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[Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
therealdbT
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Do you Matter?
akbooerA
Is anyone using the Matter protocol to connect devices?
General Discussion
Caution: zwave-js-ui docker 11.4.0 is broken
toggledbitsT
About 20 hours ago, the author of zwave-js-ui posted build 11.4.0 of that product, and it contains an error and won't start (at all) under docker. The author is aware and working on a fix. In the meanwhile, stick with 11.3.1 or earlier. Ref: Issue 4401
Software
Shelly Wall Display XL
therealdbT
I don't know if you guys are into dashboards, but I am. For a second home I tried the Shelly Wall Display 2, and while not so big, it worked well over the summer. Since we're remodeling our house, I just swapped my old Fire Tablet (with its own problems) with two new Shelly Wall Display XL. I just removed the standard firmware, and I added mine (https://github.com/dbochicchio/ShellyElevate), forked from https://github.com/RapierXbox/ShellyElevate I just managed to support buttons (this thing has 4 of them) and it's all auto-discovered by Home Assistant and accessible via Reactor. I also have a new build in the works with support for buttons inside HA. I added a bonus Javascript interface sending events (screen/screensaver status, buttons, motion) to automatically drive the dashboard (all doing in HTML+Javascript and monitoring Reactor's variable). This specifical thing excluded, go get one of them, the device has a decent CPU for HA dashboards and blends wonderfully in the decor.
Hardware
Handling Dead Entities and Renamed Entities
PablaP
Hello all.. been a minute! I recently rebuilt my Z wave network and migrated to a new z wave stick. In order to prevent any downtime I kept my original z wave network up and ran a docker version of Z Wave JS UI with my new controller. This way I could add device by device without having any devices down. I finally moved all the devices over to my new stick today. The final step was to migrate everything from my Docker instance of Z Wave JS UI to the HA add-on of Z Wave JS UI. However during this migration some of the names didn't populate correctly which I later managed to import back into Z Wave JS UI. The issue was in Reactor it is stuck on the default names and the entities are not updating. I removed the controller from Reactor, restarted, hard refreshed, and added the controller back however the new entity names have not updated. Also it seems like the old entities from my previous instance of Z Wave JS UI are lingering and not being marked as dead (I believe a certain amount of time needs to lapse before they're marked as dead in Reactor). My goal is to basically purge all the entities for the 'ZWaveJS' controller in Reactor so it can pull all the updated entity names and only the entities that exist in Z Wave JS UI. I cannot find a quick way to do this, I know entities can be deleted one by one, but with over 100 entities this would take long I am guessing that if I added the controller with a new name in in the Reactor config it would pull the updated entities and names but I think that would break my rules since the entity IDs would change (I made sure to name all the entities the exact same as they were previously to prevent this issue).
Multi-System Reactor
Strange behavior for MQTT templates using payload and attributes
therealdbT
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[MSR] reactor-mqtt-contrib package for additional MQTT templates
therealdbT
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
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HA 2025.9.4 Supported Yet?
CatmanV2C
Tangentially did I miss 2025.9.4 getting blessed in MSR? I've been holding off Cheers C
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The reaction stopped working (Google Nest max playing a video)
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Rule Set UI bug - RESOLVED
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[Reactor] Copy&Paste of Rules
therealdbT
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
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[Reactor] Help with screne controller cycling logic
therealdbT
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.
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Stop the MSR by an external switch on Hubitat.
wmarcolinW
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?
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Expose MSR entities
CatmanV2C
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 C
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Comment in Globa Expressions
Tom_DT
I have several Global Expressions that are set by a rule so the definition area is blank. I'd like to add a comment in this area that explains what is setting the value. Commenting in this area breaks the remote setting. Any way to document what is setting the GE?
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Little Bobby tables...
CatmanV2C
...is back.... https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/researchers-use-calendar-events-to-hack-gemini-control-smart-home-gadgets/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwY2xjawMBq-pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlSqIalzbz1IxcJFzlw8GBE6nC3FwvxcHgR370nJhogU6JjqbmRxG-lysqgh_aem_lx9XboYFKw9tpHnedGQKUA C
General Discussion
Home Assistant Voice TTS is Easy
toggledbitsT
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Home Assistant
Play Audio through Home Assistant Voice Unit
toggledbitsT
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Home Assistant
Home Assistant Voice
CatmanV2C
Has anyone had a play with the local voice control for HA? I've got one on order because... https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ C
Home Assistant
Unofficial thread for compatibility
tunnusT
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. Updates: (the latest versions first in the list) OK: build "latest-25264-2fbe9217" with Hubitat C-8 platform v. 2.4.3.123
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  • [Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
    CrilleC Crille

    Great, thank you! Looking forward to the bare metal release to try this out.

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  • [Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
    CrilleC Crille

    My current simple use case does not have to be exactly X minutes.

    do
    interval = getEntity( "reactor_system>system" ).attributes.reactor_system.reactor_uptime,
    meter = getEntity( "mosquitto-mqtt>smartmeter" ),
    (time() - meter.attribute_meta.x_uptime.value.last_modified) > 300000 ? bool(true) : bool(false)
    done
    

    If I replace interval with alarm(60) would that also start a new timer everytime meter updates or would I achieve the same behavior as now?

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  • [Reactor] Variables not updating correctly in latest-25201-2aa18550
    CrilleC Crille

    I think it's brilliant. My best example is to check if a getEntity() is not updated in X minutes by comparing time() with value.last_modified but if the entity isn't updated the expression will not evaluate because nothing changed.
    I'm now using other entities like reactor_system.reactor_uptime for 1 minute interval checking but with the new alarm() I believe I can skip that and set any interval suitable for each expression.

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  • [Reactor] Help with screne controller cycling logic
    CrilleC Crille

    Trying to understand why the logic, in my point of view, is a bit complex. How many buttons does your switch have?

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  • [Reactor] Help with screne controller cycling logic
    CrilleC Crille

    I don’t know your exact setup but I often end up using toggle as action when the state could be changed by anything other than the physical switch.

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  • Comment in Globa Expressions
    CrilleC Crille

    Maybe not the prettiest way to do it but why not let the rule set the comment followed by the value? Like ”This is set by rule Test”, value

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  • Expose MSR entities
    CrilleC Crille

    I believe the owntracks_sensor only exists in Reactor.

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  • Expose MSR entities
    CrilleC Crille

    If you are using MQTT you can echo the entity in the MSR config and create a MQTT entity in Home Assistant

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  • Set Reaction > Script Action
    CrilleC Crille

    If you already have them i a dynamic group you could perform power_switch.on on that group as an Entity action. Or if the devices should do different actions on/dimming etc, you could create a Global Reaction that does what you specify and simply run that as Set Reaction.

    Edit: I confused Script action with Shell command and have not tried Script action but my guess would be performAction(entity_id, action, args) if you really want to do it in a script rather than directly on the group Entity.

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  • Local notification methods?
    CrilleC Crille

    @CatmanV2 My script requires Powershell, Pushover, static WAN IP or dynDNS on your router, remote access to router and preferably a static IP on the remote host running the script (to restrict router remote access to that IP). If that fits you I sure can share it.

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  • Local notification methods?
    CrilleC Crille

    Kids! They will let you know if internet is down 😉

    Joke aside I don't know any notification service that runs locally so I'm checking it from the outside (work) by a scheduled script that open/close a socket to my router every minute and send a pushover notification if it fails.

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  • latest-25016 toggle.toggle on VeraController Lock entity not working
    CrilleC Crille

    Thank you! toggle.toggle is back in business.

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  • latest-25016 toggle.toggle on VeraController Lock entity not working
    CrilleC Crille

    Sorry I missed that, it’s a bare metal install.

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  • latest-25016 toggle.toggle on VeraController Lock entity not working
    CrilleC Crille

    So the difference is the new serviceId urn:upnp-org:serviceId:DoorLock1 called by "super" vs the old urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:DoorLock1.

    I tried to manually use them both in a browser to openLuup, even though both calls get OK in response, the only one actually opens the lock is the old serviceId urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:DoorLock1

    Calling it in a browser directly to my Vera Secure (not openLuup) with serviceId urn:upnp-org:serviceId:DoorLock1 I get ERROR: Invalid Service

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  • latest-25016 toggle.toggle on VeraController Lock entity not working
    CrilleC Crille

    After upgrade from 24366 to 25016 toggle on Vera (openLuup) lock entity doesn't seem to work.

    VeraController log level 5
    24366:

    [latest-24366]2025-01-20T20:26:49.724Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{  }
    [latest-24366]2025-01-20T20:26:49.725Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:514> [VeraController:verarequest] requesting http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?id=action&serviceId=urn%3Amicasaverde-com%3AserviceId%3ADoorLock1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=10016&output_format=json&_r=1737404809725 ([Object]{  })
    

    25016:

    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.457Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{  }
    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.458Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:1210> VeraController#vera no configured implementation for toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016; calling super
    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.458Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action lock.set on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{ "state": false }
    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.461Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:1255> VeraController#vera sending action request [Object]{ "newTargetValue": "0", "DeviceNum": 10016, "id": "action", "serviceId": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:DoorLock1", "action": "SetTarget" }
    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.461Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:515> [VeraController:verarequest] requesting http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=10016&id=action&serviceId=urn%3Aupnp-org%3AserviceId%3ADoorLock1&action=SetTarget&output_format=json&_r=1737405025461 ([Object]{  })
    [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.463Z <VeraController:NOTICE> VeraController#vera action lock.set([Object]{ "state": false }) on Lock#vera>device_10016 succeeded
    

    I tried to log an issue in Mantis Bug Tracker but I can't log in anymore?

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  • Migration Vera to HA > how to send sensor data from Vera to HA?
    CrilleC 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.

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  • Runtime error latest-24366 when Create New Reaction
    CrilleC Crille

    I'm getting the same on Ubuntu bare metal latest- 24366, both in chrome and edge on Windows.
    TypeError: this.editReaction is not a function
    at HTMLButtonElement.<anonymous> (http://[ip]:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/reactor-ui-reactions.js:445:22)

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  • Dark Mode not Working - 24293
    CrilleC Crille

    Yes, that did it! Thanks

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  • Dark Mode not Working - 24293
    CrilleC Crille

    I can't find any package-lock.json and this is the output of npm ls

    reactor-multi-system@1.3.0-24293 /home/homebridge/reactor
    ├── @influxdata/influxdb-client@1.22.0
    ├── @mdi/font@7.4.47
    ├── @popperjs/core@2.11.6
    ├── body-parser@1.20.1
    ├── bootstrap-icons@1.11.3
    ├── bootstrap@5.2.0
    ├── digest-fetch@2.0.3
    ├── diskusage-ng@1.0.2
    ├── express@4.17.2
    ├── feather-icons@4.28.0
    ├── font-awesome@4.7.0
    ├── gridstack@10.3.1
    ├── jquery-ui@1.14.0
    ├── jquery@3.7.1
    ├── js-yaml@4.1.0
    ├── node-fetch@2.6.7
    ├── node-stream-zip@1.15.0
    ├── nodemailer@6.8.0
    ├── serve-static@1.15.0
    ├── uuid@10.0.0
    └── ws@7.5.9
    
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  • Dark Mode not Working - 24293
    CrilleC Crille

    @toggledbits said in Dark Mode not Working - 24293:

    bootstrap.Tooltip.VERSION — the browser should answer 5.3.3

    Hm I'm getting 5.2.0 in both newly updated browsers.

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