I’ve added a couple of Shelly Wave i4 as scene controllers and I’m planning to add more, since I can just use standard buttons instead of battery-powered scene controllers, which also looks better aesthetically.
That said, I’m struggling to figure out how to write a simple rule that cycles between states every time I press a button.
Example: Light 1 ON → OFF, then Light 2 ON → OFF.
The part I can’t get right is handling the case where Light 1 or Light 2 might already be ON independently of the rule.
Maybe it’s just too much sun and relaxation clouding my brain, but any hint would be appreciated.
Use case:
When performing home maintenance, such as air conditioning, I want all rules involving air conditioning to be disabled.
To do this, to day, I have a virtual switch that I placed within all rules involving air conditioning, meaning that if I turn it off, none of them work.
Then another situation: the water pump system and garden irrigation, another switch.
In short, I had to create several virtual switches in Hubitat to disable rules in MSR.
Unfortunately, however, I was unable to cover all scenarios, so I wondered if it would be possible for MSR to support a virtual MSR switch, which, when configured in the reactor settings, would function as a general on/off switch for MSR.
If it is configured and turned off, the entire rules and actions in MSR stops working, except for the status change reading process, specifically for this switch, which, when turned on, would restart the MSR.
Would it be possible to do something like this? Any recommendations from the experts?
Probably a really dumb question.
Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.
Digging around with Home Assistant and toying with some dashboards, is there any way of exposing that sensor to HA trivially? I could set MSR to trip a virtual switch in OpenLuup which can then be exposed to HA (with all my other Vera devices) but that feels a bit in-elegant if I can do it directly.
Any thoughts?
Apologies if the ask is not clear/
TIA
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As there are statements about compatibility for home assistant versions in MSR new version announcements (e.g. "HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.7.3"), I thought it would be good idea to track other controllers as well.
As an example, I can confirm that build "latest-25208-c53e8513" works with Hubitat Elevation C-8 platform version 2.4.2.134 using Maker API.
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 foolishly let my system wipe all cookies this morning and with it my settings for my MSR home page.
Once logged back in I can no longer remove errant panes nor is the + available to add new ones.
Brave Browser v1.80.122 (Jul 16, 2025)
What have I done?!
Will check other browsers on my M1.
UPDATE: Safari exhibits same behaviour.
I've tried both sans last-four public key entry and with - no change.
@toggledbits, not sure if this is a feature request or I'm using the search tool wrong. You have a "Search for rule" in the Rules Set tab in MSR. It works nicely to find a rule and bring up said rule, but can it/could it be used for as a "where used?" global search? For instance, I have a fairly large set of rules, divided up into 10 different rulesets. There's easily a hundred individual rules, and many of the rules have Rule State triggers, which of course refer to other rules. Amongst my troubleshooting today, I came across what may have been a duplicate or troubleshooting attempt, but I can't tell if it's actually used as a Rule State in another rule without opening each rule that I suspect it may be a part of.
Thanks.
I'm running MSR build 25139 on Docker, using MQTT controller 24293, and everything working as expected. But if I try to upgrade to MQTTController build 25139, I'm getting the following errors on MSR UI:
An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.god
Last 11:20:37
An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.green
Last 11:20:37
An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.red
Last 11:20:37
An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto run" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.pump
Last 11:20:37
An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa watchdog" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.status
Last 11:20:37
My MQTT configuration (local_mqtt_devices.yaml) for the related entity is:
layzspa_message:
type: ValueSensor
capabilities: ["temperature_sensor", "value_sensor", "power_sensor"]
primary_attribute: power_sensor.value
events:
"layzspa/message":
"power_sensor.value":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.PWR )'
expr: "float(payload.PWR)"
"value_sensor.air":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AIR )'
expr: "float(payload.AIR)"
"value_sensor.pump":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.FLT )'
expr: "float(payload.FLT)"
"value_sensor.god":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GOD )'
expr: "float(payload.GOD)"
"value_sensor.lock":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.LCK )'
expr: "float(payload.LCK)"
"value_sensor.unit":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.UNT )'
expr: "float(payload.UNT)"
"value_sensor.error":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.ERR )'
expr: "float(payload.ERR)"
"temperature_sensor.green":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GRN )'
expr: "float(payload.GRN)"
"temperature_sensor.red":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.RED )'
expr: "float(payload.RED)"
"temperature_sensor.target":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TGT )'
expr: "float(payload.TGT)"
"temperature_sensor.value":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TMP )'
expr: "float(payload.TMP)"
"temperature_sensor.virtual":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.VTM )'
expr: "round(float(payload.VTM), 1)"
"temperature_sensor.ambient":
json_payload: true
if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AMB )'
expr: "float(payload.AMB)"
"layzspa/Status":
"value_sensor.status":
if_expr: '! isnull( payload )'
expr: "payload"
"layzspa/button":
"value_sensor.button":
if_expr: '! isnull( payload )'
expr: "payload"
and in reactor.yaml I have:
"layzspa_states":
name: "Lay-Z-Spa States"
friendly_name: 'Lay-Z-Spa States'
include: layzspa_message
I realize my MQTT configuration might be a bit unorthodox, but could there still be something unintentional in the latest MQTTController build? If needed, I can provide detailed logs.
Since today is my birthday - and I still pretend to be unconventional - I'm giving away a present to this wonderful community and I'm releasing my first OpenSprinkler controller for MSR. It was real fun to code it - and while it's still WIP, it seems to work OK for me. It's polling-based at the moment, but I'll add support for updates via MQTT very soon (it's already partially coded).
Get it at (install is similar to MQTTController and such):
https://github.com/dbochicchio/reactor-opensprinkler
Feel free to try it. It's beta software, but it's stable. I'll update it weekly until all the tasks from my todo list are empty.
Since I've learnt a lot from this controller, I'll explore new controllers soon.
Good day all,
I'm in the process of trying to shut down my 10 year old Linux home server that served many purposes, but primarily it's what I used for my NAS/Plex Media server. I migrated the NAS aspect of the server in November of last year to a true NAS solution (Ubiquti UNAS Pro), which is rack mount and much more efficient than my old tower, which it's only side benefit was heating my home office during the winter. Unfortunately it also means heating my home office during the summer, which were about to be in full swing.
I have two things running on this 10 year old server at this point. MSR and pi-hole. I'm running Plex Media Server on Fedora Workstation in Podman on mini PC, which is much more energy efficient than my old tower. My next step is to migrate MSR. I know there are images of MSR out there, and creating it is well documented. I'm going to be using Podman instead of Docker for various reasons, but they work very similar. What I don't know, is what I need to do to migrate my existing Bare Metal installation over to a container.
Has anyone done this? Any advice?
Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements
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Reactor build 25139
BARE-METAL USERS: You must execute the shell command
npm run depsin your Reactor install directory after upgrading, to update package dependencies. The UI may not start if you fail to do this. This advisory does not apply to docker containers.BARE-METAL USERS: nodejs version 18 is End of Life (EOL) as of April 30, 2025, and is no longer supported. For best results and longevity, upgrade to an even-numbered version of nodejs. The current LTS (Long Term Support) version (recommended) is 22 and will go EOL in April 2027.
BREAKING CHANGE FOR DEVELOPERS: If you use
Entity.registerAction()and specify a function, the target function now takes the canonical action name as its second argument, and the action parameters will be the third argument (the target entity remains the first argument). That is, the signature of the function has changed fromtargetFunc( entity, params)totargetFunc( entity, actionName, params).- Engine: Improve the approach of Rule State conditions to changes in the subject rule's state that don't end up changing the top-level rule state. This should considerably reduce potential throttling that can occur when inter-related/co-dependent rules change.
- Reactor UI: On the Entities list, fixed a minor display error in the display of atttribute values when an attribute other than the entity's primary is selected.
- Reactor UI: Reworked the URL routing so that linking to tabs and objects is possible. For this build, this will be most visible in many (but not all) of the Status tab widgets. More linking will be done in future. There's a lot more to do; please don't bother reporting areas where objects are not linked at this time.
- Reactor UI: The Rule Sets offcanvas navigation now has a search field that allows you to search for a rule by name.
- Upgraded some packages used by Reactor to maintainer's latest versions.
- HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.5.2
ZWaveJSController build 25139
- Minor bug fixes for initialization of devices with scene controller capability.
MQTTController build 25139
NOTE: Uses latest
mqttpackage, which is version 5.11 as of this writing. You must runnpm run depsin the MQTTController install directory to update the package.- New template support for Shelly Plus 1PM (use
include: shellyplus1pm) and Shelly 1 Mini Gen3 (useinclude: shelly1minig3). - The
querydirective in a device configuration now supports payload construction using the same semantics as that for action payload constructions. Principally, this gives you access toexprfor query payloads, which facilitates more dynamic construction of payload fields where devices or templates need. - New inbound topic
reactor/:ident/Reaction/:reaction_id/:command; thecommandmay berun,stop, orqueryto run (enqueue), stop (if running), or query the status of the specified global or Ruleset-based Reaction. You cannot run, stop, or query the state of the SET or RESET Reactions in a Rule. Thequerycommand requires Reactor build 25111 or higher for accurate response.
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Reactor STABLE Update
The stable branch of Reactor is now updated to build 25139. Please scroll back and see the changes and advisories listed for builds here since the previous stable branch build (which was 24257, 13-Sep-2024), or whatever build you are currently running.
ALL USERS: It's always recommended to back up your Reactor system before upgrading.
IMPORTANT: Bare-metal users (only) need to do the following:
- Update dependent packages by executing
npm run depsin the Reactor install directory. - Reactor no longer supports nodejs versions before 20. If you are running on an earlier version, please upgrade nodejs before upgrading to this build, and make sure your current environment is working. Once you are sure Reactor is happy on the upgraded nodejs, then and only then should you upgrade Reactor to this new stable build. An even-numbered LTS (Long-Term Support) version of nodejs is recommended; the current LTS version is 22.
- If you are running extension controllers like ZWaveJSController or MQTTController in your configuration, you will need to upgrade those to their respective latest versions.
- Update dependent packages by executing
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Reactor build 25208
- Status page: fix an issue placing the widget adder tool the first time (i.e. on a new browser or after flushing cache/cookies).
- HTTP Request action now offers storage of the query response in "advanced form." This is a structure (object) that includes the response body as well as the response status, messages, and response headers. The simple form (store body or null) is the default and all existing HTTP Request actions will use the simple form response unless/until modified.
- Telegram notifications now support photo and video messages. To send a photo or video message, select the appropriate Message Format and place the URL or filename in the Message field. Telegram's limits for file type and size must be observed (refer to Telegram's documentation).
- HassController: Configuration for
filter_entitynow accepts regular expressions to match to entity IDs (i.e. it can now do pattern matching, not just match exact strings). Specify regular expressions in/regexp/flagsform (e.g./^update./ito match IDs that begin withupdate., case insensitive; flags are optional, and the only flag supported right now isifor case-insensitive matching). - HassController will requery for service data if the lookup of service data from the startup query does not have the needed info. This can occur when an integration is not fully up and running when HA restarts -- HA will only report on services for fully running integrations at the time. The requery updates the service data for integrations that start later.
- HassController remove old entity mapping configuration that was preventing a mutable attribute (
dimming.step) from being changed by the user permanently. - Expressions: new
geodist()extension function to compute Great Circle Distance between two points (presumably on Earth). See docs for details. Example:kilometers = geodist( lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2 ) - HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.7.3
