Good morning,
I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to evaluate if a command was completed and retry if it did not complete.
I have 14 iBlinds 3.1 z-wave controllers in my home. 95% of the time, they work just fine. Occasionally, I'll get a blind that does not open on the first attempt. When I go into Home Assistant, and manually open or close the blind, it works.
I have 3 reactions set up for each room. One to open, one to close, and one partial open for sun glare. Each of them is set up as below.
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The reactions are set up to wait for 5 seconds before going onto the next blind, so the z-wave network doesn't get overwhelmed.
In addition, the set command to run the reactions has "Wait for completion" checked.
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I also have a routine set up whenever a z-wave device reports as non-functional (dead), it'll get pinged to wake it up. This usually works to wake them up.
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Appreciate any ideas to make this more reliable.
I'm running:
Reactor latest-24190-bd310acc, Bare-metal on Fedora WaveJSController [0.1.23326] Home Assistant: 2024.7.0I think this feature request could be accomplished with the use of two or more rules, but it would be great if there was a way to wait for an event or trigger to occur before continuing on in the reactions.
For example, I have a rule that will turn on some exterior lights if you arrive home after the porch lights have been turned off. Right now this rule randomly will turn off between 5-10 minutes after the person has entered the geofence. On some occasions this 5-10 minutes isn't long enough, say if you are unloading the car or something. I would like to kick off the reaction, but pause it part way through and wait for the door to close and lock, then continue it on. Hubitat Rule Machine has a "Wait for event" option, but I really want to keep all my logic within MSR.
Good morning,
I'm going through my ruleset this morning, trying to get away from haas>blahblablah entries and completely migrate them all to zwavejs>xx-0 entries where possible.
I have 3 Aeon MultiSensor 6 devices in my home, all USB powered.
When using Haas entries, I see an entry for hass>binary_sensor_guest_bedroom_multisensor_home_security_motion_detection, and motion_sensor.state (primary)
Screenshot 2024-07-25 at 8.25.53 AM.png
Under ZwaveJS, this entry appears to be missing.
Screenshot 2024-07-25 at 8.26.51 AM.png
From the Entities page:
battery_power.level=1
battery_power.since=1721910337433
binary_sensor.state=false
humidity_sensor.units="%"
humidity_sensor.value=46
light_sensor.units="Lux"
light_sensor.value=5
tamper.state=false
temperature_sensor.units="°F"
temperature_sensor.value=73.8
x_debug.dt={}
x_zwave_values.Basic_currentValue=0
x_zwave_values.Battery_isLow=false
x_zwave_values.Battery_level=100
x_zwave_values.Binary_Sensor_Any=false
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_1_Battery_1=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_1_Humidity_64=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_1_Luminance_128=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_1_Temperature_32=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_1_Ultraviolet_16=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_2_Battery_1=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_2_Humidity_64=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_2_Luminance_128=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_2_Temperature_32=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_2_Ultraviolet_16=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_3_Battery_1=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_3_Humidity_64=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_3_Luminance_128=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_3_Temperature_32=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Report_Group_3_Ultraviolet_16=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Reporting_Interval_Group_1=3600
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Reporting_Interval_Group_2=3600
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Reporting_Interval_Group_3=3600
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Automatic_Temperature_Reporting_Unit=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Battery_Level_Threshold=10
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Current_Power_Mode_65280=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Humidity_Above_Lower_Limit_32=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Humidity_Below_Lower_Limit_2=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Humidity_Change_Threshold=10
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Humidity_Recover_Limit=5
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Humidity_Sensor_Calibration=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_LED_Blinking=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lighting_Recover_Limit=10
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lock_Configuration=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Low_Battery_Threshold=20
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Low_Temperature_Alarm_15_C=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lower_Humidity_Limit=50
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lower_Lighting_Limit=100
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lower_Temperature_Limit_4294901760=320
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lower_Temperature_Limit_Unit_3840=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Lower_Ultraviolet_Limit=4
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Luminance_Above_Lower_Limit_64=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Luminance_Below_Lower_Limit_4=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Luminance_Change_Threshold=100
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Luminance_Sensor_Calibration=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Motion_Sensor_Report_Type_to_Send=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_PIR_Sensitivity=3
x_zwave_values.Configuration_PIR_Sensor_Timeout=20
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Recover_Limit_Temperature_Unit_255=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Above_Humidity_Threshold_32=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Above_Luminance_Threshold_64=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Above_Temperature_Threshold_16=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Above_Ultraviolet_Threshold_128=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Below_Humidity_Threshold_2=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Below_Luminance_Threshold_4=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Below_Temperature_Threshold_1=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Report_Below_Ultraviolet_Threshold_8=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Reset_Parameters_101_103_to_Default_Values=null
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Reset_Parameters_111_113_to_Default_Values=null
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Reset_to_Factory_Default_Setting=null
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Selective_Reporting=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Sleep_State_255=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Above_Lower_Limit_16=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Below_Lower_Limit_1=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Calibration_Offset_65280=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Calibration_Unit_255=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Change_Threshold_4294901760=20
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Recover_Limit_65280=20
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Temperature_Threshold_Unit_3840=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Ultraviolet_Above_Lower_Limit_128=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Ultraviolet_Below_Lower_Limit_8=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Ultraviolet_Change_Threshold=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Ultraviolet_Recover_Limit=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Ultraviolet_Sensor_Calibration=0
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Upper_Humidity_Limit=60
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Upper_Lighting_Limit=1000
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Upper_Temperature_Limit_4294901760=824
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Upper_Temperature_Limit_Unit_3840=2
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Upper_Ultraviolet_Limit=8
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Wake_Device_for_10_minutes_After_Power_On=1
x_zwave_values.Configuration_Wake_Up_Timeout=15
x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_manufacturerId=134
x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productId=100
x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productType=258
x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Sensor_Air_temperature=73.8
x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Sensor_Humidity=46
x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Sensor_Illuminance=5
x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Sensor_Ultraviolet=0
x_zwave_values.Notification_Home_Security_Cover_status=0
x_zwave_values.Notification_Home_Security_Motion_sensor_status=0
x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmLevel=0
x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmType=0
x_zwave_values.Version_firmwareVersions=["1.17"]
x_zwave_values.Version_hardwareVersion=100
x_zwave_values.Version_libraryType=3
x_zwave_values.Version_protocolVersion="4.54"
x_zwave_values.Wake_Up_controllerNodeId=1
x_zwave_values.Wake_Up_wakeUpInterval=3600
zwave_device.capabilities=[32,48,49,112,113,114,128,132,134]
zwave_device.endpoint=0
zwave_device.failed=false
zwave_device.generic_class="Multilevel Sensor"
zwave_device.impl_sig="23326:1:22315:1"
zwave_device.is_beaming=false
zwave_device.is_listening=true
zwave_device.is_routing=true
zwave_device.is_secure=false
zwave_device.manufacturer_info=[134,258,100]
zwave_device.max_data_rate=null
zwave_device.node_id=53
zwave_device.specific_class="Routing Multilevel Sensor"
zwave_device.status=4
zwave_device.status_text="alive"
zwave_device.version_info=[null,"1.17"]
zwave_device.wakeup_interval=3600
I'm running:
Reactor latest-24190-bd310acc, Bare-metal on Fedora
WaveJSController [0.1.23326]
Home Assistant: 2024.7.0
I'm fetching certain data five past every hour, but I would like to do it closer to the hour, e.g. 1 or 2 past (but not at the hour).
I experimented with the following rule that almost works (triggers also at the hour which is not the intention). Any advice for a solution?
It would be nice to have an ability to bookmark a direct link to a dashboard item. In my case I would use this feature to access a virtual switch directly.
Hi @toggledbits
Would you please consider adding an extra sublevel in the rulesets?
I have grouped my rules in rooms/ areas. This works great for me, but I would also like to group rules for the same functionality (in a room). This would make the rules easier to find and name.
Please let me know if this is an option. Thanks!
@togglebits I am curious as to why the tilt_sensor.state (primary) = NULL. I believe it should show true or false. I have to use binary_sensor.state instead in my rules.
Again, not sure if this is related to Reactor/ZwaveJSController implementation or the actual Z-Wave JS UI docker version. I have copied, below, the attributes of the tilt sensor in hopes it can help.
Thanks in advance.
Reactor version 23302
ZWaveJSController version 23254
Z-Wave JS UI version 9.3.0.724519f
zwave-js version 12.2.3
@toggledbits,
I have this device attached to my system, but use a DSC panel. If you need testers to move forward, I'm happy to help.
I'm curious what your thinking the use case is for this. I currently have it integrated into HomeAssistant, and it works fine for the most part. The one thing I can't do is bypass zones, which I would like to have the ability to do.
Are you looking at more direct control for the panel, as opposed to having to jump through HA (or another system) first?
Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here.
Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions; Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating; Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later; Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase; Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions; Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.I have the following ruleset which I though had been working well until this morning when I noticed it's not.
I've put four weather conditions in an in array and one of them is the current weather condition - but the rule is not true. Now the cloud cover percentage is not yet met but this is an or rule so as long as the "Current Conditions" are met then it should go true.
What's the obvious thing I'm missing here? (I've tried spaces/no spaces in the in and no difference.)
Hi,
Running the latest MSR latest-24152-3455578a with the latest HA 2024.6.1. When trying to call a service I get the following in the MSR logs. Is this a version mismatch? I am not seeing anything in the HA logs.
[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:56.162Z <Rule:INFO> rule-Monitor-DHW (rule-lsvq5k3x in Central Heating) started [latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.625Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass unknown service opentherm_gw.set_hot_water_setpoint in x_hass.call_service action on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw [latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.626Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass: sending payload for x_hass.call_service on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw action: [Object]{ "type": "call_service", "service_data": { "gateway_id": "living_room_otgw", "temperature": 65 }, "domain": "opentherm_gw", "service": "set_hot_water_setpoint", "target": { "entity_id": "climate.living_room_otgw" } } [latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.627Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass request 1718101798626<6/11/2024, 12:29:58 PM> (call_service) failed: [Object]{ "id": 1718101798626, "type": "result", "success": false, "error": { "code": "invalid_format", "message": "extra keys not allowed @ data['entity_id']" } } [latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.627Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass action x_hass.call_service([Object]{ "service": "opentherm_gw.set_hot_water_setpoint", "data": "{ \"gateway_id\": \"living_room_otgw\", \"temperature\": 65 }" }) on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw failed!Cheers Rene
Some background
I'm trying to integrate a Zigbee device into the MSR using zigbee2mqtt bridge and MQTTController. The device in question is a cheap mood light that has following properties that I'd like to control:
I'v already managed to get the switch part working and can toggle the light on/off. Also the brightness value is mapped back to MSR. In zigbee2mqtt it has a value range from 0 to 254, so this the reason for the expression:
expr: 'payload.brightness / 254'Here's the entity definition (don't know whether the type should be something else than the Switch)
zigbee-lidl-mood-light: name: 'Lidl Mood Light' friendly_name: 'Mood Light' type: Switch uses_template: lidl-moodlightAnd the corresponding template (NOTE: rgb_color has not been defined in this example):
lidl-moodlight: init: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/get/state" query: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/get/state" capabilities: - power_switch - toggle - dimming primary_attribute: power_switch.state events: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%": "power_switch.state": json_payload: true expr: 'upper(payload.state) == "ON"' "dimming.level": json_payload: true expr: 'payload.brightness / 254' actions: power_switch: "on": topic: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/set/state" payload: 'ON' "off": topic: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/set/state" payload: 'OFF' set: topic: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/set/state" payload: expr: "parameters.state ? 'ON' : 'OFF'" type: raw toggle: topic: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/set/state" payload: 'TOGGLE'The problem
In order to control the brightness or the RGB color values, I would have send a JSON payload in corresponding actions. But I have no idea how to define it in the template. The reason why the switch part is working is that the zigbee2mqtt accepts also plain ON / OFF / TOGGLE string payloads in that case.
But the brightness should be controlled with the following payload:
{"brightness": 196}And the RGB color like:
{"color":{"rgb":"46,102,150"}}Here's the link for the documentation (the Exposes part defines the messages).
So how should I define the JSON payload for example for the dimming action? It definitely should be some sort of expressions since I have to map the MSR real value (0...1) to (0...254) for the zigbee2mqtt.
actions: dimming: set: topic: "zigbee2mqtt/%friendly_name%/set" payload: expr: ????? type: jsonAnother problem is the RGB value. I could use the rgb_color capability for the setting but the problem is that the zigbee2mqtt only reports the current color in hue/saturation or xy coordinates.
Here's an example of published message after setting the color:
Topic: zigbee2mqtt/Mood Light QoS: 0 { "brightness":254, "color":{ "hue":240, "saturation":100, "x":0.1355, "y":0.0399 }, "color_mode":"xy", "color_temp":574, "linkquality":96, "state":"ON" }I would have to map those values back to RGB, but is it even possible with existing constructs in MQTTController's templates?
Help would be appreciated @toggledbits
br,
mgvra
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.
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.
[Solution: Reactor 24115 is not compatible with MQTTController > 24120]
Reactor latest-24115 bare metal.
All MQTT entities stop working after updating MQTTController to 24142, downgrade to 24120 and they are back. Templates and configured entities has not been changed between versions.
I'm not sure if uses_template should be replaced by ìnclude in entity configuration in reactor.yaml but I guess not, I've tried it and it did not do any difference.
I have not tried to update Reactor to userauth version.
Example entity in reactor.yaml that uses MQTTController included template:
entities: "takflakt_kallare": name: "Takfläkt källare" topic: "Källartemp" unit: "" uses_template: tasmota_generic_relay init: "cmnd/%topic%/POWER%unit%"Any hints? Do you need more info, please let me know.
Log from startup:
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 🙂
Is the following config correct?
- id: time_series name: "Out temp" capabilities: temperature_sensor: attributes: value: model: time series entity: "hass>sensor_outdoor_temperature" attribute: "temperature_sensor.value" interval: 5 # minutes retention: 20 # minutes aggregate: wma primary_attribute: temperature_sensor.value type: ValueSensorSpecifically, is "depth" directive needed/mandatory here? Reason I'm asking is that I'm not getting a "final" value in MSR, only debug values are shown:
temperature_sensor.units=null temperature_sensor.value=null x_virtualentity.last_request_time=null x_virtualentity.request_failures=null x_virtualentity.template=null x_virtualentity.timeseries_debug=[{"time":1716537360000,"value":22.1},{"time":1716537660000,"value":22},{"time":1716537960000,"value":22},{"time":1716538260000,"value":21.9},{"time":1716538560000,"value":22}]Good morning,
I apologize if this subject has been covered. I did try the search, but I'm not coming up with any topics on my issue.
I'm running userauth-24137-57b41335, bare metal installation on Fedora 39 Server.
I have a rule set up to turn the Eco mode off on my Nest Thermostat when the thermostat is set to Away (Rule State: Away Mode), the user (Driver) presence in my car changes to true, and the destination is set to home.
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This works fine for most days, where I'm headed home from work (commute is about 45 minutes). What I don't want it to do is set change it to Eco mode if my ETA is more than an hour.
There is a sensor/entity for Time to Arrival when the Destination is set. What it appears to provide is the Time OF arrival/ETA, not time until arrival. If it was Time until Arrival, and it was a numeric value, I could simply test if the value is less than 60 and be done with it.
I pulled up the history through Home Assistant for my morning commute and this appears to be what it is providing.
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So what I need to do is to do a calculation of the the ETA from the sensor value and subtract the current time, and get a value in minutes that I can determine if it's less than 60.
I believe I can do this with the local expression, but I don't see anything for the system time, or local time. Also, do the local expressions update themselves if the sensors do?
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.
Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements
-
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()
andisRuleEnabled()
functions to expressions extensions; - Implement
set
action forlock
andpassage
capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); - Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.
-
-
Build 21236
- Prototypical support for Ezlo Atom and PlugHub in EzloController;
- Be less aggressive with module loading in app.js for more permissive first-time startup;
- Simplify reaction stop for child tasks;
- Numerous small bug fixes/gnats in UI;
- Documentation updates and corrections.
Note that Generation 1 Atoms are supported in this version, but only through the remote access API (so it's cloud-dependent). Gen2 and later Atoms/PlugHubs can run with local/LAN access (no cloud dependency).
-
Build 21237
- EzloController: Tone down the warnings about disabling certain ciphers for Atom; that's only applicable to local access (don't need warnings when remote access is used).
- PR 0000245: Fixed an issue with a hang caused by the attempt to actively stop a reaction that is blocked waiting for a child reaction (a reaction group) to finish.
- PR 0000252: Enable power_switch capability for siren category on eZLO hubs.
-
Build 21239
- Expression functions
strftime()
andformat()
added. See the updated documentation. - Direct browser (via HTML attributes) to disable spellcheck on various fields where it's inappropriate (e.g. HTTP Request action URL, headers and data).
- Updated to latest lexpjs, which has itself been updated to (hopefully) support Unicode alphabetic characters in identifier names.
- Allow expressions to have Unicode characters in their names (parity with lexpjs).
- Additional preparation for localization in UI and engine. For example, non-US users should notice that lists sorted alphabetically now appear in a more natural order for their configured language, rather than "ASCII" (character code ordinal) sorting.
- Expression functions
-
Build 21243
- HubitatController: Resolve exception thrown when attempting to set mode.
- HassController: Blessed Hass version 2021.8.8
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Build 21256
- Fix issue with HTTP Request action post body causing exception;
- The maximum wait time for controllers to become available when Reactor starts is now configurable via the
startup_wait
key in theengine
section ofreactor.yaml
. Users of the similarly-namedstartup_delay
, which is a fixed delay, are encouraged to usestartup_wait
instead. - The Rule detail display in the Rule Sets list was not correctly showing some non-primitive values (objects and arrays) correctly.
- HassController: Blessed Hass version 2021.9.6
-
Build 21258
- Warning and clear when changing operator on condition that would clear condition options.
- Fix Vera importer geotag handling.
- VeraController: add binary
x_vera_geotag.in_region
attribute. - HassController: implement
x_hass_system.call_service
on system entities.
-
Build 21267
- Change the evaluation algorithm for global variables to make them reactive. That is, global variables are now automatically reevaluated when dependent global variables or entities (from use
getEntity()
) change. They will also drive evaluation of rules when a rule-based expression or trigger condition references a global variable that changes. - A new version of lexpjs supporting the above changes is being used; this version includes local scope for the interior of most statements, which may break some expressions (in particular, those that breach etiquette and create variables inside loops but access them outside).
- First version with localization capability. Users interested in localizing the user interface for their language/country can read the how-to documentation.
Expressions Changes
This release comes with some significant changes to the operation of global expressions in particular, and some expression tweaks throughout.
First, the expression language has been given the concept of scope; specifically, the statements
each
,first
,do...done
,if then else endif
now have local scopes for their interior expressions. Variables created in the interior of these statements are not visible outside of these statements (they are implicitlylocal
), unless the variable already exists in an enclosing scope. This is probably not going to cause anyone much heartburn on existing expressions with these statements. I don't see many of you pushing the limits in this area of the expression language that would make it an issue. We'll handle exceptions as they come up.Second, and more importantly, Reactor now evaluates and treats global variables differently, and I think you'll agree this is a good change and brings more useful, even expected, behavior. The details:
- Global variables are now reactive; for example, when a global variable that contains a
getEntity()
expression detects that the entity is modified, the global variable's expression is automatically recalculated. In previous versions of MSR, the variable was not re-evaluated until a rule requested the global variable's value. - Global variables are recalculated when they reference another global variable, and that global variable changes (for whatever reason). If, for example, you have a rule that periodically fetches JSON data from a web site and stores the response in a global variable, and other global variables that draw on that data, those dependent variables will be reevaluated when the variable holding the response is modified.
- Rules will be reactive to global variable changes that do not involve entities. Previously, MSR rules would only re-evaluate on a change to a global variable if that variable involved a
getEntity()
expression. In fact, Reactor was not reacting to the variable change, it was reacting to the entity change. Now, Reactor truly reacts to the global variable change, which means it will also respond to the change in values of case #2 above -- if a rule is dependent on a global variable, any change to that global variable for any reason will cause the rule to re-evaluate, and based on its conditions, possibly change state. - You can disable the dependency and auto-recalculation of a global variable, because sometimes its useful to do that.
Given these changes, it is pretty easy to create reference loops. There's nothing stopping you from creating a variable A and compute its value from B, and then create B and have it set its value based on A. This will get you loop errors and a stop on evaluation; it won't be subtle. Similar abuses between global variables and rules and the overzealous use of Set Variable actions can also lead to rule loops throttling. Any time you use Set Variable in a rule-based reaction where that rule also uses the variable in triggers, you are running the risk of such a loop, so be careful.
Reactor for Vera doesn't have global variables, so at the time it was implemented as a new feature of MSR, simplifying assumptions were made. I hope you'll agree this is a useful evolution of their behavior.
Docs are updated, so make sure you check them out.
Localization
This is the first release that has the bulk of my recent work on localization. I'm barely passable at German, certainly not enough so to do a translation, and know enough Spanish to order a beer and get slapped by members of the opposite sex, but that's about it for me for languages (I used to teach Latin in an elementary school, but I doubt there's much demand for that translation). So while the system now recognizes the language configuration of your browser and host system automatically, it won't be able to present in any language other than US English because that's the only string file available. If any native speakers of other languages (including UK and Australian English) would like to step up and do a localization, let me know — that would be your work product to own and distribute as an add-on (e.g. through Github, etc.) to the community, and optionally include in Reactor distributions if you're willing (as a redistributed/third-party work with attribution on the About page). The US English file, which is the reference for all strings and starting point for translations, can be found in this Github repository: https://github.com/toggledbits/msr-localization
- Change the evaluation algorithm for global variables to make them reactive. That is, global variables are now automatically reevaluated when dependent global variables or entities (from use
-
Build 21270
- Fix an issue with EzloController not processing device match expressions correctly on newer lexpjs.
- Add
matchEntities()
function (see docs) - Further localization improvements and fixes.
-
Build 21275
NOTICE: This revision incorporates a breaking change to the recently-introduced
matchEntities()
expression function. See below.- VeraController: Devices of type
...:FloodSensor1
now use theleak_sensor
(specific) capability; they maintain their previous use of the genericbinary_sensor
capability for backward compatiblity with existing automations. - EzloController: Fix a stack overflow that could occur under certain boundary conditions.
- OWMController: Fix a broken context initialization for
lexpjs
causing user-configured "extra data" fields with expressions to throw a soft error and report an incorrect (null) value. - Improve interaction between Engine and UI when global expressions are created: they are now given an initial evaluation and their dependency tree built at that time. Previously, a rule reference or manual UI interaction (e.g. "Try Now" button press) was required to initialize it.
- Improve interaction between Engine and UI when global variables are deleted: the deleted variable is now removed from the Engine's evaluation dependency tree to avoid spurious "Expression Not Found" exceptions in the log for the then-deleted variable. These would stop after a restart, because the dependency tree was rebuilt at that time, but it should not take a restart to fix the tree.
- Fix an error in the parameters of the
isRuleSet
andisRuleEnabled
expression functions that would cause a constructor error when global expressions using these functions were initialized at system startup, before the Engine had loaded the rules. This error was exposed by the changes made to support global variable dependency graphs. - When deleting system objects, wait until all notifications have been given and returned, to assure that the object being deleted is not actually deleted before the notified object has a chance to do whatever it needs to do. The former behavior had no adverse effect; this was a change to gain new behavior necessary to support the global variable dependency tree update on delete mentioned above.
- Fix a bug in the recording of the timestamp of modification of a global variable; it was using real time rather than virtual time, so when the engine was configured for "Test Time", it was recording incorrect (i.e. non-test time) values.
- The check for circular dependencies in the evaluation of global variables was relaxed to allow self-references (e.g.
series = push( series, value )
). - BREAKING: The
matchEntities()
function now returns only a list of canonical IDs for matched entities. You will need to use thegetEntity()
function to fetch current data for the entity if you need it. This was done because the previously-returned list of entity objects could grow "stale" (the data in the objects reflects the state at the time, not ever-changing and ongoing state as attributes change). And yes, this is exactly the kind of thing I said I try to avoid, but sometimes you just don't know all the side-effects until you see the thing in the wild. Sorry, everyone. - New expression functions:
fileExists()
,fileRead()
,fileWrite()
. See the docs. - Incorporates a hotfix made to 21270 for the
SetVariable
action on Vera hubs.
- VeraController: Devices of type
-
Build 21277
- HubitatController: Fix a problem with setting RGB color.
- Fix an issue causing "Object not found" exceptions when evaluating a
getEntity()
call in a subcontext of a rule-based expression (e.g. within aneach
loop). - Fix a number of issues required for localization (thank you, @Crille ).
-
-
Build 21281
- In prior versions, a reference to a variable (rule or global) that does not exist would cause an alert and "fail soft" by returning null. This (old) behavior actually hides such errors and makes them more difficult to locate, and generally speaking, you shouldn't be referring to things that don't exist. The new behavior is to throw an exception during the evaluation, which will more clearly highlight the error and make it easier to find and correct. If for some reason you still need the old behavior, you can set
deprecated_undefined_global_soft_fail
to true in theengine
section ofreactor.yaml
, and such errors will soft-fail as before. The old behavior is deprecated, however, and will be removed in a few months. - PR 0000260: Fix failure of HTTP Request (really underlying variable handling) to notice change in array of objects returned by request.
- PR 0000259: Need to more clearly highlight variables with errors in the expression editor. Failing expressions now receive orange highlight bars.
- Add
typeof()
expression function. - Additional localization changes.
- New HTTP API additions: add alert, dismiss alert
- Bless Home Assistant to 2021.10.0
- In prior versions, a reference to a variable (rule or global) that does not exist would cause an alert and "fail soft" by returning null. This (old) behavior actually hides such errors and makes them more difficult to locate, and generally speaking, you shouldn't be referring to things that don't exist. The new behavior is to throw an exception during the evaluation, which will more clearly highlight the error and make it easier to find and correct. If for some reason you still need the old behavior, you can set
-
Build 21286
- InfluxFeed now supports InfluxDB version 1.8+ and 2.0. InfluxDB versions prior to 1.8 are no longer supported. Please see the documentation for configuration details, as the configuration requirements for 1.x and 2.0 are different. Users of InfluxFeed also need to
npm update --nosave
if they are bare-metal installed. - The behavior of rules when throttled has been improved. Note, however, that any time a rule is throttled, events could be missed (e.g. if a light that is a dependency of a rule is turned on and back off quickly when throttled, the rule may not "see" the on event).
- Ongoing documentation updates.
- Bless Hass to 2021.10.4
- First version to contain a foreign language translation, Swedish! Thank you @Crille for your work on the translation and helping me get localization working.
- Address possible evaluation loop while using SetVariable in a rule reaction on a rule variable, where the value is an expression that contains a
getEntity()
reference. - Documentation updates
- Further i18n fixes (thank you @Crille)
- InfluxFeed now supports InfluxDB version 1.8+ and 2.0. InfluxDB versions prior to 1.8 are no longer supported. Please see the documentation for configuration details, as the configuration requirements for 1.x and 2.0 are different. Users of InfluxFeed also need to
-
Build 21292
- PR 0000262: Fix an error in handling date/time conditions with M/D across new year boundary.
- PR 0000261: HubitatController: Resolve an order of operations issue preventing extended attributes from being assigned as primary in local config.
- PR 0000258: (i18n) Fix string reference for condition option
- HassController: treat controller reporting NOT_RUNNING as an error and disconnect/retry
- Bless Hass to 2021.10.6
-
Build 21294
- PR 000263: Fix spurious log messages after deleting a global expression that contained a
getEntity()
. - Fixed a UI issue with an expression being sorted to the top of the list then ending up at the bottom.
- The expression function
strftime()
is now locale-aware. - Docker containers are now running on nodejs version 16.
- PR 000263: Fix spurious log messages after deleting a global expression that contained a
-
Build 21297
- PR 0000264: Fix an error in the rule editor on a particular value test used in several places that could cause the entered value of a condition option to not be saved (most notable on the "repeats within" field, but also found in two other locations).
- Update to lexpjs 21296 to get
sort()
function for arrays, and user-definable functions from expressions. Default sort in Reactor Engine for the implemention of expressionsort()
function is (host) locale-aware. Please refer to the documentation for details.
-
Build 21306
Note: this release includes changes to package dependencies. Bare-metal users please run
npm update --no-save
to resolve.- HTTP Request action now has explicit control over HTTP auth, with type selection (none, Basic, Digest) and credential fields (username and password).
- PR 0000265: Correct a string that is not translated in the alerts status panel.
- i18n: Found an additional string that was not localizable.
- The HTTP Request action will now suppress all alerts for any error it encounters, not just HTTP errors, if the "no error alerts" option is checked.
- Update lexpjs to get new array set functions:
arrayIntersection()
,arrayUnion()
,arrayDifference()
,arrayExclusive()
andarrayConcat()
.
-
Build 21307
- PR 0000266: An issue introduced at 21306 saves certain substitutions with the wrong data type.
- HubitatController: Resolve (hopefully) a race condition at startup.
-
Build 21313
- Bless Home Assistant to version 2021.11.2
- New system capability
button
to express state of a single button or contact closure. - PR 0000268: Sun condition shows "not between" as "between" in rule detail card.
- Add
/alert/:tag
HTTP API endpoint (DELETE method); this deprecates/alert/:tag/dismiss
.
-
Build 21321
- HassController: Additional updates for event handling (
init
support). - HubitatController: Map additional capabilities.
- Internal support additionals for MQTTController
MQTTController - Build 21321
- Fix incorrect scope reference is tasmota_generic_relay payload.
- Additional helpful debug.
Upgrading MQTTController, which is a standalone/add-on component, is the same procedure as initial installation.
- HassController: Additional updates for event handling (