In the background of other work, I've been putting together a build system for the OpenWrt version that Ezlo is using on the Plus. Job done. I can build pretty much any package, which may come in handy some day.

As a test of that, I thought, why not build nodejs... and you know where that leads, right?

It took some doing. There are a lot of dependencies, and the errors you get when the dependencies aren't met correctly can be cryptic and took quite a bit of research and experimentation to resolve... weeks, in fact, over a couple of hours here, a couple there.

But it's done and I now have Reactor running on an Ezlo Plus.

I'm not sure what the long term utility of this might be. Since the new Ezlo philosophy is to upgrade your system automatically on reboots, and so far the upgrades have wiped substantial parts of the file system in my experience, this could be a non-starter as a platform — you wouldn't want your automations to get blown off the machine every time Ezlo upgrades firmware (because you don't know when that's going to be, and Murphy says it will be while you are on vacation with no remote access). But, if there is some place it can be tucked away safely, or if, as probably should be demanded by the user community, updates become elective and user-driven, it actually makes a nice Pi-ish platform to run on.

On to the next skunkworks project...

Timestamps do not match the UI time or the system time:

[latest-21286]2021-10-16T03:10:43.922Z <Engine:INFO> Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "10/15/2021, 8:10:43 PM" (TZ offset -420 mins from UTC)

I tried adding TZ to the docker container with "docker exec reactor apk add tzdata" but there was no change in log timestamps. I have the TZ in the compose file as:

environment: REACTOR_DATA_PREFIX: /var/reactor TZ: America/Los_Angeles

This does set the UI time correctly. The Reactor config is also set correctly:

location: city: "Los Angeles"

I'd like to invoke in Reactor a Home Assistant service through the HA API. I use the following code in a vera plugin I wrote to send an HTTP request to Home Assistant to trigger an announcement on Alexa--using a Home Assistant Alexa integration that you can install through HACS.

myEchoDevice = "alexa_media_".. myEchoDevice myEchoMessage = table.concat(myEchoMessage) local request_body = json.encode {message = myEchoMessage, data = {["type"] = "announce",method = "all"}} local response_body = {} local theURL = 'http://'..HomeAssistantIP..':'..HomeAssistantPort..'/api/services/notify/'..myEchoDevice r, c, h = http.request { url = theURL, method = "POST", headers = { ["Content-Type"] = "application/json", ["Authorization"] = "Bearer ".. HomeAssistantToken, ["Content-Length"] = request_body:len() }, source = ltn12.source.string(request_body), sink = ltn12.sink.table(response_body) }

I don't see the "notify" service in the HA attributes revealed by reactor. Is there a way to access the Home Assistant API through reactor, or do I need to use HTTP requests to initiate services.

Hi

I have some devices on my Vera Plus controller that sometimes change to say "Can't detect device".

I can clear those red banners that show up in the Vera UI7 web GUI, for a device by running some LUA code like this:

luup.set_failure(0, 331)

Maybe I can use the new MSR matchEntities to find and detect any devices on Vera that have developed the "Can't detect device" error and then reset them. ?

I can currently manually specify a particular problem device in a ruleset trigger like this:

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But if I could have a rule that automatically detects any device that develops this problem that would be better.

Thanks

Hi Patrick! @toggledbits

I don't remember before version 21277 receiving this kind of message.

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This is in the log, this warning appears hundreds of times, every 1 second it repeats.

[latest-21281]2021-10-10T16:13:46.107Z Rule:WARN Rule#rule-ku32lfti (Warning (93) Devices) update rate 61/min exceeds limit (60/min)! Logic loop? Throttling...
[latest-21281]2021-10-10T16:13:46.482Z Rule:WARN Rule#rule-ku32lfti (Warning (93) Devices) update rate 61/min exceeds limit (60/min)! Logic loop? Throttling...
[latest-21281]2021-10-10T16:13:46.835Z Rule:WARN Rule#rule-ku32lfti (Warning (93) Devices) update rate 61/min exceeds limit (60/min)! Logic loop? Throttling...

As you can see, the rule that has generated this warning is run on demand at 10am, where the information is loaded into local variables, and then I use it to send the information by Telegram, only once a day.

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I started using this matchEntities() instruction recently when it was made available, and I see you have been making recent adjustments. Wouldn't this situation of continuing to evaluate be related?

I will turn the rule off, so as not to generate this situation that surely damages the functioning of the MSR, and I look forward to your comments please.

Thanks

Hello!

I want to trigger an event (like switching on a smart Zigbee power plug) when a regular light switch (that switches regular non-smart LED light bulbs) is flipped. Is there something I can put behind a light switch to achieve this? Or something to splice in between the switch and the light bulbs? A good option would also be Hue compatible.

Thank you!

Hi!
I would like to try out the swedish translation (thanks @Crille ). I have tried to edit my reactor.yaml file in many ways, but the translation don't show up. I have done a browser hard refresh every time. Where do I go wrong? Here's my latest try:

- id: reactor_system enable: true implementation: SystemController name: Reactor System config: # # The update_interval can be set lower for more frequent updates. The default is 60 # seconds, which is probably fine for most cases, but causes the 15-second load av- # erage to be inaccurate (the first value in reactor_system.system_load). If you # don't care about the 15-second load average, then the default 60 seconds is fine. # This value is expressed in milliseconds. update_interval: 60000 locale: sv-SE #

What's the correct syntax, placement and intendention?
Thanks!
/Fanan

Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here.

Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions; Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating; Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later; Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase; Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions; Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.

Got a warning that "Rule is being throttled because its update rate exceeds 60 updates per minute. Check for logic errors that may be causing an evaluation loop, or devices that are "flapping".

Device in question here is Aeotec Smart Switch 6 connected to Vera Plus, and its configuration is below:

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Shouldn't be an evaluation loop as the rule is very simple (two AND'ed conditions where the first checks whether alarm state is "disarmed" and the second if smart switch power switch state is false).

Noticed though at the time of warning that wattage measured/reported was changing quite rapidly, so even though wattage was not used in the rule, could that be the reason for throttling? If so, is there anything else that could be done other than raising minimum change values in device configuration? Would like to retain sensitivity for other purposes.

Just noticed that when trying to reorder some expressions, e.g. move the most recent one from the bottom of the list to the first, this new order didn't "stick".

At first yes, but when visiting some other menus (obviously saving before that) and then coming back, the moved item was in its original position (in the end of the list).

I currently have 29 global expressions (which may or may not have some relevance to this problem). Using build 21281 on linux.

Can log a PR with logs, if this seems hard to reproduce.

Hey crew, I followed the tutorial to get MSR installed on Rasbperry Pi (bare metal). Just having a little trouble getting Vera to connect to it.

I'm getting error messages-- I searched in the forum and didn't see other people running into these messages. Here are the two main errors I've been getting...

2021-09-21T01:30:36.477Z <VeraController:ERR> VeraController#vera update request failed: FetchError: request to http://10.0.0.141:3480/data_request?id=user_data&ns=1&Timeout=15&output_format=json&_r=1632187836460 failed, reason: socket hang up

and

2021-09-21T01:26:08.296Z <VeraController:ERR> VeraController#vera update request failed: FetchError: request to http://10.0.0.141:3480/data_request?id=user_data&ns=1&Timeout=15&output_format=json&_r=1632187568275 failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 10.0.0.141:3480

I'm sure it'll be an easy fix, but truthfully I'm stumped here and would love any advice. Thank you!

@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?

Let's say I have an array like the one below:

["vera>device_216","vera>device_235","vera>device_241"]

How do I remove "vera>device_235" out of it?

Alternatively, when filtering entities:

each id in dynamic_array: getEntity( id ).attributes.x_vera_svc_micasaverde_com_HaDevice1?.CommFailure == 1 ? id : null

How could I exclude certain id from the array that is produced?

Hi,

Is anyone aware of any way in which Bluetooth devices can be connected and controlled via a home automation controller, such as Vera / openluup (even NodeRed, HASS) etc ?

I recall Bluetooth was an original ‘feature’ on the Veraplus but that soon died a death, and was never heard of again.

What, if anything are people doing with Bluetooth ?

I have some battery powered sensors that doesn't report battery level and thought it would be nice if can make MSR to send me a notification if a sensor value doesn't change for 24h.

I tried to make a rule that monitored if a temperature value NOT changes, but in this setup I couldn't choose Sustained For as I expected.
Any way around this?
Any reason that Sustained For can't be used when monitoring a value Change?

@toggledbits Today I got a false positive from Reactor saying my Ezlo Plus was offline, a restart of Reactor solved it.
This was found in the log before the restart:

2021-10-01T06:32:29.441Z <EzloController:ERR> EzloController#ezlo ws_message handler failed: RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded 2021-10-01T06:32:29.441Z <EzloController:CRIT> RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1134:127) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) at EzloController._now.ws_message [as refreshTime] (/home/user/reactor/server/lib/EzloController.js:1138:54) 2021-10-01T06:32:38.985Z <EzloController:ERR> EzloController#ezlo request "17c3a8dccaf" (hub.info.get) failed: TimedPromise timeout 2021-10-01T06:32:38.985Z <EzloController:ERR> EzloController#ezlo failed to complete inventory: TimedPromise timeout 2021-10-01T06:32:38.985Z <EzloController:CRIT> !TimedPromise timeout 2021-10-01T06:32:38.988Z <EzloController:NOTICE> EzloController#ezlo connection closed: 1002

Reactor latest-21270-48528ec, updated to latest-21270-46679ac just now.

@toggledbits I followed to the letter your excellent step-by-step guide on launching a Docker container from the image I fetched from PR #58 this morning.

All proceeded swimmingly – folder creation, image upload, settings & parameters, etc. – until the moment of actual Launch.

Whereupon, Docker threw up the following on-screen "Stopped Unexpectedly" warning (which repeated every 30 seconds or so until I Stop'ped the container from running/restarting):
docker_msr_stopped.png

Concurrently, every attempt to access http://<mySynNAS_IP>:8111/ resulted in a "This site can't be reached" error page in Chrome (under Windows, mind you).

Immediately, I took the liberty of inspecting and Export'ing the logfile (Container ► Details ► Log) as an HTML file, which I attach below (oops, no attachment feature in this forum, so here is the direct link) for your inspection.

Hope you find some clues, because I'm not at all sure where things went wrong. (The only facet of setup where I expressly deviated from your typed notes involved creating a "Shared" (i.e. top-level, rather than under /home) folder called "Reactor" with r/w access, under which I created a subfolder named "Data", to which I pointed /var/reactor during container creation.)

Excellent write-up and thanks for the chance to test this out!!

Libra

FOLLOW-UP NOTES
I do see where Container ► Edit ► Environment ► variable PATH has a value of "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" which strikes me as odd, but maybe that's normal nomenclature? (By contract, Windows and DOS always use semicolons, not colons, to separate PATH variable entries.)

RESOLVED
Noting that the Log displayed an error message related to /var/reactor/config, I went and created a folder named 'config' (all lowercase) under the NAS's top-level Reactor\Data folder, then restarted the container. It's running fine now, and I'm able to access the :8111 interface for the first time.
Log ► "Configuration path: /var/reactor/config resolved /var/reactor/config"

SUGGEST
Please add explicit declaration in your How-To regarding the need for a /config underneath the data folder.

Hi, I was trying to setup influxdb for MSR and on my Synology Nas, docker installation, I started with Influxdb 2.0.
Now seems it is very different from 1.x.
Databases don't exist anymore, they are named "buckets" now and there are token values.
Looking around, I found something on HA like this in "configuration.yaml" file.

influxdb: api_version: 2 ssl: false host: 10.0.0.11 port: 8086 token: Your HomeAssistant - Write token organization: Home bucket: HomeAssistant

I don't use HA, just starting to bring devices on ezlo plus. Does MSR support this version Influxdb 2.0? or better to re-install 1.x?

Thanks in advance

I did a fresh install of MSR yesterday and noticed that the latest docker image was not pulling down. I had to use the CLI command "docker-compose pull MSR" where "MSR" is the service name I gave to the container in docker compose. After pulling the image, most everything worked as expected and the localization bug I saw was resolved. I've seen this type of update behavior before in other containers-- usually when the docker tags are not updated, but it could be something wacky on my end as well.

I also saw a small bug in the config file that I tried to post on Mantis, but I could not log in. Are you using the bug tracker, or do you prefer forum posts?

Hi everyone

I'm about to set up notifications from MSR and would like input on what works best.
Quick and reliable delivery to Android devices is the goal.

(Tried to set up pushover last night, but probably missed something because it doesn't work. Succeed thru homeassistant, but not with MSR.)

Is pushover worth its money?
what do you use and why?

Greatly appreciate your thoughts 🙂