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Gradually turn on lights.
Tom_DT
I have several lights that I would like to turn on very gradually over 15 or 20 seconds. from 0 to .25 in .01 increments. I have tried a few things that came nowhere near working, so here I am.
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Stop the MSR by an external switch on Hubitat.
wmarcolinW
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?
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Error After Upgrade
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handler
R
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Need help figuring out how to delay a reset on reaction
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Way to search for rules (rule state) in other rules
T
@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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Links to MSR from HA
Tom_DT
I am using Home Assistant a lot recently. On a dashboard showing the devices, I would like to show a link to the MSR rule that controls the devices. Is there a way to link directly into MSR?
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Set Reaction > Script Action
wmarcolinW
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Wiring Samotech SM308-S into light fitting
F
Hi Smart Home Community. I have used a Sonos inline WiFi switch to make one of my light fittings smart, but it requires a hard reset for WiFi changes, plus it isn't zigbee compatible, which means I can't use the Hue app to control it with the rest of the lights. To that end I bought a Samotech SM308-S as it is recommended as the better than the Sonos equivalent. I am however not exactly sure how to wire it in. The manual is available here Can anyone help me by clarifying which ports I need to use, and whether I should be using the live or switched live line for live etc. I will be keeping using standard switches for a while, although hope to upgrade to tap dials once I have all the fittings upgraded. Thanks
Hardware
Errors after updating to MQTTController build 25139
tunnusT
I'm running MSR build 25139 on Docker, using MQTT controller 24293, and everything working as expected. But if I try to upgrade to MQTTController build 25139, I'm getting the following errors on MSR UI: An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.god Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa auto heating off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.green Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto off" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute temperature_sensor.red Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa filter pump auto run" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.pump Last 11:20:37 An Entity Attribute condition in "Lay-Z-Spa watchdog" (Terrace) failed because the referenced entity "Lay-Z-Spa States" (mqtt>layzspa_states) does not have attribute value_sensor.status Last 11:20:37 My MQTT configuration (local_mqtt_devices.yaml) for the related entity is: layzspa_message: type: ValueSensor capabilities: ["temperature_sensor", "value_sensor", "power_sensor"] primary_attribute: power_sensor.value events: "layzspa/message": "power_sensor.value": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.PWR )' expr: "float(payload.PWR)" "value_sensor.air": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AIR )' expr: "float(payload.AIR)" "value_sensor.pump": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.FLT )' expr: "float(payload.FLT)" "value_sensor.god": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GOD )' expr: "float(payload.GOD)" "value_sensor.lock": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.LCK )' expr: "float(payload.LCK)" "value_sensor.unit": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.UNT )' expr: "float(payload.UNT)" "value_sensor.error": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.ERR )' expr: "float(payload.ERR)" "temperature_sensor.green": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.GRN )' expr: "float(payload.GRN)" "temperature_sensor.red": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.RED )' expr: "float(payload.RED)" "temperature_sensor.target": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TGT )' expr: "float(payload.TGT)" "temperature_sensor.value": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.TMP )' expr: "float(payload.TMP)" "temperature_sensor.virtual": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.VTM )' expr: "round(float(payload.VTM), 1)" "temperature_sensor.ambient": json_payload: true if_expr: '! isnull( payload?.AMB )' expr: "float(payload.AMB)" "layzspa/Status": "value_sensor.status": if_expr: '! isnull( payload )' expr: "payload" "layzspa/button": "value_sensor.button": if_expr: '! isnull( payload )' expr: "payload" and in reactor.yaml I have: "layzspa_states": name: "Lay-Z-Spa States" friendly_name: 'Lay-Z-Spa States' include: layzspa_message I realize my MQTT configuration might be a bit unorthodox, but could there still be something unintentional in the latest MQTTController build? If needed, I can provide detailed logs.
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🎉 My very first MSR controller: OpenSprinkler
therealdbT
Since today is my birthday - and I still pretend to be unconventional - I'm giving away a present to this wonderful community and I'm releasing my first OpenSprinkler controller for MSR. It was real fun to code it - and while it's still WIP, it seems to work OK for me. It's polling-based at the moment, but I'll add support for updates via MQTT very soon (it's already partially coded). Get it at (install is similar to MQTTController and such): https://github.com/dbochicchio/reactor-opensprinkler Feel free to try it. It's beta software, but it's stable. I'll update it weekly until all the tasks from my todo list are empty. Since I've learnt a lot from this controller, I'll explore new controllers soon.
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Advice reqeusted to migrate MSR from Bare Metal to Container
T
Good day all, I'm in the process of trying to shut down my 10 year old Linux home server that served many purposes, but primarily it's what I used for my NAS/Plex Media server. I migrated the NAS aspect of the server in November of last year to a true NAS solution (Ubiquti UNAS Pro), which is rack mount and much more efficient than my old tower, which it's only side benefit was heating my home office during the winter. Unfortunately it also means heating my home office during the summer, which were about to be in full swing. I have two things running on this 10 year old server at this point. MSR and pi-hole. I'm running Plex Media Server on Fedora Workstation in Podman on mini PC, which is much more energy efficient than my old tower. My next step is to migrate MSR. I know there are images of MSR out there, and creating it is well documented. I'm going to be using Podman instead of Docker for various reasons, but they work very similar. What I don't know, is what I need to do to migrate my existing Bare Metal installation over to a container. Has anyone done this? Any advice?
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Reactor (Multi-System/Multi-Hub) Announcements
toggledbitsT
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.
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Z-Wave Future....
DesTD
https://forum.z-wave.me/viewtopic.php?f=3417&t=36140 That's not a good thing I think Time to switch again?
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Can´t restart or upgrade/deploy MSR
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[Solved] Limit HA Entity in MSR
wmarcolinW
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Disaster recovery and virtualisation
CatmanV2C
Following on from my last thread, some progress has been made over the weekend. With 18G of spanky RAM in my Synology DS224+. I've jumped into the murky world of virtualisation and already eliminated the need for two Raspberry Pi's from my system. Home Assistant: In theory they provide an OVA file which is supported by the Synology. I couldn't get it to work, however, so grabbed a copy of the .img file they supply, renamed it .iso and imported it as a VM. Restored from my full back up and that all seems fantastic. Minidnla Music server: Trivial. Grabbed a Debian .iso for Bookworm and copied that onto the NAS. Created a new machine which mirrored the specs of the Raspberry Pi, booted from the ISO then did an expert install. Once that was all stable with a basic core of stuff and networking, I've made a copy of that as a good base system. Then fired up minidnla on it, mounted my media and that's also woking. Not bad for a short weekend's work. Still not sure about the main NUC though. I'm thinking of buying a new USB stick so I can mess around getting it working on the Synology before I do anything drastic. Once that hurdle is sorted I'm torn between: Using a brand new install of Bookworm, re-installing Z-way server, OpenLuup, AltUI, MSR and HA bridge, then restoring across or Making an ISO of the current system, importing that and upgrading in place (which will be pretty risk free since I can snapshot everything before I make any changes.) Decisions, decisions. C
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Remote access of Zwave stick from Z-wave server
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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rules
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Hi guys, Just wondering how you guys organize your rule sets and rules. I wish I had an extra layer to have some more granularity, but my feature request was not popular. Maybe there are better ways to organize my rule sets. I use the rule sets now primarily for rooms. So a rule set per room. But maybe grouping by functionality works better. Any examples/ suggestions would be appreciated.
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Moving MSR from a QNAP container to RP 5 - some issues
Tom_DT
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  • Switched from RaZberry to UZB
    K kfxo

    Night and day difference for me. I think I was getting a lot of interference in my media closet. Devices were very slow to respond and sometimes not at all. Switched to UZB and used a USB extender to place it a good 5 ft from the location of my pi. Now things are fast and reliable.

    Z-Wave.me

  • Moving to Docker
    K kfxo

    @akbooer
    I have been messing with this today. I do not currently run openluup through docker so this may not even be the best way to do this but it is what I did to get it up and running and with the ability to easily see and manipulate all openluup files within "File Station" on the synology.

    I created three folders on my synology:
    /docker/openLuup/cmh-ludl
    /docker/openLuup/logs
    /docker/openLuup/backups

    Then I created three volumes with a bind to the created folders
    'openluup-env' bound to '/volume1/docker/openLuup/cmh-ludl'
    'openluup-logs' bound to '/volume1/docker/openLuup/logs'
    'openluup-backups' bound to '/volume1/docker/openLuup/backup'

    I used portianer but you can ssh into your synology and use the command line to create these volumes with the binds, see this

    Then I created the container using portainer making sure to set the correct ports and volume mappings, which can also be done in the command line with

    docker run -d \
           -v openluup-env:/etc/cmh-ludl/ \
           -v openluup-logs:/etc/cmh-ludl/logs/ \
           -v openluup-backups:/etc/cmh-ludl/backup/ \
           -p 3480:3480
           vwout/openluup:alpine
    

    Hope this helps.

    Edit: The binds are not necessary, I only did it to make it easy to access the files. Without the bindings, the volumes are somewhat hidden on synology that is not easily accessible for example at '/volume1/@docker/volumes/openluup-env/_data'

    Docker

  • Delete all device in Room 101
    K kfxo

    @akbooer said in Delete all device in Room 101:

    Yes, absolutely (although I kind of wonder how you reached that figure...!)

    The openLuup plugin has an action EmptyRoom101 with the parameter named AreYouSure which requires the value yes (to save nasty accidents.)

    Thanks. I see it. They are all old verabridge devices ( and some z-way devices that I had to repair) that are no longer needed as I am fully cloned to z-way and mostly vera free 😀 (still have two zigbee door sensors on vera).

    openLuup

  • Change Parameter of Z-wave device through Z-way API
    K kfxo

    Parameters of devices can be set through the api using this URL

    YOURIP:8083/ZWaveAPI/Run/devices[DEVICE#].instances[0].Configuration.Set(PARAMETER,PARAMETER_VALUE,size=PARAMETER_SIZE)

    Replace:
    YOURIP with the IP of Z-way for example 192.168.1.2.
    DEVICE# with the Z-way device # of the devices parameter you want to change
    Parameter with the parameter # you want to change
    VALUE with the Parameter value
    PARAMETER_SIZE with the size of the parameter (should be 1, 2, or 4)

    An example to change device 51's parameter 3 to a value of 1 with a size of 1:

    192.168.1.2:8083/ZWaveAPI/Run/devices[51].instances[0].Configuration.Set(3,1,size=1)

    To run it in Luup code

    local status, result = luup.inet.wget("192.168.1.2:8083/ZWaveAPI/Run/devices[51].instances[0].Configuration.Set(3,1,size=1)", 5)
    
    Code/Snippet library

  • MSR in Alpine Docker
    K kfxo

    @toggledbits said in MSR in Alpine Docker:

    OK. Let's see how this does in your hands. I've installed and uninstalled 3-4 times and it seems OK. In the bug tracker, go to #58, in the notes you'll find a download link and draft installation instructions. You can use the "monitor" function to follow that PR (emails you when things are posted--might get chatty with a lot of people in there, though). Please use that PR for reporting install-related issues.

    This loads up nicely. Running unconfigured right now. I will transfer over my configs later and test it out.

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  • Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE
    K kfxo

    Another good release. Confirming that 0000078 and 0000077 are tested and working on my system.

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Delete all device in Room 101
    K kfxo

    @rafale77 said in Delete all device in Room 101:

    Congrats on the move! Please report back on positive or negative effects.

    Will do. Still working through things and figuring stuff out. So far, the experience has been mostly positive with a few minor hiccups. I also have some scripts I wrote that I plan to share that helped ease my transition.

    openLuup

  • MQTT – setup and use
    K kfxo

    Which synology NAS are you looking at? I have a DS920+ and run MQTT in a docker container. Works great and easy to set up. Some of the lower end ones may not support docker.

    General Discussion

  • Almost there!
    K kfxo

    Spinning up a dedicated VM on my synology right now in anticipation of the first preview. Can't wait!

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Imperihome - missing devices
    K kfxo

    @perh said in Imperihome - missing devices:

    While i wait for a replacement app for my local UI devices, i want to use imperihome as long as I can.. But i'm missing a lot of devices!

    All Z-Way bridge devices, all security/smoke and motion sensors (local RFXtrx child devices)..

    Found the "include vera bridge" in imperihome.lua, what else could cause this?

    I had the same issue. Check that the attribute "disabled" is not set to '1' for the missing devices. See this thread

    openLuup

  • Moving to Docker
    K kfxo

    @akbooer said in Moving to Docker:

    • but I can't access it at all or work out where the openLuup files go.

    You are using the synology docker package to create and deploy your container, correct? At minimum, to get the container accessible, change the port settings to 3480(local):3480(container). Then you should be able access it at http://YourSynologyIP:3480/

    Docker

  • MQTT Plugin
    K kfxo

    @rafale77 It does allow you to subscribe.

    You can subscribe to a topic by creating a child device :

    Add a new device and choose a type (e.g. "D_BinaryLight1.xml" or "D_TemperatureSensor1.xml").
    Reload LUUP engine.
    Change the attribut "id_parent" with the id of the MQTT plugin device.
    Reload LUUP engine and refresh your browser.
    You should see variables "mqttTarget" and "mqttTopic" in your newly created device.
    Set the topic you want to subcribe to and the target (format: service,variable=(formula in LUA)).
    Reload LUUP engine.
    If the payload of the received message is in JSON, the plugin will try to decode it and put it in the variable "payload" in the context of the LUA formula.

    Plugins

  • Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE
    K kfxo

    @therealdb said in Multi-System Reactor Developer Preview AVAILABLE:

    Can't wait for guidance on apdaters/plugins to contribute with Shelly and MQTT 🙂

    MQTT will be huge.

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Moving to Docker
    K kfxo

    @akbooer said in Moving to Docker:

    I understand that to make any changes last across container/NAS restarts, I need to make the volumes external to the container, as per the above yaml. So this is my next step.

    Any further insights welcomed. Perhaps Portainer is that next step?

    You cannot create named volumes through the synology GUI. You will need to use portainer or you can ssh into your synology and run the manual commands as outlined by vwout/openluup

    You can also do this manually. Start by creating docker volumes:

    docker volume create openluup-env
    docker volume create openluup-logs
    docker volume create openluup-backups

    Create an openLuup container, e.g. based on Alpine linux and mount the created (still empty) volumes:

    docker run -d
    -v openluup-env:/etc/cmh-ludl/
    -v openluup-logs:/etc/cmh-ludl/logs/
    -v openluup-backups:/etc/cmh-ludl/backup/
    -p 3480:3480
    vwout/openluup:alpine

    Docker

  • MQTT Plugin
    K kfxo

    @rafale77 Have you seen this mqtt plugin? i have been using it to subscribe to topics for some time. Maybe it has some hints as to your issue.

    Plugins

  • Sunset with offset didn't run
    K kfxo

    @cw-kid said in Sunset with offset didn't run:

    Also I have seen this saving problem on more than just one rule.

    I've seen in on a few rules when either adding items like additional triggers or removing items.

    Then you cannot click either of the two save buttons.

    Only the red exit w/o saving button works.

    I have been able to possibly reproduce your saving issue. I have noticed with rules that have a Date/Time After Trigger cannot be modified and saved.

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Moving to Docker
    K kfxo

    I think I had this same issue. If you copy the files in cmh-ludl from an existing openluup install into ' /OpenLuup/openluup-env' it should start right up.

    Docker

  • MSR in Alpine Docker
    K kfxo

    @kfxo said in MSR in Alpine Docker:

    @toggledbits said in MSR in Alpine Docker:

    OK. Let's see how this does in your hands. I've installed and uninstalled 3-4 times and it seems OK. In the bug tracker, go to #58, in the notes you'll find a download link and draft installation instructions. You can use the "monitor" function to follow that PR (emails you when things are posted--might get chatty with a lot of people in there, though). Please use that PR for reporting install-related issues.

    This loads up nicely. Running unconfigured right now. I will transfer over my configs later and test it out.

    Just an update, I copied over config and storage directories to the mounted docker volume and Reactor would not start until I also created a 'logs' directory in the mounted docker volume. All looked well after that but going to continue to run it on my Debian VM for now.

    Multi-System Reactor

  • Moving to Docker
    K kfxo

    There is a post from me above in this thread (sorry don't know how to link specific post) that explains how I got it to work. Have you tried that? I think the issue is synology gui does not support the correct type of volumes and you have to ssh into synology and run the correct docker command to set it up.

    Docker

  • Timers in my log
    K kfxo

    That actually makes perfect sense and upon further inspection I see that the timers I was noticing in the logs are with respect to one rule that I had recently turned on that resets often.

    Multi-System Reactor
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