Thanks to @toggledbits for adding a custom CSS. I've started doing a darker Reactor style.
Here's the file: https://gist.github.com/dbochicchio/825098ac13b7f8cac22012eae37ff7ce
A couple of things are still too bright and I'll eventually catch-up. Just place it under your /config directory, naming the file as customstyles.css. Hard refresh your browser.
Hi
I have just connected a bunch of EzloPi controllers to MSR to import some ESP based devices etc.
They all seemed to have worked and imported in to MSR apart from I have one missing device. It is a Digital Gas Sensor device.
This is how that device looks in the Ezlo API.
Devices Info:
_id: "10696001" deviceTypeId: "ezlopi" parentDeviceId: "10696000" category: "level_sensor" subcategory: "" gatewayId: "457a5069" batteryPowered: false name: "Gas Sensor Digital" type: "sensor" reachable: true persistent: true serviceNotification: false armed: false roomId: "" security: "no" ready: true status: "idle" parentRoom: true protectConfig: "default"Items Info:
_id: "20696001" deviceId: "10696001" hasGetter: true hasSetter: false name: "smoke_density" show: true valueType: "substance_amount" scale: "parts_per_million" value: 2.7472610473632812 valueFormatted: "2.75" status: "idle"There is also an Analog Gas sensor that one did import in to MSR OK.
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Devices Info:
_id: "10696000" deviceTypeId: "ezlopi" parentDeviceId: "10696000" category: "security_sensor" subcategory: "gas" gatewayId: "457a5069" batteryPowered: false name: "Gas Sensor Analog" type: "sensor" reachable: true persistent: true serviceNotification: false armed: false roomId: "" security: "no" ready: true status: "idle" parentRoom: true protectConfig: "default"Items Info:
_id: "20696000" deviceId: "10696000" hasGetter: true hasSetter: false name: "gas_alarm" show: true valueType: "token" enum: 0: "no_gas" 1: "combustible_gas_detected" 2: "toxic_gas_detected" 3: "unknown" valueFormatted: "no_gas" value: "no_gas" status: "idle"And this is how this MQ2 Gas Sensor looks like on their dashboard:
Digital
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Analog
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They have an EzloPi website here you can create your own sensor projects using ESP boards, which is very interesting stuff!
And I just wrote on the Ezlo forum here, how to connect an EzloPi controller to MSR.
THANKS.
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.Hi @toggledbits,
I have lots of logs with this:
<Engine:ERR> Assignment to alarm ignored -- expression-driven global cannot be set by assignmentAny hints to where look at to avoid this? Thanks.
A couple of things for you @toggledbits, since you mentioned that this release has new features and some tweaks are expected.
Local expressions cannot be deleted. Pushing the X button has no effect for me.
When cloning an entity action, the result is strange (first is cloned one, second is the original action):
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When changing the action on the cloned element, the params are added to the original one. See screenshot:
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Dark theme has a couple of strange contrasts. One is visible in the previous screenshots (white text on yellow background). Another one is in groups (blue text on blue background):
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Overall, I found blue, yellow, red and green (in buttons and forms) to be too bright.
On the bright side:
I love the new script action: thank you! The dark theme is a great start to avoid getting blinded at night I promise I'll try very soon the new features around actions. Thanks!@toggledbits
I just upgraded to version MSR 24293, bare metal running on Fedora. Upon restart, I am getting a error banner:
I followed the new directions about npm
npm i --no-save --no-package-lock --omit dev
Any idea what the issue is?
Seems like switching the UI to the newly added dark mode (thank you for this) does nothing. The UI stays in light mode and only a few buttons turn into dark mode (see screenshot)
Things I have tried:
Hard refresh
Different browser
Different computer
Restarting Reactor
Failed troubleshooting attempts:
No errors in Chrome console
No relevant errors in Reactor log (can still PM the full log file)
Reactor version: latest-24293-ea42a81d
Hardware: Odroid N2+
Linux version: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
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Good morning,
I have a service MQTT service that needs a restart occasionally. The add-on (Smartbed MQTT) is for the smart bed base for my bed. It has a "safety light" that I can control from HAAS & MSR as a light entity, and also moves the head of the bed to a preset at bedtime, and then lies it back flat in the morning The problem is, from time to time, the light becomes "unavailable" Restarting from the Add-ons tab in HAAS always fixes it, but I should be able to detect when it happens when "light.tempur_pedic_safety_lights" is not true or false, i.e., unavailable.
What I don't know how to do is how to restart that service. Does anybody have experience in restarting add-ons from MSR?
Running:
Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-24212-3ce15e25 ZWaveJSController [0.1.24232]HAAS:
RPi5-64 (8GB) Core 2024.7.3 Supervisor 2024.08.0 Operating System 13.0 Frontend 20240710.0Hi!
Is it possible to generate two additional log files, the first being the replica of what is displayed on screen by the Rule History widgets and the other with Recently Changed Entities?
And could I configure the generation of one file per day, and delete the older ones? For example, store the last 5 days?
And being more ambitious, does Windget have an icon to open these TXT files in the navigated?
Well, we're approaching Christmas, so here's my request to Santa Claus @toggledbits 🙂
Hi @toggledbits
I'm working on a controller to generate llm response from a prompt in reactor. I have http response coming thru an http request action at the moment, capturing the response inside a local variable. So, it's practically sync.
I want to create a controller, so I don't have to rely on a proxy (and have a simpler architecture), and duplicate absurd http actions, but AFAIK in the current implementation, actions are async only. But if I have multiple requests going on, I cannot be sure what it's really inside an attribute. I also thought that something like a correlation id when sending the request could be used to identity multiple responses, but I wanted to double check with you before starting with something too complicated. I also noticed that some actions in home assistant (ie forecast) are sync and I'm wondering if you have any plan or hint to address this situation. Thanks.
Thanks.
@togglebits I am curious as to why the tilt_sensor.state (primary) = NULL. I believe it should show true or false. I have to use binary_sensor.state instead in my rules.
Again, not sure if this is related to Reactor/ZwaveJSController implementation or the actual Z-Wave JS UI docker version. I have copied, below, the attributes of the tilt sensor in hopes it can help.
Thanks in advance.
Reactor version 23302
ZWaveJSController version 23254
Z-Wave JS UI version 9.3.0.724519f
zwave-js version 12.2.3
@toggledbits I have noticed after upgrading both Reactor and ZWaveJSController to version 24257 that two of my devices/entities, TILT-ZWAVE2.5-ECO and Zooz ZSE18, had their entity re-named in an unusual way and also appears to be duplicated.
Reactor version 24257
ZWaveJSController version 24257
Z-Wave JS UI version 9.18.1
zwave-js version 13.2.0
Vestibule Motion Sensor State attributes/partial screenshot of entities it created. All entities have the same attributes.
motion_sensor.state=true x_zwave_values.Notification_Home_Security_Motion_sensor_status=8 zwave_device.capabilities=[113] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=23 zwave_device.valueId=[113,"Notification","Home Security","Home Security","Motion sensor status","Motion sensor status"] zwave_device.version_info=nullTilt Sensor Door State and Tilt Sensor Door State Simple attributes/partial screenshot of entities it created. All entities have similar attributes with exception of x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_State = 22 or 23.
tilt_sensor.state=true x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state=22 zwave_device.capabilities=[113] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=24 zwave_device.valueId=[113,"Notification","Access Control","Access Control","Door state","Door state"] zwave_device.version_info=null tilt_sensor.state=true x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state_simple=22 zwave_device.capabilities=[113] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=24 zwave_device.valueId=[113,"Notification","Access Control","Access Control","Door state (simple)","Door state (simple)"] zwave_device.version_info=null tilt_sensor.state=false x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state=23 zwave_device.capabilities=[113] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=24 zwave_device.valueId=[113,"Notification","Access Control","Access Control","Door state","Door state"] zwave_device.version_info=null tilt_sensor.state=false x_zwave_values.Notification_Access_Control_Door_state_simple=23 zwave_device.capabilities=[113] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=24 zwave_device.valueId=[113,"Notification","Access Control","Access Control","Door state (simple)","Door state (simple)"] zwave_device.version_info=nullI'm slowly migrating all my stuff to MQTT under MSR, so I have a central place to integrate everything (and, in a not-so-distant future, to remove virtual devices from my Vera and leave it running zwave only).
Anyway, here's my reactor-mqtt-contrib package:
Contrib MQTT templates for Reactor. Contribute to dbochicchio/reactor-mqtt-contrib development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simply download yaml files (everything or just the ones you need) and you're good to go.
I have mapped my most useful devices, but I'll add others soon. Feel free to ask for specific templates, since I've worked a lot in the last weeks to understand and operate them.
The templates are supporting both init and query, so you have always up-to-date devices at startup, and the ability to poll them. Online status is supported as well, so you can get disconnected devices with a simple expression.
Many-many thanks to @toggledbits for its dedication, support, and patience with me and my requests 🙂
Hi @toggledbits.
After a couple of weeks, I noticed that my Remotec zrc90 isn't working as expected.
Scenes are working in ZWaveJS, but this device has a strange behavior: the scene change, but then it's set again to null. In Reactor, this remains null:
battery_power.level=0.7 battery_power.since=1725817957361 x_debug.dt={"description":"Scene master 8 button remote","model":"BW8510/ZRC-90US","default_name":"Scene master 8 button remote","manufacturerId":21076,"productType":0,"productId":34064} x_zwave_values.Battery_isLow=false x_zwave_values.Battery_level=70 x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_001=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_002=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_003=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_004=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_005=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_006=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_007=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_scene_008=null x_zwave_values.Central_Scene_slowRefresh=null x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_manufacturerId=21076 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productId=34064 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Specific_productType=1 x_zwave_values.Version_firmwareVersions=["1.1","1.1"] x_zwave_values.Version_hardwareVersion=3 x_zwave_values.Version_libraryType=2 x_zwave_values.Version_protocolVersion="4.5" x_zwave_values.Wake_Up_controllerNodeId=1 x_zwave_values.Wake_Up_wakeUpInterval=0 zwave_device.capabilities=[91,114,128,132,134] zwave_device.endpoint=0 zwave_device.failed=false zwave_device.generic_class="Remote Controller" zwave_device.impl_sig="24242:1:22315:1" zwave_device.is_beaming=false zwave_device.is_listening=false zwave_device.is_routing=false zwave_device.is_secure=false zwave_device.manufacturer_info=[21076,1,34064] zwave_device.max_data_rate=null zwave_device.node_id=154 zwave_device.specific_class="Simple Remote Control" zwave_device.status=2 zwave_device.status_text="awake" zwave_device.version_info=[null,"1.1"] zwave_device.wakeup_interval=0Anything I could look at? Thanks.
Hi, @toggledbits!
I have a question about the execution behavior. See the code below, and I'll explain the situation.
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This is a routine that, at a certain point, determines that the desktop on which the VM hosting the Reactor is located receives an instruction to perform a shutdown (Shell Command).
When this happens, the desktop is turned off, and then Hubitat detects by a "ping" that the VM has been down, waits 15 seconds, turns off the power to this desktop, and then 15 seconds later turns on the desktop with the Reactor VM again.
After restarting the desktop, the VM is loaded, and the Reactor is triggered. Still, the following problem occurs: I expected that when the rule was continued to be executed again, the next step would be executed, that of the 900-second delay after shutdown, but the Shell command is executed again, and then it goes into a loop, the rule does not advance.
To break the loop, I first have to make the VM not load, change the desktop password, and then start the VM. In this case, Reactor generates an error when trying to execute the Shell Command because of the invalid password and then finishes the routine following the 900 delay step.
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Is my interpretation that when it returns, the routine should continue to the next step that has not yet been executed incorrectly? Or does Reactor, through the shutdown command, interpret that it hasn't finished this step and keep trying, which is the correct reaction?
Thanks for clarifying.
Hi @toggledbits ,
I'm slowly moving my ZWave network from Vera to ZWaveJS. I successfully cloned my ZWave network using a spare Vera Edge (a new post for the community later when I'll be fully back from vacation) and I'm testing a couple of things before moving everything to ZWaveJS.
In the meanwhile, I have a couple of venetian blinds connected to Fibaro Roller Shutters 2 (FGR222) and I'm using some proprietary ZWave commands to control the tilt position, that right now I'm sending via Vera (with some code from the old place, messing with this):
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The ZWaveJS values are reported via this:
x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Proprietary_fibaro_venetianBlindsPosition=0 x_zwave_values.Manufacturer_Proprietary_fibaro_venetianBlindsTilt=0I hope there's a way to expose a separate device to control the tilt position directly, without doing the mess I'm doing now. Let me know if you need some files. Thanks.
As per @toggledbits request, new topic.
Position and cover commands not working and position/cover attributes are incorrect. Dimming is OK.
cover.state=null dimming.level=1 dimming.step=0.1 energy_sensor.units="kWh" energy_sensor.value=0.41 position.value=null power_sensor.units="W" power_sensor.value=0 power_switch.state=true x_debug.dt={"entity_class":"Cover","match":"deviceClass.generic.key=17;deviceClass.specific.key=6","capabilities":["cover","toggle","position"],"primary_attribute":"cover.state"} x_zwave_values.Meter_reset=null x_zwave_values.Meter_value_65537=0.41 x_zwave_values.Meter_value_66049=0 x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_Down=null x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_Up=null x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_currentValue=99 x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_duration="unknown" x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_restorePrevious=null x_zwave_values.Multilevel_Switch_targetValue=99 x_zwave_values.Notification_Power_Management_Over_current_status=0 x_zwave_values.Notification_System_Hardware_status=0 x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmLevel=null x_zwave_values.Notification_alarmType=null zwave_device.capabilities=[38,50,113] zwave_device.endpoint=1 zwave_device.failed=null zwave_device.impl_sig="24225:1:22315:1" zwave_device.manufacturer_info=null zwave_device.node_id=148 zwave_device.version_info=nullThanks!
[SOLVED] Will Pulse work for retrying a ruleset if the device hasn't responded as expected
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I've read and reread the docs re Pulse and am running about 50/50 on thinking I understand it AND that it will work for my needs.
Scenario: Honeywell API gets cranky and doesn't like taking temp change posts for both upstairs and downstairs stats reliably. I've created "correction" rulesets.
At each trigger I've put in Conditions to basically check for the expected match. In this scenario, the temp should be
58
and the stat modeheat
. If either one of those criteria aren't met, the correction ruleset kicks off.Sometimes, though, the retry doesn't take, either, on the first attempt. This is where Pulse and I need to be better acquainted. My goal here is to have the first retry happen and if it fails have the Pulse see the conditions still as
true
and, after waiting a bit, retry up to three more times.I haven't checked logs yet to see if they support my theory that this isn't working - esp hard to nail down this time of year as the weather has the temps going all over the place to the house HVAC goes from heat to neutral to cooling and back again all thru the day.
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Seems like you're on the right track. Repeating commands when states aren't what they are supposed to be is definitely one application for pulsed output, and I use it that way myself (like you, I have devices controlled by hit-and-miss cloud APIs). I also use it on my router's power switch -- if the Internet is down for more than a certain period, it begins power cycling the router at intervals to attempt recovery.
On your "Down" group, if the conditions have the same "sustained for" timing, then the timing could be done on the group rather than individual conditions within it -- makes things a little tidier to maintain in the long run.
Looks good to me!
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@toggledbits I thought about putting that at the group level but then wondered if it would require both to trigger so I went more granular.
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@toggledbits I'm admitting to some confusion. Shouldn't I see the Upstairs trigger that's showing "65", which is "<>60", blinking green and showing the count-up timer showing how much of the 300 secs are remaining?
The trigger is true, 65 is not 60 and, as such, should fire off the 300 second period where it waits for that condition to change. If it doesn't, then the
Reaction
should run and, if that fails, thePulse
kicks in to refire theReaction
a couple three times.What am I missing?
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It depends and when and how you are doing this. After doing a lot of editing, and in particular where you may be saving along the way as you make changes, things can get into states that they would not be in once the logic edits are finished and all the timing options are applied. That's why there's a "reset" button for the rule... to clear out all the state and start it fresh. Recommended.
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@toggledbits I think i figured it out AND something else to boot.
So to the ask above, I happened to catch it running this morning. I'm used to basing on "if the thing should be true but it's false" in my
trigger
AND doing so at the individual condition level (vsgroup
which you recommended I try - and I have.) Setting at thegroup
level means the status timer shows in the group bar, not at the individual condition level like I was used to.Now on to something I did notice that is, in reality, the reason it appears like this isn't working...
My scenario:
Multiple HVAC rulesets per mode, ie Heat sans Night, Heat at Night, Neutral, Cooling sans Night, Cooling at Night. Three Arm For rulesets drive which one should be sending to the Honeywell API based on outdoor temps from the wx station. Works like a champ.The course correction rulesets, however, don't turn on and off - they're constantly looking to see if the conditions are met or not, even if that mode isn't the active one. Example, the Neutral correction ruleset is still "running" even if the house is actually in Heating sans Night.
The
pulse
is to provide back-up to the initial correction because sometimes Honeywell just isn't ready yet when the correction first runs. Works brilliantly... except, I've noticed that the pulse is just continuing to run if I leave it at0
(as expected, unmetered retries). I can set it to a count, that's fine - but the count runs out due to running even when that mode isn't active creating a scenario wherein there are no more pulses/retries when that mode IS active.THIS is why it appears not to be working - it's run itself out even when not on active duty, if you will.
This is the Neutral correction ruleset. Right now the house is in Heating sans Night because Arm For Heating is active, Arm For Neutral and Arm For Cooling are not. You'll see the conditions set to
true
are correct, the temps are not58
- obviously, because the heat is set to68
downstairs,65
upstairs. However, this is making the correction ruleset run unnecessarily which, if my thinking is right, means it's wasting CPU/memory/etc. and may be hitting the API (though I've seen no burst of green around the ruleset to show me it is running.)Make sense?
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@gwp1 said in Will Pulse work for retrying a ruleset if the device hasn't responded as expected:
Make sense?
Not a bit. Sorry. What am I look at/for?
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@toggledbits I guess first thing, am I correct in that the
pulse
running on the rulesets is wasting system resources if those rulesets aren't "eligible" for running?Trying to think how to rephrase this... ALL of the correction rulesets are running all the time if I implement
0
pulse
. If I implement meteredpulse
then they run themselves out and when they're needed they're already done.These are the Arm For rulesets:
Only one "runs" at a time, obviously, triggering one of these rulesets:
If, due to the aforemented API hit-or-miss sometimes, one of these runs but doesn't get accepted by the API then the appropriate correction runs:
My issue seems to be that all of the corrections are running all of the time if I enable
pulse
at0
. If I meter thepulse
then they runX
times and are done - and when the time comes for them to really run, they're spent already.If the
pulse
running isn't putting an unnecessary load on the system, then I'll set them to0
and leave it be. So... are they? -
@gwp1 said in Will Pulse work for retrying a ruleset if the device hasn't responded as expected:
I guess first thing, am I correct in that the pulse running on the rulesets is wasting system resources if those rulesets aren't "eligible" for running?
No. That's not the case. Unless the underlying condition is true, no pulse train is running. Nothing is happening. I come from the days of room-filling million-dollar computers with 256K (yes, K) of RAM. I don't like wasted cycles.
What is true is that whatever the state of the current pulse may be when it is active is not changed by you editing the rules/condition options at the same time. It is not until the current pulse expires that your new pulse rules will take effect. So if you have a condition that is active right now in the middle of a 120 second pulse, and you edit the timing down to 15 seconds, that 120 second pulse is going to finish; it will not be cut short, it will not stop. When it finishes, the next pulse after will be on your new timing. Likewise, if it's timing a break and the underlying condition is still true, the break timing will finish.
This is why I say, you have to reset the rule after editing it. Your earlier screen shot clearly shows a condition where you edited in the middle of a 120 second pulse break, going from 0 repeats back to 3, and the 120 second pulse break timer is still running. The rule reset function is provided for exactly this circumstance -- to dump existing states and timers. If you don't do the reset, you're going to see really confusing results as Reactor finishes what it was doing before it starts to follow your new instructions.
And if the pulse is "running all the time" then there is a true state on your logic to make it do that. It does not run otherwise.
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@toggledbits The first sentence I can totally wrap my head around
The last sentence is what's driving this. If you look at the correction ruleset you'll see it's kinda backward from normal in that the
trigger
is when something is NOT a certain temp or HVAC mode. This results in it always being in atrue
state as other rulesets are in effect.Different words:
When Heating or Cooling rulesets are controlling things, Neutral correction showstrue
- because it is. This results inpulse
always running (or, if metered, running out of retries.) -
I see what you're getting at. That's simply a problem with your condition structure. The inner groups can't know how any enclosing groups are going to interpret their output, so of course the pulses run, as well they should -- you've told them to. If that's not what you want, a slight restructure of your logic fixes that.
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@toggledbits Def not what I want but it's the direct path. "If after running Neutral the conditions don't match, run the correction."
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@gwp1 said in Will Pulse work for retrying a ruleset if the device hasn't responded as expected:
Def not what I want but it's the direct path. "If after running Neutral the conditions don't match, run the correction."
I'm not sure what that means.
I think all you need to do is create an enclosing group, put all of the conditions/subgroups, including the Rule State condition, into it, and then move the pulse configuration to that upper enclosing group, removing it from the interior groups. The Rule State condition will then gate the pulse train.
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@toggledbits So this took a major rewrite, esp for the Neutral because you could be going from Heat to Neutral, from Cooling to Neutral, and back again. The goal here, now, is to have it so that something must go
true
and there are far more options to cover than triggering on something goingfalse
. This is what I've arrived at - a second+ set of eyes on my work would be appreciated.I stared at it 'til I'm cross-eyed!
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I'm thinking still not right. The group with the pulse output needs to be a wrapper group for EVERYTHING else, including the Rule State condition, to my way of looking at it.
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Yes, I think this is closer to what you really want. This keeps the pulses from firing unless the Rule State condition is also true, so that you can (again) use the limited count of pulses, because pulses won't be firing unless all of the conditions AND the rule state are all true. That is, pulses will only happen when the devices aren't set properly for "Neutral" (for a while) and Neutral is the active mode.
You also have to think about your "sustained for" timing. That is also done in the interior, meaning it is done irrespective of whether the Neutral mode is active or not, and that, too, is probably not what you want. The effect is that your correction will fire immediately if the Neutral conditions haven't been met for a while at the time the system is switched into Neutral mode. I imagine you actually want a delay there, since it probably takes a couple of seconds for the transition into Neutral mode to make the round trip through the cloud and devices and be reported back. You need to give it a chance to work/catch up. A simple fix there is to simply add a sustained for delay to the Rule State (is Neutral active) condition, so your logic overall becomes "if the mode has been Neutral for at least 300 seconds and the devices haven't been set properly for at least 300 seconds".
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@toggledbits HA, funny you bring that last part up because the sun has gone down so the system races thru Neutral to Heating as the temps drop quickly. I did notice the 300 seconds was being ignored, seemingly, and the correction fired on the heels of the change.
I did move the 300 seconds up to the next group level. Since
UP
andDown
both are sub-groups within the larger group I thought it made sense to raise that a level - do correct me if I'm wrong here.Looking into the tweak you noted in your response.
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@gwp1 said in Will Pulse work for retrying a ruleset if the device hasn't responded as expected:
I thought it made sense to raise that a level - do correct me if I'm wrong here.
This is a good rule of thumb. Well done!
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@toggledbits QQ, all of these 300 second sustains... they're working concurrently, not consecutively, yes?