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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

Thanks I will try the "Color Cycler" in a brand new rule to test it out.

I haven't as yet looked at updating my current rule with the new expression to always guarantee a new random number that hasn't been repeated etc.

I will have a look over the weekend. Sure I will have questions.

Cheers

cw-kid

@elcid said in Expression to randomly run Global Reactions ?:

I use this to generate a random number that has not been used last time

That's what I needed!

cw-kid

@librasun

It's a Fibaro RGBW module v1

cw-kid

@librasun

Sounds great but I don't know how to do it LOL.

As is I have 7 predefined colours which are the primary hex codes for those colours, red, green, blue, purple, orange, pink, yellow.

cw-kid

OK understood I will change the expression back to how it was and remove the set variable in the set reaction area.

I will increase the trigger repeat to 5 minutes and test it one evening when its dark outside.

Ideally I'd like for a different colour each time to be selected, but I guess the expression for the random numbers could select the same number again and therefore the colour would not change for that cycle.

cw-kid

@toggledbits @LibraSun

Thanks for the further suggestions.

I have made the "ChooseColour" expression empty and at the top of the Set Reactions I now have this:

The random number now only changes the once upon each repeat count down and the rule summary card now looks like this:

Its working but not reliably as the colour does not change on the light after every repeat count down. Sometimes it just stays on the previous colour that it was.

I have checked each Group Constraint action for each of the different colours and when pressing the Play button on each of them the LED strip does change to that correct colour.

And at other times the light seems to get stuck on one colour for a long time and many cycles, even though the rule is still generating numbers and then after a while it starts changing colours again, so it seems laggy.

Here is an example of how each Group Constraint looks:

cw-kid

@toggledbits @LibraSun

Thanks guys. OK I have removed the interval and just have the trigger that the virtual switch must be true and I have a pulse for 1 second and to repeat every 60 seconds, just for testing, I'll set this to a longer time later.

I have also updated the expression with the new one to get rid of 0.

I have also changed the Reactions to directly set the colours of the light rather than calling the Global Reactions to do it.

It seems to be working, however there seem to be something strange going on with pulses and repeats ?

When the break count reaches zero the random number in the expression is changing quickly through 3 different numbers, which is weird.

Also if you set the pulse to say 15 seconds and the repeat to 60 seconds it's not behaving as I would expect ?

In this case when the break counter reaches zero the expression number changes to a different number, it then changes to a pulse counter for 15 seconds and when that reaches zero the expression number changes again.

I only expected it to change the expression number when the repeat count down from 60 seconds reaches zero not also when the pulse counter reaches zero.

Is this a bug or am I not understanding things correctly?

Thanks

cw-kid

@librasun

What makes the expression run and generate a new number after a period of time?

This is what I have so far.

Trigger is the virtual switch in Vera.
Pulse every 1 seconds and repeat every 60 seconds.

Set Reaction - Groups that look at the expression named "ChooseColour" and its current number value ~~and then runs a Global Reaction~~ now directly sets that colour on the LED strip.

The random number generator expression named "ChooseColour" this is a rule expression not a Global Expression.

I added an 1 minute interval to the triggers and the virtual switch is true trigger is also pulsing every minute.

The expression is now changing numbers every minute, but the reactions don't seem to be running as the colour is stuck and not changing.

Also I think this expression generates the number zero which I don't have assigned to any reaction.

cw-kid

Hi LibraSun

Something like that may work. I actually have a virtual switch in Vera and my previous rule was triggered when that virtual switch was turned on, it would then run the LUA code that in turn picked a random colour scene in Vera.

It would retrigger every 15 minutes and then run the LUA code again and pick another colour scene.

And if I turned off the virtual switch in Vera it stopped doing it and the lights were turned off etc.

cw-kid

Hi

I had an MSR rule to run some LUA code that would randomly run different Vera scenes to change the colours on some garden lights, the rule would pulse every 15 minutes, so a different Vera scene was selected to change to a different colour etc.

local scenes = {"172", "173", "174", "175", "176", "271", "272"}
local tmp_random_number = math.random(1,7)
local  scene_id_to_launch = scenes[tmp_random_number]
luup.call_action("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1", "RunScene", {SceneNum = scene_id_to_launch}, 0)

This was working OK, but then I have been deleting lots of scenes off my Vera Plus and making them MSR Global Reactions instead and I forgot about this setup and now its broken as the Vera scenes have gone.

So now I have several MSR Global Reactions for setting each colour on these garden lights. But don't know how to achieve the same thing but by using Global Reactions instead of Vera scenes.

Anyone good with expressions ? Or another way to do this in a rule?

Thanks

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