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.

@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

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

@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

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.

OK done

https://reactor.toggledbits.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=147

Thanks

@LibraSun

Its working. I now have my current WAN IP address being sent from MSR to a virtual device (Generic IO Sensor) on Vera.

So now know how to send any data stored in an expression / variable from MSR to a device on Vera !

@toggledbits said in Vera Run LUA Missing:

Did I ever bother to ask why you just don't run the scene entity using its native run action?

I am aware I can call Vera scenes directly using the scene entity and I do have some other rules that do that.

However for this particular rule as I already explained I am running this LUA code to have various Vera scenes run randomly.

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)

Thanks guys for all the suggestions a lot to take in.

I'll have a proper read later and see if I can retire my existing scenes setup in Vera and migrate this functionality to MSR.

OK just setup the rest of my MSR rule now with a Reset reaction, that gets the Vera Plus to run a LUA / os.execute shutdown command sent to the Windows 11 PC.

So now when I start my Logitech Harmony activity for the Windows Games PC, MSR triggers the rule and gets Vera to send a WOL packet to the PC to wake it up.

And when I end the Harmony activity the reset reaction in the MSR rule gets Vera to shutdown the PC.

I even managed to get my Harmony Elite remote to launch RetroArch or Steam via buttons on the LCD screen and I also added a ALT+F4 button to exit the Windows apps.

Next thing to figure out is how to split out the HDMI audio to a pair of PC speakers.

Thanks.

Yes that's right, info only

The routers CPU temp and WIFI chip temps however I am using those in another rules trigger to warn me if its getting hot. so those had to be Global Expressions.

@toggledbits

Thanks I did try math and * 100 but it kept changing itself back to / 100 instead.

I will have another go.

EDIT:

Got it now, I was tabbing out of that field you have to hit enter instead.

Thanks guys that's all working OK now

@pabla said in Vera account suspended for a 1000 years:

So this is where all the banned Vera members rejoice

Surprised they haven't banned me yet.

I always state my mind, good or bad.

There are no constraints not using them as you told me not too LOL