Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements

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Reactor build 22274

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• HubitatController: Fix too-aggressive caching of entities that makes entity names too "sticky" when device name or label is changed on hub. Note that a particularity of Hubitat, unlike most other hubs currently supported, requires a soft restart of either the controller instance (using sys_system.restart on the HubitatController's system entity) or a restart of Reactor to "see" the rename (Hubitat does not send an event when a device is renamed, so Reactor can't know).
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.9.7

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Reactor build 22291

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• HubitatController: Breaking change: Devices that use HE's PressureMeasurement capability will now report pressure on pressure_sensor.value rather than the generic value_sensor.value. I'm not sure this is widely used if at all, so I chose to just make the breaking change rather than deprecate and hold on to the old behavior for months.
• PR 0000283: Reactions Editor: allow drag-drop between groups. This still has some minor issues, but these are due to limitations/defects in jquery-ui (so we'll have to live with them for now).
• PR 0000334: Docs, fix an error in the example expression for metadata.
• HubitatController: Implement polling as a replacement for Hubitat's Z-Wave Poller app, which is widely reported to not work well (the author's own experience corroborates these reports). Polling is only needed for legacy Z-Wave devices that do not support instant status or some equivalent (hail, etc.) that Hubitat understands. [docs]
• DynamicGroupController: the include_entity and exclude_entity selectors now can use a regular expression to match entity canonical IDs. [docs]
• InfluxFeed: New advanced attribute handling key skip_null to suppress export of null measurement values; [docs]
• Fix a sync issue in the UI when deleting entities that previously required a hard refresh of the browser.
• UI: Fixed alignment of icons and buttons for large items in the Alerts widget (Status page).
• Documentation: Updated documentation on building Controllers, and provided new example code (WhiteBITController).
• HassController: Tighten capabilities for voltage, current, energy, power, and humidity sensor types. If you have automations using temperature or humidity sensors in Hass, please make sure your conditions use the temperature_sensor.value or humidity_sensor.value attributes, and not the generic value_sensor.value attribute -- this generic attribute is now deprecated and will be removed from a future release.
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.10.4

MQTTController build 22291

NOTE: This version requires Reactor version 22291 or higher.

• Add optional default value in topic substitutions. That is, the substitution string %flavor:chocolate% would insert the word chocolate if flavor was not defined in the entity configuration.
• Template owntracks_in_region adds a user field that can be set if your Owntracks needs it. The Owntracks topic is /owntracks/user/deviceid, so the user field should be set in your entity configuration (with topic and regionName to whatever is in that user portion of the topic (e.g. if your Owntracks publishes owntracks/fred/fredsphone then topic should be set to fredsphone and user should be set to fred).
• Code cleanup and sync with Controller base class updates.

ZWaveJSController build 22291

NOTE: This version requires Reactor version 22291 or higher.

• Code cleanup and sync with Controller base class updates.

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Reactor build 22293

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• PR 0000337: Condition with "sustained for" less than X seconds malfunctions (triggers immediately).
• PR 0000336: Fix group error indication not clearing when creating new group in a reaction (global or rule-based).
• Fix an error in the translation string for "sustained for" options when the "less than X seconds" form is used (was showing incorrectly in rule status view human-readable form).
• VirtualEntityController: scheduling of HTTP requests can now be done at specific times via the at setting for the request (an alternative to interval). [docs]
• VirtualEntityController: the quiet_failure flag now accepts either a boolean value or integer; if boolean true, notifications are never sent for failed HTTP requests. If numeric, a notification is sent only after that number of requests has failed. [docs]

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Reactor build 22302

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• UI/Status: Running Reactions widget now has "stop" button to terminate a running reaction (caveat operator).
• UI/Status: Tighten the display up a bit (remove excess whitespace).
• UI/Status: Fix alerts list that can overflow its container horizontally, causing a confusing display with multiple scoll bars.
• UI/Rule Editor: An notice/badge is now shown for collapsed sections that are not empty (i.e. when content is hidden).
• Fix condition operator "is EMPTY" (and its negated partner) on array type operand (only) was incorrectly reporting not empty in some circumstances.
• Additional UI embellishments for condition (triggers/constraints) and action (reactions) drag-drop. Still some limitations/inconsistencies/bugs in jquery-ui (which provides the drag/drop/sort implementation). If you can't get your object exactly where you want it, drop it close (i.e. into the group you want it in), then drag it again to its final position within the group.
• Action logging from all controllers now uses INFO level logging rather than forced logging (this is mostly a help to me because I separately log warning and higher priority in my test and home configurations so I can more clearly see errors -- it removes noise from that).
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.10.5

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Reactor build 22305

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• Engine: fix bug that could cause expressions having array or object results to not detect change reliably.
• UI/Rules/Reactions: the changes operator should not be available in constraints (changes is an event, and constraints are static, not event-driven).
• UI/Rules Editor: enforce minimum size for condition type menu (tidier layout).
• UI/Reaction Editor: improve field layout, prevent fields from pushing controls out of container, enforce minimum size for action type menu (tidier layout).

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Reactor build 22308

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• PR 0000343: Fix missing fields for notification action (Pushover title reported; 22305 injection).
• PR 0000342: Documentation fix, error in example code for if expressions in Expressions doc.
• PR 0000341: Ease entity ID restriction (for users with international characters in entity IDs).
• PR 0000340: Localization of "upgrade available" alert message.
• PR 0000339: push()/unshift() functions not working as expected (not a lexp issue, it's a last-value storage/comparison problem when value is object type).
• PR 0000338: Version/license/meta info for extensions is now displayed on the About page.

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Reactor 22328

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• The baseurl config key/value is no longer required. It is used only in exceptional circumstances. It is now commented out in default configurations (dist-config/reactor.yaml), and setting it is no longer required as an installation step. Users configuring their systems to use HTTPS access to the Reactor UI should, instead of using baseurl: https://..., set use_tls: true in the reactor section of their configuration.
• Improve messages in Run Reaction actions when there is an error starting the reaction.
• DynamicGroupController: make sure change in group name in configuration is always applied at startup.
• HassController: implementation for device_tracker service to location capability.
• HassController: since HA appears to provide conversion, enable all color modes if any is supported.
• HassController: Add support for new xy_color capability.
• HassController: Allow YAML form service data in call_service actions. The service data can now be formatted as YAML or JSON. The former is the default unless { is the first character in the field, to preserve compatibility with existing actions using JSON data.
• Add xy_color system capability.
• Fix a startup issue on Windows.
• PR 0000345: Fix expression doc example for each statement
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.11.4

ZWaveJSController 22323

NOTE: This version requires Reactor build 22314 or higher.

• Allow zwave_device.set_config parameter to be either string (property name) or number (property/configuration parameter ID). This should improve usability for this action.
• Store property ID in metadata for x_zwave_values attributes.
• Improve "first guess" device support for many devices when Z-Wave JS is still running interviews and Reactor comes up (i.e. when data from Z-Wave JS about devices is incomplete).
• Improve device support for multiple Fibaro, Aeotec, Everspring devices.
• Improve manufacturer/device support for Remotec, Poly-Control, Danalock, Zipato, Nortek, NEO, Minoston (EVA Logik).

MQTTController 33326

NOTE: This version requires Reactor build 22306 or higher.

• Allow templates to be stored in individual files in a config/mqtt_templates subdirectory. This should improve users' configuration management for community-contributed templates.
• Additional error checking in install script.
• Implement entity deadmarking like other controllers.
• Improve entity initialization/resilience to isolated configuration problems.
• Incorporate some device template fixes from @therealdb (with gratitude for his ongoing contributions).
• Support for deterministic updating of attributes on a topic by using a new/alternate array-based configuration syntax. [docs]
• Support for requires key in templates to facilitate user-feedback when a template is used but a configuration value required by the template it not provided by the user.

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Reactor build 22337

ALL USERS -- IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from any version earlier than 22256, please read the advisories and prerequisites for that build, below.

• Rules UI: Improved detection in UI (or more correctly, notification from core to UI) of "trouble" on rules.
• HassController: reconfigure entities on HA version change; support for person, weather, number, button, sun.
• HTTPAPI: API requests are now logged by default.
• HTTPAPI: A malformed monitored_entities configuration will no longer prevent the perform API request from completing.
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.11.5

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Reactor build 22349

NOTE: If you get missing entity errors from your rules when you first start this version, don't panic. Just wait a few seconds and then restart Reactor; it should then start clean.

IMPORTANT: The bare-metal distributions no longer include package dependencies pre-installed. It is therefore critical that you install/update dependencies every time you upgrade by running npm run deps in the Reactor install directory (for Linux users; Windows users please refer to the installation documentation. This advisory does not apply to docker-based installs — Reactor docker images always include package dependencies pre-installed.

• Expressions: isNaN() now returns false when passed null. This is now different from JavaScript, where parseFloat(null)/parseInt(null) return NaN, but isNaN(null) (oddly, IMO) returns true.
• Fix an error in Group class implementation that was causing spurious errors from DynamicGroupController after a member entity was deleted or purged.
• VeraController: Improve detection of UV sensor child devices registered as GenericSensor device type and having LightSensor1/CurrentLevel state variable when LightSensor1 isn't even a declared service for the type (i.e. a mess). This applies specifically to Aeotec Multi-Sensor 6 devices on 7.32beta4, but may apply to other devices/firmware.
• EzloController: Sound sensors are now handled with Reactor value_sensor capability.
• EzloController: Guard against missing item enumerated in data for a device (data inconsistency in Ezlo API's returned device data).
• UI Entities List: UI now stores the last 10 actions and their parameters, and restores the parameters when an action is repeated.
• UI Entities List: Action parameter default values for certain types are now provided correctly (some types would come up blank even though a non-blank default was provided in the parameter definition).
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2022.12.6
• i18n: Improve messages for Rules/Predicates when dependent objects are missing.
• Improvements from the 22343 silent release (see below).

MQTTController build 22350

• Improve handling of x_mqtt_device.online attribute for templates that have custom LWT event.

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Reactor build 23010

• Stop Reaction action now allows you to stop the current/running reaction. This is intended to be used in constrained groups, where a match to the constraints may stop the reaction to prevent it from doing anything else.
• New ev_charger system capability.
• Reaction Editor: Fix incorrect storage type for boolean arguments affecting some controllers.
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2023.1.2

MQTTController build 23010

• Fix spurious message when stopping MQTTController instance.

ZWaveJSController build 23011

• Fix a possible runtime error during node configuration if the target node isn't yet fully ready.
• Support for iblinds V3.

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Reactor build 23028

• UI/Rules Editor: Collapsed sections now change the color of the "hidden content" badge -- red if the hidden content contains an error that needs to be corrected before save, green if it contains modified conditions or actions, and info blue (as before) if no errors and unmodified. No badge is shown if the section is empty (as before). The badge icon has been changed to a crossed eye.
• Docs: Add Portainer installation instructions: https://reactor.toggledbits.com/docs/Installation-docker-portainer/
• EzloController: If there are too many consecutive timeouts on requests to the hub, recycle the hub connection.
• HassController: Bless Hass to 2023.1.7