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I don't know if I'm the only one, but managing more than one Reactor installs, the need to have some sort of copy&paste for rules has grown on me.
While I understand the technical challenges, I'm wondering if a "god mode" where I could copy the raw JSON rule and paste it into another rule could be an advanced, flag only feature that could benefit power users.
I know I can copy the JSON file and proceed, but I must stop Reactor and when doing maintenance, it's more clicks to do.
Just an idea
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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Expose MSR entities@toggledbits this is precisely what it is, yes
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Expose MSR entitiesSorry I tried to make it clear. For the avoidance of doubt the original post should (and shortly will) read
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Expose MSR entitiesYes that was stupid of me! Sorry!
said in Expose MSR entities:
Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in
MSR! Not HA!
So the owntracks_sensor exists in MSR and works great. I'm wondering if there's an easy way to expose to HA
What a buffoon
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Expose MSR entitiesProbably 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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Home Assistant Voice TTS is EasyI must have missed something in the Voice preview set up then as I can't get TTS working (at least from the test situation)
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Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil
The team behind the research has worked with Google to mitigate the attack, but what comes next?
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Home Assistant Voice@akbooer I just don't get it. I guess it's less effort to make a video than actually write down the instructions. Sure, for somethings they can be useful but a 15 minute video for a 5 minute config. Grrr!
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Home Assistant VoiceOK, so digging through stuff. Definite progress. I've got an OpenAI integration running, but just been told that 'Max output tokens reached' which seems a little odd as I've used precisely $0.01
Must go out now!
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Home Assistant VoiceCheers! I shall try and make some time
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Home Assistant VoiceGiven I'm starting from zero on this particular path it would be interestting to see how you set it up. Took me about 90 minutes to get a light to turn on! The documentation I've found so far is, well, poor
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Home Assistant Voice@akbooer I have Alexa that works really well for most voice control, but doesn't interact with HA. I have virtual switches in OpenLuup that are exposed HA bridge, so effectively I simply ask to flip a switch and the automation follows.
The exception is my Logitech Elite hubs which integrate with Alexa directly (and also work really well)
@toggledbits that would be awesome. I'm keen on the more interactive stuff (i.e. where the VA prompts for activity)
Certainly I can make Alexa speak, but a simple 'yes' or 'no' response isn't going to get anything from her.
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Home Assistant VoiceWell, so far so 'OK' Took a fair while to set up. One of the wake phrases absolutely does not work for me 'Hey Jarvis'
I think getting all the devices I have decent aliases so it knows what to control may take some time.
Local processing on a VM with 2 CPUs and 4G of RAM is pretty slow. Takes about 10 seconds to action an switch and fails to understand about 20% of the time. Hybrid is much faster.
Audio quality of the voice response is really not great. There are plenty voices to chose from, but none of them as polished as Alexa (so far)I think I have much to learn so not writing it off just yet.
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Home Assistant VoiceOh god! Am I a trail blazer? This won't end well!
Voice control / interaction is very much my thing. It's the future I was promised, and I'm still tapping away on 102 switches
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Home Assistant VoiceI won't be using it for music. I have a full Cyrus stack with Vienna Acoustics for music
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Home Assistant VoiceHas anyone had a play with the local voice control for HA? I've got one on order because...
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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
