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cw-kid

Been using PLEG for about 8 or 9 years, I had 100 Conditions / Actions in PLEG, these are now all disabled and I've recreated them on MSR.

Still learning MSR and how to do somethings but everything I was doing in PLEG was fairly easy to convert over to MSR once I found my feet a bit and got going.

Thanks to everyone who answered any of my questions along the way when I got stuck.

I have some Vera scenes I'd like to also convert to MSR, so not quite done yet.

cw-kid

@toggledbits said in How to auto start on Rpi reboot ?:

rpi-install.sh

This is the reactor.service file it created:

# This file allows you to run your Reactor installation under systemd,
# so it can be started at boot. Copy this file (as root or under sudo)
# to /etc/systemd/system, and then run "systemctl daemon-reload". You
# can then able Reactor to start at boot "systemctl enable reactor".
# The usual systemctl subcommands can also be used to start, stop, and
# restart reactor at will (e.g. "systemctl restart reactor").

[Unit]
Description=Multi System Reactor
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=pi
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/Documents/reactor
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node app -p
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I followed the rest of the instructions and I could see a reactor.pid file had been created and reactor was running again.

I then rebooted my Pi and after it rebooted MSR is running again.

So everything appears to have worked OK.

Thanks

cw-kid

P.S. I really like the new Entity Attribute picker and search dialogue box.

Would of saved me a lot of time if we had it earlier but its definitely a big improvement.

cw-kid

I've tried the Vera Multi-String plugin, it looks just like the type of plugin I was needing and looking for.

You can have up to five variables on a device.

You can then have your rule in MSR send the data to each variable etc.

The Multi-String plugin devices data is also outputted in the Vera SDATA stream so these device will also work with the Home Remote dashboard app.

{ "name": "Covid-19 Stats", "altid": "", "id": 133, "category": 0, "subcategory": -1, "room": 0, "parent": 0, "variablename1": "Confirmed", "variable1": "4329180", "variablename2": "Recovered", "variable2": "3787312", "variablename3": "Critical", "variable3": "615", "variablename4": "Deaths", "variable4": "126573", "variablename5": "", "variable5": "", "options": "", "configured": "0" },

So I recommend using the Multi-String plugin rather than trying to create your own modified Generic IO devices as I was doing.

cw-kid

Gees, I know a lot of those names, didn't know Pabla and Crille were banned and I certainly didn't know ElCid was banned.

Well I always speak my mind and if something doesn't work I'll say it doesn't.

cw-kid

AltHue Plugin for Vera:

CONFIRMED AS WORKING - HUE SCENES

The ServiceID's are now exposed in an Entity Action in an MSR rule or Global Reaction.

You need to select the main AltHue device in your Entity Action, then select hue_scene from this list.

Go in to the AltHue main device in Vera UI7 web GUI and go in to the "Hue Scenes" area and find the scene in the list that you want to start in your MSR rule or Global Reaction.

Copy its ID number.

Back in MSR edit the Entity Action and paste in the ID number.

When I ran my MSR Global Reaction, my hue scene is started and my lights are now in Arctic Aurora.

CONFIRMED AS WORKING - EFFECT COLORLOOP

Next I created another Global Reaction and tried starting the Effect ColorLoop

Choose the set_effect from the drop down list.

The child ID is the AltHue child device aka the light that you want the colorloop to be on.

and enter "colorloop" in the Effect field.

When you run the Reaction, If the light is already turned ON the colorloop will start.

However if the light is turned off nothing will happen, so I added an action to turn on the light first then run the colorloop effect, which is working.

cw-kid

@catmanv2 said in Need help backing up Raspberry Pi:

Have you got another SD card? Restore to that

No I haven't. Not the same size anyway.

I think I will buy another SanDisk 64GB SD card and make sure I can actually restore to a new card etc.

cw-kid

HARMONY POWER AND ACTIVITY STATUS - WORKING

If I use this HTTP command it lists all the Activities on my Lounge Harmony Hub.

http://VERA-IP/port_3480/data_request?id=lr_Harmony184&cmd=list_activities

{ "status": "OK", "msg": "OK", "data": { "activities": [ { "ID": "27585584", "Activity": "ChromeCast Video" }, { "ID": "23834935", "Activity": "Media Center" }, { "ID": "23834936", "Activity": "XBOX" }, { "ID": "23864128", "Activity": "Wii-U" }, { "ID": "43190809", "Activity": "Nintendo Switch" }, { "ID": "23834933", "Activity": "Freeview" }, { "ID": "-1", "Activity": "PowerOff" }, { "ID": "42772934", "Activity": "Fire TV" }, { "ID": "36455394", "Activity": "ChromeCast Audio" }, { "ID": "42766865", "Activity": "BT TV" } ] }, "code": 200 }

In MSR I can see x_vera_plugin_harmony.activity_status ServiceID

When there are no activities running e.g. OFF the status returned is 0

And when I am in my Watch TV "BT TV" activity, the status is 2, so you should be able to work out which activity is what status number ?

Activities OFF - Status = 0

Watch TV Activity - Status = 2

So I created a rule that when my Harmony hub is OFF then turn off some LED strip lights.

Alternatively there is a ServiceID called x_vera_plugin_harmony.power_status

It is FALSE when all my Harmony Activities are turned OFF, so we can potentially use this instead.

And finally I looked at x_vera_plugin_harmony.current_activity this will return the activity ID numbers.

I know -1 = Powered OFF so I could have used this also.

When my Harmony is in Watch TV activity "BT TV" its showing a number ID of 42766865 which is correct. If you look at my output at the start listing all the activities and their ID numbers.

So I could now create an MSR rule that does something only when I am in the Watch TV Harmony activity etc.

cw-kid

@therealdb OK its working ! I just pasted the raw code in to the startup LUA area and the virtual motion sensor now follows the real devices tripped status.

I am writing a user guide for the Everspring EH403 Floodlight device, as it doesn't configure correctly after pairing with Vera.

I will credit you for your code in the guide when I publish it on the forum.

Thanks

cw-kid

I just edited the rule and ticked "ignore case" again and saved and the rule is still working and triggering, so that was a red herring as you say.

cw-kid

OK great thanks I'll test it later tonight.

cw-kid

Like this? I assume I make both Groups AND

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@toggledbits said in Will this rule work for lighting?:

You need two groups, one for day, one for night, the former setting 100%, the latter setting 25%.

OK thanks I thought that might be the case.

It's Vera House mode Home and Night not daytime and night time I'm looking to base things off.

I'll create another Constraint group within the Set Reaction, for when Vera is in Home mode and in that mode I want the light to turn on to 100%.

And when Vera is in Night mode aka I've stumbled down stairs in the middle of the night, then I want the light to turn on to 25% so I'm not made blind.

cw-kid

I had an existing rule that turns on my Kitchen ceiling lights to 100% when motion is detected.

I want to make a change so that when Vera is in Night Mode the lights will instead turn on to 25% brightness.

I have added a Constraints Group in to the Set Reaction and set it to OR :

Is this likely to work or not ?

Or do I need two Constraints Groups within the Set Reaction ?

I can test it later on when its time to put Vera in to Night mode.

Thanks

cw-kid

@toggledbits

Don't break anything on my account, I can just use the x_vera_svc Entity Attribute instead as that one seems to work OK.

cw-kid

@toggledbits

Think I see what's happening here.

I just turned on the Heating via a Vera scene, this scene sets the Setpoint to 23 degrees.

However the MSR rule is now still reporting the Current Set Point value as 10 degrees which is incorrect.

So I think what happened yesterday when I noticed this issue, was that I turned on the heating by using the dial on the thermostat device, but I must of turned the heating off via the Vera "Heating Off" scene which I called via a voice command to the Google Home speaker.

The Vera "Heating Off" scene sets the Set Point to 10 degrees.

Here is a screenshot of the "Heating On" scene in Vera.

Thinking about it, when I first created this MSR rule some weeks ago, I only tested it by using the dial on the actual thermostat device.

I didn't also test the rule by running my Vera scenes that also turn on / off the heating.

cw-kid

Me neither its not there yet it seems

cw-kid

hvac_heating_unit.setpoint seems to be working OK again now. The setpoint current value is changing in the rules trigger OK, when I move the dial up or down on the thermostat device.

So not sure why it got stuck at 21 yesterday and didn't change back to 10 when I turned the heating off by setting it to 10.

Will keep an eye on it.

Thanks

cw-kid

@toggledbits

Pretty sure both times I manually turned the dial on the front of the actual thermostat device.

No I have not updated the Vera firmware.

I will set the Entity Attribute back to the MSR native one and test again some more.

Thanks.

cw-kid

@toggledbits

It's a Secure SRT321 thermostat.

Something has changed somewhere, as I said when I created this rule I tested it was working as intended.

Today MSR had detected that I'd set the thermostat to 21 degrees. But when I set it back to 10 degrees, MSR didn't detect that.

Thanks

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