Well, if I see further, it's because I stand of the shoulders of giants. I've got where I got because of the experts here. I started about 15 years ago with some really basic X10 stuff. When we moved in 2011 for some reason it simply would not work in the new house, so z-wave was the thing. Vera lite then Vera Plus.

I'm a child of the 70s. I want the car on the drive to be KITT and my lounge a cross between the bridge of the enterprise and the Lars farm on Tattoine.

Not there yet, but with about 250 devices (virtual and real) things are fun (when they work!)

The absolute killer app for me is Alexa bi directional speech. To the extent that I've walked into hotel rooms and said 'Alexa turn the lights on....'
I'm within a spit of never buying another control and doing everything via Alexa and Reactor (had to drop that in)

So that's pretty much me.

C

Well here we go. A slow, considered migration from Vera to something (I hope) more reliable.
Hopefully we'll end up with a decent documented process for people as right now I'm still not quite clear
Starting point:
I have a 'mature' Mios set up running on an extrooted Vera Plus with roughly 100 devices, both physical and virtual
Integration with Alexa both voice control and TTS
iPhones for Geolocation
Volumio devices for music playing around the house.
I have no user defined scenes, all automation is run from Reactor.

My impetus is final dissatisfaction with the quality of UI7 software delivery and operational rigour (for full disclosure I am a senior IT Operations leader with circa 20 years experience delivering properly stable systems, so I probably have un-realistic expectations )

So initial steps:

1. Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (I think this is my 5, and 6th Pi in total. I may have a problem)
2. Raspbian
3. OpenLuup
4. Verabridge

That I think is stage 1

C

OK so time for an update. This has kind of drifted off the 'Here's how you do it'

Most of getting Openluup, HA Bridge, AltUI, and getting Z-way up and runningwas pretty trivial (all things considered)

The migration from Vera to Z-way, was not as simple as I'd have hoped. Pretty much 2 days of fettling.

Couple of gotchas:

1. My restore to the UZB dongle took a couple of shots. It took quite a long time as well.
2. Migration to Z-way per se was pretty simple
3. However, Z-way requires a totally different way of thinking. Pretty much every service creates an individual device. If you're not ready for this you can get in a hell of a mess trying to name stuff. I still have a few odd devices that I'm not quite sure what they are. I suspect tamper switches!
4. Some devices are not what you think. Sirens. In fact these are shown as switches. Makes total sense when you think about it, but doesn't look great on the interface.
5. The rooms were not migrated. So although all my rooms already existed in AltUI / Opeluup (from Vera) new devices all appeared in a ZWay room. In retrospect this could be because I already had rooms named, and they had different UIDs
6. Reactor is still fantastic
7. There are a couple of devices that aren't supported in Openluup / AltUI. Meh might be worth checking in advance.

Finally a huge thankyou to @akbooer @rafale77 @therealdb Partrick (is he here? If not can someone ping him the other place) and the rest of you that have made this work.

This is so much faster, more sensible, reactive, responsive and everything else. Now I just want to do more

Respect

Chris

@therealdb I got this running in about 30 minutes tops.....

C

Ahh this is the same thread as in the old place?

If you're using Raspian it should be trivial:

legotheboss/YouTube-files

Files for QuickPi tutorials. Contribute to legotheboss/YouTube-files development by creating an account on GitHub.

Use the raspi-config tool

C

If it doesn't work, it certainly won't be the software's fault!

Can I really buy another pi :D. That'll be 5 in the server cupboard and one under the sofa!

And I still need Alexa, but yes, crawling progress

C

@iRobot said in OpenLuup IP Address:

That is very strange, but has nothing to do with openLuup as far as I know. I think you must look for what is causing this in your Debian or network.

Looks like you have something in your network that is redirecting your local network through the internet since 217.3.79.1 is not a private but public ip-address

This. It's a Deutsche Telecom IP range. @Elcid what are you putting into your browser to access OpenLuup?

What happens if you try on 192.168.1.xx?

C

Groovy. Thanks!

C

It eventually decided to work! (I did think that that was part of the original as it were. I suspect Apple just being picky.

Thanks, as ever

C

@mrFarmer said in My migration from Vera, or what I did on my holidays:

Hi Catman,

Things you may need to install as well: cjson, dkjson, bit,.... jeez, I wish i made notes the last time i installed openLuup

Cheers Rene

Rather why I'm doing this

So I have cjson and dkjson

Did you mean something like 'bit' or was it a typo of 'but'?

Nothing is different. I have deleted and re-installed the VeraBridge. Still says 'No Vera' even with the correct IP address, and only about 15 devices.

Cheers

C

Thanks. Yes, just changing "home" to "Home" breaks it

No idea how to use the URL encoding :). I try to keep things simple!

C

Just sent you a chat....
C

Finally fixed Mrs C's iPhone locator. Adding some more logic now we're actually going out of the house (for a while)

What I'm toying with now is some ideas for
a) Smart shower (assuming I get another job that means I need to get up and get in the shower)
b) IR control for scene setting per my old Philips Pronto and (to a lesser extent) my Harmony. The Harmony hub is the obvs choice, and given my Harmony One is on its last legs this may be first.

C

Hi all. Looking for some guidance as ever

This

luup.inet.wget('https://api.telegram.org/bot1225075966:AAHS5rwhCpOx0hwq3mOnNjtCSKiDeAS6B4/sendMessage?chat_id=@Coalport58&text=House mode is home')

Works fine

This

luup.inet.wget('https://api.telegram.org/bot1225075966:AAHS5rwhCpOx0hwq3mOnNjtCSKiDeAS6B4/sendMessage?chat_id=@Coalport58&text=House mode is Home')

Throws a 400 error:

openLuup.client:: WGET error status: 400

I have munged the bot key to post here, but just changing the 'h' to 'H' breaks it. Any ideas why?

C

Got it! Deleted the device, re-created it and we are good. Blimey what a PITA.

Only issue is it's not showing the map data so far.....

C

@rafale77 said in iPhone Locator force refresh error:

Would you mind deleting the plugin device and restarting it? This is an area of the plugin I absolutely didn't touch at all. It is all @amg0's code and it has been working for me. Are you saying that the plugin now sees both the old and the new device names? You do not see Rachel Phone but you see Rachel iPhone?

Totally get this isn't your code bit, but as you know, I'm banned

Now interestingly I found the old device names. Despite not being listed on the account, they were listed in 'Find my iPhone'

There was another 'Rachel's iPhone' left over from forever ago, which I have deleted in Find my iPhone and now no longer shows in the plugin list.

I've restarted Luup still seeing the force refresh error, but I think we might be closing in. I'll delete the device first, re create it and see what happens.

Cheers

C

@rafale77 said in iPhone Locator force refresh error:

Can you trying have the plugin log out and log back into icloud? The last symptom is an indication that it either has cached the devices or that there is something wrong with the icloud device resolution. Could the plugin possibly see multiple devices under the same name and you having picked the wrong one? The error seems to indicate that icloud is not locating this very phone ("Rachel's phone")

I actually deleted the device and re-created it. Rachel's phone now no longer exists (according to iCloud) as it's been re-named Rachel Phone.

iCloud only shows:
Rachel Phone
Chris's Macbook Pro (2)

The plugin still thinks that the list is:
Rachel's iPhone
Catman Mac
Rachel's iPad
Rachel iPhone.

No idea where it's getting these data and names from.

It's also listed these devices since the Vera days, so its' obviously cached somewhere by Apple.

As I say, mine works just fine, and there are apostrophes in some of my device names. There's also an old historic list of devices. The only difference I can see now is that my preferred device is top of the list so.

Any other ideas?

C

Nope, that's not it. Changed the name of her phone and it's still doing it. Although the plug in is still showing devices that no longer exist in iCloud.

Really frustrating as now Mrs C is out to work in an office and getting the home / away stuff working again would be great

C

Folks still trying to resolve this. Could it possibly be the inverted comma in the name of her phone not being escaped?

I'm also seeing this which appears to indicate that it's not happy with the device:

2020-10-05 17:12:46.245 luup.task:: status=2 IPhoneLocator : Bad or No device found:{"maxMsgChar":160,"isMac":false,"lostTimestamp":"","batteryStatus":"Unknown","locFoundEnabled":false,"deviceClass":"iPhone","canWipeAfterLock":true,"isLocating":false,"name":"Rachel's iPhone","features":{"CLK":false,"CWP":false,"WIP":true,"LKM":false,"REM":true,"PSS":false,"KEY":false,"MCS":false,"XRM":false,"CLT":false,"TEU":true,"LMG":false,"LKL":true,"KPD":false,"LLC":false,"SPN":false,"BTR":false,"LCK":true,"WMG":true,"PIN":false,"MSG":true,"SVP":false,"LOC":true,"LST":true,"SND":true},"deviceDiscoveryId":"","audioChannels":[],"modelDisplayName":"iPhone","deviceDisplayName":"iPhone 5s","deviceColor":"e1e4e3-d4c5b3","passcodeLength":6,"fmlyShare":false,"batteryLevel":0,"lostModeCapable":true,"thisDevice":false,"wipeInProgress":false,"id":"y76cfYiF843r0U4gCttq295/E2podyhzV/uD10GRWvU3PR4QHwuwyeHYVNSUwerV","darkWake":false,"locationCapable":true,"deviceModel":"5s-e1e4e3-d4c5b3","baUUID":"","activationLocked":false,"lostModeEnabled":false,"rawDeviceModel":"iPhone6,2","lowPowerMode":false,"locationEnabled":true,"deviceStatus":"203"}

Any thoughts?

Cheers

C

My thanks!

AltUI v2.50.2549,

C