Mmmmm - interesting - I've had a very similar experience with a couple of Veras. One of the Veras; I recently turned off the WiFi and I have never heard from it since; even though it has always successfully conversed via a hardwired LAN interface for years.

akbooer I recommend you ditch the Edge - it's costing you money at about 0.24 kW hrs per day. Further still, I recommend you use openLuup. It works well and the developer? - don't stuff around. Please donate as he or she requests.

@akbooer said in Sun position or light sensor for blinds?:

Yes, it's all been done. You need @futzle's Heliotrope plugin.

Out of interest; I've modified/updated and re released Futzle's Heliotrope plugin in the AltApp store (with Futzle's permission).

Likewise; I've modified/updated and re released Chris Jackson's EDS one wire server plugin in the AltApp store (with Chris's permission).

The plugins listed here are available via the Alternative App Store. The app store becomes accessible via a new menu item in the Alternative User Interface once configured.

Both the Alternative User Interface (AltUI) and AltAppStore (AltAppStore) plugins need to be installed on Vera to access the store. With openLuup; this is all "automatically" set up and ready to go as part of the openLuup suite.

The Alternative App Store can be found here.

Publishing a plugin in the store is pretty easy. First your plugin code must be available in GitHub. Publish it, using the Publish command in the AltAppStore web page. You need to enter the salient information and it's ready to go.

Plugin icons can be stored on GitHub eg like so. After a "few days" the raw json describing the plugin appears here.

Vera 3 users should note the store will not work, as Vera 3 doesn't have the https capability required to access GitHub. However, the apps can always be downloaded from GitHub and manually installed.

For those just interested in what the store contains; refer to the list below - as of 2021 July 27 there were about 75 plugins available:

openweathermap looks good. You could probably get the DarkSky plugin to do both. They even have a mapping table already available:

OpenWeather to DarkSky mapping

A plus for Telegram. Just a line like this will do it:

luup.inet.wget('https://api.telegram.org/bot'..botID..'/sendMessage?chat_id='..chatID..'&text='..urlEncode(msg),5)

Just tell him/her, I'm going to subscribe to this site using his or her users name if he/her isn't quick

In 2017, bought a "Xiaomi Mi Robot Vacuum Cleaner Laser Distance Sensor NIDEC Brushless Motor, MPN: SDJQR01RR". Need to lift the smaller obstacles off the floor so it gets a good go at the floor and it can get stuck under some furniture. We have a mix of hard floor and carpet and it gets cleaned really well. Based on its work, it paid for itself very quickly. It maps the house with LIDAR and sends the map of my house back to China - no doubt there is some good data mining to be had in thousands of house plans!!! It vacuums in lines, up & down, rather than just bumping around randomly, like some of the older vacs do. Takes a while but that's only because it does a good job.

"akbooer: Master Branch: 2021 Release 7.25
Long-overdue roll-up of the last year's development updates!"

ak - congratulations on some great improvements coming to fruition. I can only hope you aren't running out of ideas! It's not easy.

I'd still like to see an "App Store" plugin download count but the invisible hands still need to be invoked by someone - whoever that may be!!

I few things that would help:
Some report of what went wrong: whether that be a log output or code test window output. Otherwise it's unlikely your code (IMHO) will be looked at by forum members.
General readability: All variables should be declared, if at all possible, at the start before all the functions are declared. Declaring global variables inside a function is not good eg huelights. Declare them local at the start. It's important to decide if your functions should be local or global. In most cases they should be local. The master code that gets everything going should also be in a function called startup() or initialise() or similar. Then have a look at what the api call returns.

Logs are are "good".

I can't see the SmartSwitch plugin in the app store list in the console. And the sorting seems case sensitive, so the openWeather plugin appears last when you do a list "All Apps" in the store list. So you also get "RaZberry (ALPHA)" before "Rachio". A case conversion before sort would be good.

"akbooer: Master Branch: 2021 Release 7.25
Long-overdue roll-up of the last year's development updates!"

ak - congratulations on some great improvements coming to fruition. I can only hope you aren't running out of ideas! It's not easy.

I'd still like to see an "App Store" plugin download count but the invisible hands still need to be invoked by someone - whoever that may be!!

Can this be added to the App Store?

Mmmmm - interesting - I've had a very similar experience with a couple of Veras. One of the Veras; I recently turned off the WiFi and I have never heard from it since; even though it has always successfully conversed via a hardwired LAN interface for years.

akbooer I recommend you ditch the Edge - it's costing you money at about 0.24 kW hrs per day. Further still, I recommend you use openLuup. It works well and the developer? - don't stuff around. Please donate as he or she requests.

@akbooer said in Help with Luup Reloads:

For some time, now, I had a Vera Edge running without any plugins or Z-wave devices, and, I have to say, it just runs and runs!

Erhhh - so it works great when it's doing absolutely nothing - is that it?

@toggledbits said in Help with Luup Reloads:

When Luup looks for a file, it will select the uncompressed file before the compressed if both are present, and this is how things get goofed up -- if you have old uncompressed files and try to update via the uploader, Luup still sees/uses the uncompressed files and ignores the newer compressed files (it doesn't check timestamps -- that would be nice!).

Never knew that. I always used the up-loader, so never came across this one. Certainly explains why someone could disappear into the quicksand pretty quickly.

akbooer - sometimes when I'm looking at the graphs via the Data Historian in-memory Cache page; I hit the cache clear icon (circle with arrow head) instead of the graph icon (bar chart icon). Hence I have just destroyed what I wanted too look at. I just sometimes make some vague mental leap that the two icons are just one single "refresh chart" icon. Or perhaps it's just my big fat fingers.

However, I would like to suggest to make the icons further apart from each other and perhaps change the clear cache icon to a garbage icon. Sometimes known as a "trash" icon. Which I suppose it's a bit like a "freedom unit" .

And the light someone left on in the roof space or under the floor.

Have a look at any split aircons or aircons in general. Older models had sump heaters that could use anything from 30W to 300W. These were permanently on. Also iron core transformers that are permanently connected eg door bells and alarm systems - they can be quite lossey. Older PCs also drew a far bit even when "off". In fact, lots of older equipment can draw substantial power when on standby. So much so the One Watt Initiative was instigated.

Good news - glad it works for you now. Also looks a lot better than the original.

Now as akbooer pointed out; there is huge amount of redundancy in the code, with this as a starting point: fourpointeightgetWattage, sevengetWattage & ninegetWattage. Looks like you need one function that get's a 4.8, 7 or 9 passed to it?

Now as part of readability, is the use of indentation. The code is inconsistent - sometimes one tab has been used and sometimes two tabs plus there is mixture of spaces and tabs used for indentation. Personally I believe tabs are the root of all evil - I use spaces only but each to his/her own. Problem is that different editors equate a tab to different amount of spaces. So when you mix tabs and spaces and use a different editor; the indentation changes. Sounds pedantic - yes it is but then have a look at how Python works.

Also as part of readability is the use of capitals in identifiers. So fourpointeightgetWattage has one capital letter. A Watt does have a capital but I would expect fourPointEightGetWattage. Once again pedantic but it all adds up to good code readability.

Your list above is generally how it's done but style does vary amongst programmers and programming languages. There is always room for improvement, no matter one's own skill level. I still feel like a beginner when I look at the quality of code and the depth of understanding that I sometimes come across in other people's work. It takes practice and consistency in approach.