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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.

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@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

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

@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!

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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

@DesT Any plans to reintroduce a dark theme to the forum?

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

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@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.

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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

@akbooer I'm still having a lot of crashes but since I added an autorestart of the service it's not really a major problem anymore.
Even though openLuup is rock solid for most people, may I suggest you add

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

To the documentation for openLuup in the appendix for systemd?
At least it helped me not coming home to a dead house

Crille

@toggledbits Yes, you are correct. My goal in my head was to make the Constraints condition FALSE to prevent the SET Reaction.

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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

@toggledbits I’m so thankful for the time and effort you put into MSR so the least I can do is give something back. I’d love to participate with my Ezlo Plus running about 20 zigbee devices in production, the logic is already in MSR so switching to a new interface would be easy for testing.

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A little preview of the Swedish version of MSR

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@tbully date() does not exist as a function, I think you mean time()
The value for the set variable in set reaction must be in the format of ${{time()}} to be evaluated to the global variable.

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@wokwon Your service should be esphome.nspensuite_send_command_printf and the data cmd: page home

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I suggest you update to the latest build (23078 when posted). Your installed version is more than 7 months old so there’s a chance things changed since then.

Crille

Have you considered Reactor - Multi-hub Automation version?
If not I strongly recommend this path for your automations as it has controllers for both Home Assistant and Vera.
You can still use HA as UI but do all logic in Reactor Multi-hub, no learning curve when you are familiar with Reactor for Vera, you can import your Reactor for Vera into Reactor Multi-hub and set sensor data and variables directly to HA entities.

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

Migration Vera to HA > how to send sensor data from Vera to HA?

reactor_inet_check script... and containers

[Solved] Migrating MSR to Docker on Proxmox

Runtime error latest-24366 when Create New Reaction

Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements

'Random' lights turning on

Hello and first network question

Vera reload detected where there does not appear to be one.

Has something changed with the "Changes" operator in Constraint groups ?

Reactor-Editor / Reactor-ui-Status Errors

[Solved] Error dialog running reaction in build 24302

every X days field uneditable

[Reactor] Use VirtualEntityController actions to drive a Reolink spotlight

Darker Reactor style

Which user to install nodejs as ? Debian Linux

OpenAI Controller for Reactor

Thanksgiving lighting took a holiday

[How-to] Managing holidays in Reactor

Reference error - null object

Trouble Configuring Multi-System Reactor Logic Across Devices

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