I just wanted to post how impressed I am with both HA and MSR. I really don't see that Ezlo have a chance in hell.

I noticed that my Virtual HA instance was killing my machine's performance, so decided that my project for the weekend would be a stand alone Raspberry Pi instance. Less than an hour to install, restore and configure both HA and MSR and it all just works. Thanks to everyone that contributes to these fabulous projects. Especially our own @toggledbits for the amazing work that is the new Reactor!

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Sorry, just had to...

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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.

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Perhaps another thing to point out is that WiFi<> Internet and there is absolutely no technical reason you cannot have a WiFi network simply because you have no internet access

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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

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Just to close this off, I managed to get a Harmony Elite and Hub from ebay. Lightly used at a reasonable price.
God knows why they are pulling out of the market. First impressions is it's an ace bit of gear. Didn't realise quite what the hub could do and am thinking of getting another to replace my Broadlink in the cinema.

Thanks, all

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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

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@therealdb well we got this place....

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@librasun said in Finally gave up on my Ezlo Plus:

Sound familiar?

Never heard that!

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

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After much (un-necessary) faffing on Debian 10 I got MSR up and running in about 10 minutes flat this morning, on the same box as AltUI

As a warning, expect lots of stupid questions.

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@pabla said in Vera firmware 7.32 beta:

I have been waiting for 7.32 to try out @therealdb 's alexa plugin to finally use Alexa in multiple rooms for synced TTS. WIll install fingers crossed it goes well!

Works A1 on Openluup

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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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@librasun said in New Ezlo Web GUI now in "beta":

I prefer the term "Vaporware" until a pitched product at least becomes accessible to a portion of its target audience. The silence from ezlo's team -- aside from acknowledging customer complaints and new Jira tickets -- is deafening.

Plus ca change....

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Fabulous! For once I wasn't being a complete idiot, and now the entity is True (which is sort of what I'd expect) Thanks so much!

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@librasun said in Instant regret after clicking "Configure Node Right Now" on device:

Many thanks, Gents! Nice believing that I am neither the first nor last to spazz in this manner.

Radical thought, but you could move to Openluup

Then all these problems would vanish...like tears in the rain......

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Well after much trepidation, and some additional work, I think we are complete.

After the successful virtualisation of my Home Assistant and Music Server hosts, and a successful POC of the main Vera / MQTT / MSR / everything else box I did some testing with a spare UZB stick to make sure I could connect it to the virtual host.

With a long weekend ahead to solve any issues, this morning I bit the bullet and shut down the hardware device, moved the production UZB stick over to the NAS and spun up the VM.

It was not entirely smooth as for some reason Z-way-server was saying it wasn't connected and AltUI claimed an authentication issue, but with some judicious restarts and testing, everything that I can think of to test now works!

Some of the Z-wave commands from remote controls are a little slow, oddly, but I suspect the network needs to sort itself out as it's nearly two months 'old' Direct control from web interfaces / voice commands seems fine so I'm not overly worried.

So, barring any unforseen failures, I have a fully virtualised system. Better even, when reading about the Synology range, I decided to source an older unit as a backup cluster device so I have some serious resilience

Thanks for all the support an input!

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Fab so I have an entity. I had to make some changes to the Owntracks config so there was no stored message. Time will tell. Thanks for all the help

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When I remember the old days

Just added a new Tuya plug (OK so it's cloud)

Start to finish, visible in HA and MSR < 30 seconds...

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https://www.keene.co.uk/keene-ir-anywhere-ir-over-ip-modules-pair.html

Keene are great for all this kind of stuff.

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