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

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@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

I had to go and check this. It rather depends on the server it's directed at. Apache will re-read, for example, but not restart. I have no idea what the z-wave-server will do but it should be really easy to tel by running it and seeing the process details in ps

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

@DesT Easy 75ft from my NotVera to the gear in the garage. It's going through a brick wall at an acute angle as well....

Still, I had to install Ubiquit wifi a couple of weeks back. Got so hacked off with getting 1M sitting on top of the AP in the lounge hanging off a 200M cable connection.

Have to say the Ubiquiti stuff is barking. Setup can be intimidating if you're not a tech but I figure it took me about 3 minutes. 150M now. The AP is on the ground floor, in the 3rd floor office I get a rock solid 40M.

The only reason I'd get another is that my POS Canon printer moans that there's too much interference. Even though it'll ping away quite happily :<

C

How much range do you need? My NotVera is in the server cupboard on the 3rd floor. The most distant devices are in the garage about 30 ft horizontally and those three floors vertically. No communications issues that I can see at all.
Just curious is all

C

Well done. Glad it's worked out for you!

C

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Same here. My system is now several orders of magnitude better than on Vera. I have no hesitation in suggesting you move away.

My thread 'What I did on my holidays' or something like that, details my experience and is something of a How-To (warts and all)

C

It's in both of them....

C

@rafale77 How much brute? If we're just talking about vi on a text file then no worries.
Otherwise I can probably live with it.

Cheers

C

Not sure this is in quite the right place (again) but I have a device that exists in z-way that I simply cannot remove. It seems to be a zombie. I have no idea what it was.
It claims to be a routing binary sensor that has not woken up since August
I go through the 'Only do this if your device is broken' and it simply will not go.
Any ideas (apart from ignore it)?

Cheers

C

Can I just say "do it"

I cannot believe how much better OpenLuup / z-way is than Vera. OK it's a learning curve. But it's rock solid. Fast and so much better in every way

C

Is there any way of 'actively' to notify when the battery level goes below a given value, without creating a low batter alert for every device? I guess just running this code above every hour or so would be close enough.

C