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Hello Everyone -
I have a peculiar situation that I'm hoping to get some help with.
Running Vera which is still handling my Zwave, MySensors, Zigbee, and still a balance of my Reactors.
However, I've also been running MSR for several months in preparation for an eventual move off of Vera.
Vera had one of its meltdowns this morning related to my Opensprinkler plug in.
After getting that straightened out, I added the OpenSprinkler plugin to HAAS and that's when I started having issues.
My existing MSR reactors (even simple ones) don't seem to fire their reactions. I can see the conditions go "true". If I manually fire the Reaction, it works fine.
I do see this a lot in the logs:
[1.0.2-21350]2022-05-16T19:02:44.518Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-460 evaluation in progress; waiting for completion(Various rules - 460 is just an example)
Is there anything I can do to further troubleshoot?
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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. -
My MSR has been working flawlessly until a couple of days ago when it stopped sending Telegram Messages (or should I say they stopped getting through!). I have updated to MSR version 22004. The reactor.log is updating and is showing no errors:
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:31.417Z Engine:NOTICE Starting reaction Message Test (re-l37h2fkj)
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:31.417Z Engine:INFO Message Test all actions completed.
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:31.704Z Engine:INFO Enqueueing "Message Test" (re-l37h2fkj)
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:31.735Z Engine:NOTICE Starting reaction Message Test (re-l37h2fkj)
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:31.736Z Engine:INFO Message Test all actions completed.
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:32.007Z Engine:INFO Enqueueing "Message Test" (re-l37h2fkj)
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:32.035Z Engine:NOTICE Starting reaction Message Test (re-l37h2fkj)
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:32.036Z Engine:INFO Message Test all actions completed.
[latest-22004]2022-05-15T17:52:41.324Z Engine:INFO Enqueueing "Variable Telegram Test" (re-kvnm57c3)If I use the following in my web browser the telegram message gets through:
https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxx......./sendMessage?chat_id=xxxxx......&text=Test Message HTTPS
I am running MSR on my QNAP network attached storage. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Just another question...... I would like to post in the HOME HARDWARE VERA section of Smarthome, but I do not have the option to set up a new post. Do I need to request access for this?
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Details of runtime environment:
Reactor (Multi-hub) stable-22055-9b40e12 Running as a service on Windows Server 2022 Std 21H2 Connecting to HASS (HASSOS) Is a migration WIP from OpenLuup/ReactorA complete description of your objective:
Using LetsEncrypt, application "certifyTheWeb", retrieve and apply SSL certificate to Multi System ReactorA description of your approach/solution/implementation so far:
Reviewed Config files, can't seen mention of certificate files in thereActual Question:
How do I apply a certificate to whatever web server Reactor uses? I'm familiar with managing certificates on IIS and Apache but Reactor doesn't use either of these and I have not been able to locat ethe config file that Reactor uses for this. Which config file needs editing to apply a certificate? Does it use the computer certificate store or it's own store (e.g. pem files)The reason I want to achieve this, other than the general goodness of having everything I can in TLS is that I have Reactor as an IFRAME in my HASS console and as HASS is HTTPS and Reactor is HTTP then the iframe refuses to open.
Search for "certificate" or "ssl" did not reveal anything relevant in this forum.
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@toggledbits
Hi Patrick,
Running HASS 2022.5.3
MSR zwavejs-22126-834c3e9Seeing weird behavior in MSR with regards to my Zen32's. Not sure how to capture info that might be relevent but will describe what I am seeing.
In the example below I pressed scene 001 4 times. It flashed and changed the primary value to "4". The remaining buttons were previously showing the PV as "double" I pushed each button one time and they flashed and displayed the PV as 4.
zen32.JPGIn the zwavejs2mqtt debug screen that sequence looks like this.
2022-05-10 09:38:44.078 INFO ZWAVE: Node 45: value notification: 91-0-scene-001 5 2022-05-10T16:38:44.081Z CNTRLR « [Node 045] received CentralScene notification { "nodeId": 45, "ccId": "Central Scene", "ccCommand": "0x03", "payload": "0x898501" } 2022-05-10 09:38:45.982 INFO ZWAVE: Node 45: value notification: 91-0-scene-002 0 2022-05-10T16:38:45.984Z CNTRLR « [Node 045] received CentralScene notification { "nodeId": 45, "ccId": "Central Scene", "ccCommand": "0x03", "payload": "0x8a8002" } 2022-05-10 09:38:47.807 INFO ZWAVE: Node 45: value notification: 91-0-scene-003 0 2022-05-10T16:38:47.810Z CNTRLR « [Node 045] received CentralScene notification { "nodeId": 45, "ccId": "Central Scene", "ccCommand": "0x03", "payload": "0x8b8003" } 2022-05-10 09:38:48.858 INFO ZWAVE: Node 45: value notification: 91-0-scene-004 0 2022-05-10T16:38:48.861Z CNTRLR « [Node 045] received CentralScene notification { "nodeId": 45, "ccId": "Central Scene", "ccCommand": "0x03", "payload": "0x8c8004" }Let me know what other info you would like me to supply.
I have played around with a bunch of other key stroke combo's and it looks like buttons 2-5 display what ever button 1 is set to.
Have tested this on 4 different ZEN32's and it is same on all. -
Running zwavejs-22118-baab576 in MSR, HASSOS 2022.5.1
Due to an unreported issue in HASS, when I upgraded the 2022.5 yesterday, it dropped ZwaveJS2MQTT from my HASSOS build. Finally got it reinstalled and it appears to be working the way it was previously.
MSR is now showing zwavejs down and in entities, nothing is updating.Seeing this in the logs:
ZWaveJSController#zwavejs ws_open caught [Error]Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.0.16:3000Are there additional steps needed that are not mentioned in the manual?
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Hi!
After several tests, restarting the computer where the MSR is, and the MSR itself by Tools > Restart, I have a persistent error in the logs.
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Looking at the global expression (screen below), I see that it is highlighted as an error, however, if I look at two other expressions above that have the same structure, they do not present an error, so I do not think the problem is with the expression's code.
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This expression uses a group, which validates 4 devices of type door sensor, whether the status is true or false, door open or closed.
"dgc_entrance_open": name: DGC Entrance Open select: - include_entity: - "hubitat>37" - "hubitat>38" - "hubitat>99" - "hubitat>130" filter_expression: > entity.attributes?.door_sensor?.state == trueI also compared it with other groups, the structure is identical.
Looking at the 4 devices in this group, I see that all are active in the MSR, have similar variables, are used in other groups and rules that do not present a problem.
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Looking at the log, I understand that it refers to some object that would be null, at which point I am lost on what to actually look at.
[latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.711Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.719Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.746Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules... [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.748Z <Engine:INFO> Data check complete; no corrections. [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.892Z <Engine:ERR> [Engine]Engine#1: error evaluating expression EntranceOPEN: [ReferenceError]ReferenceError: Invalid scope in reference to member attributes of (object)null [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.893Z <Engine:ERR> [Engine]Engine#1: expression: sort(each id in ( getEntity('groups>dgc_entrance_open').attributes.sys_group.members ): getEntity(id).name) [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:11.894Z <Engine:CRIT> ReferenceError: Invalid scope in reference to member attributes of (object)null ReferenceError: Invalid scope in reference to member attributes of (object)null at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1449:31) at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1443:33) at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1443:33) at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1536:38) at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1480:33) at C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1283:29 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at _run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1282:28) at run (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1663:22) at Object.evaluate (C:\MSR\reactor\common\lexp.js:1699:20) [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.232Z <Engine:NOTICE> Reaction Engine running! [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.233Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjp2el2 (Mode DAY) started [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.234Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjp7kc8 (Mode EVENING) started [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.234Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjparz7 (Mode NIGHT) started [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.234Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjpd0d6 (Mode AWAY ∆) started [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.235Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjqrcr9 (Mode PARTY) started [latest-22118]2022-05-02T22:33:12.235Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kxjqyhnu (Mode VACATION ∆) startedFinally, if I return the expression and press the Try This Expression button, it is executed and the error disappears.
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This situation started to occur on the latest version of Reactor 22118, on a Windows 10 Bare Metal installation. Does anyone have a similar scenario?
Sorry for the long post, I tried to document as best as possible to try to identify the problem.
Thanks.
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Please can anyone give me advice on a cheap way to run MSR (both initial cost and ongoing electricity cost). I currently run it on my QNAP network drive (which works very well incidentally). However, this draws a constant 35Watts (£90/yr @ 30p/kWh) and given the recent rise in fuel costs I am evaluating the best way forwards. Note, I only really need to turn my QNAP on for an hour a week to back-up my computer data. I understand that MSR can run on a Raspberry PI, but I am not competent with Linux! Thanks.
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I just noticed that the new hotness picked up the entities from when I added an integration temporarily to my Home Assistant and popped a lovely info notice into the Alerts pane.
I know the info is new - but when did MSR suddenly become more real-time with devices being added to hubs? This is great!
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Noticed in the last few nights that my Global Reaction to turn on a mere six lights in the evenings the same two devices no longer turn on. One is a dimming smart bulb, the other is a wall outlet.
This has been running flawlessly for months - just in the last few nights I've noticed these two devices being left behind and yes, it's always these two devices only.
"What changed?"
No Hubitat firmware updates No new devices added to Hubitat list itemTwo MSR updates (the last two, I keep up with the latest) list itemHome Assistant releases (should have zero bearing, HA is nothing more than pretty dashboards) list itemAdded MQTT to MSRI did do a z-wave "repair" last night and am waiting to see if this helps.
Is there any maximum or cap on number of devices that should be included in a Global Reaction?
*Marked as solved as the question asked was answered. The issue persists but the question was answered.
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I've borked my install of reactor-latest-22118-0f0772c.tar.gz for some reason and am retracing steps. Running npm i --no-save --omit dev prompted to update npm and I did (current version now 8.6.0). Currently, attempts to load via browser/s (Brave and Safari) result in "This site can’t be reached192.168.1.xxx refused to connect." I am still able to SSH into the RPi.
I haven't panicked yet but did just pull my config and storage directories - I believe I read where that's enough for a back-up if a clean install ends up being needed.
So the question of the day: which version of nmp should we be running on for the latest Reactor?
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I’ve looked and can’t find the answer which concerns me that the answer is obvious and thats why I can't find the answer to this.
I’m new to MSR and this is my first post, so please bare with me 🙂
What I’m trying to do is have a global expression that contains the current time so I can use it in Global reactions as well as Rulesets as part of my syslog messages.
Example of what I’m experiencing:
In Expressions, create a global expression: gMyTOD = strftime("%T %D”)
In Rulesets, in a rule, create a local expression: MyTOD = strftime("%T %D”)In that same rule create a Notify type of Syslog.
Set syslog message to: gMyTOD time is ${{gMyTOD}} and MyTOD time is ${{MyTOD}}
Trigger the rule.The result is that the local expression (MyTOD) contains the correct time but the global expression (gMyTOD) does not update and reflects the wrong time in the final syslog message.
Is there a different approach I should be using?
Thank you in advance for any insight.
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Hi!
What's the easiest and most effective way to make this work? Do I ping a few websites every ten minutes or so, or is there a better approch? If I'm going to ping, what URL is recommended?
Once a month or so, my internet access is lost, and I have to cut the power to the router, to restart it. When I'm away this become a problem, so I thought that if I got a zigbee switch (in Home Assistant), problem is solved. But how do I (MSR) know if it's offline?For information, I have a set up with Asus routers, Home Assistent with zigbee-, z-wave and wifi devices (a total of appr. 150) and every of my 60-70 automation is done by MSR.
I run MSR ver. 22080-ae7212f (docker on my Home Assistant blue). HA ver 2022.4.6.
Thanks in advance.
Take care, you all!
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So, I have a rule set that it's triggered when a local variable changes. Since it's tied to my solar production, it could change very frequently, so I've just added a reset delay to calm it down, but it's not working as intended.
What I really need is a way to, let's say, define a percentage and define a variable to understand if the new value has changed +/- 10% before going true.
I've tried a couple of ways, but I'm posting here anyway, in case anyone has found a better way to tackle this. Thanks!
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Perhaps a dumb question. Can I check from Home Assistant that MSR is up and running? I would like to see that in a status page in HA. I can of course ping the other Pi but it doesn't say anything about the MSR status.
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@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.
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Hey @toggledbits.
From the docs:You cannot control the state of rules via MQTT. Rule state is driven exclusively by the result of its conditions.
And I'm OK when rules are triggered by something else, but I've built a couple of rules to be used by other rules, to streamline the logic, and it'll be useful to invoke a rule via MQTT. It's probably close to what rule/:id/restart is doing in the HTTP api.
Thanks!
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I'm trying to create some automation so I can control my pool variable speed pump from reactor rather than iAqualink (which sucks). My controller is MQTT enabled so I created several scripts for my desired speeds. (I know reactor has MQTT ability but honestly I read the docs and could not make much sense of it and since I already have it set up in Home Assistant, I figured I would just leverage that instead)
So I created all of my scripts and tested them, they worked perfectly. The I created a rule in reactor and set running the script as the action. The problem is that reactor is telling me that I have to make a selection. I try to click the dropdown and there is nothing to select. I cant save the rule, the only option is to exit.
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Here is my script in Home Assistant. Any advice on how to get this to work? If I am looking at this the wrong way I am open to suggestions (I would rather be able to call a specific action and specify a speed value but I cannot figure out how to do that). Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I've been using msr for a while now and haven't had timezone issues until today when I updated to latest docker image (latest-22080-ae7212f)
both docker date command and my local date command show the same time, same timezone, but for some reason MSR shows the host time as 2 hours in the past as a result all my timed rules run 2 hours late.
my locale is set correctly in the host machine and is bound into the container as well.
One possible hint I get is maybe this from the container startup log, but other than timezone stuff everything else seems to be working fine and all my settings loaded up just fine.
[latest-22080]2022-04-07T07:52:52.423Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22080 root {} CommonJS loading [latest-22080]2022-04-07T07:52:57.236Z <Engine:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at IndividualFileStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/IndividualFileStrategy.js:121:46) at Container.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Container.js:102:53) at new GlobalExpression (/opt/reactor/server/lib/GlobalExpression.js:105:179) at Function.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/GlobalExpression.js:123:89) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:1349:67 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at Engine.initializeGlobalExpressions (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:1345:145) at Engine.start (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:590:285) at /opt/reactor/app.js:362:103Let me know if I can provide further info to help debug this.
Thanks
Invocable rules via MQTT
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Hey @toggledbits.
From the docs:You cannot control the state of rules via MQTT. Rule state is driven exclusively by the result of its conditions.
And I'm OK when rules are triggered by something else, but I've built a couple of rules to be used by other rules, to streamline the logic, and it'll be useful to invoke a rule via MQTT. It's probably close to what rule/:id/restart is doing in the HTTP api.
Thanks!
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There are other ways to accomplish this. Virtual switches are the traditional way, of course. You just add conditions to your rules to check the switch states, and that gives you additional external input you can use to control the rule state. The method I now prefer is to use a global variable, if for example, I don't need or want a UI for it. For example, I use virtual switches for "party mode" and "guest mode" in my house, which changes the behavior of my lighting rules, so my wife can turn these on and off from the dashboard or Alexa. But I use a global variable for "vacation mode", for which I want no Alexa visibility at all, and it's typically part of a bigger procedure to ready the house for long unoccupied times.
I've heard this "it would be useful" before, but nobody has yet explained why or how, so as of this moment, I'm open to hear it, but I'm unconvinced. I also think there' may be a framing problem. Rules are not "invoked." They are state, not action. Reactions can be invoked, either explicitly or driven by rule state. The Rule is the driver, not the driven thing; the Reaction is the driven element.
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@toggledbits yes, you’re right and I’ve used all you mentioned, but I’m not really satisfied.
But know I’ve started building a couple of new rule sets starting from previous code on luup, where I basically have to invoke a given set of actions (mainly setting roller shutters at a given positionm) based on other inputs (Alexa, a bot, another rule set). I’ve done it with global reactions, but since they’re not organizable it’s soon becoming too difficult to remember where it’s stored the logic and what is calling what.
You’re right that it’s not what I really need. I’d prefer a way to watch for a given mqtt message instead. This will probably solve all my problems, since it will be easier to organize and I’ll archive the same result.
In this particular case, I’d like to invoke it via Alexa and I’ll maybe just define a global variable and start messing with the corresponding api. Thanks!
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@therealdb said in Invocable rules via MQTT:
You’re right that it’s not what I really need. I’d prefer a way to watch for a given mqtt message instead.
You know you can do that to an entity, right? And then conditions check the entity?
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@toggledbits yes, I’ll try to define a virtual entity that will just try to catch messages in a given topic and react to the payload. I don’t want to map every single actions to entities, because this is a lot of work for something that’s meant to be not exposed into ui.
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@therealdb said in Invocable rules via MQTT:
catch messages in a given topic and react to the payload
This is where what you've asked so far is an incomplete thought, in my view. I can probably easily create a condition that responds to events from controllers such as an MQTT message, but those messages have payloads, and you haven't really mentioned that part before this post, although I anticipated that was where it was going to go. So as you have now said, you don't just need to respond to a message. You need to respond to a message, parse the payload it may or may not include, which may be a simple value or a more complex object in JSON form that you want to navigate, from which you may want to make a decision based on a single value taken from the payload or multiple values, which may possible need to be transformed or scaled prior to further processing (expressions), and then use any of the existing operations (and maybe some not yet conceived, so more expressions) to complete the conditional test, and/or store those values in local or global variables for additional uses elsewhere. This is all supposed to happen inside the context of a single condition.
Functionally, this is what MQTTController's method of reducing topics/events to entities does today, it just does not do it within the definition of a single condition (or condition type) in a rule. To make it a condition would require an extremely elaborate UI — you have to be able to specify what topic you are interested in (and since they are not defined/standardized, the user has to know and supply it correctly to the letter), parse the payload (which is in a form that the user again must know and supply) and use that output to extract data from the payload (the type and location of which within the payload again must be supplied by the user accurately — expressions? maybe too complex, so add an object navigator?), then store and/or build conditions from any number of those payload values (where currently conditions are one-value-one-test). MQTTController does all this now, but if you want it in a UI for a condition type, what you really are asking, in my view, is that I build Node-RED as a condition type, because this is also exactly how NR operates; this basically describes what NR fundamentally is and does.
I agree that configuring the custom entities for MQTTController is not for the timid, and I'd like it to be easier, but that's due in large part of what MQTT is, and what it is not. MQTT is, as you point out, not meant for UIs. It is fundamentally a transport interface, and nothing more. It doesn't define what the topics or payloads are, and it invites manufacturer/implementor interpretation/imagination/entropy in its use, and thus eschewing standardization/consistency/predictability, all of which defies the idea of creating a simple one-size-fits-all UI, and shifting a lot of the knowledge requirement onto the user. Even though NR has (is) a GUI, the user has to supply all of the knowledge about the topic and payload, and that is different for every topic/device/vendor. This is exactly why NR gets as complex as it gets, and why the learning curve is so steep and a lot of people can't use it all.
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I have to define something to parse the payload because I really don’t want to define too many rule set just to intercept messages. But it’s not too different than parsing a json after an http call, or transform entities values in expressions.
The choice is up to you, but this is not uncommon for power users to use mqtt to send/receive values from different systems and I’m not that interested in having a bus message representing an entity, so an an UI artifact.
As I didn’t wanted to invest too much time, I’ve accomplished the same by sending a numeric value to an an expression and I’m using it as a trigger. I already have a system that’s it’s able to intercept specific mqtt messages with a simple configuration and I’ll continue to use it. Thanks anyway for the pointers.
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For anyone trying to do the same in future, here's what I did, in detail:
- I defined a global variable named scenefrommqtt (leave it empty, so it's settable)
- I'm publishing an MQTT message under reactor/mqtt/Expr/scenefrommqtt/set, with value "mykey" (the quotes are important)
- On Reactor's side, I'm using the variable as a trigger, using the same name defined for the Rule Set
It's working very well for me, and it's easy to setup. Thanks @toggledbits for both MSR and for pushing me to think of current features, instead of asking for new complicated ones
Now I have just one single vera code running, and I'll migrate it later, leaving the Vera just as a glorified ZWave bridge until it'll work.