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I have a very strange situation, where if InfluxDB restarts, other containers may fail when restarting at the same time (under not easy to understand circumstances), and InfluxDB remains unreachable (and these containers crashes). I need to reboot these containers in an exact order, after rebooting InfluxDB. While I understand what's going on, I need a way to reliable determine that InfluxDB is not reachable and these containers are not reachable, in order to identify this situation and manually check what's going on - and, maybe, in the future, automatically restart them if needed. So, I was looking at HTTP Request action, but I need to capture the HTTP response code, instead of the response (becase if ping is OK, InfluxDB will reply with a 204), and, potentially, a way to programmatically detect that it's failing to get the response. While I could write a custom HTTP controller for this or a custom HTTP virtual device, I was wondering if this is somewhat on you roadmap @toggledbits Thanks!
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ZwaveJSUI - RGBWW BULB - Warm/Cold White interfered with RGB settings - Bulb doesn't change color if in WarmWhite state.
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Hi , I'm on -Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-25067-62e21a2d -Docker on Synology NAS -ZWaveJSUI 9.31.0.6c80945 Problem with ZwaveJSUI: When I try to change color to a bulb RGBWW, it doesn't change to the RGB color and the bulb remains warm or cold white. I tryed with Zipato RGBW Bulb V2 RGBWE2, Hank Bulb HKZW-RGB01, Aentec 6 A-ZWA002, so seems that it happens with all RGBWW bulb with reactor/zwavejsui. I'm using from reator the entity action: "rgb_color.set" and "rgb_color.set_rgb". After I send the reactor command, It changes in zwavejsui the rgb settings but doesn't put the white channel to "0", so the prevalent channel remains warm/cold White and the bulb doesn't change into the rgb color. This is the status of the bulb in zwavejsui after "rgb_color.set" (235,33,33,) and the bulb is still warmWhite. x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor={"warmWhite":204,"coldWhite":0,"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33} The "cold white" and "warm white" settings interfer with the rgb color settings. Reactor can change bulb colors with rgb_color set — (value, ui8, 0x000000 to 0xffffff) or rgb_color set_rgb — (red, green, blue, all ui1, 0 to 255) but if warm or cold white are not to "0", zwavejsui doesn't change them and I can't find a way to change into rgb or from rgb back to warm white. So if I use from reactor: rgb_color set_rgb — (235,33,33) in zwavejsui I have x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_targetColor={"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33} 14/03/2025, 16:43:57 - value updated Arg 0: └─commandClassName: Color Switch └─commandClass: 51 └─property: targetColor └─endpoint: 0 └─newValue └──red: 235 └──green: 33 └──blue: 33 └─prevValue └──red: 235 └──green: 33 └──blue: 33 └─propertyName: targetColor 14/03/2025, 16:43:57 - value updated Arg 0: └─commandClassName: Color Switch └─commandClass: 51 └─property: currentColor └─endpoint: 0 └─newValue └──warmWhite: 204 └──coldWhite: 0 └──red: 235 └──green: 33 └──blue: 33 └─prevValue └──warmWhite: 204 └──coldWhite: 0 └──red: 235 └──green: 33 └──blue: 33 └─propertyName: currentColor In zwavejsui, the bulb changes rgb set but warm White remains to "204" and the bulb remais on warm White channel bacause is prevalent on rgb set. x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_0=204 x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_1=0 x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_2=235 x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_3=33 x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_4=33 Is it possible to targetColor also for "warmWhite" and "coldWhite" and have something similar to this? x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_targetColor={"warmWhite":0,"coldWhite":0,"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33} Thanks in advance.
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I am getting a Runtime error on different browsers when I click exit when editing an existing or creating a new global reaction containing a group. If the global reaction does not have a group I don't get an error. I see a similar post on the forum about a Runtime Error when creating reactions but started a new thread as that appears to be solved. The Runtime Error is different in the two browsers Safari v18.3 @http://192.168.10.21:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/reaction-list.js:171:44 You may report this error, but do not screen shot it. Copy-paste the complete text. Remember to include a description of the operation you were performing in as much detail as possible. Report using the Reactor Bug Tracker (in your left navigation) or at the SmartHome Community. Google Chrome 133.0.6943.142 TypeError: self.editor.isModified is not a function at HTMLButtonElement.<anonymous> (http://192.168.10.21:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/reaction-list.js:171:34) You may report this error, but do not screen shot it. Copy-paste the complete text. Remember to include a description of the operation you were performing in as much detail as possible. Report using the Reactor Bug Tracker (in your left navigation) or at the SmartHome Community. Steps to reproduce: Click the pencil to edit a global reaction with a group. Click the Exit button. Runtime error appears. or Click Create Reaction Click Add Action Select Group Add Condition such as Entity Attribute. Add an Action. Click Save Click Exit Runtime error appears. I don’t know how long the error has been there as I haven’t edited the global reaction in a long time. Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-25060-f32eaa46 Docker Mac OS: 15.3.1 Thanks
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I am trying to delete a global expression (gLightDelay) but for some strange reason, it comes back despite clicking the Delete this expression and Save Changes buttons. I have not created a global expression for some times and just noticed this while doing some clean-up. I have upgraded Reactor to 25067 from 25060 and the behaviour is still there. I have restarted Reactor (as well as restarting its container) and cleared the browser's cache several times without success. Here's what the log shows. [latest-25067]2025-03-08T23:50:22.690Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 rpc_echo [Object]{ "comment": "UI activity" } [latest-25067]2025-03-08T23:50:26.254Z <GlobalExpression:NOTICE> Deleting global expression gLightDelay [latest-25067]2025-03-08T23:50:27.887Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 rpc_echo [Object]{ "comment": "UI activity" } Reactor latest-25067-62e21a2d Docker on Synology NAS
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Local notification methods?
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Morning, experts. Hard on learning about the internet check script in MSR tools, I was wondering what suggestions anyone has about a local (i.e. non-internet dependent) notification method. This was prompted by yesterday's fun and games with my ISP. I've got the script Cronned and working properly but short of flashing a light on and off, I'm struggling to think of a way of alerting me (ideally to my phone) I guess I could set up a Discord server at home, but that feels like overkill for a rare occasion. Any other suggestions? TIA C
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate the sonos-mqtt (https://sonos2mqtt.svrooij.io/) with the MSR and it's coming along nicely so far. But cannot wrap my head around how to define custom capabilities in MQTT templates. I need this for the TTS announcements and similarly for the notification sounds where I would pass the sound file as parameter. So this is what I have in the local_mqtt_devices.yaml capabilities: x_sonos_announcement: attributes: actions: speak: arguments: text: type: string volume: type: int delay: type: int And this is the template: templates: sonos-announcement: capabilities: - x_sonos_announcement actions: x_sonos_announcement: speak: topic: "sonos/cmd/speak" payload: expr: > { "text": parameters.text, "volume": parameters.volume, "delayMs": parameters.delay, "onlyWhenPlaying": false, "engine": "neural" } type: json So the speak action should send something like this to topic sonos/cmd/speak { "text": "message goes here", "volume": 50, "delayMs": 100, "onlyWhenPlaying": false, "engine": "neural" } At startup the MSR seems to be quite unhappy with my configuration: reactor | [latest-25016]2025-02-09T08:19:59.029Z <MQTTController:WARN> MQTTController#mqtt entity Entity#mqtt>sonos-announcement unable to configure capabilities [Array][ "x_sonos_announcement" ] reactor | i18n: missing fi-FI language string: Configuration for {0:q} is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: {1} reactor | i18n: missing fi-FI language string: Configuration for {0:q} has unrecognized capability {1:q} in actions reactor | Trace: Configuration for {0:q} is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: {1} reactor | at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:611:28) reactor | at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:125:25) reactor | at MQTTController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:627:30) reactor | at MQTTController.start (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:268:26) reactor | at async Promise.allSettled (index 0) Configuration for "sonos-announcement" has unrecognized capability "x_sonos_announcement" in actions Controller: MQTTController#mqtt Last 10:21:37 AM Configuration for "sonos-announcement" is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: x_sonos_announcement Controller: MQTTController#mqtt Last 10:21:37 AM This is probably a pretty stupid question and the approach may not even work at all, but maybe someone or @toggledbits for sure, could point me to the right direction. Basically the idea is to be able to send TTS messages from reactions using entity actions. I've previously used HTTP requests to Sonos HTTP API (https://hub.docker.com/r/chrisns/docker-node-sonos-http-api/) for the same functionality, but since moving to sonos-mqtt, I need a way to send the TTS notifications using MQTTController. Along with the actual message, volume and delay must also be parameterizable. br, mgvra MSR latest-25016-d47fea38 / MQTTController [0.2.24293]
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[SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
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Hi, @toggledbits I just noticed that following a reboot of my raspberry pi, some of the rules, that I was expecting to recover, are not catching up following a reboot. I have made a simple test rule (rule-m6rz6ol1) with only "after Date/time" as trigger and "turn on a lamp" as a set reaction. All my infrastructure is on the same board so Reactor, Hass, Zwavejs, ... are all rebooting. Here is the sequence of the test case (All time converted to Zulu to match logs): Rule "after Date/Time" set to 14:05:00z Shutdown on Raspberry Pi at 14:04:00z Power back up at 14:08:00z Rule overview shows true as of 14:08:14z waiting for 00:00:00 in GUI From the log I can see that MSR is picking up the rule and knows that the state of the rule has changed from false to true and tries to send the update to HASS but failed with websocket error. Here is what I see from the log: 14:04:04z shutdown complete 14:08:08z Power up 14:08:13.111z websocket connection 14:08:15:323z Reaction to the light failed, Websocket not opened After there is a series of websocket connection attempt until 14:08:51z where it seemed to be really ready. Back in 2021 we had a discussion (https://smarthome.community/topic/700/solved-start-up?_=1738766986566) and you proposed to add a startup_delay:xxxx and startup_wait:xxxx parameter in the engine section of "reactor.yaml". When I try the startup_delay (this used to be a hard delay), the engine failed to start (I think). I then try the startup_wait:xxxx without any success. Since it wait for the connection status to be up to cancel the delay, it does not do anyting since Hass is reporting the socket up without really being up ( I think...). Questions: Did I figured it all wrong? should the startup_delay:xxxxx have worked? Any ideas? Here is the log: OK now I am stuck. I did add the log but when I submit the editor complained saying that I am limited to 32767 characters. The log from the shutdown to the time the websocket is stable is about 300000 character long. What are my options?
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Having trouble with http and basic auth

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    I'm trying to move a Vera scene over to MSR and having trouble getting the authentication to work. The use case is to send http commands to a Dahua camera twice a day to change its mode.

    In Vera it works by simply using the username and password in the URL. e.g. luup.inet.wget("user:password@IPaddress/configManager.cgi?action=..." , 5)

    This format didn't work from a reactor http call, resulting in a 401 error. I tried moving the username and password to the http request headers section (Authentication: Basic base64encoded-user:password) and still am getting a 401 response.

    I have another rule that is successfully using basic authentication and the formats look the same, so I'm not sure what is different about this one. I logged into the camera and changed the logon method from digest to basic (although it was working for the Vera requests when it was set to digest).

    This is the last thing that is running from my Vera. Before I try to implement this in Node-Red, does anyone have any suggestions for other things I could try in MSR to get it to work?

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      tunnus
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      You should be able to use Run lua -action

      Screenshot 2021-11-02 at 10.06.13.png

      Using MSR on Docker (Synology NAS), having InfluxDB, Grafana & Home Assistant, Hubitat C-8, Zigbee2MQTT

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        I'm trying to move a Vera scene over to MSR and having trouble getting the authentication to work. The use case is to send http commands to a Dahua camera twice a day to change its mode.

        In Vera it works by simply using the username and password in the URL. e.g. luup.inet.wget("user:password@IPaddress/configManager.cgi?action=..." , 5)

        This format didn't work from a reactor http call, resulting in a 401 error. I tried moving the username and password to the http request headers section (Authentication: Basic base64encoded-user:password) and still am getting a 401 response.

        I have another rule that is successfully using basic authentication and the formats look the same, so I'm not sure what is different about this one. I logged into the camera and changed the logon method from digest to basic (although it was working for the Vera requests when it was set to digest).

        This is the last thing that is running from my Vera. Before I try to implement this in Node-Red, does anyone have any suggestions for other things I could try in MSR to get it to work?

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        @alan_f said in Having trouble with http and basic auth:

        This format didn't work from a reactor http call, resulting in a 401 error. I tried moving the username and password to the http request headers section (Authentication: Basic base64encoded-user:password) and still am getting a 401 response.

        Please show us exactly what you did here.

        Also, did you look at the logs to see what the request was finally sending?

        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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          I took the UserName and Password, used a base 64 encoder and input "UserName:Password" into the encoder. I took the output of the encoder ("ABCDEFGXXX") and entered (no quotes) "Authentication: Basic ABCDEFGXXX" into the http headers field. I have another http request in another rule that hits an API to control my thermostat and it work correctly using exactly the same process.

          The logs don't appear to make any reference to the http header:

          [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.816Z Engine:INFO Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> all actions completed.
          [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.845Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=GotoPreset&arg1=0&arg2=18&arg3=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized
          [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.854Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 1 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized

          Prior to attempting to use the http header field I had tried the below format, with the username and password in front of the URL:

          [latest-21297]2021-11-01T12:58:08.125Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Night Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://UserName:Password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value1=1000&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value2=1000 failed: 401 Unauthorized

          I did get this working in Node-Red using digest authentication in a http-request node, so it probably isn't worth too much of everyone's time to track it down. I would prefer to have it in MSR because it is so much more user-friendly for me, but I can leave it in Node-Red if I can't figure out how to do it in MSR.

          @toggledbits - Long overdue additional donation on its way. Thanks for all your efforts and the end-user support.

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            I took the UserName and Password, used a base 64 encoder and input "UserName:Password" into the encoder. I took the output of the encoder ("ABCDEFGXXX") and entered (no quotes) "Authentication: Basic ABCDEFGXXX" into the http headers field. I have another http request in another rule that hits an API to control my thermostat and it work correctly using exactly the same process.

            The logs don't appear to make any reference to the http header:

            [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.816Z Engine:INFO Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> all actions completed.
            [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.845Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=GotoPreset&arg1=0&arg2=18&arg3=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized
            [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.854Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 1 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized

            Prior to attempting to use the http header field I had tried the below format, with the username and password in front of the URL:

            [latest-21297]2021-11-01T12:58:08.125Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Night Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://UserName:Password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value1=1000&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value2=1000 failed: 401 Unauthorized

            I did get this working in Node-Red using digest authentication in a http-request node, so it probably isn't worth too much of everyone's time to track it down. I would prefer to have it in MSR because it is so much more user-friendly for me, but I can leave it in Node-Red if I can't figure out how to do it in MSR.

            @toggledbits - Long overdue additional donation on its way. Thanks for all your efforts and the end-user support.

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            @alan_f, as said, you could try 'run lua' action, although direct http request is by far the most optimum solution (and would not depend on Vera's existence...)

            Using MSR on Docker (Synology NAS), having InfluxDB, Grafana & Home Assistant, Hubitat C-8, Zigbee2MQTT

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              I took the UserName and Password, used a base 64 encoder and input "UserName:Password" into the encoder. I took the output of the encoder ("ABCDEFGXXX") and entered (no quotes) "Authentication: Basic ABCDEFGXXX" into the http headers field. I have another http request in another rule that hits an API to control my thermostat and it work correctly using exactly the same process.

              The logs don't appear to make any reference to the http header:

              [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.816Z Engine:INFO Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> all actions completed.
              [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.845Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=GotoPreset&arg1=0&arg2=18&arg3=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized
              [latest-21297]2021-11-01T22:21:55.854Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Day Mode rule<SET> step 1 HTTP request to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=0 failed: 401 Unauthorized

              Prior to attempting to use the http header field I had tried the below format, with the username and password in front of the URL:

              [latest-21297]2021-11-01T12:58:08.125Z Engine:ERR Engine#1 reaction Set PTZ Camera to Night Mode rule<SET> step 3 HTTP request to http://UserName:Password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value1=1000&VideoInExposure[0][1].Value2=1000 failed: 401 Unauthorized

              I did get this working in Node-Red using digest authentication in a http-request node, so it probably isn't worth too much of everyone's time to track it down. I would prefer to have it in MSR because it is so much more user-friendly for me, but I can leave it in Node-Red if I can't figure out how to do it in MSR.

              @toggledbits - Long overdue additional donation on its way. Thanks for all your efforts and the end-user support.

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              @alan_f said in Having trouble with http and basic auth:

              took the UserName and Password, used a base 64 encoder and input "UserName:Password" into the encoder. I took the output of the encoder ("ABCDEFGXXX") and entered (no quotes) "Authentication: Basic ABCDEFGXXX" into the http headers field. I have another http request in another rule that hits an API to control my thermostat and it work correctly using exactly the same process.

              And can you detail that exactly, please? If you used a command line tool, for example, with an echo statement, then you would likely have a newline added to the byte string and that would spoil the encoding. If you used a web encoder, that also may accidentally encode a newline depending on how you pasted the data, and there are a few that give incorrect results, especially if any Unicode characters are involved in the password.

              You can do this directly in the Headers of your request:

              Authorization: Basic ${{urlencode(username + ':' + password)}}
              

              Now, you go on to say that you got it working with Digest authentication on NR. Many sites do not allow HTTP Basic auth any more, and require you to use Digest. When you include a header like that above, you are specifically sending Basic, not Digest, and the target site may not be allowing it. Likewise, when you place the username and password in the URL, that's Basic, not Digest. So I suspect your site only allows Digest. I can add separate username and password fields to the HTTP Request action so that Reactor can more fully negotiate the authentication on the request.

              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
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                Still 401 unauthorized using

                Authorization: Basic ${{urlencode('username' + ':' + 'password')}}

                (I added single quotes around username and password because it couldn't evaluate it without them)

                I just tried it using basic auth in NR and it failed with 401, so the issue appears to be that the camera won't accept basic authentication. There is a setting to allow it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference when I change it.

                When I was calling the command from the Vera luup it was using the http://username;password@IP?command syntax. I was sure that meant that it was using basic authentication all along. I don't understand enough about the different authentication methods to know whether it was really doing digest authentication based off of that URL format.

                So while I'm good for now with using NR, it would be useful to figure out how to handle digest authentication for http requests in MSR. Is it just a matter of setting the right headers or does it require enhancements to MSR itself?

                (The thread title should probably be "Having trouble with http and digest auth")

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                  Still 401 unauthorized using

                  Authorization: Basic ${{urlencode('username' + ':' + 'password')}}

                  (I added single quotes around username and password because it couldn't evaluate it without them)

                  I just tried it using basic auth in NR and it failed with 401, so the issue appears to be that the camera won't accept basic authentication. There is a setting to allow it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference when I change it.

                  When I was calling the command from the Vera luup it was using the http://username;password@IP?command syntax. I was sure that meant that it was using basic authentication all along. I don't understand enough about the different authentication methods to know whether it was really doing digest authentication based off of that URL format.

                  So while I'm good for now with using NR, it would be useful to figure out how to handle digest authentication for http requests in MSR. Is it just a matter of setting the right headers or does it require enhancements to MSR itself?

                  (The thread title should probably be "Having trouble with http and digest auth")

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                  Still 401 unauthorized using

                  That's expected. The server want's digest auth.

                  @alan_f said in Having trouble with http and basic auth:

                  When I was calling the command from the Vera luup it was using the http://username;password@IP?command syntax. I was sure that meant that it was using basic authentication all along.

                  No, wget was helping you. The initial request went with Basic authentication, and the server rejected it with a 401 asking for Digest, so wget took the username and password from the URL and used it for digest authentication. That behavior is easy to confirm using one of the many digest echo-back/test sites available:

                  wget https://anybody:anywhere@httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/anybody/anywhere
                  

                  If you run this on a Linux command line, you'll see wget get a 401 and re-ask with digest:

                  pi@rpi4-1:~/Documents/MSR $ wget  https://anybody:anywhere@httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/anybody/anywhere
                  --2021-11-02 13:46:06--  https://anybody:*password*@httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/anybody/anywhere
                  Resolving httpbin.org (httpbin.org)... 34.192.79.103, 18.232.227.86, 54.156.165.4, ...
                  Connecting to httpbin.org (httpbin.org)|34.192.79.103|:443... connected.
                  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 UNAUTHORIZED
                  Authentication selected: Digest realm="me@kennethreitz.com", nonce="901f9613ed31b5946d70e2c9c48e5b55", qop="auth", opaque="0e8c62a78c3b807801aed4341e958d57", algorithm=MD5, stale=FALSE
                  Reusing existing connection to httpbin.org:443.
                  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
                  Length: 50 [application/json]
                  Saving to: ‘anywhere’
                  
                  anywhere                            100%[=================================================================>]      50  --.-KB/s    in 0s
                  
                  2021-11-02 13:46:06 (28.3 MB/s) - ‘anywhere’ saved [50/50]
                  

                  Authorization: Basic ${{urlencode('username' + ':' + 'password')}}
                  (I added single quotes around username and password because it couldn't evaluate it without them)

                  Strings always have to be quoted. I gave the structure as variables. If you're hard-coding them you can just do "username:password" as a single string with no concatenation (no + operators).

                  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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                    I updated to the latest version and it is working with Digest auth and the new username / password fields. You are going to spoil us with this pace of development 😃

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