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Crille

@librasun I totally understand your philosophy and tried to stick with stock setups as well but who has the time and patient to wait for Ezlo to accomplish a fraction of what is available already today.
That said, I'm so thrilled I started migrating to openLuup and MSR, best decision ever! Sure it's not going to be easy for anyone to take over this setup but the possibilities and stability is totally worth it.

@akbooer and @toggledbits you guys rock!!

Homebridge is the key for Apple devices regarding manual control for WAF.

Crille

The promise of "all available devices will be supported" gave me hope for including more Zigbee devices into to my home as Vera was not a good option for Zigbee devices.

Despite the support for new devices is extremely slow, the implementation of Zigbee has a lot to wish for and it seems a low priority at Ezlo I managed to include 22 of my 23 Zigbee devices as generic. But after 2 years of devices still missing attributes and randomly/every controller reboot loosing connection to the controller and had to be power cycled to connect again, and some even dropping off the network completely without any reason, I decided to give up.

The positive outcome of all this:
I bought a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and installed Zigbee2MQTT and never been happier.
Suddenly the pairing were no pain and took a few seconds per device, all my devices were recognized, all capabilities of the devices were exposed and it never misses a signal to/from a device ever.

I'm surprised how stable and configurable my new setup is. I can set device parameters, offsets, send messages handled by the bulbs them self like effects, broadcast for groups, transition time for power on/off. I can handle debounce for MQTT messages, do OTA firmware update on devices and much more! Most of this is probably standard for the common branded hubs like Hue etc but I never had one so this is new to me.
A big plus for me is the MQTT part of Zigbee2MQTT as I'm migrating as much as possible to MQTT.

My Ezlo Plus is now serving as a modified WiFi access point to my network and only have the VistaCam 1203 Doorbell still connected for evaluation. Time will tell if I ever move my Z-wave devices to it.

Conclusion:
I could really recommend both the Sonoff 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and Zigbee2MQTT to anyone going the same path!

Crille

@toggledbits I've done a (test) Swedish translation for MSR, I don't want/need a translated version, but I had the time and perhaps some future users would find it useful
I noticed it's a bit early in the process to go live with systemwide localizations so no github in place yet, do you want input on this now or should we wait a few releases? considering it may be low priority issues.
If so, do you want feedback here or in mantis?

Crille

@akbooer I’m afraid you’re right. They read your pm.
I’m not banned, just joining another, perhaps more interesting forum

Crille

WTF me too!

Crille

I've made a few templates for MQTTController, mostly Zigbee2MQTT, and sharing them to the community if anyone else would find use for them.

GitHub - calmen77/MSR-mqtt_templates: MQTT templates for Multi-hub Reactor

MQTT templates for Multi-hub Reactor. Contribute to calmen77/MSR-mqtt_templates development by creating an account on GitHub.

These are the ones I'm using but I'm happy to add more Zigbee2MQTT templates if needed.

Happy Holidays!

Crille

@wmarcolin I haven’t decoupled my Vera but use Homebridge for all local and remote control.

Crille

@akbooer and @LibraSun I think mine had an update button in AltUi and I just pressed it. After that VeraBridge showed up as a device and I configured it.

Crille

I love the simplicity of raising my hand and say to my watch "Open right garage door" when I'm approaching my home in my car, and if I forget, Siri asks me if I want to open it since I'm entering my geofence

Crille

Without openLuup and the excellent Ezlo Bridge, my Ezlo Plus would just annoy me and make me want to go somewhere else, as they kind of hinted with the ban raid.
Big thanks to @mrFarmer ! for making use of the very beta product they shipped.

Crille

I've added a template for Shelly Plug S

Crille

It’s this one https://www.aqara.com/us/motion_sensor.html
The only downside is that illuminance is only updated when motion is detected.

Crille

I'm using Zigbee2MQTT with a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and am very pleased, I posted about it here https://smarthome.community/post/13287
I have also published a few MQTTController templates here https://smarthome.community/post/13939

Crille

I've made a few templates for MQTTController, mostly Zigbee2MQTT, and sharing them to the community if anyone else would find use for them.

GitHub - calmen77/MSR-mqtt_templates: MQTT templates for Multi-hub Reactor

MQTT templates for Multi-hub Reactor. Contribute to calmen77/MSR-mqtt_templates development by creating an account on GitHub.

These are the ones I'm using but I'm happy to add more Zigbee2MQTT templates if needed.

Happy Holidays!

Crille

@toggledbits A few more thoughts:

I would like to parameterize primary_attribute: and temperature_sensor.units to give the user the oppurtunity to choose between for example temperature or humidity and C or F. Before I show you all my failures, is it supposed to be doable in current release? (I'm now doing it by having the same templates in one file but with different primary_attribute: and id's)
I'd like to suggest more aliases for value_sensor for example atmospheric_pressure and signal_strength both with .units. Is that something you would consider or is there another way to accomplish two value_sensor in one entity?
Before I show you all my failures, is it possible somehow to predefine values for light_effect?

Thank you for your patience and let me know if you need me to provide more info if the answer isn't just yes or no

Crille

@therealdb My use case for the Shelly uni template is not very generic so I won't publish that to the community but I'm working on some other templates for IKEA Tradfri, Tuya smart plugs and Xioami sensors that might be published later on.

But this fix would be a great addition to your existing templates for Shelly devices.

Crille

Thank you, I can confirm it is now doing what I expected.

Crille

@toggledbits said in Need advice building templates for MQTTController:

Config looks right

Thank you, wasn't sure about that.

Sorry for posting in a hurry, here's the rest of "show your work":

This is the entity in reactor config:

entities:
  "poolvarmepump":
    name: "Poolvärmepump"
    topic: "shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8"
    channel: "1"
    uses_template: my_shelly_uni

The actual device is disconnected from power so I used MQTT Explorer to manually publish in that topic

This is logged in the topic log

2022-12-16T18:57:49.593Z "shellies/shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8/online" 0 false false

This is log level 5

[latest-22343]2022-12-16T19:09:47.346Z <MQTTController:5:MQTTController.js:834> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt handling shellies/shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8/online for poolvarmepump: false
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T19:09:47.346Z <MQTTController:5:MQTTController.js:934> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt setting Entity#mosquitto-mqtt>poolvarmepump x_mqtt_device.online=false

This is log level 7

[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:20.082Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 47, "topic": "smartreader/sensor/voltage_phase_3/state", "payload": 232.7 }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:20.098Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 45, "topic": "smartreader/sensor/current_phase_1/state", "payload": 6.8 }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:20.103Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 45, "topic": "smartreader/sensor/current_phase_2/state", "payload": 0.9 }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:20.109Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 45, "topic": "smartreader/sensor/current_phase_3/state", "payload": 4.0 }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.377Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 45, "topic": "shellies/shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8/online", "payload": false }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.377Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:422> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt dispatching shellies/shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8/online to poolvarmepump
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.377Z <MQTTController:5:MQTTController.js:834> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt handling shellies/shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8/online for poolvarmepump: false
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.377Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:854> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt template in context is [Object]{ "capabilities": [ "power_switch", "toggle", "binary_sensor", "x_mqtt_device" ], "primary_attribute": "power_switch.state", "requires": [ "topic" ], "events": { "shellies/%topic%/relay/%channel%": { "power_switch.state": { "expr": "bool(payload)", "attribute": "power_switch.state" } }, "shellies/%topic%/adc/0": { "binary_sensor.state": { "expr": "int(payload) < \"1\"", "attribute": "binary_sensor.state" } }, "shellies/%topic%/online": { "x_mqtt_device.online": { "expr": "bool(payload)", "attribute": "x_mqtt_device.online" } } }, "actions": { "power_switch": { "on": { "topic": "shellies/%topic%/relay/%channel%/command", "payload": "on" }, "off": { "topic": "shellies/%topic%/relay/%channel%/command", "payload": "off" }, "set": { "topic": "shellies/%topic%/relay/%channel%/command", "payload": { "expr": "parameters.state ? 'on' : 'off'", "type": "raw" } } } }, "__source": "/home/homebridge/reactor/config/mqtt_templates/my_shelly_uni.yaml", "name": "Poolvärmepump", "topic": "shellyuni-C45BBE6C6DE8", "channel": "1", "uses_template": "my_shelly_uni", "entity": { "id": "poolvarmepump", "canonical_id": "mosquitto-mqtt>poolvarmepump", "controller": "mosquitto-mqtt", "type": "Entity", "name": "Poolvärmepump", "lastchange": 1671214268458, "lastupdate": 1671214268458, "can_delete": true, "can_rename": true, "capabilities": { "x_mqtt_device": { "attributes": { "online": { "type": "boolean" } }, "actions": { "poll": {  } } }, "power_switch": { "attributes": { "state": { "type": "bool", "values": { "true": "on", "false": "off" } } }, "actions": { "on": {  }, "off": {  }, "set": { "arguments": { "state": { "type": &#8230;, "values": &#8230; } } } } }, "toggle": { "actions": { "toggle": {  } } }, "binary_sensor": { "attributes": { "state": { "type": "bool" } } } }, "attribute_meta": { "x_mqtt_device": { "online": { "type": "boolean", "last_modified": 1671214268458, "previous_value": false, "previous_last_modified": 1671214268458 } }, "power_switch": { "state": { "type": "bool", "values": { "true": "on", "false": "off" }, "last_modified": 1667398843973, "previous_value": --null--, "previous_last_modified": 1667398843486 } }, "toggle": {  }, "binary_sensor": { "state": { "type": "bool", "last_modified": 1667398843973, "previous_value": --null--, "previous_last_modified": 1667398843486 } } }, "attributes": { "x_mqtt_device": { "online": true }, "power_switch": { "state": false }, "toggle": {  }, "binary_sensor": { "state": false } }, "actions": [ "x_mqtt_device.poll", "power_switch.on", "power_switch.off", "power_switch.set", "toggle.toggle" ], "primary_attribute": "power_switch.state", "primary_value": false }, "system": { "id": "system", "canonical_id": "mosquitto-mqtt>system", "controller": "mosquitto-mqtt", "type": "System", "name": "Mosquitto MQTT", "lastchange": 1671214263406, "lastupdate": 1671214263406, "can_delete": false, "can_rename": true, "capabilities": { "sys_system": { "attributes": { "state": { "type": "bool" } }, "actions": { "restart": {  }, "purge_dead_entities": { "arguments": { "age": { "type": &#8230;, "min": &#8230;, "default": &#8230; } } }, "delete_entity": { "arguments": { "entity_id": { "type": &#8230; } } }, "rename_entity": { "arguments": { "entity_id": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "new_name": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; } } } } }, "x_mqtt": { "attributes": {  }, "actions": { "publish": { "arguments": { "topic": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "payload": { "type": &#8230;, "bigtext": &#8230;, "uiclass": &#8230;, "optional": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "qos": { "type": &#8230;, "values": &#8230;, "default": &#8230;, "required": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "retain": { "type": &#8230;, "default": &#8230;, "required": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; } } } } } }, "attribute_meta": { "sys_system": { "state": { "type": "bool", "last_modified": 1671214263406, "previous_value": false, "previous_last_modified": 1671214255282 } }, "x_mqtt": {  } }, "attributes": { "sys_system": { "state": true }, "x_mqtt": {  } }, "actions": [ "sys_system.restart", "sys_system.purge_dead_entities", "sys_system.delete_entity", "sys_system.rename_entity", "x_mqtt.publish" ], "primary_attribute": "sys_system.state", "primary_value": true }, "payload_raw": "false", "packet": [object Object], "payload": "false", "value": "4.12" }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.378Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:857> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt events for Entity#mosquitto-mqtt>poolvarmepump: [Array][ { "expr": "bool(payload)", "attribute": "x_mqtt_device.online" } ]
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.378Z <MQTTController:7:MQTTController.js:861> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt entity poolvarmepump attribute x_mqtt_device.online source [Object]{ "expr": "bool(payload)", "attribute": "x_mqtt_device.online" }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.378Z <MQTTController:5:MQTTController.js:934> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt setting Entity#mosquitto-mqtt>poolvarmepump x_mqtt_device.online=false
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.460Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:389> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt message packet=[Object]{ "cmd": "publish", "retain": false, "qos": 0, "dup": false, "length": 42, "topic": "shellies/shellyix3-98CDAC2F5883/input/0", "payload": 1 }
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.460Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:422> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt dispatching shellies/shellyix3-98CDAC2F5883/input/0 to ljussensor
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.460Z <MQTTController:5:MQTTController.js:834> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt handling shellies/shellyix3-98CDAC2F5883/input/0 for ljussensor: "1"
[latest-22343]2022-12-16T18:11:23.460Z <MQTTController:6:MQTTController.js:854> MQTTController#mosquitto-mqtt template in context is [Object]{ "capabilities": [ "binary_sensor" ], "primary_attribute": "binary_sensor.state", "events": { "shellies/%topic%/input/%channel%": { "binary_sensor.state": { "expr": "bool(payload)", "attribute": "binary_sensor.state" } } }, "name": "Skymningsrelä", "topic": "shellyix3-98CDAC2F5883", "channel": "0", "uses_template": "my_shelly_sensor", "entity": { "id": "ljussensor", "canonical_id": "mosquitto-mqtt>ljussensor", "controller": "mosquitto-mqtt", "type": "Entity", "name": "Skymningsrelä", "lastchange": 1671214263452, "lastupdate": 1671214263452, "can_delete": true, "can_rename": true, "capabilities": { "x_mqtt_device": { "attributes": { "online": { "type": "boolean" } }, "actions": { "poll": {  } } }, "binary_sensor": { "attributes": { "state": { "type": "bool" } } } }, "attribute_meta": { "x_mqtt_device": { "online": { "type": "boolean", "last_modified": 1671214263452, "previous_value": false, "previous_last_modified": 1671214263009 } }, "binary_sensor": { "state": { "type": "bool", "last_modified": 1671201570383, "previous_value": false, "previous_last_modified": 1671176239276 } } }, "attributes": { "x_mqtt_device": { "online": true }, "binary_sensor": { "state": true } }, "actions": [ "x_mqtt_device.poll" ], "primary_attribute": "binary_sensor.state", "primary_value": true }, "system": { "id": "system", "canonical_id": "mosquitto-mqtt>system", "controller": "mosquitto-mqtt", "type": "System", "name": "Mosquitto MQTT", "lastchange": 1671214263406, "lastupdate": 1671214263406, "can_delete": false, "can_rename": true, "capabilities": { "sys_system": { "attributes": { "state": { "type": "bool" } }, "actions": { "restart": {  }, "purge_dead_entities": { "arguments": { "age": { "type": &#8230;, "min": &#8230;, "default": &#8230; } } }, "delete_entity": { "arguments": { "entity_id": { "type": &#8230; } } }, "rename_entity": { "arguments": { "entity_id": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "new_name": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; } } } } }, "x_mqtt": { "attributes": {  }, "actions": { "publish": { "arguments": { "topic": { "type": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "payload": { "type": &#8230;, "bigtext": &#8230;, "uiclass": &#8230;, "optional": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "qos": { "type": &#8230;, "values": &#8230;, "default": &#8230;, "required": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; }, "retain": { "type": &#8230;, "default": &#8230;, "required": &#8230;, "sort": &#8230; } } } } } }, "attribute_meta": { "sys_system": { "state": { "type": "bool", "last_modified": 1671214263406, "previous_value": false, "previous_last_modified": 1671214255282 } }, "x_mqtt": {  } }, "attributes": { "sys_system": { "state": true }, "x_mqtt": {  } }, "actions": [ "sys_system.restart", "sys_system.purge_dead_entities", "sys_system.delete_entity", "sys_system.rename_entity", "x_mqtt.publish" ], "primary_attribute": "sys_system.state", "primary_value": true }, "payload_raw": "1", "packet": [object Object], "payload": "1" }

and this is a hard refreshed view of the entity

Totally missed the docs for publishing templates, my bad!

Thank you for spotting my mistake, I've corrected the expr for the binary_sensor.

Crille

Two thoughts I'm struggling with:

Regarding the lwt key "If this implementation isn't appropriate for your device, don't use the lwt key and handle the device's LWT topic and the x_mqtt_device.online attribute explicitly in your configuration."
Could you elaborate on how I would do this?
I've tried

my_shelly_uni:
  capabilities: ['power_switch', 'toggle', "binary_sensor", "x_mqtt_device"]
  primary_attribute: power_switch.state
  requires: [topic, channel]
  events:
    "shellies/%topic%/relay/%channel%":
      "power_switch.state":
        expr: 'bool(payload)'
    "shellies/%topic%/adc/0":
      "binary_sensor.state":
        expr: 'int(payload) < "1"'
    "shellies/%topic%/online":
      "x_mqtt_device.online":
         expr: 'bool(payload)'

for Shelly UNI which sends true/false in the online topic.

Is there a way to group templates in one "brand" file in the mqtt_templates folder? For example a ìkea_tradfri.yaml that hold templates for control_outlet,light_bulb_e14,light_bulb_e27 etc.?

Bare-metal install Reactor latest-22343, MQTTController-22340.

Crille

Thank you both for solving this issue. I can also confirm it's working as intended now.

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GitHub - calmen77/MSR-mqtt_templates: MQTT templates for Multi-hub Reactor