While i wait for MSR to arrive, i'm trying to get better control over my zigbee devices. Looked over the fence to Domoticz, and they have a really good plugin for Zigate, and as there was a domoticz bridge here, i thought i'd use that instead..

This plugin have bben abandoned for some years though, and when I installed it, it won't start properly.. looking at the startup log, it looks like OpenLuup might have had some changes that needs to be handled in the plugin? (@akbooer ?)

2021-01-26 22:31:37.457 luup.create_device:: [833] D_DomoticzBridge.xml / I_DomoticzBridge.xml / D_DomoticzBridge.json (DomoticzBridge) 2021-01-26 22:31:37.457 openLuup.chdev:: [string "L_DomoticzBridge.lua"]:59: module 'openLuup.rooms' not found: no field package.preload['openLuup.rooms'] no file './openLuup/rooms.lua' no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms/init.lua' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms/init.lua' no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms/init.lua' no file '../cmh-lu/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file 'files/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file 'openLuup/openLuup/rooms.lua' no file './openLuup/rooms.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.so' no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.so' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup/rooms.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so' no file './openLuup.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup.so' no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/openLuup.so' no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/openLuup.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

Hi,

I hope this is the correct place to ask. I wanted to start with developing smart home systems where I use a raspberry pie as a server and communicate through a phone or tablet.
But I do not know where to and how to start, I have knowledge in developing Web Application, Java and a bit react native.

But which Development Language is good for smart home development? Would it be possible to achieve smart home projects with Webapplication and smarthphone app if they communicate with the same server?

Which additional knowledge do I need except development language? I looked on the internet a bit, but kinda got lost with all the information in it right now about smart home.

Sharing a few options for object recognition which then can be used as triggers for home automation.
My two favorites so far:

asmirnou/watsor asmirnou/watsor

Object detection for video surveillance. Contribute to asmirnou/watsor development by creating an account on GitHub.

skvark/opencv-python skvark/opencv-python

Automated CI toolchain to produce precompiled opencv-python, opencv-python-headless, opencv-contrib-python and opencv-contrib-python-headless packages. - skvark/opencv-python

I have read this someone before but I cannot find the answer again. I have several devices and scenes in Vera which have been deleted so now the issue is to identify which ones they are in openluup ALTUI and remove them. I thought there was a process where you would delete the bridge and then add it again but I cant remember. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks

Hi folks

Hope you're all keeping well.

Working as we are in lockdown has shown some issues in the heating of our house. Basically we have a Horstmann SRT321 in the Hallway with its partner connected to the boiler. That bit all works wonderfully.
Problem is when I'm up in the office, it gets a bit chill unless I turn the the Secure in the hallway up. But then the rest of the house get OTT.
So I thought perhaps I could fit TRVs to all the rads (probably a good idea anyway) but unless I'm wrong, unless the SRT321 has a call for heat, there's going to be no hot water for the rads when the TRV opens.
So I'm still cold.
Can I associate each of the TRVs to the boiler control (in the same way the SRT321 is) and get a call for heat directly, or am I going to have to do this programatically.
Or am I completely wrong in how to approach this?

TIA

C

As part of my hardware infrastructure revamp (a move away from 'hobby' platforms to something a bit more solid) I've just switched from running Grafana (a very old version) on a BeagleBone Black (similar to RPi) to my Synology NAS under docker.

Despite the old system being on the same platform as my main openLuup instance (or, perhaps, because of this) and now with the new system the data has to be shipped across my LAN, this all seems to work much faster.

I had been running Grafana v3.1.1, because I couldn't upgrade on the old system, but now at 7.3.7, which seems to be the latest Docker version. It's a bit different UI from the old one, and needed next to no configuration, apart from importing the old dashboard settings.

One thing I'm missing is that the old system had a pull-down menu to switch between dashboards, but the new one doesn't seem to have that, since it switches to a whole new page with a list of dashboards. This doesn't work too well on an iPad, since it brings up the keyboard and obscures half the choices. Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks for any suggestions.

So cool to find the forum of all the banned vera gurus!

I've had a Vera Plus for about 6 years now, and have had a fairly problem free time with it compared to many other stories. The last years have however been lacking in progression in many fields i'd like to explore, so now i'm looking closely at Openluup.
Other systems have been tested as well, but i find that the community and plugins made for vera is kind of special, and something i'd like to contribute to as well. (getting older and not wanting to change to new stuff probably plays a part too!)

So, my stab at opeluup starts with an HP Chromebox 1 i got for free. Its a fairly powerfull thing, but as google wants to sell new ones, its now EOL.
I wiped it clean and installed debian, as it seems to be the closest thing to raspberry which many use for openluup.

Openluup installed fine, and i got the vera bridge working fairly well by bothering ppl at the vera forum with questions. Its now running OK, but there seems to be an issue with Icons?

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Also at the devices tab:
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I did the "GetFiles", and I see the /icons/ is populated, but no icons. In the luup log says that its trying to GET the icon, but returns no packages.

2020-09-15 17:04:30.818 openLuup.server:: GET /cmh/skins/default/img/devices/device_states/dimmable_light_off.png HTTP/1.1 tcp{client}: 0x55eca8d90cb8 2020-09-15 17:04:30.819 openLuup.server:: request completed (0 bytes, 0 chunks, 0 ms) tcp{client}: 0x55eca8d90cb8

I do have a UZB stick on the way, but before i go down that road i'd like to be sure that the installation is stable and sound.. Do I have all the nessecary packages/background processes? I did install cjson which helped on some things..

Also fairly new at linux in general, so bear with me. 😉

Roadmap:

Get the openluup/AltUI running smoothly
Transfer Z-wave devices
Transfer 433 devices (RFXtrx plugin)
Transfer Zigbee devices (Vera or mabye ezlo plus? zigbee stick?)

more questions will follow!

Just upgraded to 3.1.0 and am happy to report that it has not impacted the z-way bridge for openLuup.

I am now seeing the SDK version for firmware 5.39

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@akbooer, I just woke up to a z-way bridge token expiration again forcing me to login again and reload openluup. It appears to happen once a week. It doesn't appear that the auto renewal of the token is working?

Hello - the new pi has arrived with uzb. As an installation shortcut is there a way of 'factory resetting' openluup if I cloned the working image on my other pi ... or is that a really bad idea?

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if the UZB supports Long Range already? I can't find which chip is in there.

I have a script calling io.popen to get the file system partition info, running on the Vera to check for space, and it's getting "cannot allocate memory error".

Any suggestions, beside doing a luup.reload?

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.

rafale77/Amcrest-Dahua-Openluup rafale77/Amcrest-Dahua-Openluup

Plugin for Amcrest/Dahua Cameras on openLuup. Contribute to rafale77/Amcrest-Dahua-Openluup development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am looking at making openLuup to act as an MQTT client for a variety of applications. I may write a plugin for it myself based on either of these two libraries:

xHasKx/luamqtt xHasKx/luamqtt

luamqtt - Pure-lua MQTT v3.1.1 and v5.0 client. Contribute to xHasKx/luamqtt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yongke/luamqttc Yongke/luamqttc

A lua mqtt client which support MQTT version 3.1.1 - Yongke/luamqttc

Still have to learn the details of how it would work. If people have ideas, feel free to post here!

For all systems backup is a vital part of the long-term usability.

I thought that I describe my set up with Z-way so far. Hopefully others can fill in with their backup thoughts as well. I am sure that there are much more streamlined ways of doing this and hope to learn from you all.

I run Z-way on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a daughter RaZberry card. In order to reduce the risk of getting corrupt SD cards I have it running off an SSD. So far this works very well. Setting it up was really easy just reading a standard Raspbian image onto the SSD. The only minor obstacle was that I had to test a few old 2.5" enclosures to find one that the Pi liked.
The Pi is then also powered via an UPS, hopefully this will avoid problems in the event of power outages.

In order to backup Z-way I have so far done manual backups from the regular Smarthome backup & restore function creating .zab files and from the Expert UI creating .zbk files. As far as I have understood the .zab files which are bigger contain more information than the .zbk files. The strategy so far has been to make backup files after each inclusion/exclusion. Also before updating Z-way. I have yet to test restoring from these files.

From Smarthome it is also possible to set up cloud backup. I have not yet set up this as I need to decide that it is safe enough to do so. On the other hand I had this set up on my two Veras.
It would have been nice to be able to schedule a local backup of Z-way instead of having to put them in the cloud, perhaps from OpenLuup via the Z-way bridge?

In addition to the built in backup function I try to do complete image copies of the SD cards on my Pi's with Win32DiskImager. When I moved to an SSD the image file grew to the size of the SSD since it is a raw copy including all the empty space. Image files of 160GB are not practical to handle so I found a good instruction on how to shrink the .img file with Gparted in Linux: https://steemit.com/raspberrypi/@wizzle/shrink-raspberry-pi-images-using-windows-virtualbox-running-raspberry-pi-desktop
By shrinking the .img file with Gparted it is now a more reasonable 4GB. These file are stored on my NAS for safekeeping. The strategy here so far is to make a new image file before updating Z-way and to use these in combination with more frequent Z-way backups.

I have tested restoring a Gparted shrinked .img file to the SSD when my Z-way for some strange reason became unreachable through the regular UI but remained reachable through the Expert UI. Always good to test the restore function and to see that it works. 🙂

The downside of the .img strategy is that I need to power-off the Pi for a while when making the backup. However if the Z-way backup files work then the complete .img backup need not be done so very often.

//ArcherS

Anyone here that has visualized the location from iphone locator in grafana?

found the "World Map" panel for grafana, but haven't figured out how to make it display yet..

Probably @rafale77 will jump on this question first 😉

I'm using the new model of GE/Jasco switch (they replaced the dead one I got) and the new model is having also S2 security and send instant status update BUT,

And probably @rafale77 will say yes, is it possible that interference can do that I'm missing some instant update status ?

Often, I'm having the wrong status in the zwave.me web interface...and even clicking the icon, the status didn't changed to right one.

I also try to do some "On/Off" using the web interface, and the device itself physically, toggle without a problem, but the web interface is still no correct.

@akbooer

Do you think it could be possible to have a custom device for "dimmer" that instead of having the slider from 0 to 99 will give us Off/Low/Medium/High and will send 0,30,60,90 ?

One of my aqara sensors suddenly stated that the temperature in the garage passed +650 degrees.. I checked, and it wasn't. 😉

Both humidity and pressure is reading normal levels - i guess this must be a HW error?

Its not dead either, just severely offset:
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