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THANK YOU! And Curses. This gives me ALL sorts of ideas now on how to better things and potentially kill off all of my Vera scenes.
Initial testing looks good. Fully enabled the rule and waiting for Sunset to test it for real.

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I'm on the edge of my seat and can't wait... I've been on and off researching a dashboard replacement for Imperihome and now that I've started my migration away from Vera to Hubitat, I am getting more serious about finding one. I don't know the first thing about json, so I don't know where to start on getting the MSR dashboard customizations going. I have started looking at The Home Remote, but I'm having a heck of a time to get a device to appear within their Designer App.

Knowing that you have lots in store for the dashboard, may I inquire/suggest on a feature or two? Things that I love about Imperihome, yet can't seem to locate in any other dashboard. Everything seems to be around their APIs.

Changing pages/panels via HTTP command
When the temp outside is hotter than inside, I have the tablet make the TTS announcement to close the windows/doors and then have the tablet switch to the page/panel that has all my door and window sensors

The blanking of the screen
When my house mode is <> home, I blank the screen. No sense in having it display when nobody is here. I also use nearby motion sensors to blank or activate the screen when someone is here. If nobody has been upstairs in a while, blank that tablet's screen.

Viewing of my IP Camera
I have a door/window sensor hooked up to my doorbell. When the bell is rung, it changes the tablet display to the IP camera at my front door so I can see who it is.

I also use the tablets main page as a clock and temperature readings, which I know most dashboards can do. But again. Learning curve on the Home Remote and I don't know json.

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I have seen that before. I run my own Hue Bridge Emulator within a docker and I believe the issue was narrowed down to having multiple generations of Echo devices on my network. This would cause my $device to appear multiple times within the Alexa app. Amazon had a sale on echo dots, and also gave trade in credits, so I was able to take advantage of that and upgrade my Gen 1 and Gen 2 dots to Gen 3 at about $10 each. Once all my generations were the same, I cleaned up the known devices and initiated a discovery again. Every once in a while I get something similar to below, but it doesn't happen very often.

Alexa, turn $device on
$device does not turn on
'$device is not responding. Check its power supply and network connection'

Alexa, turn $device on
$device turns on
'OK'

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Ugh. I've had a few of my Gen 1 switches go out. All over 2 years old and I assumed all would not be under any warranty. I had a friend replace the caps in most of them and put them back into service. I wish I had called GE after my 5th or 6th switch went out. Would have been able to get an upgrade.

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@toggledbits said in MSR feedback post RfV migration:

You shouldn't see the index values at all,

This is interesting. Now that you mention this, on a different computer over the weekend, I didn't see the 0, 1, 2 values. I only saw Home, Away, etc. Besides being a different computer, I'm pretty sure my version of Chrome between the two is the same. The only other difference between then and now is that I upgraded my MSR from the generic 1.0 21200 build to the latest 21221 build. Chrome is all I have and use. I just tried Edge and IE, because they are there by default. But they both suck and won't display anything except the left most side panel. None of the links work either.

@toggledbits said in MSR feedback post RfV migration:

Can't cascade;

At least maybe shade the Rule Set labels to set them apart. Or add an option at the top of the list, or a new button all together, to Copy From Set / Copy From Reset? Just ideas.

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I have fully migrated off of RfV and onto MSR. A huge thanks for all your work Rigpapa. Amazing products. RfV and MSR. I officially removed RfV from my Vera controller yesterday. During the migration I was noticing things were getting a little more snappy and a little more stable. But now that RfV is off, I'm noticing a big difference. There was always one motion controller that would not behave for me. If I moved it from that area of the house and next to the controller, it worked flawlessly. I figured that the flakiness I was getting was some ZWave delay or a dead spot in the house. But with the migration all the way to MSR, the motion sensor has not skipped a beat. (Yet) I'll give it a few more days to really test. But I am really happy with the move to MSR.

So somethings that I noticed along the way and now that I am adjusting and tweaking my rules.

During the import, the house modes would import as a number. I/E: 1,3,4. And the trigger would be set to changes from 1,3,4 to blank. I believe this was already reported, or noted, but the mode doesn't work properly. Any trigger that used a house mode would need to be changed to == and then the 1 to home, or 3 to night, etc. I ended up creating a house mode group if the trigger needed more than one, but less than three modes.
When your Set/Reset Reaction involves a change to the House Mode, the predefined values start with 0 = home, 1 = away. Minor cosmetic difference compared to what Vera actually uses. 1 = Home, 2 = Away, etc.
(See Img1 for examples of 1 & 2)
When you use the Copy From option in the Reactions, it would be awesome if the list could have a few changes. For one, the Rule Set labeling (grouping) is nearly the same color as the rule name itself. Maybe change the color of the Rule Set name, or a background highlight of that line so you know where the rule sets change? A couple other options, if this would be possible. 1) Put your current Rule Set at the top of the list, then scroll to the rest. For me, I am usually copying my Set Reaction and then changing the On to an Off, or vice versa. Or 2) Cascade them. The initial drop down will only show the Rule Sets, clicking on one would extend that rule set out to the right and show you all the rules. For me, I have a very long list and often scroll past what I'm looking for, or struggle to find it.
(See Img2 for the Rule Set and Rules being nearly the same color)

Img 1:

Img 2:

All in all though. LOVE MSR and my wheels are already turning on how to do more with it and not cripple my Vera anymore with too many rules. I'm also scared of my Vera Plus's life. Support made a comment to me that they have one or two more firmware updates planned for the unit. Granted the firmware releases are very slow and really far between, but this is making me think that the product could be EOL in the not to distant future. MSR now gives me the option to start migrating to a second controller. Thank you again @toggledbits.

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I could use this "Where Used" feature as well. I have 3 Global Expressions that I don't think I have using, but want to make sure before I nuke them. I did not change my logging levels, but did search through all the reactor.log files and do not see anything. Is there a different way to see if they are in use, other than killing them and seeing what breaks?

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@gwp1 said in Multiple Holidays, one Ruleset:

Complication: one is a static date each year, the others are "last Monday of" and "first Monday of" respectively

I use a Google Calendar plugin in my Vera controller for the holidays that float around. I/E not always on X day. Labor Day, Memorial Day, Mother's Day, etc. If the gCal device contains the word "Easter", lets say, AND my lights are on, then color them. I used to use PLEG in Vera for this and programing it wasn't as easy as I wished, so I never touched it once I got set. Plus there was a bug with any event that contained an apostrophe. I reported this bug several times, but it remained for several versions. Regardless, this worked flawlessly in RfV, but bogged my Vera down. I also doubled my dates when it because super easy in Reactor. That's what helped bog my controller down. But now I'm on MSR and loving it. And I probably took the color changes a tad too far, but that's why I have them too.

My color changing days:
Easter, Mother's Day, Martin Luther King, President's Day, Memorial Day, D-Day, Flag Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Patriots Day, Columbus Day, Peral Harbor Day, Valentine's Day, Black History Month (Start of), Cinco de Mayo, Christmas, Women's History Month (Start of), Purple Heart Day, Thanksgiving, Native American Heritage, Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, Veterans Day, and Father's Day.

Yikes. I may have a problem.

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My vote is yes. I was/am running Vera, which we all know is slow and gets bogged down at times. Moving my Reactor for Vera off to its own docker was a huge performance lift in the Vera. I continued to move all of my scenes off next. I now have a Hubitat and Vera, but each are only there for control of the device itself. All my scenes, schedules, modes, etc. are all managed and run by MSR.

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I just noticed your signature line. That's funny. I realize you don't have Vera. For me though, getting all the routines and everything vendor neutral has made it super simple for me to move/migrate devices between hubs. And the family doesn't know. My only hold up right now is an easy to use and easy to configure dashboard. But I've got a plan for that. Just need to do a bulk migration one day of a group of sensors. I look forward to the day that MSR has its Dashboard running.

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Hmm. Maybe? I realized I completely forgot to note that this was on my Hubitat controller. Silly me. I knew I was forgetting something. Good news though, it's fixed. Thank you.

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Not sure if the 22080 build addressed the issue, but after upgrading to it, the attributes missing from the rulesets are now present.

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MSR latest-22069-ebeefad
Docker on unRAID

I noticed this week that one of my reactions wasn't running. Looking into it tonight, my Aeotec switch attributes are missing when I am editing an existing rule. If I add this switch as a new entity, I am getting the Invalid, Missing, undefined options as seen in my screenshot. Adding a different entity shows the attributes for that device. I also spot checked a few other rules and entities and those all looked OK. I even tried creating a new ruleset, but had the same results.

Ruleset:
Entities:

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@droy said in Anybody Installed MSR on unRaid Docker:

I try to avoid “privileged” mode for containers

Yeah. I don't remember why I set it that way. I'll disable it and see if anything breaks.

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I thought that as well, but I didn't see anything that would link to Hub Info. And I don't see any attributes within Hub Info for Health Checks.

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MSR: latest-22028-b091da1
Docker on unRAID 6.9.2

I don't know exactly when this started, but I noticed it recently after I spun up a Home Assistant docker on my unRAID. I enabled that controller into MSR and didn't copy/paste the access token correctly. So off to the logs I went. My token issue has been fixed, but I am still seeing the error messages about a Hubitat ERR. I searched, but didn't find anything within this site. I only see the error messages at or near a startup/restart. I have a feeling this is cosmetic, but wanted to confirm.

HubitatController#hubitat mapped capability x_hubitat_healthcheck has no implementation

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Yes - I have been running my MSR in my unRAID docker for a long time now. Great details you have noted above @droy. And since a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I would share my docker setup/UI view. This is the basic view. The only thing I have added within the advance view was an Icon URL. I also run my Reactor on it's own IP and not my unRAID, hence the br0 Network Type.

For my Icon URL: I put the following https://smarthome.community/assets/uploads/profile/9-profileavatar.png
I suppose if @toggledbits changes his profile icon, my Reactor Docker icon will update too.

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Had some issues with Aqara motion sensors falling off my Hubitat after a few hours. (Yes, the manufacturer is not supported on HE.) But this led me down a path to stand up HA in my docker. Which then led me down another path of getting the zwavejs2mqtt docker running and integrated. So I may be down for this.

Am I assuming that MSR will become my JS provider and I could possibly shutdown the zwavejs2mqtt docker?

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Sorry. I didn't include the very top of my Hubitat section. It does have the id: stuff. I think I was missing the two spaces. I went back and edited the yaml more and made sure those additional spaces were there. Then restarted the docker and everything worked just fine.

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@alan_f said in Hubitat "hubitat" is reconnecting alert:

If you haven't already done so, the docs suggest this:

I too was seeing this message, especially after a reboot, and was curious about it as well. It appeared to happen more often a few builds ago, but has stopped now. I had Hub Info installed, but recently removed it as I wasn't really using it much anymore. However I couldn't find anything in the MSR docs about this though. Maybe I missed it?

But what I did find was how I could include a username: and password: in the config: section of the reactor.yaml file to help with this. But when I put these in under the config section, I started getting errors about invalid formatting in the yaml file and my docker wouldn't start anymore. Did I format things wrong? Is my username and password needed if I have Hub Info reinstalled and published via the Marker API?

name: __Home Hubitat
    config:
      source: "http://[IPADDRESS]/apps/api/4/devices?access_token=TOKEN-KEY"
      dump_all_devices: false
      username: thatsme
      password: itssecret

  - id: weather
    enabled: false

Openluup - verabridge can not load devices.

Call Service Automation Trigger not Working

TTS in MSR?

"changes from" operator stops to detect change

Parsing the output of http request

How Does MSR Handle New/Deleted Entities

Building a New Z Wave Network

Netatmo – Oath2 login

Troubles Running MSR as a Service

RPI 4B 2GB Available in NL

MSR actions aren't running anymore-- can't find what's broken

Nuke Vera Script

Evaluation of time() comparisons

Luup : Fitbit API

[SOLVED] FetchError: network timeout for API calls

Help with Z-Way plugin

Vera -> HASS Migration Strategy (question)

MSR setup for http request (today's date)

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