN (home network).

      In order to mitigate it, QNAP released a firmware which now has autoupdate enabled by default (reminds me one other company...) and IMHO is the climax of absurdity but in fact when I come to think about it is how the amazon echos and ecobees work for example without even offering the ability to disable.

      I am in no way a security expert but have had enough exposure and interest about it to recommend using a real firewall for your home network to block these backdoors if you have a smarthome and avoid these cloud oriented platforms and devices as if they were COVID.

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    • Alexa TTS troubleshooting

      CatmanV2

      Evening (at least here)
      Alexa TTS has suddenly stopped here (mid afternoon)
      Normally I'd replace the cookie.
      When I went to the domain, I was forced to change my password. Did that and exported the cookie. But still no voice.
      I can't see anything at all in the logs:

      2021-02-12 18:05:02.869 luup_log:0: ALTUI: runLua(local GardenTemp = math.floor(0.5+luup.variable_get("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1", "CurrentTemperature", 20415)) luup.call_action("urn:dlna-org:serviceId:DLNAMediaController1", "Say", {Text="The temperature outside is" ..GardenTemp.. "degrees.",Volume=40,GroupZones="Everywhere"}, 22)) 2021-02-12 18:05:02.870 luup.call_action:: 22.urn:dlna-org:serviceId:DLNAMediaController1.Say 2021-02-12 18:05:02.870 luup_log:22: VeraAlexa: addToQueue: added to queue for 22 2021-02-12 18:05:04.035 luup_log:0: ALTUI: Evaluation of lua code returned: nil

      But I'm sure I need to look somewhere else and damned if I can recall where. Someone give me a pointer?

      TIA

      C

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    • Arduino to make a weather station

      CatmanV2

      Sorry, just had to...

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    • CORE by Oh-La LABS

      Elcid

      Hi came across this thought it may be worth discussing.

      CORE by Oh-La LABS: Home Automation. Done Right. Just lauched their kick starter
      https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/core-by-oh-la-labs-home-automation-done-right#/

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    • SNMP - Is anyone leveraging info via the Simple Network Management Protocol ?

      parkerc

      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....
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    • MQTT – setup and use

      akbooer

      General discussion on all things MQTT.

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    • How do you post images on this forum from a smart device?

      parkerc

      Hi,

      Is there a guide somewhere on how to submit images/attachments from a smart device ?

      As someone who accesses this forum from an iPad/iPhone, I don’t have the ability to drag / drop images into any posts.

      What are other people doing (who are not using a traditional PC/MAC) ?

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    • New Ezlo Web GUI now in "beta"

      cw-kid

      Ezlo have made an announcement about their new web GUI.

      Apr 26 EZLO WEB UI in Beta EZLO WEB UI in Beta

      Ezlo WEB UI Beta release notes: We are releasing ability to do backup of all user data for Linux controllers with Ezlo WEB UI. It will be possible to: Create a backup. Restore from the backup Have the visibility for backup creation progress Settings Ezlo mobile apps already have support for...

      Its very alpha however. Hopefully their dev's can get it in to shape and add our feature requests ?

      Can you banned guys still see the screen shots on the threads?

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    • UniFi Energy Report - How can I retrieve the value via http ?

      parkerc

      Hi,

      I have a piece of code that returns the Watts used by all the PoE devices on my home network. I’m trying to set it up on Vera so that can retrieve that value in a similar way I would retrieve a Vera variable via a http request.

      The function works returns the total value when run via LuaTest, but when I try to retrieve it via luup.register_ handler, for some reason it returns the entire UniFi json file ??

      Please could some help me with what’s wrong, my goal is to be able to retrieve the value , like an api so I can use it elsewhere ..

      luup.register_handler("UnifiControllerPoE","UnifiWatts") function UnifiControllerPoE() local unifi_username = "unifi" local unifi_password = "unifi" local unifi_controller_ip = "192.168.1.207" local unifi_controller_port = "8443" local cookie = "/tmp/unifi_cookie_lua" -- Temp cookie file local tempfilename = "/tmp/UnifiController.tmp" -- Temp JSON output file local device = 'api/s/default/stat/device' local f = io.popen("stat -c %Y " .. tempfilename) local last_modified = f:read() --if (os.difftime (os.time(), last_modified) > 30) then -- URL for logging in, query and logging out url_login = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure -H \'Content-Type: application/json\' -X POST -d \'{"password":"' .. unifi_password .. '","username":"' .. unifi_username .. '"}\' https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/api/login' url_open = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure -s -o '..tempfilename..' --data "json={}" https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/' ..device url_logout = 'curl --cookie ' .. cookie .. ' --cookie-jar ' .. cookie .. ' --insecure https://' .. unifi_controller_ip .. ':' .. unifi_controller_port .. '/logout' -- Execute url -- Execute url read_login = os.execute(url_login) read_open = os.execute(url_open) read_logout = os.execute(url_logout) --end local line local file = io.open(tempfilename, "r") if file then line = file:read("*a") file:close() end return line end --print(UnifiController()) local readings = {} local total = 0 local json = require "dkjson" local u = json.decode( UnifiControllerPoE() ) --print('\n') for key,value in ipairs( u.data ) do for n, p in ipairs( value.port_table ) do --print('\t'.. tostring(p.port_idx), p.poe_enable, tonumber(p.poe_power)) -- print(p.port_idx) table.insert( readings, { value.name, tonumber(p.poe_power)}) -- populate readings table end end for _, reading in ipairs(readings) do local Variable = reading[1] local Value = reading[2] or 0 total = total + Value if Value ~= 0 then --print(Variable.. " - ".. Value, total) end end print("Total watts = " ..total) local html = "<html><head>" .. "</head>" .. "<body>" .. "<b>" .. tostring(total) .. '</b>' .. "</body></html>" return html, "text/html"
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    • Caller ID in HA workflow

      LibraSun

      Has anyone successfully incorporated incoming call(er) information** within an automation workflow?

      I'm talking about having Alexa speak out the name and/or phone number of a caller, or activating a routine/scene based on that info.

      Always been a dream of mine. Wouldn't know how to achieve it! Do they make an Ethernet/WiFi-connected CallerID box?

      **from a LANDLINE, not a MOBILE PHONE (although in the case of my Google Voice #, both lines ring, and if my smartphone is home and turned on, I could see invoking Tasker somehow)

      REFERENCES:

      NCID - Network Caller ID

      [Please file under proper category, as you see fit]

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    • Would you use a self-hosted geofencing solution?

      toggledbits

      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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    • Apple Homepod mini

      rafale77

      After having optimized my video processing integration of 8 cameras into my openLuup based automation, I have been wondering what I could possibly improve on my setup. Instead of pestering @akbooer with petty localized console optimizations I am looking at these Apple Homepod minis as a potential improvement from my alexa based voice command system. openLuup is presently already bridged to both platforms using habridge and homekitbridge.

      I am seeing two issues with Alexa:

      Speed. The cloud processing of the voice commands takes ~1s (I don't use anything cloud to cloud) and I would really prefer it to be local. These devices can go a bit crazy when they lose DNS connections and sometimes do random things. Privacy because all the recordings go to the amazon cloud all the time.

      I have been exploring open source solutions for this but I would lose the benefit of optionally being able to go to the cloud for search information.

      The downside of the homepods are that siri is not nearly as good in terms of helpfulness as alexa at this point. They also don't have a version with a screen which I found to be very useful at a couple of locations on the other hand, the sound quality of the homepod minis seem to be better than the echos...

      What do you guys think?

      This thread from longtime vera user @dJOS inspired me

      Feb 4 Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOW Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOW

      Howdy all, I got a HomePod Mini very recently for my study (the audio quality is great and hand-off is magical) and to replace my iPad as the main HomeKit controller for my house (we use HomeKit mainly for Presence detection which is IMO best in class). We also have a dozen Amazon Echo's of...

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    • Recover an ‘assumed bricked’ Vera Secure

      parkerc

      Hi

      Go with me here... I recently pick up a unresponsive Vera Secure from eBay for next to nothing, thinking I’d could have a go at trying to restore it, if only as a play thing..

      Situation - The power led comes on, but the internet and service leds just flash - no connection made (and even using a direct cable and Wireshark, I can’t see an arp request being made to see if it has a default in address) - I’ve also tried various reset button combinations - no luck.

      Perhaps this post is a long shot, but seeing so many familiar ex Micasaverde/Vera forum names - i thought I’d at least ask - just in case anyone had any guidance/advice etc. I could use ..

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    • ubiquiti breach

      rafale77
      Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

      On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who...

      Reposting an article I got from a reddit thread.
      I won't stop advocating against cloud dependence and unnecessary cloud reliance especially in the field of smarthomes.
      I divested from a fairly large ubiquiti unifi system almost a year ago and I never connected my controller to their cloud service but as some may have sensed, it was a direction they were going towards. What got me off of it actually was the large disparity in product performance and a decreasing trust in the company with large amount of dubious advertising, inconsistent products for some of which the hardware could obviously not meet the marketing promises.

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    • Easy way to convert to SSD from SD card on Pi with MSR

      M

      So have been migrating a bunch of automations to MSR from Hubitat and no I feel like I want to have an SSD instead of SD card on my Pi3.What is an Easy way to convert to SSD from SD card on Pi with MSR. What files do I need to copy to keep my rules?

      /Mattias

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    • Vera watch variable / startup LUA how ?

      cw-kid

      I want to set something up natively if possible on Vera, so a virtual motion sensor device is tripped / not tripped by following the tripped variable state of a real device.

      This LUA code works if I run it manually but I don't know how to have this running all the time and watching for that "tripped" variable to change ?

      local istripped = luup.variable_get("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", 100) --Real Device luup.variable_set("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", istripped,101) --Virtual Motion Sensor Device return true

      How do you add something like this in to Vera's startup LUA feature ?

      Thanks

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    • CatmanV2
      CatmanV2 last edited by

      Morning, gurus. Hope all is well.

      Recently some of my voice activated actions have felt very laggy. Digging into it reveals that it's not the action that's slow, but the response from Alexa, To test I ran a simple speak from Reactor by pressing the 'play' button and there's a 10+ second lag between the command being queued and the voice confirmation in Alexa.

      While this is not critical in terms of operation it is making some of my activities with multiple voice feedbacks take enough time to think stuff is broken 🙂

      Quick log snippet (which I hope is enough shows the lag:

      2021-05-28 09:46:43.371   openLuup.server:: POST /data_request HTTP/1.1 tcp{client}: 0x55fc83df7e28
2021-05-28 09:46:43.372   luup.call_action:: 22.urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1.Say 
2021-05-28 09:46:43.373   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa: addToQueue: added to queue for 22
2021-05-28 09:46:43.373   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(addToQueue@226): addToQueue: before: 0
2021-05-28 09:46:43.373   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(addToQueue@243): addToQueue: after: 1
2021-05-28 09:46:43.374   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(checkQueue@200): checkQueue: 22 - 1 in queue
2021-05-28 09:46:43.374   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(checkQueue@208): checkQueue: 22 - play next
2021-05-28 09:46:43.374   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","OneTimePassCode","",22) old value ""
2021-05-28 09:46:43.374   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(sayTTS@313): Executing command [TTS]: "-e speak:'<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" />' -d \"Everywhere\""
2021-05-28 09:46:54.309   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HaDevice1","CommFailure","0",22) old value "0"
2021-05-28 09:46:54.309   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(setVar@115): setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","LatestResponse","sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI",22) old value "sending cmd:speak:<s>Sonic Deadline is down</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI"
2021-05-28 09:46:54.309   luup.variable_set:: 22.urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1.LatestResponse was: sending cmd:speak:<s>Sonic Deadline is down</s><break time="0s" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3... now: sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time="0s" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3... #hooks:0
2021-05-28 09:46:54.309   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(nil@270): Response from Alexa.sh: "sending cmd:speak:<s>Sirens would be firing</s><break time=\"0s\" /> to dev:Everywhere type:A3C9PE6TNYLTCH serial:de3b4a21ca844817bc180e826e636425 customerid:A1CVTZEBJIUFJI"
2021-05-28 09:46:54.310   luup_log:22: VeraAlexa(sayTTS@327): Queue will be checked again in "3" secs

      Any ideas on cause / troubleshooting / resolution?

      TIA

      C

      The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....

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      • rafale77
        rafale77 last edited by

        If you haven't changed anything in your setup, I am guessing it is some random lag in the cloud? I don't believe you want me to get on my soap box and recommend my local approach... 😆

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        • CatmanV2
          CatmanV2 @rafale77 last edited by

          @rafale77 said in Alexa TTS is sloooooooow:

          If you haven't changed anything in your setup, I am guessing it is some random lag in the cloud? I don't believe you want me to get on my soap box and recommend my local approach... 😆

          Nope, that's good :). That was my feeling as well, but to be clear this is NOT Alexa executing commands, that's still real quick. This is only TTS via Alexa. Which makes it a little more confusing.

          However, does Google home do local TTS as well?

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          • rafale77
            rafale77 last edited by rafale77

            Google?? Nahh nothing will really be local with Google. It goes against their personal data collection business model. Our data on their cloud is their primary source of revenue. My approach to TTS has been to use the "say" command built in macOS from my desktop and sends it to my sonos speakers. I run a little node.js server which offers an http API which openLuup uses as I wrote a tiny function in the startup lua. It works without the hands (I mean the internet) and is instantaneous.

            rafale77/node-sonos-http-api

            rafale77/node-sonos-http-api

            An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar. - rafale77/node-sonos-http-api

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            • CatmanV2
              CatmanV2 last edited by

              Sure someone had done some analysis. Maybe it was Homekit.....

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              • LibraSun
                LibraSun last edited by

                @toggledbits , any chance at all that MSR could one day gain a TTS-like facility on board? At least to the point that MP3 files could be stored in /storage/tts awaiting a "Play" command of some sort. I'm sure doing literal TTS locally is too big an ask, but gosh... what wouldn't we all give to gain at least some freedom from the cloud-based likes of Azure, Alexa, etc.

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                • rafale77
                  rafale77 last edited by rafale77

                  Actually I somewhat did this for myself watching traffic going through my local DNS (pihole) and firewall. I started doing this because of the recent QNAP ransomware attacks leading me to deploy more drastic DPI and IPS reporting. Boy, Android is nasty... The amount of data and frequency of calling home is amazing. I ended taking down wifi on my oven (which runs android) and my one android tablet (alexa/echo) which was the most unreliable piece of hardware I had. I also notice a similar behavior on iOS devices but unlike Android, you could disable it. Most of the data is about location on iOS. They data packets are much smaller and are much less frequent. Disabling them means disabling some services. Apple uses your data for relative localization: devices scan for one another MAC addresses over BT and wifi and they keep a registry of it on their cloud. This way based on triangulation of what devices one given device sees, it is able to better estimate its location even without GPS as it uses the other device's GPS. I think Google does the same but more frequently and collects a lot more data while preventing you from disabling. Honestly the data was too much for me to figure out what it was for Android.
                  I also have relatives who work in marketing companies who freaked me out when they told me what data they have access to from Google... Just piecing things together and is a bit of a leap since I don't have any Google home device. I had some nest ones though which moved to very restrictive cloud only API when they got bought by Google and lead me to get rid of them.

                  Edit: Someone in Ireland has done a much deeper study on the topic than I:

                  Dan Goodin  /  Mar 30  /  Tech

                  Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

                  Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

                  Google contests the estimate, saying it's based on flawed methodology.

                  https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

                  The only thing I would add is that I think the author missed a setting in iOS which I found to completely disable all data sending. Also note the attitude of Google towards the whole thing is pretty comical but at the same time it is all very understandable since it is their business model to collect and sell data since they do not sell their OS and don't make a profit on the devices they sell. They make profit on their true products... our data.

                  Now Amazon is (was?) different. They are actually selling products and making a profit from them, not so much from the smart devices but more from the echo/eco system to get us to shop on their sites. It is a different business model. How long before it changes? I don't know. At least the example of how they handled the Philips hue API drastically from Google is a sign that they are not as laser focused on forcing a cloud approach.

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                  • therealdb
                    therealdb @CatmanV2 last edited by

                    @catmanv2 yep, same for me yesterday. Today it seems to be back to normal latency.

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                    70+ Zwave Devices, a bunch of ZigBee light strips and a lot of code

                    My Plug-ins => https://github.com/dbochicchio/vera (VeraAlexa, OpenSprinkler, Virtual Devices, MQTT and much more)

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                    • CatmanV2
                      CatmanV2 @therealdb last edited by

                      @therealdb said in Alexa TTS is sloooooooow:

                      @catmanv2 yep, same for me yesterday. Today it seems to be back to normal latency.

                      Mine's been like this for some time. Just checking again and the same 10 second delay somewhere

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                      • therealdb
                        therealdb @CatmanV2 last edited by

                        try to update the .sh script. They released a new version yesterday, and they specifically changed the TTS part. It's working good for me, even if they removed announcements, it's still working with announcements for me 🙂

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                        70+ Zwave Devices, a bunch of ZigBee light strips and a lot of code

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                        • CatmanV2
                          CatmanV2 @therealdb last edited by

                          @therealdb said in Alexa TTS is sloooooooow:

                          try to update the .sh script. They released a new version yesterday, and they specifically changed the TTS part. It's working good for me, even if they removed announcements, it's still working with announcements for me 🙂

                          Do you have a link perchance? I can't find anything newer than Jan..

                          Cheers

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                          • therealdb
                            therealdb @CatmanV2 last edited by

                            @catmanv2 https://github.com/thorsten-gehrig/alexa-remote-control

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                            70+ Zwave Devices, a bunch of ZigBee light strips and a lot of code

                            My Plug-ins => https://github.com/dbochicchio/vera (VeraAlexa, OpenSprinkler, Virtual Devices, MQTT and much more)

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                            • CatmanV2
                              CatmanV2 @therealdb last edited by

                              @therealdb said in Alexa TTS is sloooooooow:

                              @catmanv2 https://github.com/thorsten-gehrig/alexa-remote-control

                              My thanks, as ever

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                              • CatmanV2
                                CatmanV2 last edited by

                                Announcements still work fine, but still 10 second delay <shrug>

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                                • LibraSun
                                  LibraSun last edited by

                                  And as anticipated, my system remains completely silent. I did update the .SH file just now to v.0.18, but no change.

                                  However, I am noticing some (potential) weirdness in Vera Log which perhaps are not anomalies, but I'm pasting below just in case. I just leave VeraAlexa in 'Debug' mode all the time now. The command I had issued (from MSR) was:

                                  luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","RunCommand",{Command="-e textcommand:'tune in wwoz' -d 'Living Room'"}, 366)

                                  Log contained the following, and I'm wondering why, for starters, most (not all) of my Echo devices are listed twice? why the response from .SH is ""? why the setVar/Devices line references a device other than Living Room? why LatestResponse appears empty? etc.:

                                  08	05/29/21 9:40:44.577	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest device: 0 service: urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1 action: RunLua <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.577	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument Code=luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","RunCommand",{Command="-e textcommand:'tune in wwoz' -d 'Living Room'"}, 366) <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.577	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument DeviceNum=0 <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.577	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1 <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.578	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument action=RunLua <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.578	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument _r=1622299244559 <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.578	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest device: 366 service: urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1 action: RunCommand <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:44.579	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument Command=-e textcommand:'tune in wwoz' -d 'Living Room' <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.580	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](setVar@120):setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","OneTimePassCode","",366) old value "" <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.581	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](runCommand@395):Executing command [runCommand]: "-e textcommand:'tune in wwoz' -d 'Living Room'" <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.601	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](setVar@120):setVar("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HaDevice1","CommFailure","0",366) old value "0" <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.602	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](setVar@120):setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","LatestResponse","",366) old value "" <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.603	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](@308):Response from Alexa.sh: "" <0x70dc2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:44.622	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](setVar@120):setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","Devices","Anne's Alexa Apps, false,2f69293cc2c749f6854ad6c5b41aef43,MSHOP\
Kitchen, true,F00718703203T4,ECHO\
Yoga Room, true,90LF1071750H8V,ECHO\
Hall Bathroom, true,90LF1071750H7N,ECHO\
Everywhere, true,56c846877e416eaa3425d163619011,WHA\
Downstairs, false,095239c8124c46834ded97b5c947b7,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY\
Master Bedroom, true,70RR138143018W,ROOK\
Workshop, true,90LF1071750H4G,ECHO\
Guest Room, false,90U50991541T31,ECHO\
Alexa App for PC, false,0CE90F27F69FFF703570DE6C20E7BA,REAVER\
Fire Tablet, true,W0TC039353F2SX,TABLET\
Libra's Sonos Beam, true,89f9dcc0ab4085bcb59494f81c3726,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_SONOS_BOOTLEG\
Living Room, true,48978706f5459f890ef0ec5aa9fce9,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY\
Libra's Ezlo Voi, false,eea63a85e2419498871004faca7e4d,UNKNOWN\
This Device, true,60b747dc4ce292626be49b7c3d41,VOX\
Libra's Alexa Apps, false,56FEC32487,AMAZONMOBILEMUSIC_ANDROID\
",366) old value "Anne's Alexa Apps, false,69293cc2c749f6854ad6c5b41aef43,MSHOP\
Kitchen, true,F00718703203T4,ECHO\
Yoga Room, true,90LF1071750H8V,ECHO\
Hall Bathroom, true,90LF1071750H7N,ECHO\
Everywhere, true,56c846877e416eaa3425d163619011,WHA\
Downstairs, false,095239c8124c46834ded97b5c947b7,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY\
Master Bedroom, true,70RR138143018W,ROOK\
Workshop, true,90LF1071750H4G,ECHO\
Guest Room, false,90U50991541T31,ECHO\
Alexa App for PC, false,0CE90F27F69FFF703570DE6C20E7BA,REAVER\
Fire Tablet, true,W0TC039353F2SX,TABLET\
Libra's Sonos Beam, true,89f9dcc0ab4085bcb59494f81c3726,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_SONOS_BOOTLEG\
Living Room, true,48978706f5459f890ef0ec5aa9fce9,THIRD_PARTY_AVS_MEDIA_DISPLAY\
Libra's Ezlo Voi, false,eea63ae2419498871004faca7e4d,UNKNOWN\
This Device, true,60b747dc4ce292626be49b7c3d41,VOX\
Libra's Alexa Apps, false,56FEC32487,AMAZONMOBILEMUSIC_ANDROID\
" <0x70dc2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.658	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest device: 0 service: urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1 action: RunLua <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.658	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument Code=luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","RunCommand",{Command="-e weather -d 'Living Room'"}, 366) <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.658	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument DeviceNum=0 <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.659	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1 <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.659	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument action=RunLua <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.659	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument _r=1622299258640 <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.660	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest device: 366 service: urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1 action: RunCommand <0x6d5c2520>
08	05/29/21 9:40:58.660	JobHandler_LuaUPnP::HandleActionRequest argument Command=-e weather -d 'Living Room' <0x6d5c2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:58.661	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](setVar@120):setVar("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","OneTimePassCode","",366) old value "" <0x6d5c2520>
50	05/29/21 9:40:58.662	luup_log:366: VeraAlexa[0.97@366](runCommand@395):Executing command [runCommand]: "-e weather -d 'Living Room'" <0x6d5c2520>

                                  NOTE: All names and S/N's redacted for privacy (so may appear inconsistent in listing)

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                                  • CatmanV2
                                    CatmanV2 last edited by

                                    Hmmm, I have debug set to one and my log looks nothing like that....

                                    This is the LuaUPnP.log yes?

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                                    • LibraSun
                                      LibraSun @CatmanV2 last edited by

                                      @catmanv2 said in Alexa TTS is sloooooooow:

                                      This is the LuaUPnP.log yes?

                                      Yes. I get a very verbose response set like that in Vera's LuaUPnP Log every time I attempt one of the Lua commands I use for testing. Some worked with previous revisions, others not, but right now ... literally nothing works for me.

                                      I'm wondering if maybe I have too many Alexa devices defined in my account... or something else unique to "me" that's causing VeraAlexa to choke.

                                      Whenever I update any component of the VeraAlexa plug-in (whether through WinSCP or by dragging files into App > Develop), I always set "Configured" back to 0 and restart Vera, so things have a chance to settle. The cookie is safely there, and "Configured" always sets to 1 without any trouble.

                                      It's as if the plug-in wants to work, but simply doesn't, for me. 😕

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                                      • CatmanV2
                                        CatmanV2 @LibraSun last edited by

                                        @librasun are you on Vera or OpenLuup?

                                        What's in your .alexa.devicelist.all? If you've got duplicate entries it's probably worth deleting it and letting it re-create.

                                        I've just realised my 'new' Echo is not listed, but it's in the guess bedroom so doesn't get used.

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                                        • LibraSun
                                          LibraSun last edited by

                                          To answer your question, I inspected the contents of my .alexa.devicelist.json file (I see no 'all' file like you mentioned), and found -- after putting it through a JSON Pretty Print converter and filtering for accountName -- just a single copy of each device on my account.

                                          Egads, though, the file is 931 lines long, lol!

                                          If you're suggesting I delete that file, I'm game, but am generally loath to take stabs in the dark like that until I have more data.

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                                          • CatmanV2
                                            CatmanV2 last edited by

                                            AFAIK you should have:
                                            .alexa.devicelist.txt
                                            .alexa.devicelist.all
                                            .alexa.cookie
                                            .alexa.devicelist.json

                                            I think the lack of some or more of these could be part of your issue. Are you on Vera still? I forget

                                            Totally get what you mean about deleting stuff. I tend to rename ;). My understanding is they should be created automagically.

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