Thanks. I'm figuring it out a little bit. Yes, there really were mistakes.
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@alminsk
I'm slowly migrating all my stuff to MQTT under MSR, so I have a central place to integrate everything (and, in a not-so-distant future, to remove virtual devices from my Vera and leave it running zwave only).
Anyway, here's my reactor-mqtt-contrib package:
https://github.com/dbochicchio/reactor-mqtt-contrib
Simply download yaml files (everything or just the ones you need) and you're good to go.
I have mapped my most useful devices, but I'll add others soon. Feel free to ask for specific templates, since I've worked a lot in the last weeks to understand and operate them.
The templates are supporting both init and query, so you have always up-to-date devices at startup, and the ability to poll them. Online status is supported as well, so you can get disconnected devices with a simple expression.
Many-many thanks to @toggledbits for its dedication, support, and patience with me and my requests
I’ve added a couple of Shelly Wave i4 as scene controllers and I’m planning to add more, since I can just use standard buttons instead of battery-powered scene controllers, which also looks better aesthetically.
That said, I’m struggling to figure out how to write a simple rule that cycles between states every time I press a button.
Example: Light 1 ON → OFF, then Light 2 ON → OFF.
The part I can’t get right is handling the case where Light 1 or Light 2 might already be ON independently of the rule.
Maybe it’s just too much sun and relaxation clouding my brain, but any hint would be appreciated.
Use case:
When performing home maintenance, such as air conditioning, I want all rules involving air conditioning to be disabled.
To do this, to day, I have a virtual switch that I placed within all rules involving air conditioning, meaning that if I turn it off, none of them work.
Then another situation: the water pump system and garden irrigation, another switch.
In short, I had to create several virtual switches in Hubitat to disable rules in MSR.
Unfortunately, however, I was unable to cover all scenarios, so I wondered if it would be possible for MSR to support a virtual MSR switch, which, when configured in the reactor settings, would function as a general on/off switch for MSR.
If it is configured and turned off, the entire rules and actions in MSR stops working, except for the status change reading process, specifically for this switch, which, when turned on, would restart the MSR.
Would it be possible to do something like this? Any recommendations from the experts?
Probably a really dumb question.
Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.
Digging around with Home Assistant and toying with some dashboards, is there any way of exposing that sensor to HA trivially? I could set MSR to trip a virtual switch in OpenLuup which can then be exposed to HA (with all my other Vera devices) but that feels a bit in-elegant if I can do it directly.
Any thoughts?
Apologies if the ask is not clear/
TIA
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As there are statements about compatibility for home assistant versions in MSR new version announcements (e.g. "HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.7.3"), I thought it would be good idea to track other controllers as well.
As an example, I can confirm that build "latest-25208-c53e8513" works with Hubitat Elevation C-8 platform version 2.4.2.134 using Maker API.
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.
I foolishly let my system wipe all cookies this morning and with it my settings for my MSR home page.
Once logged back in I can no longer remove errant panes nor is the + available to add new ones.
Brave Browser v1.80.122 (Jul 16, 2025)
What have I done?!
Will check other browsers on my M1.
UPDATE: Safari exhibits same behaviour.
I've tried both sans last-four public key entry and with - no change.
@toggledbits, not sure if this is a feature request or I'm using the search tool wrong. You have a "Search for rule" in the Rules Set tab in MSR. It works nicely to find a rule and bring up said rule, but can it/could it be used for as a "where used?" global search? For instance, I have a fairly large set of rules, divided up into 10 different rulesets. There's easily a hundred individual rules, and many of the rules have Rule State triggers, which of course refer to other rules. Amongst my troubleshooting today, I came across what may have been a duplicate or troubleshooting attempt, but I can't tell if it's actually used as a Rule State in another rule without opening each rule that I suspect it may be a part of.
Thanks.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Maybe I haven't figured out how to work with MSR yet. I used to work with Reactor in VeraPlus, but it works a little differently.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Everything worked. I don't understand what the reason is. The rules are saved.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.I looked at the logs, everything is recorded well. The directory is specified correctly.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Hello everyone. I ran into a problem: I can't save the rules.
I assume that the problem is in the path of the user file. Created a directory along this path.
The Portainer starts the reactor container . But the rules are not saved.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Excellent. Everything worked. Thank you so much for the excellent REACTOR. Thank you so much for your support.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.I have created such a catologist. /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant
I tried to install different networks
"Can any of the Portainer+Reactor users please chime in here with some help for this user? Screen shots would be helpful. @black-cat @Fanan @vezinpi ..." - I would be very grateful to you.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Maybe I'm not choosing the right network?
I have it like this now:
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.And for some reason the status is "unhealthy"
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.I saw errors in the logs. But I do not know what they mean.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.I am publishing a port (:8111) But for some reason it is not displayed. What I'm doing wrong
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Installed in HA Porter through the integration of "HA Add-ons by alexbelgium" . Installed MSR in the Portainer and launched it. It started. But I can't log in to the Reactor web interface.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Thanks everyone. So I will try to do so. Docker has already been installed as a second virtual machine. And how to properly install MSR in it.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Thanks for the answers.
I am only at the beginning of the path and can completely reinstall everything. Which version of Home Assistant do you recommend to install so that Reactor would work without problems. And in what way.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Thank you for responding. I will be grateful for any help.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Good afternoon. You're right. I did the installation of the Virtual Machine Home Assistant OS in proxmox using Proxmox Helper Scripts ( https://tteck .github.io/Proxmox / )
Here is the version of my system
Here is the script that I installed in proxmox
You say that you will not be able to install Reactor on the Home Assistant OS VM. What should I do then? I'm ready to reinstall HA. Which version is better to install and in what way? To be able to work with Reactor.
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Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.Good afternoon. I want to connect Reactor to HA. HA is installed on Proxmox. Proxmox is installed on a Beelink U59 PRO mini PC. Studied the installation instructions ( https://reactor.toggledbits.com/docs/Installation / ) but I didn't understand how to do it (I'm a weak linux user). Help, give detailed instructions on how to install MSR.
Reactor is a cool plugin, I use it on VeraPlus, but gradually I want to switch to HA.
Thanks.