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Logic Assistance: Exterior Lights on when Illuminance Below Threshold
PablaP
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Genuinely impressed with Zigbee and HA / Reactor
CatmanV2C
Just for the record, in case anyone is following, I'm really rather impressed. I have installed one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B6P22YJC?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 That's connected (physically) to the VM running on my Synology, with a 2m USB extension. The same host also runs Openluup, Mosquito, HA Bridge. Yesterday I installed Zigbee2mqtt. That was a bit of a PITA but mostly because of ports and permissions. Once up and running, and the correct boxes ticked, immediately visible in Home Assistant via the MQTT integration, and thence into Reactor I've only got two devices. I bought the cheapest sensor I could find, which is a door sensor. Dead easy to add to ZIgbee2mqtt and again, immediately visible in HA. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FPQLWRW1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title The dongle is on the top floor of the house, and I wanted the sensor on the back door (just about as far apart as it's possible to get short of going into the garage) When I moved the sensor downstairs it dropped out pretty instantly (which wasn't a huge surprise) so quick bit of research found out that smart plugs will act as routers so... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FDQDPGBB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title Took me about 30 seconds to connect. Updated the name. Instantly visible in Reactor with the new name pushed over from Zigbee2mqtt. And lo, the door sensor now has a signal of 140 and works as far as I can tell perfectly and instantly (unlike my z-wave one). A few more of those will be purchased and used to replace the Tuya wifi cloud devices and the (continually failing) Z-wave plugs (yeah, they were TKB so....) Commended to the house. Thanks for everyone that got me on the right lines. C
Zigbee
Time series documentation
tunnusT
Is the current manual (incl. examples) up to date with how retention value is handled in time series configuration? Referring to this post
Multi-System Reactor
Tuya Wifi to Tasmota flashing
CatmanV2C
Just popping this in here in case it's helpful to anyone else later. I've got several Tuya Wifi sockets that I'm getting rid of / replacing. Looking at which ones, if any, can be flashed to Tasmota: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Y212TCK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 Are NOT flashable C
Zigbee
MQTT templates for ZIgbee scene controller, or a better way?
CatmanV2C
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Multi-System Reactor
Reset a delay
CatmanV2C
I'm sure this has been asked, and answered, but damned if I can figure it out Use case: I have a rear garden with lights. A door from the kitchen into the garden and a door from the garage. Currently if I open the kitchen door the lights come on (yay) and a 3 minute delay starts. After 3 minutes, no matter what else happens, the lights go off (Boo! But also yay!) What I would like is for the 3 minute delay until the lights go off to start from the latest door open event. That is, if I'm going from kitchen to garage, and back again, the lights stay on until there's three minutes of no activity. I've tried 'hacking' with a virtual switch, but can't seem to stop the delay. Any pointers? TIA C
Multi-System Reactor
Zigbee2mqtt installed! sytemctl not happy :(
CatmanV2C
Hello oh great ones. After a couple of hours messing with ports and permissions I have Zigbee2mqtt installed and running on my virtual pi Can connect to the front end and everything Odd one though, simply cannot get systemctl to work and the error is, well, unhelpful. The service file is this: [Unit] Description=zigbee2mqtt After=network.target [Service] Environment=NODE_ENV=production Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node index.js WorkingDirectory=/opt/zigbee2mqtt StandardOutput=inherit # Or use StandardOutput=null if you don't want Zigbee2MQTT messages filling syslog, for more options see systemd.exec(5) StandardError=inherit WatchdogSec=10s Restart=always RestartSec=10s User=pi [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Straight out of the docs with the change to point to my local node install (which we know works as it's the same as the very fine Reactor is using. Running manually pnpm start in /opt/zigbee2mqtt works fine However: catman@openluup:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo systemctl start zigbee2mqtt.service Job for zigbee2mqtt.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status zigbee2mqtt.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Which I have catman@openluup:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo systemctl status zigbee2mqtt.service ● zigbee2mqtt.service - zigbee2mqtt Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/zigbee2mqtt.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-12-16 12:32:42 GMT; 4s ago Process: 3093 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node index.js (code=exited, status=217/USER) Main PID: 3093 (code=exited, status=217/USER) and -- A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has begun execution. -- -- The job identifier is 17477. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[3178]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[3178]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/local/bin/node: No such process -- Subject: Process /usr/local/bin/node could not be executed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The process /usr/local/bin/node could not be executed and failed. -- -- The error number returned by this process is ERRNO. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER -- Subject: Unit process exited -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit zigbee2mqtt.service has exited. -- -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 217. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit zigbee2mqtt.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: Failed to start zigbee2mqtt. -- Subject: A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has finished with a failure. Which strikes me as very odd. Any blindingly obvious things I'm missing? TIA! C
Zigbee
Any thoughts on which is better
CatmanV2C
Obviously a quiet forum, but perhaps it's time I'm looking at rolling Zigbee into my system, in large part for the Aqara FP300 presence sensors which seem to finally provide a solution to if the wasp is actually in the box. My current set up is as follows: One Debian VM on Synology NAS running: Z-wave Server Open Luup Multi system reactor HA bridge Mosquito MQQT broker This machine has a UZB Z-wave stick connected via the USB port on the NAS Another HAOS VM on the same NAS running HAOS I've got some older Z-wave stuff that I keep around until it fails. I have some Tuya stuff integrated in HA My thought was to get either a SMLIGHT SLZB-06M or an Aqara Hub M2 Integrate them via Zigbee2MQQT (running on the Debian machine) and then expose them in HA so I can continue to automate in MSR. Thoughts on which of those devices wold be preferable long term. Both are POE capable which is good. It also appears I could add a USB dongle to the NAS and expose it to the HAOS machine. Any thoughts from the assembled experts here? TIA C
Zigbee
Single protocol?
CatmanV2C
Another question to the hive mind. Prompted by the fact that I lost yet another z-wave device over the weekend due to a power issue. It looks like z-way server is reporting another device failed (although it's working fine) and message queue is far too long IMHO. Also the failed device has been removed in the expert interface, but still there in the 'normal' one. Sigh. Currently I have z-wave, Tuya, thinking about Zigbee.... Does anyone use one single protocol for everything? Right now I'm feeling that as the z-wave stuff dies, I'm just gonna replace it with something else.... C
General Discussion
HDMI oddness
CatmanV2C
Not really Smart Home stuff, but going to ask as we have smart people... Bear with me on this one. Asking here because of the font of knowledge! For many eek years I have had a Virgin V6 box and a Raspberry Pi running Kodi connected to my TV through a cheap *** HDMI switch. It all worked beautifully but the absolutely critical thing was that the TV remote passed the signals back to the Pi to allow remote control of Kodi. Couple of changes of late: Installed a soundbar on the TV using the ARC (audio return channel). That then turns the soundbar on and off when the TV turns on and off and the TV volume control controls the soundbar volume direct. Everything continues to work Upgraded the software of the Tivo box to Virgin 360. This is literally software only. You get sent a snacky new Bluetooth remote hit 'upgrade' on the screen and off it goes. Now, things are not playing well. Typically when I turn on to watch Kodi the soundbar comes on (as it should) but the TV either puts out sound through its own speakers and the soundbar, or just the soundbar. It's not possible to control the volume of the soundbar through the TV. Also it's not longer possible to control Kodi using the TV remote. If I turn the TV360 box off, i.e. power it down, before turning on to watch Kodi, everything is fine. This makes little to no sense to me. My assumption is that the cheap *** HDMI switch is getting something from the TV360 connection that it didn't used to get when the software was Tivo and that's screwing up the HDMI communications. I'm upgrading the switch to something a little less chap, but wondered if anyone could validate my theory at all? TIA C
General Discussion
Reactor Loading Screen Safari
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Multi-System Reactor
Constraints states visually do not match actual
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Multi-System Reactor
Oh the joy of pairing
CatmanV2C
When I remember the old days Just added a new Tuya plug (OK so it's cloud) Start to finish, visible in HA and MSR < 30 seconds... C
Vera
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 & ZBT-2
therealdbT
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Hardware
[MSR] Feature request: For Each action on arrays/groups
therealdbT
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Multi-System Reactor
[Solved] Error: Command timeout
G
at _ClientAPI._commandTimeout (http://192.168.1.100:8111/client/ClientAPI.js:807:179 Seeing this randomly when returning to open browser tab after being away awhile. Once, maybe twice a day. "What did you do to trigger it?" Literally nothing, just walked away and returned and there it was. Actions taken in reasonably close proximity to this particular instance of it popping up: I'd restarted the MSR container in Portainer. I'll try to grab some logs here shortly.
Multi-System Reactor
Issue with MSR UI becoming unresponsive
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I'm having an issue with MSR's UI being very unresponsive. It started happening a couple days ago and I didn't make any changes that would have caused this except adding some meross lan devices in HA. When I go into an entity action and use the search functionality, it usually will start filtering and then get to a place after a few letters are entered where it will take 30 seconds or more (sometimes minutes) for the UI to show what I am typing. During this time MSR ui is completely unresponsive. I've tried multiple browsers and multiple computers. HA and MSR are both deployed in docker. I have run HTOP on the host and when the problem happens there are no CPU/Memory spikes at all. From a functionality standpoint MSR is working perfectly. This seems to be an UI issue only. Do i need to ditch Docker and run MSR on a Proxmox VM? I have both stand alone Docker and Proxmox environments. I dont mind doing that I just want to be able to use the UI again... Installation method Home Assistant Container Core 2025.7.3 Frontend 20250702.3 nothing crazy in the logs except some openweather map stuff that doesn't make any sense as it is working fine in MSR Any help would be greatly appreciated Reactor latest-25328-b2ed1365 app 25328 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.843Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-25328-b2ed1365 starting on v24.11.1 /usr/local/bin/node [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #161-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 22 14:25:40 UTC 2025; locale (undefined) [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.865Z <app:null> Resolved timezone=America/New_York, environment TZ=America/New_York; offset minutes from UTC=-300 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <default:null> Module i18n v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <app:null> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Loaded locale en-US for en-US [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Local date/time using configured timezone and locale formatting is "11/30/2025, 3:01:53 PM" [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.889Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v25326 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.890Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v24312 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.904Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.923Z <Timer:null> Module Timer v25279 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.924Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v25314 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.927Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v25251 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.929Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v25253 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.930Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v25318 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v25283 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.942Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v25258 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.953Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.956Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.958Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v25292 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.959Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.964Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.972Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 24138 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:54.179Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.797Z <OWMWeatherController:null> Module OWMWeatherController v25268 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.800Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.807Z <MQTTController:null> Module MQTTController v22092 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:20.630Z <OWMWeatherController:CRIT> FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: [-] FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/opt/reactor/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1501:11) at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:508:28) at ClientRequest.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorEvent (node:_http_client:108:11) at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:575:5) at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:508:28) at TLSSocket.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8) at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:89:21
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Date/time condition
tunnusT
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Is there a way to turn this section (image in post) off?
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Device log?
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@toggledbits is there a log that will show me what rule is turning on a specific device? I've got a switch that has been kicking on at 2200 ET for several nights now and the reactor.log doesn't have a thing in it that I can see on a device level (it being more rules-based).
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  • Help. Installing Reactor on Home Assistant.
    I iRobot

    When portainer is installed on HassOS, this is considered as a not supported HA install. This could give some trouble updating in the future.

    Since you are using proxmox, I would make 2 virtual machines.

    One to install HA using the HassOS script you have. And the other to install docker and portainer on which you can install MSR as explained by toggledbits.

    This way you can also use docker for all other sort of projects which are not related to HA without interfering with it.

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Luup reload required after server reboot
    I iRobot

    @ArcherS
    That can be done by adding the following lines to your openluup.service file:
    [Unit]
    Description=openLuup and AltUI Server
    Wants=network.target
    After=network.target

    openLuup

  • Would you use a self-hosted geofencing solution?
    I iRobot

    At the moment I'm one of the lucky few where Vera geofencing works most of the time. In fact, that's the only function I'm using actively with my plus.

    I most certainly would by interested in a local geofencing solution. I probably will be using a VPN or maybe setup a separate internal network or vlan with NAT for it.

    Was planning on trying tasker or owntracks, but that's still in the idea fase in my head. 😁

    General Discussion

  • UZB Long Range
    I iRobot

    Always good to know a new UZB is coming.
    Thanks for the information.

    Hopefully this will also solve the debacle of bad stick production batches which makes firmware updating a nightmare.

    Other than that, to me it looks like we will have to wait for nodes which use the same LR chip to be able to fully benefit it's potential.

    Z-Wave.me

  • UZB Long Range
    I iRobot

    I'm guessing you mean the zwave.me uzb1.
    No, that's still a 500 series chip.

    Z-Wave.me

  • Sudden offset in temperature reading
    I iRobot

    If it's suppose to be around 65F° then it it could be a notation error. Mixing up decimal points and decimal comma

    US notation 65.5 would result in 655 when the notation is not set to imperial. E.g. EU notation is 65,5.

    Still doesn't explain why it changes all of the sudden though.

    Zigbee

  • Happy Birthday openLuup!
    I iRobot

    Happy Birthday to openLuup!

    openLuup

  • z-way-server ubuntu install
    I iRobot

    @rafale77 Thanks for these instructions.
    The part I never got working properly was that libcurl4 issue.

    Now it's clear to me how to address this, I will most certainly try again.

    Thanks again for your work!

    Z-Wave.me

  • z-way installation horror
    I iRobot

    Had the same libcurl problems with my Ubuntu server 18.04 VM.
    Ended up downloading the "Fresh Pi" image (https://razberry.z-wave.me/z-way-server/razberry.img.zip) and was up and running within a hour.

    At the moment I suggest to spare yourself all that frustration and do the same.

    Z-Wave.me

  • Auto Start z-way-server
    I iRobot

    Just wandering if a wait on network should be added.
    With a pi this is done using raspi-config, but any other Linux distribution doesn't have that.

    Maybe add?

    [Unit]
    Wants=network-online.target
    After=network-online.target
    
    Z-Wave.me

  • OpenLuup IP Address
    I iRobot

    That is very strange, but has nothing to do with openLuup as far as I know. I think you must look for what is causing this in your Debian or network.

    Looks like you have something in your network that is redirecting your local network through the internet since 217.3.79.1 is not a private but public ip-address

    openLuup

  • Help with Z-Way plugin
    I iRobot

    I'm expecting the experts will chime in soon.
    But to get you started, I will try to help with what I know.

    You need to "link" the Z-Way plugin to your Z-Way "server". Because both of them run on the same RPi you only need to enter the credentials you use to login to your Z-Way. This should be the message you see on the plugin in openLuup.

    Entering the credentials can be done in the plugin under actions. Enter your username and password and click on the login button.

    Hope this helps.

    Zway Bridge

  • Adding Z-way as secondary controller to vera zwave network
    I iRobot

    @therealdb That's an amazing price!
    Bought my UZB1 including license for 80 EUR just a couple of weeks ago.

    Z-Wave.me

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    You are being to hard on yourself. You are already doing great work!

    And easier would be nice to see, but that's a work in progress.
    Even I was able to get it up and running, that's best advertising you can get 🙂

    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    It's working.
    Thanks to @akbooer and @rafale77 for helping!

    After experimenting again this morning it's working.
    The CGI is showing information now and the Greenwave is including power monitoring in openLuup.
    36fec5c4-541c-4c20-b64e-a0af215e32c4-image.png

    Basically I did what was follow the instructions from last night and this morning.

    • Deleting the ZWay plugin and all of it's children.
    • Deleting the /etc/cmh-ludl/cgi/zway_cgi.lua and /etc/cmh-ludl/L_ZWay.lua and L_ZWay2.lua files.
    • Reloading the Luup engine (this I probably forgot to do last night)
    • Setting ownership on folder /cmh-ludl/cgi and all it's children to my username instead of root (not sure this is necessary)
    • Installed the plugin from AltAppStore
    • Downloaded the ZWay_cgi.lua from github and placed is in /etc/cmh-ludl/cgi
    • Reloading the Luup engine
    • Configured the IP and logon information of my ZWay
    • Reloading the Luup engine
    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    Deleted the ZWay plugin and removed the CGI and L_ZWay files, checked all child devices are deleted also and checked room 101.

    After installing the ZWay plugin the CGI file is missing in /etc/cmh-ludl/cgi.
    I retried several times using the appstore from both ALTUI and openLuup console.
    To make sure its not some linux or user rights problem I even set /etc/cmh-ludl to 777.

    I just set my VM back from a snapshot and will be trying again tomorrow. Time to go to bed now 🙂

    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    Ok, will delete the ZWay plugin and go from there.

    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    @rafale77 @akbooer Just update the Z-Way plugin to the github.master but still only a header is showing.
    4d6c2012-0498-477b-991f-682fe28ae2c9-image.png

    Maybe I'm better of trying a fresh install of openLuup and the plugin in a different VM. The one I'm using now is kind of my production as well.

    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    @rafale77 Hopefully this is what you need
    bd6d5027-f114-4376-8997-725f0b272510-image.png 3f6656f8-8ff1-4abd-8fd4-51c4ab07934b-image.png bd6d5027-f114-4376-8997-725f0b272510-image.png 74f28d15-6fa9-4e90-b41e-b20793be8d79-image.png

    Zway Bridge

  • Z-Way electric meter devices not in openLuup
    I iRobot

    Just to be sure I checked the openLuup version. Was running v2020.04.17 but now I'm updated to 2020.05.01
    Pretty sure that's the latest version 😉

    Zway Bridge
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