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@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

To keep things so they are more likely to work, it's suggested the email address should be totally case insensitive regardless.

Yes. I see from the ource code comments tht eraly-on I removed address wrapping to lower case. It's an easy change, but I'm going to find out why I did that in the first place, before reverting.

@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

Is it your preference to leave the saved files in the raw mode or would you consider translating the base64 text in the openLuup code base?

Don't see why not. Again, I need to dig in to see why that isn't working out of the box. There's plenty Base64 decoding going on within the server anyway.

@a-lurker said in openLuup email server:

On a side note, does the reception of an email by openLuup generate some sort of trigger that can be watched.

Your best bet would surely be to register a callback handler to listen for messages on a specific address?

I have another big project ongoing with some sort of a deadline at the start of December, so I'll need to leave things until then before I can get back to this code.

Thanks again for your documentation efforts. I did say I would provide a link from the openLuup app... perhaps in the footer, like there is for the forum?

akbooer

You have been doing your homework!

I need to remind myself of what I did way back when before being able to reply sensibly.

But thanks for the excellent analysis.

akbooer

Not sure if your controller handles WiFi controlled devices?

akbooer

As it says, this will need a Zwave hub to work.

akbooer

Not quite clear on what you’d need, but have you looked at the Shelly range of products for remote switching?

akbooer

I should have thought so.

Can you post the JSON for the scene from the console scene page?

akbooer

Go to the AltUI Attibutes page and enter 1 into the disabled attribute box.

Restart Lua.

Everything will still be there in case you want to reactivate it.

akbooer

You’ll note from your first attached image that there are three types of trigger recognised by openLuup:

openLuup Variable watches
AltUI variable watches
Luup UPnP

#3, as noted in that image, are all ignored by openLuup. This system was hopelessly flawed, which prompted @amg0 to create variable watches (#2).

When I removed all AltUI dependencies from openLuup (my operational system doesn’t even have AltUI installed) I needed a replacement for those variable watches, hence #1.

The openLuup watches are recognised by AltUI as a form of #3, because the Vera-compatible data structures are used, in a very limited way, to implement them, and save them in the JSON file.

So with AltUI installed, both will work (if enabled.)

akbooer

Hi there.

'Best', of course, is subjective. What are your needs/wants really?

Also, what type of IT infrastructure do you have, or are you used to? Apple, PC, Linux, ...?

Lots of choice, to be sure.

akbooer

Yes.

An alternative is to create the module table at the start, and define the functions directly as module components…

local _M = {}

function _M.myfunction(…)
  — whatever
end

function _M.anotherFunction(…)
  — whatever
end

return _M

akbooer

The module call is, for good technical reasons, set to a no-op in openLuup.

It’s also an outmoded/deprecated pattern in newer Lua versions.

You should, instead, ensure that the module itself ends with a return statement, with a table including the required module contents.

There’s several ways to accomplish this. In openLuup itself I’ve generally done something like this:

— my module

local function f1()
  whatever
end

local function f2()
  whatever
end

return {
  f1 = f1,
  f2 = f2,
}

akbooer

Thanks for this fabulous hardware “how to” !

akbooer

For Zwave, I used to love the 4 button MiniMote, but for similar functionality (non Zwave) I now use Philips Hue smart switches (detachable for hand held.) Labelling the buttons in either of the cases is a non-starter, really.

For voice control, I can use an Apple HomePod Mini, through HomeKit, but for single buttons I’ve also got some Shelly devices.

For wall-mounted buttons, I use the MK Grid system, with Shelly i4 or relays in the wall box. This has the advantage of being available in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 wallplate configurations with interchangeable toggle or push buttons, and you can get buttons with etched labels for common functions (fan, etc.)

No really good winning solution here.

akbooer

Shelly produce 2/3/4 channel DIN rail devices which handle up to 16A per channel. WiFi / Bluetooth controllable with external smart switch or anything doing HTTP / MQTT.

https://www.shelly.com/en-gb/products/product-overview/shelly-pro-2

akbooer

Thanks for that! Not tried a new install recently, so will give it a go.

akbooer

@mrFarmer

I've just tried AltUI on my development system running openLuup, and access to the AltAppStore appears to work just fine.

When hitting the Publish button, I had to go through some authentication step that I've never seen before, but ended up with this from Google:

Screenshot 2024-08-12 at 15.01.53

then went back to AltUI to see this page:

...so all seems good to me.

akbooer

@mrFarmer said in openweather plugin ?:

I am on openLuup 23.01.06. When not using MTTQ, Shelly, Zwave stick, any reason for an update to the latest?

To answer the above, most of the changes since then have , indeed, been with MQTT (which now fully supports both * and + wildcards) and Shelly Gen 2+ devices.

It also includes native scene creation, which was the only remaining functionality from AltUI that I needed to replace.

akbooer

Yes, this problem was fixed when it first arose for openLuup, which now takes its App Store information via GitHub, if you use the console App Store page, and not AltUI’s.

In fact, openLuup is now totally independent of AltUI, which I don’t even have installed on my production system.

GitHub’s mirror of the Google database happens via a separate process, hence the delay in updating sometimes.

akbooer

Done (for AltAppStore only!) ...

...it might take up to a day for openLuup to show the change (or just reload openLuup if in a hurry.)

Is it the web interface that's not working for updates? I changed the database directly.

akbooer

@mrFarmer said in openweather plugin ?:

Hi, I have updated the plugin code. You will have to install it manually as the MIOS App Market nor the ALTUI App Store are working. Get the file from github at https://github.com/reneboer/MultiStationWeather/blob/main/src/L_MsWeather.lua

I can put that in the AltAppStore for you.

AK

akbooer

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