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Everyone,
As a side project, building on some deep innards borrowed from Reactor, I have released two new projects (unrelated to Reactor). Both are published on npmjs (for installation via npm), and on GitHub.
ezmqtt — a standalone app that acts as a conduit between Ezlo hubs and MQTT. It's published on npmjs.com and on Github. node-red-contrib-ezlo — Node-RED nodes (installable package) for Ezlo hubs. It's published in the Node-RED Nodes Library, at npmjs.com, and on GithubWhy? Because choices are a good thing.
There are docker containers available for ezmqtt, but I haven't finished the work there, so they may not be quite ready for prime time; but feel free to test/play if you want.
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Being an iPad/iPhone user, I use Homebridge for a number of things. Although it runs completely independently from my main Vera home set up.
Is anyone else using Homebridge and if there is enough interest would a subcategory be of use ?
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I know we talked about this a while back, but wondered if anyone has any ideas at all? It's still a 5-10 second pause between initiating a TTS event and getting the output.
This is using either a direct Luup call or the most excellent VeraTTS plug in.
I noticed that executing from reactor using the little 'run' icon, I'm getting an occasional '0 timeout undefined' error (even though the event eventually happens
Any thoughts, anyone?
C
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Full disclosure.
I am from [HundredGraphs.com](link url). We are the data aggregation service for smart homes. So far we have plugins for Vera and SmartThings and we are looking to move in onto new hubs.
What would you be interested in?
Vera Energy graph
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Years after having installed and implemented the homekit integration to the vera through the verahomekitbridge which later became the homebridge:
rafale77/VeraHomeKitBridge rafale77/VeraHomeKitBridgeContribute to rafale77/VeraHomeKitBridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
(I just implemented a few updates I discovered were outdated for the garage door which were meant for older vera firmwares)
I just recently came to the realization that I can do a lot more with Hey Siri with devices I already own. I have therefore a renewed interest and have been configuring my homekit installation to match my alexa capability. Unfortunately a lot of things are still pretty far behind in terms of integration but... I found homebridge and all its plugins. I just wanted to share the alternative I pursued: Home Assistant. I implemented the Homekit component for it and have been able to bridge Sonos and Harmony while my openLuup devices are still bridged into homekit through the VeraHomekitBridge. If you already have home assistant, homebridge is potentially redundant...
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For those who are familiar with node-red, I found interesting news from the Home Assistant site that the openzwave project has gone stale and that they have shifted their focus on integrating zwave-js! It spiked my interest in spite of currently not seeing any need since z-way has been rock solid in combination with openluup but it might be of interest for others that there is yet another open source z-wave platform, this time written in javascript and running on a nodejs server... yes the same platform @toggledbits has chosen for "super reactor". I am already running a number of smaller nodejs application in my setup so it isn't quite new and yes there is also mqtt and node red bindings coming with it.
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Morning folks
Not sure if I'm imagining it, but I used to have a 'Save' button on the activities tab of Reactor? Right now if I add or edit any activity, I have to go to another tab, and confirm the 'Unsaved Changes' dialogue.
TIA
C
Energy and data collection and graphs
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Full disclosure.
I am from [HundredGraphs.com](link url). We are the data aggregation service for smart homes. So far we have plugins for Vera and SmartThings and we are looking to move in onto new hubs.
What would you be interested in?
Vera Energy graph
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Using openLuup and Grafana, we already have a very nice visualization of the database option. I am not sure what this adds. Vera and ST are both kind of dead so...
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I'm working on influxdb/grafana integration for MSR. I'd be happy to look at hundredgraphs as well.
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From memory this is cloud and charged?
C
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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@rafale77 It is not intended for people who want to have their hands dirty (pun intended).
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@catmanv2 This is cloud. Basic account is free. Limited to 600 secs updates and 100 bursts per month.
Yes, we charge if you want to have more out of it, longer storage time, frequent updates, more bursts. But I think 600 sec updates is pretty good to have overall visibility for your energy graphs
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To be clear I'm not arguing your business case, simply stating what I recall from the Vera discussions. I have no issue with anyone that wants to go this route.
C
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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I must admit this is one area in my HA set up that I’d like to work better, I’ve used the Node-Red dashboard, Grafana , but I’m currently using Thingspeak (https://thingspeak.com/ ) and graph_cli (https://github.com/mcastorina/graph-cli) - so nothing really ground breaking or visually stunning (sadly)
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@catmanv2 Neither me. I am totally open in that. Who pays got the perks, the rest get a free ride, I think both sides are good. That's what usually happens with these cloud services.
And we are trying to get more to the freeside as well. Just introduced the last month the new feature for both paid and free plans.
We finally got the bursts, this is when we collect events on Vera (or SmartThings) side between uploads and then send them in the bunch. Before we were just running a script every ... secs, but that means if door was opened and closed again between updates you would never see it in the logs. Now you would. -
@parkerc That's OK, we are trying to please but definitely can't win all. If you think we can improve I would love to hear
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Speaking solely for myself, if I have data of any type that I wish to preserve/view/review, it's easiest for me just to send it to Google Spreadsheets (via a simple Form link) using MSR, where I can have charts, graphs, tables, whatever suits my needs. But understandably, most users will not want to "roll their own" in this fashion.
Always nice to have easy-to-setup alternative workflows.
