@sweetgenius said in Version 1.0 Pre-release Discussion:
Would a Menu item for accessing the reactor log file or portion of the log be possible.Or ideally a way to monitor the log in real time from the GUI for troubleshooting?
+1 for this.
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jsimmo
@jsimmo
I'm slowly migrating all my stuff to MQTT under MSR, so I have a central place to integrate everything (and, in a not-so-distant future, to remove virtual devices from my Vera and leave it running zwave only).
Anyway, here's my reactor-mqtt-contrib package:
https://github.com/dbochicchio/reactor-mqtt-contrib
Simply download yaml files (everything or just the ones you need) and you're good to go.
I have mapped my most useful devices, but I'll add others soon. Feel free to ask for specific templates, since I've worked a lot in the last weeks to understand and operate them.
The templates are supporting both init and query, so you have always up-to-date devices at startup, and the ability to poll them. Online status is supported as well, so you can get disconnected devices with a simple expression.
Many-many thanks to @toggledbits for its dedication, support, and patience with me and my requests
I’ve added a couple of Shelly Wave i4 as scene controllers and I’m planning to add more, since I can just use standard buttons instead of battery-powered scene controllers, which also looks better aesthetically.
That said, I’m struggling to figure out how to write a simple rule that cycles between states every time I press a button.
Example: Light 1 ON → OFF, then Light 2 ON → OFF.
The part I can’t get right is handling the case where Light 1 or Light 2 might already be ON independently of the rule.
Maybe it’s just too much sun and relaxation clouding my brain, but any hint would be appreciated.
Use case:
When performing home maintenance, such as air conditioning, I want all rules involving air conditioning to be disabled.
To do this, to day, I have a virtual switch that I placed within all rules involving air conditioning, meaning that if I turn it off, none of them work.
Then another situation: the water pump system and garden irrigation, another switch.
In short, I had to create several virtual switches in Hubitat to disable rules in MSR.
Unfortunately, however, I was unable to cover all scenarios, so I wondered if it would be possible for MSR to support a virtual MSR switch, which, when configured in the reactor settings, would function as a general on/off switch for MSR.
If it is configured and turned off, the entire rules and actions in MSR stops working, except for the status change reading process, specifically for this switch, which, when turned on, would restart the MSR.
Would it be possible to do something like this? Any recommendations from the experts?
Probably a really dumb question.
Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.
Digging around with Home Assistant and toying with some dashboards, is there any way of exposing that sensor to HA trivially? I could set MSR to trip a virtual switch in OpenLuup which can then be exposed to HA (with all my other Vera devices) but that feels a bit in-elegant if I can do it directly.
Any thoughts?
Apologies if the ask is not clear/
TIA
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As there are statements about compatibility for home assistant versions in MSR new version announcements (e.g. "HassController: Bless Hass to 2025.7.3"), I thought it would be good idea to track other controllers as well.
As an example, I can confirm that build "latest-25208-c53e8513" works with Hubitat Elevation C-8 platform version 2.4.2.134 using Maker API.
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.
I foolishly let my system wipe all cookies this morning and with it my settings for my MSR home page.
Once logged back in I can no longer remove errant panes nor is the + available to add new ones.
Brave Browser v1.80.122 (Jul 16, 2025)
What have I done?!
Will check other browsers on my M1.
UPDATE: Safari exhibits same behaviour.
I've tried both sans last-four public key entry and with - no change.
@toggledbits, not sure if this is a feature request or I'm using the search tool wrong. You have a "Search for rule" in the Rules Set tab in MSR. It works nicely to find a rule and bring up said rule, but can it/could it be used for as a "where used?" global search? For instance, I have a fairly large set of rules, divided up into 10 different rulesets. There's easily a hundred individual rules, and many of the rules have Rule State triggers, which of course refer to other rules. Amongst my troubleshooting today, I came across what may have been a duplicate or troubleshooting attempt, but I can't tell if it's actually used as a Rule State in another rule without opening each rule that I suspect it may be a part of.
Thanks.
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Version 1.0 Pre-release Discussion -
Delays not working as expectedThanks for the fixes Patrick.
I've now tried them on my test rules and both (PR#64 and 65) work fine.
I've also updated all my imported rules to use the "delay reset" on the "Follow" output mode. These are all working now with the added bonus of being able to monitor the delays counting down.
Thanks again for the brilliant MSR.
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Setting up Pushover in MSRFollowed the guide and Pushover is now set up and working fine.
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Not all options available when creating a new ruleOK. It's all good now. I rebooted my system and all my icons are back and I'm able to access all the options now. Thanks for your help.
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[SOLVED] Help required updating nodejs on Raspberry Pi 4B - Bare Metal (without Docker)I ran the install script again and nodejs is now updated to the latest version.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node -v
v16.13.0
I also copied the reactor.service file as advised and MSR is working fine.Thanks for your help
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[SOLVED] MQTT Controller Not Toggling Sonoff Basic Correctly on Raspberry Pi 4B - Bare Metal (without Docker)Thanks very much. I specified it as you described and toggle works just fine now.
I'll change the username and password and no, the template was not copied to the reactor.yaml file.
I started out by following the docs (see below) on how to set it up but got a bit confused. It gives an example of setting up a Shelly, but then says to use the tasmota_generic_relay template. This is how I ended up with the 0 (from channel 0).
Anyway all good now. Thanks again for the very quick reply. Looking forward to experimenting with MQTT and Tasmota to see if I can get improved reliability from my Sonoff devices.
Easy Device Configuration - Using Existing Template
As an example, let's say we have a Shelly1 configured with the topic shelly1_43DFD2 that is configured to operate as a single relay to operate a stairway light. To create an entity for this device, we can use the tasmota_generic_relay template. The template supports multiple relays, but since only one relay is configured in Tasmota, the published topics from the node will have a "unit number" (identifying which relay if more than one), so we'll specify no unit number by giving it an empty string:...other stuff
config: "mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883/"
entities:
shelly1_stairway:
name: "Stairway Light"
topic: shelly1_43DFD2
uses_template: shelly_relay
channel: 0