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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?

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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

Excellent. Yes, it all works fine with Grafana, but not the internal plotting (which, frankly, is pretty minimal.)

Easy to change the rules with the sophisticated wildcard syntax described here, with multiple patterns allowed, as per the servertables.lua defaults.

akbooer

Rather than edit the servertables.lua file (which would anyway be overwritten on the next version update), you can simply add some customisation code to Lua Startup...

For example:

do -- bespoke Historian archive rules
  local rules = require "openLuup.servertables" .archive_rules
  rules[#rules+1] = {
      patterns = {"*.shellypro*.*"},
      retentions = "1m:1d, 5m:7d"
    }
end

...will enable archiving of any numeric shellypro device variables.

High temperature sensor for Zigbee

MSR UI on a mobile browser

New to Home Automation Looking for a Single app?

UZB/RaZberry Firmwares - Update

Sending data to a USB port to interface with a wireless switch

Seeking Advice:

[Reactor] Assignment to alarm ignored -- expression-driven global cannot be set by assignment

[Reactor] [Dev] Clarifications/Docs for refreshCapabilities and Entity action implementations return types

Looking for Remote Switch boxes that can also be used with a wireless Decora Style Switch.

Openluup - verabridge can not load devices.

Access to log file viewer denied

Why different types of Triggers within openLuup & ALTUI

Darker Reactor style

openLuup_install.lua - URL changed?

Just starting what hub is best.

TTS in MSR?

OpenLuup : Loading Global Modules

Should MSR import this device type from an Ezlo controller?

Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements

A couple of things about Reactor 24293

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