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    (Last Updated: 21 April 2022)
    • [Solved] Expressions - predefining a variable type

      PerH

      I have a use case where I need to have a boolean variable that will be set to true/false by reactions.

      I see that i can define a local variable by giving it a name and leaving the definition empty. This leaves it at state "null" until a reaction tells it that its a boolean.

      Is there a way to tell it that it should start out as "false" (i.e when reactor has restarted), and not null?

      Am i going about this the wrong way?

      -- The use case is that I have a sensor on my fireplace, and the following logic is for notifying when its time to get up en refill with firewood.. I also want to reset the MaxInInterval to CurrentTemp when notification is sent..

      1fd2951f-cb6b-4a2f-b957-1e0698171f4d-image.png dd99634e-f0ad-4878-bb87-0284c2df5535-image.png

      Edit: better screenhots. Reactor version 23010-7dd2c9e9

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Trying to add second Hubitat controller

      R

      Converting from Vera Plus to Hubitat at two different locations. The two sites are interconnected via a router-to-router VPN. I currently have a Hubitat C7 running at Site One and a Vera Plus at Site Two. The MSR Raspberry Pi is co-located with the Vera Plus at Site Two. I "activated" a Hubitat C8 (ethernet connected) at Site Two including the installation of Hub Information Driver and its associated device. I also installed a single zwave outlet module (GE ZW4202). I restarted MSR. The C8 and its associated devices appear on both the Entities page and the MSR Dashboard, but the C8 reports as down on the MSR Status page and the GE outlet does not respond when "clicked". I am not sure where to look to try to find the source of the problem and will greatly appreciate any suggestions.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements

      toggledbits

      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.
      Multi-System Reactor
    • Home assistant addon: Import Vera/Openluup backup

      R

      Hi guys,

      I want to import my reactor sensors in the MSR addon for Home Assistant, but I can't find the app.js file anywhere. So now I don't know where to put the backup file.

      I have not tried to put it in the main directory (config/reactor) yet. Wanted to know if I'm the only one with the problem.

      Reactor addon: v0.0.8
      MSR: 23063-c464b685
      Home Assistant 2023.3.3
      Supervisor 2023.03.1
      Operating System 9.5
      Frontend 20230202.0 - latest

      I started with v0.0.7, have just updated everything. Still no file.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • MQTT Controller and extended capabilities

      M

      I'm a little bit confused how to configure extended capabilities for the entities in the MQTTController.

      mqtt_cababilities.yaml states that: "...You can add your own capabilities by adding a "capabilities" section to your own local_mqtt_capabilities.yaml file in your config directory."

      So I did this in my local_mqtt_capabilities.yaml in the config directory:

      version: 22353 revision: 1 format: 1 capabilities: x_my_config: attributes: partyMode: type: bool actions: some_action: topic: '%topic/write' payload: "some value"

      And in my reactor.yaml I have following configuration entry:

      my-config: name: 'My custom configuration' topic: 'my-config' query: "%topic%/read" init: "%topic%/read" capabilities: - x_my_config primary_attribute: x_my_config.partyMode events: "%topic%/status": "x_my_config.partyMode": json_payload: true expr: "payload.partyMode"

      This sort of works but not quite. The partyMode attribute gets updated when messages arrive for that specific topic, so that's fine. But I don't see x_my_config capability in the Capabilities list in the UI and also the some_action is missing.

      Screenshot from 2023-03-09 19-42-49.png

      Addition to that the primary value is not set and I'm getting the following error:
      Screenshot from 2023-03-09 19-30-42.png

      Have I completely misunderstood the idea behind the capability extension and the attributes? If so, could someone point me to the right direction with few explanatory example configs.

      What I'm trying to achieve is a set of configuration options that could be updated thru the MQTT, and also provide some actions that the rules could invoke.

      Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-23063-c464b685 + MQTTController [0.1.23010]

      br,
      mgvra

      Multi-System Reactor
    • localization settings

      tunnus

      Using the following localization settings in reactor.yaml:

      units: metric locale: fi-FI time_format: "%H:%M:%S" date_format: "%d/%m/%Y"

      But still I'm getting US date & time formatting, so settings do not seem to override defaults? Using 23049 on Synology Docker

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Installing MQTTController on Home Assistant Core when Reactor is installed as an Add-In (VirtualBox)

      W

      Running Home Assistant Core under VirtualBox (on Windows) and Reactor is installed and working fine as an add-in. What I can't figure out is how to install MQTTController in this situation. I can upload the files and unzip them, but I can't run install.sh in a terminal window because npm is not a part of the Core installation.

      It does appear that somewhere in the stack there is a version of docker there between VirtualBox and HA, (I see some references go by in the VirtualBox startup log) but it appears minimal and will not execute the install via the docker technique in your documentation from the VB console.

      Is there a way to do this?

      Thanks.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Home Assistant add-on

      M

      I've done a bit of repackaging of MSR to make it work as an add-on under Home Assistant mostly for my own purposes but hopefully it makes it a bit easier to install and get going.

      GitHub - mrw298/hassio-reactor-addon GitHub - mrw298/hassio-reactor-addon

      Contribute to mrw298/hassio-reactor-addon development by creating an account on GitHub.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Does order matter in Reactions Set/Reset

      G

      @toggledbits somewhere I thought I read that MSR goes thru the items in set reaction and reset reaction in stack order, ie from top to bottom/first to last.

      Am I mistaken?

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Reactor: How to call Hass service for noob

      W

      Reactor 23063 running on Windows Bare Metal.
      Home assistant 2023.3.1
      ESPHome 2023.2.4

      I've been trying a few ways using some results from search to call a Hass service as a reaction in a Reactor rule.

      Specifically, when the PIR in the room senses motion, wake the NsPanel screen.

      My Reactions otherwise so far are basic If this then that so I'm way behind what others are doing.

      What I want to call as a Reaction:
      Capture1.PNG

      What I've tried (a few variations on):
      Capture2.PNG

      What happens:

      [latest-23063]2023-03-07T07:45:21.688Z <wsapi:ERR> wsapi: error thrown handling client message [Object]{ "command": "perform", "entity": "WOKHASS1>system", "action": "x_hass_system.call_service", "parameters": { "service": "ESPHome: nspensuite_send_command_printf", "data": "page home" }, "qid": 75 } [latest-23063]2023-03-07T07:45:21.688Z <wsapi:CRIT> TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading '1') [-] TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading '1') at HassController.performOnEntity (C:\reactor\reactor\server\lib\HassController.js:584:108) at System.perform (C:\reactor\reactor\server\lib\Entity.js:707:56) at WSAPI.clientMessage (C:\reactor\reactor\server\wsapi\wsapi.js:499:48) at WebSocket.<anonymous> (C:\reactor\reactor\server\wsapi\wsapi.js:290:158) at WebSocket.emit (node:events:520:28) at WebSocket.emit (node:domain:475:12) at Receiver.receiverOnMessage (C:\reactor\reactor\node_modules\ws\lib\websocket.js:1059:20) at Receiver.emit (node:events:520:28) at Receiver.emit (node:domain:475:12) at Receiver.dataMessage (C:\reactor\reactor\node_modules\ws\lib\receiver.js:517:14)

      If someone can convert the 'call service' to a 'reaction' for me, or share their own similar thing I think that's what I need to achieve this goal.

      I suspect if I'm even close to being on the right track, my problems are probably formatting like curly braces etc and lack thereof.

      Thanks in advance.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Reactor Ex Machina

      G

      @toggledbits was looking thru rule sets and updating which (new) lights I wanted REMII to impact and saw that this...

      4711b0df-5e98-4992-bb25-d0e53203f0e8-image.png

      ...is showing as (missing) in the rule Deactivatedand looking in the dropdown of Variables it appears I cannot select that local expression (only Global) as I did when originally building this out back in 2021.

      27f7025c-057e-441a-88ea-dc4bdf39614d-image.png

      In looking at the rule Active Period I'm seeing:
      487074ef-3bfa-4a84-b03d-ed6d920c118c-image.png which appears to be pointing to setting a variable in a rule?

      It's admittedly been a couple years since this was built and it's def not fresh in my memory.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • No drop-down list on Entity Attribute in "Creation Rule Sets" interface

      C

      New installation of Reactor version 23063-c464b685 on a Raspberry PI4 with Portainer/Docker.
      Report :
      No drop-down list on Entity Attribute in "Creation Rule Sets" interface
      I can however visualize the entities.
      I have configured HomeAssistant and all entities are coming up fine.
      I have an unsupported Hass version 2023.3.0b5.
      I'm new to Docker and can someone guide me to a solution?
      Christian FABRE

      Alert:
      reactor_20230305_01.png Rule :
      reactor_20230305_02.png Entities:
      reactor_20230305_03.png log Reactor :

      [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.575Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/arm64 #1595 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 26 11:07:24 BST 2022; locale (undefined) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.576Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.577Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.584Z <app:INFO> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.708Z <app:INFO> Loaded locale en-US for en-US [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.725Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v22323 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.729Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v22356 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.806Z <Capabilities:NOTICE> System capabilities loaded from core distribution, data version 23058 revision 1 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.849Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.869Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.878Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.889Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23044 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.926Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.928Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.943Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v22146 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.977Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v22345 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.987Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:49.995Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v22345 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.004Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.008Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v23001 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.019Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v23058 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.078Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v23053 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.080Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Structure... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.100Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure#1 plugin ID influx disabled; skipping [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.106Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface hass (HassController) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.210Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v23060 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.639Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface groups (DynamicGroupController) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.649Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.659Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface reactor_system (SystemController) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.672Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22306 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.680Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller HassController#hass [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.682Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass starting... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.691Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded hass capabilities ver 22312 rev 2 format 1 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.715Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded implementation data ver 23058 rev 1 format 1 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.715Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller DynamicGroupController#groups [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.728Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller DynamicGroupController#groups is now online. [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.728Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.733Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.877Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.881Z <HassController:WARN> HassController: implementation of capability input_select.selector does not provide attribute values [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.884Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.1.31:8123/api/websocket [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.894Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.901Z <httpapi:NOTICE> httpapi: starting HTTP service on port "8111" [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.909Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.910Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.911Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.916Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.923Z <Engine:INFO> Data check complete; no corrections. [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.938Z <Rule:NOTICE> rule-leu8xfe4 (rule-leu8xfe4 in First Rule Set) starting [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.939Z <Engine:NOTICE> Reaction Engine running! [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.939Z <Rule:NOTICE> rule-leu8xfe4 (rule-leu8xfe4 in First Rule Set) can't start -- rule is disabled [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.952Z <httpapi:NOTICE> httpapi: listening [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.981Z <app:NOTICE> Starting WSAPI... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:50.983Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: starting version 23053 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.080Z <Engine:INFO> [Engine]Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "3/5/2023 10:51:51 AM" (TZ offset 60 mins from UTC) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.119Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.127Z <httpapi:INFO> httpapi: API request from ::ffff:192.168.1.42: GET /api/v1/systime [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.145Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with ws://192.168.1.31:8123; fetching initial data... [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.155Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2023.3.0b5" location Maison timezone Europe/Paris state RUNNING safe_mode false [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.245Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.home_assistant_supervisor_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.248Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.home_assistant_core_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.249Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.terminal_ssh_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.250Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.file_editor_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.251Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.samba_backup_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.252Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for update.home_assistant_operating_system_update [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.253Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for sun.sun [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.285Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for calendar.calendrier [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.413Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for siren.piscine_siren [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.419Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass no signature match for camera.portillon [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.607Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.633Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller HassController#hass is now online. [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.634Z <DynamicGroupController:INFO> All controllers ready, setting up dynamic groups [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:51.726Z <wsapi:INFO> wsapi: connection from ::ffff:192.168.1.42 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:55.510Z <wsapi:INFO> client "192.168.1.42#1" closed, code=1001, reason= [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:55.815Z <httpapi:INFO> httpapi: API request from ::ffff:192.168.1.42: GET /api/v1/lang [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:55.843Z <wsapi:INFO> wsapi: connection from ::ffff:192.168.1.42 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:51:56.849Z <httpapi:INFO> httpapi: API request from ::ffff:192.168.1.42: GET /api/v1/systime [latest-23063]2023-03-05T09:52:07.392Z <httpapi:INFO> httpapi: API request from ::ffff:192.168.1.42: GET /api/v1/systime---

      Log Portainer:

      NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.734Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-23063-c464b685 starting on v16.15.1 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.736Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/arm64 #1595 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 26 11:07:24 BST 2022; locale (undefined) [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.737Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.738Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.875Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v22323 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:17.879Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v22356 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.004Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.023Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.032Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.042Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23044 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.079Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.080Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.096Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v22146 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.129Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v22345 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.139Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.146Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v22345 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.156Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.159Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v23001 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.171Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v23058 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.232Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v23053 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.358Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v23060 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.780Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [latest-23063]2023-03-05T08:55:18.803Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22306```
      Multi-System Reactor
    • Evaluating variables redux

      CatmanV2

      Sorry for another dumb question. Migrating from Vera Alexa to HASS Vera TTS. MSR is on bare metal, Debian Bullseye version 23049

      I can get TTS from MSR and basic TTS from MSR which is great!

      Trying to get some of the variables I used to use though is stumping me.

      In the original MSR, I'd use:

      It is now ${{OutingDays}} days until we go to ${{OutingName}}. , Sleep well!

      for example, and that worked fine (I've not bothered to list the variables as I know the worked)

      If I use

      { "message":"It is now${{OutingDays}} days until we go to ${{OutingName}}. , Sleep well!", "data":{"type":"announce", "method":"speak"}, "target":["media_player.everywhere"] }

      In the data field of the hass service system call it doesn't evaluate the variables (Not really surprised)

      So might someone take mercy on me and give me a clue?

      TIA

      C

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Virtual Device for Vacations

      therealdb

      I'm back from a vacation and it was the first winter one with MSR.

      I have a special vacation mode that's auto-setting after the house is in away mode for at least 18 hours - and that's mostly OK. In this mode, lights are turned on/off automatically, some things are off to preverse powers, etc. Thermostats are automatically set at 17C unless there's solar power. That's mostly OK, except when you have to deal with winters and clouds on the day back home.

      Long story short: back from vacation, we found the house at 17C - wife wasn't impressed.

      Back in the luup days I had a special override, that I forgot to port to MSR, that was basically like this in MSR (coded on the fly):

      32298706-86f7-451e-9700-2baf5d5a23b6-image.png

      So, I could tell my system when I'm on vacation and have a last day flag to re-set the house to normal behavior before I'm back. It was just two strings variable in a virtual binary sensor.

      I don't want to code this in global expressions, so I'm wondering if it's possible to accomplish this with a Virtual Device, but I'm failing to visualize the correct answer and I'm here for inspiration for what others are doing to tackle this.

      I don't want to create 4 separate devices (start date, end date, status, last day) in order to keep it easy and I want to be able to change the start/end date from the UI, to simplify things. Any hint is appreciated 🙂

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Critical Disk Space Warning

      T

      I updated to the latest version of Reactor this morning. I run reactor (successfully) on a Raspberry PI 4 4GB with SSD 64GB. I also run Home Assistant in Docker. After updating I noticed a disk space critical error warning!

      9f4e1ea1-977a-481b-9806-d3d43a4eff04-image.png

      I have tried purging the docker install (docker image prune -a)

      I have rebooted the Raspberry PI also, and the error messages keep coming.

      I have the following disk space:

      58742ed7-e10d-4572-b380-0abda64f90b4-image.png

      How do I free up space?

      Any help would be appreciated.

      Multi-System Reactor
    • Is it possible to use a single reaction for multiple entities as variables?

      T

      Good morning,
      I'm trying to recreate some notifications I received on my old Vera system based upon House mode. I migrated from Vera to Home Assistant about 6 months ago, and all the automation I have set up are working great, however, I'm noticing that there were things that were once simple in Vera that are more involved in Home Assistant.

      In House Modes in Vera, there was a screen where I could select all the devices I wanted to be armed in various house modes. I recreated those house modes in Home Assistant very early on, but what I'm not getting now is notifications for various sensors. For instance, if the system is in Away mode, and interior motion is detected, I would get a Vera push notification on my phone. I've been setting these up one by one using haas>system --> x_haas_system.call_service, then setting the notify device and the message, one by one, but it's repetitious and tedious. For a few devices, like motion sensors on my ground floor, it's not a big deal, but now I'm looking at all the windows in my home, which have sensors on them.

      So, enough of the background thesis. Simply put, is there a way to have a group of devices ( like 16 different window sensors ) as an entity, and when they are tripped, send out a notification and state which of those sensors was tripped, all in a single rule?

      If I have to copy and edit 16 different rules, I'll do that, but I'd prefer a more elegant way where there is one rule to send out the notifications that tells me what was opened.

      Thanks for all your advice/help in advance.

      I'm running MSR latest-23049-1fd87c91 and Home Assistant 2023.2.5, Supervisor 2023.01.1, Operating System 9.5,

      BTW, @toggledbits, I noticed on the About screen for MSR it still shows copyright from 2022. I know you've released versions this year.

      Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-23049-1fd87c91 © 2020-2022 Kedron Holdings LLC, All Rights Reserved; Patrick Rigney (toggledbits), Principal Engineer.

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    • [solved-ish] Reset Reaction doesn't allow multiple Conditions in Groups

      G

      I'd like the "None deferred" Reset Reaction group to have multiple Conditions. Is this not possible?

      Running latest version of MSR, 23049-1fd87c91

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    • [Solved] Hubitat Hub Information Driver v3 and probe device

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      I have upgraded my Hubitat Hub Information Driver to v3 and after the latest MSR update latest-23028 MSR is working ok. The problem is when MSR probes the device it appears to affect the polling in the new Hub Information Device and its data does not update the data fields in Hubitat. If I remove the Hub Information Device from Maker API so MSR can't see it, The Hub information driver updates the data as expected in Hubitat. I added the device back into Maker API the same problem returns in Hubitat. I have tried to have MSR probe a different device by adding a different probe device and probe action in the reactor.yaml per the documentation but it appears then it still uses the Hub Information Device as the probe device instead of the one specified in the reactor.yaml. See Logs below. Is this the intended behavior to always use the Hub Information Driver if found and not use the device in the reactor.yaml file? Any recommendations on how to get MSR and the v3 of the driver to work correctly or can you see what I am doing wrong?

      [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.471Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller HassController#hass is now online. [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.471Z <Rule:INFO> Internet Check (rule-l44qss4f in Home) starting evaluation; because entity-changed System#reactor_system>system [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.471Z <Rule:INFO> MSR Update Version Available (rule-labweim2 in Notify) starting evaluation; because entity-changed System#reactor_system>system [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> Internet Check (rule-l44qss4f in Home) trigger evaluation result is false (previously false) [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> Internet Check (rule-l44qss4f in Home) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> MSR Update Version Available (rule-labweim2 in Notify) trigger evaluation result is false (previously false) [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> MSR Update Version Available (rule-labweim2 in Notify) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> Internet Check (rule-l44qss4f in Home) evaluation complete [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.472Z <Rule:INFO> MSR Update Version Available (rule-labweim2 in Notify) evaluation complete [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.673Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat Maker API responded with 91 devices [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.766Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat found 'Hub Information Driver v3' device #"481"; using for probe/health checks. [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.780Z <Controller:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.780Z <Rule:INFO> Roku Pause (rule-l3nlrzu9 in Home) starting evaluation; because entity-changed BinarySensor#hubitat>519 [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.780Z <Rule:INFO> Stairs Light Low Light (rule-kulslls9 in Living Room) starting evaluation; because entity-changed BinarySensor#hubitat>519 [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.780Z <Rule:INFO> Porch Motion Extended check (rule-l3kr45m8 in Porch) starting evaluation; because entity-changed BinarySensor#hubitat>519 [latest-23028]2023-02-11T23:27:50.780Z <Rule:INFO> Porch Light Manual On (rule-kmtxw155 in Porch) starting evaluation; because entity-changed BinarySensor#hubitat>519

      Snippet from the reactor.yaml:

      # action_pace: 100 # warn_unresponsive: true # probe_device: hubitat>132 (not needed if Hub Information app installed) probe_device: hubitat>2 # probe_action: x_hubitat_Configuration.configure (not needed if Hub Information app installed) probe_action: x_hubitat_Configuration.configure # probe_action: x_hubitat_Refresh.refresh

      Synology Docker latest-23028
      Hubitat v2.3.4.139
      Hub Information Driver v3

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    • Home assistant Native Notification

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      @toggledbits

      Hey Patrick,
      I’m trying to figure out how to run Home Assistant native push notifications from MSR. I have MSR set up to arm my home alarm every night, and when all users are out of the home. I’ve used it for years through Reactor, and it works fine, but when I ran Vera and Reactor for Vera, I would get notifications from Vera when Vera went into different home modes. (Home, Away, Night, etc). I’ve set up Home Modes in HA as well, so I’m looking to get the native push notifications from the HA companion app (i.e., System in Home Mode, System Armed Away, or Good Night, etc) Can I set up notifications from MSR to use those native push notifications, or does that need to be done from HA exclusively?

      I’m running latest-23028-ddc3fb14 and Home Assistant 2023.1.7.

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    • Play music in random order with Sonos playlists/favorites?

      F

      Hi!
      I have MSR latest-23049-1fd87c91 and Home Assistant 2023.2.5.
      Every friday and saturday evening I have an active reaction/automation; if any adult is home and someone is in the kitchen, music starts playing from Sonos. That works great. I have different playlists and artist radios for each friday and saturday per month (1:st, 2:nd, ...) Some evenings when I don't play an artist radio, but an ordinary playlist, the songs are always played in the same order. I would like to randomize and stir things up. Is it possible, if so, how, to make Sonos play the songs from a Sonos playlist in random order? I always play playlists that is characterized as my Sonos favorites.
      Cheers!
      /Fanan

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    • Crille
      Crille last edited by

      @toggledbits Is there a way to get Current Alerts as an entity so I could monitor those and send notifications if needed.
      My usecase is sometimes openLuup crashes and MSR picks that up pretty quick, sending a pushover notification to me would get my attention to restart it.
      Of course there are many ways to monitor connectivity but since MSR already is doing that it would be neat to take advantage of it.

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      • toggledbits
        toggledbits last edited by

        Why don't you just condition the sys_system.state attribute of the openLuup controller's system entity?

        Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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        • Crille
          Crille @toggledbits last edited by

          @toggledbits Because I did not see that when I first looked for it 🙂
          Excellent, just what i needed, thank you!

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            Alan_F last edited by

            Resurrecting this older thread... does this answer mean there is no way to react to the presence of an alert within MSR? If not, this would be a useful enhancement.

            I have a camera that is switched between day and night settings by http requests sent by MSR near sunset and sunrise. Yesterday the camera stayed in night mode most of the day while there was an alert showing in MSR that the http request had failed. I realize I could capture the http response to an expression/variable and then write a rule based on that variable to notify me, but I'd have to do this for every http request in every ruleset, and I'd have to make sure I evaluate the response correctly (which is likely to be a hit or miss operation for me). That still wouldn't capture other alerts that MSR might display outside of failed http requests, but I'd like to push all alerts to my notification system. Basically, I don't want to have to check the MSR interface to make sure it's happy, I'd like it to tell me when it's not.

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              Alan_F last edited by

              Just a note for posterity that alerts are now available as an entity as of version 21356.

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              • cw-kid
                cw-kid last edited by

                So how do you translate an MSR system generated alert like a HTTP Request faiiing

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                In to a rules trigger ?

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                Thanks

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                • toggledbits
                  toggledbits last edited by toggledbits

                  The reactor_system.alerts attribute value is an array of objects. Each element/object contains keys id, severity, message, timestamp.

                  Here's an expression that would return an array of messages containing the words "HTTP request" in the message field. You can put this into a local expression of your rule.

                  each alert in getEntity( 'reactor_system>system' ).attributes.reactor_system.alerts: 
                      find( alert.message, "HTTP request", "i" ) >= 0 ? alert : null
                  

                  If the result of the array has non-zero length, an HTTP error has occurred. You can either just wrap the above expression in len() or use a second local expression (sometimes it's nice to keep them separate so you can more easily see what it's doing).

                  EDIT: Fixed the match string in find()

                  Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                    Alan_F @toggledbits last edited by

                    @toggledbits I was playing with this for about an hour, using it as an exercise to try to get better with arrays and the expression syntax. I created a rule that made a bad http request in order to throw an http request error.

                    I managed to get to a point where I could concatenate all the alert messages into a single string in an expression. That could then have been used in a rule that checked that expression for 'contains HTTP request'.

                    The expression you posted above seems like a quicker way to get to the same result, so I tried using it, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

                    When I remove the 'find' and just return the alert.messge using:

                    each alert in getEntity ( 'reactor_system>system' ).attributes.reactor_system.alerts: alert.message
                    

                    I get:

                    Last value: (array:1) ["Reaction "Test Rule<SET>" (rule-kxkgh72o:S) step 1 HTTP request failed"]

                    But your full expression from above returns this:

                    Last value: (array:0) []

                    It seems like the 'find' part of the expression isn't matching.

                    However if I create the following expressions:

                    g_array_alert_messages = each alert in getEntity ( 'reactor_system>system' ).attributes.reactor_system.alerts: alert.message
                    

                    and

                    g_str_alert_messages = join (g_array_alert_messages, " | ")
                    

                    I get a pipe separated string of all the alert messages that I could use in a rule.

                    p.s. I also learned that if you point an expression at the alerts, and then use bad syntax in that expression, you can easily create a loop and raise the repeat alert counter to 50,000+ pretty quickly. Thank goodness for the throttling limits, since I also have a rule that sends a notification to my phone whenever an alert is raised and that only fired once per minutes, not 10,000 per minute.

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                    • toggledbits
                      toggledbits last edited by toggledbits

                      Whoops, sorry, the find() is trying to match at the beginning of the string, just remove the ^ from the find match string. I fixed it in that post and tagged the edit.

                      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                      • cw-kid
                        cw-kid @toggledbits last edited by

                        @toggledbits said in Notifications from Alerts:

                        EDIT: Fixed the match string in find()

                        That works now, it lists the latest alert error for "HTTP Request"

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                        If there are also other alerts errors still listed in that area of the GUI for "HTTP Request Failed" how would you also get those as well in to an expression value ?

                        Also is there a way to clear / delete a particular error alert via a rule / code ?

                        Thanks

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                        • toggledbits
                          toggledbits @cw-kid last edited by

                          @cw-kid said in Notifications from Alerts:

                          If there are also other alerts errors still listed in that area of the GUI for "HTTP Request Failed" how would you also get those as well in to an expression value ?

                          You're already doing it. The each produces an array of all matching values. The result you are showing is just an array of 1 element because there is only 1 match.

                          Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                            • cw-kid
                              cw-kid @toggledbits last edited by

                              @toggledbits

                              Sorry I didn't see that there were two ID's listed in that expressions output. So you are right it does appear to be showing both alerts that contain the words "Http request".

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                              • cw-kid
                                cw-kid last edited by

                                Trigger:

                                Not sure if this is the best trigger to use?

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                                Local Expression:

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                                Action:

                                Send a Telegram notification with the contents of the local expression value / text.

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                                However in Telegram I just get this:

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                                • toggledbits
                                  toggledbits last edited by

                                  First, it will never be null, so that's not a valid test (I mentioned that here).

                                  For your message text, you probably need to convert it from an array to a formatted string that is actually readable. This has been covered a bunch as well (even in this very thread), so I won't give away an answer... better to practice! 🙂

                                  Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                                  • cw-kid
                                    cw-kid @toggledbits last edited by

                                    @toggledbits said in Notifications from Alerts:

                                    it will never be null

                                    Maybe I can use Variable value "is not empty" instead? As the trigger.

                                    I also tried using a Join expression to get some formatted text out of it but I still just get this:

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                                      Alan_F @cw-kid last edited by

                                      @cw-kid

                                      Here's what I have... I want to be notified on all alerts, and I only want to include the message from the most recent alert in the notification. I also needed to remove the escaped quotes (") from the message string because it was messing with my notification where I was inserting the expression into the http call.

                                      So:

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                                      g_alerts_array = get all the alerts

                                      g_last_alert = get only the alert where the timestamp == alert_last timestamp

                                      g_last_alert_replaced = remove the " from the alert message string

                                      I realize there is probably some way to combine all of these into one expression, but I was getting errors when I tried wrapping the "first" and "replace" functions around the alerts array expression.

                                      Then in my rule:

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                                      If you only want http errors, then you'll have to modify the above expressions to find only those, as Patrick showed above. You'd also have to use a different trigger, as you don't want to fire the event every time the alert_last changes, as some of those won't be http errors.

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                                      • toggledbits
                                        toggledbits @cw-kid last edited by toggledbits

                                        @cw-kid said in Notifications from Alerts:

                                        I also tried using a Join expression to get some formatted text out of it but I still just get this:

                                        The reason your join() doesn't work as expected is that the array contains objects, not strings. @Alan_F gives an option, but he uses first so only one alert, not in array, would result.

                                        Good efforts all around though. Let's fill in some details...

                                        When writing complex expressions, and particularly as you're learning the expression language, it's often better to break it down into pieces as @Alan_F has done. For what you seem to want to do, you started with filtering the array:

                                        Alerts_HTTP_Failed = each alert in getEntity( 'reactor_system>system' ).attributes.reactor_system.alerts: 
                                            find( alert.message, "HTTP request", "i" ) >= 0 ? alert : null
                                        

                                        This gives you an array of objects (as we've established) of only the HTTP request errors. From there, you want to get to just the message strings, but all of them, not just one/the first, so you'll use each again:

                                        HTTP_Fail_Messages = each alert in Alerts_HTTP_Failed: alert.message
                                        

                                        That simple expression loops over the objects in the array and extracts just the message field. The result of that is a new array of strings, rather than an array of objects. From there, join...

                                        HTTP_Messages_String = join( HTTP_Fail_Messages, "; " )
                                        

                                        And as they say, Robert is your mother's brother.

                                        Doing it all together:

                                        join( each alert in getEntity( 'reactor_system>system' ).attributes.reactor_system.alerts:
                                            find( alert.message, "HTTP request", "i" ) >= 0 ? alert.message : null, "; " )
                                        

                                        If it looks like I left out a step, I did, in a way... rather than having the filter loop return objects, this version just returns the message (strings) directly as an array, so it eliminates that middleman and can then be passed directly into join().

                                        @alan_f said in Notifications from Alerts:

                                        g_last_alert_replaced = remove the " from the alert message string

                                        Although the quotes look funny in the display, I don't think they will bother anything in use, as the notifiers are built to digest/handle such special characters properly.

                                        Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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                                          Alan_F @toggledbits last edited by Alan_F

                                          @toggledbits I'm using a self-hosted notification system (Gotify) so when I said 'send notification' it would have been more precise to say "use as the JSON content in an http post request". The " definitely broke the request when it was substituted in to the middle of the request body. I also tried to urlencode the string but while that didn't break the request, it was super ugly as it passed all the encoded characters into the displayed message. I'm not very proficient at regex, so it took an online regex tester and a bit of trial and error to arrive at the right number of backslashes to finally make it work.

                                          Another lesson learned: turn off 'auto evaluate expression' when trying to write expressions that refer to the alerts, 'cause if you get the expression wrong and throw an alert that causes the expression to reevaluate which throws an alert... I had to restart my Reactor Docker container a few times before I turned off 'auto evaluate' ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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                                          • toggledbits
                                            toggledbits @Alan_F last edited by

                                            @alan_f said in Notifications from Alerts:

                                            it would have been more precise to say "use as the JSON content in an http post request". The " definitely broke the request when it was substituted in to the middle of the request body.

                                            That would depend on how you are building it. If you are just jamming it in as a string, that's definitely going to create problems. A better approach may be to build the payload as an actual object in the expressions, and then at the end, right before sending to Gotify, put it through the stringify() function, which will convert the object to a JSON string, and that will also handle the quotes correctly to produce valid JSON with the quotes embedded. That will spare you the agony of having to sanitize every string you might ever send.

                                            Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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