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

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

@DesT Can I just clarify: You run this at home?!

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

@akbooer said in VeraBridge not auto connected after reboot Pi4:

Great news! ... told you there were experts here who could help you!

I'm just surprised it's me

TBH it probably wouldn't have been except I had to rebuild my miniNDLA server last week....

C

In fact that wasn't it at all

iCloud knows exactly where she is

C

To close this off: It helps if your wife signs into iCloud on her phone....

C

@rafale77 said in Object Recognition:

Quiet weekend on the forum...

That's because Openluup just works.....

Seriously apart from my AltUI licence issue and some slightly odd motion sensor, it's all just fine.

Can't think of anything else to do right now

C

Change the mirror, then.

C

@SweetGenius Same error or not?

C

@SweetGenius said in openLuup Install errors:

• connect (101: Network is unreachable)

It probably would have worked without the fix-missing option as well. Looks like a transient networking issue to me

C

Nothing I can see apart from some cross site cookie warnings about Cloudflare and Google. Getting similar on the working browser as well.

Cache(s) cleared. Cookies deleted. Very odd

C

Which is rather what I thought.

Any ideas?

C

Hi
I've got a licence for AltUI. On my laptop, it's shown and my configuration of favourites etc is saved.
On my desktop, there's a licensing message and none of my favourites are there.
Are licences per machine or per instances of AltUI?

Cheers

C

Cheers

C