Posts made by mrFarmer | Smart Home

mrFarmer

Have you asked the wife? Mine likes to randomly turn lights on (never off!) just to get me confused
Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

You had to ask
Have a look here https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BafbkqSQA/alexa-created-routine-on-its-own
Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

In Alexa there is an option that it 'learns' from 'your behavior'. When I turned that off and removed the rules it created for that 'feature' this spook behavior stopped. I would look into the rules on your Alexa, you may find some you do not remember creating.
Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

On an Android phone with either Chrome or Firefox I cannot really use MSR. Toggling the hamburger menu shows most pages except status. That rarely shows a widget especially in landscape mode. I would not think about making or changing rules on a small screen, but being able to look at the status would be nice.

mrFarmer

Is the V6 box in direct sight of the Hub or do you use a IR extender just for that? Did that unplug or die? Else, I have no idea. I just hope my harmony keeps working for many many years (knock wood)
Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

I like the Heat-it z-push wall controller. You can use it with one, two or three paddles mounted that can be used as switch and scene controller. The design fits with my normal wall power outlets and operate like a normal switch to anyone who does not know (or care like the misses). They are 800 devices and after a year the battery still shows at 100%
Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Hi Ak,
Not sure what the issue is for me then. I first had it running on Pi3 with Debian, now on Pi4 with Ubuntu, same issue of not getting the token. I did copy the user_data.json, so maybe something in that.
As a test I tried on my openLuup clean test install running in a container and that is working. So must be something at my end.
Thanks again anyway, I have a new workaround :-).

mrFarmer

I might update then. I do need ALTUI still because of some of my plugins. Slowly moving to HA, but not totally there yet.

To update a plugin now, How would that work if not via the ALTUI publish function?

mrFarmer

Thanks Ak, the Google token refresh does not work unless you run AltUI on a Vera and I do not have those up and running anymore. We did find that before. The token refresh gets stuck in some loop and a luup reload is needed to stop that. It is too deep in ALTUI and some google scripts for me to figure out and @amg0 does not seem to be around any more.

I am on openLuup 23.01.06. When not using MTTQ, Shelly, Zwave stick, any reason for an update to the latest?

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Hi, I have updated the plugin code. You will have to install it manually as the MIOS App Market nor the ALTUI App Store are working. Get the file from github at https://github.com/reneboer/MultiStationWeather/blob/main/src/L_MsWeather.lua

Note that you will need to get a One Call 3.0 API key. The old one will not work.

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Redesign in progress. Thanks again for this great multi platform tool.

mrFarmer

Thanks. So I'd probably better split the rule then. Not a problem, but then I have five per appliance. O well, who's counting

mrFarmer

Hi,
Running the latest version 24212 on docker.
I want to run some appliances when my solar panels deliver over 1200 watts to the net. In this example the dryer. So when the dryer is turned on, the rule starts (SET). There first is a 3 min delay in case the dryer is turned on manually, that is group "Check if auto start is needed". If the dryer is not running, the status is set to waiting, and the shown Repeat Until should wait as long the power delivered is higher than -1200 for at least 120 seconds and the status is still waiting. Higher as the value is negative. For some reason that repeat until "DR Wait for solar high or manual start" looks skipped. Nothing in the logs. What am I missing?

[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:38:49.895Z <Rule:INFO> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start (rule-lzjtr8w7 in House Controls) evaluated; rule state transition from RESET to SET!
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:38:49.900Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>" (rule-lzjtr8w7:S)
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:38:49.910Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET> (rule-lzjtr8w7:S)
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:38:49.911Z <Engine:NOTICE> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET> delaying until 1723034509911<8/7/2024, 2:41:49 PM>
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:49.912Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET> (rule-lzjtr8w7:S) from step 3
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:49.924Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwf7)
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:49.954Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/DR Check auto start (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwfc)
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:50.125Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat-C7 action x_hubitat_HealthCheck.ping([Object]{  }) on Switch#hubitat-C7>69 succeeded
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:50.125Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/DR Check auto start (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwfc) from step 2
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:41:50.125Z <Engine:NOTICE> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/WM Check auto start delaying until 1723034525125<8/7/2024, 2:42:05 PM>
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.125Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/DR Check auto start (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwfc) from step 3
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.215Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat-C7 action power_switch.on([Object]{  }) on Switch#hubitat-C7>69 succeeded
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.216Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/WM Check auto start (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwfc) from step 4
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.219Z <Engine:INFO> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed/DR Check auto start all actions completed.
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.234Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed (rule-lzjtr8w7:S-rule-lzjtr8w7-1j83mwf7) from step 5
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.234Z <Engine:INFO> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET>/DR Check if auto start is needed all actions completed.
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.249Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET> (rule-lzjtr8w7:S) from step 4
[latest-24212]2024-08-07T12:42:05.249Z <Engine:INFO> rule-Dryer Automatic Cycle Start<SET> all actions completed.

(g_DryerStatus should have been "waiting" and not "running" the moment the log was captured, so that should not be the issue. Unless it takes some time for a variable to actually change?)

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Hi, it is on my to-do list to make the change. Might be this week, no promises.

mrFarmer

That did it. Thanks for your help.

mrFarmer

Hi,

Running the latest MSR latest-24152-3455578a with the latest HA 2024.6.1. When trying to call a service I get the following in the MSR logs. Is this a version mismatch? I am not seeing anything in the HA logs.

[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:56.162Z <Rule:INFO> rule-Monitor-DHW (rule-lsvq5k3x in Central Heating) started
[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.625Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass unknown service opentherm_gw.set_hot_water_setpoint in x_hass.call_service action on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw
[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.626Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass: sending payload for x_hass.call_service on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw action: [Object]{ "type": "call_service", "service_data": { "gateway_id": "living_room_otgw", "temperature": 65 }, "domain": "opentherm_gw", "service": "set_hot_water_setpoint", "target": { "entity_id": "climate.living_room_otgw" } }
[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.627Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass request 1718101798626<6/11/2024, 12:29:58 PM> (call_service) failed: [Object]{ "id": 1718101798626, "type": "result", "success": false, "error": { "code": "invalid_format", "message": "extra keys not allowed @ data['entity_id']" } }
[latest-24152]2024-06-11T10:29:58.627Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass action x_hass.call_service([Object]{ "service": "opentherm_gw.set_hot_water_setpoint", "data": "{ \"gateway_id\": \"living_room_otgw\", \"temperature\": 65 }" }) on Thermostat#hass>climate_living_room_otgw failed!

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Hi, instead of full DYI I switched to Hubitat. Nice thing is that MSR supports both Vera and Hubitat so you can migrate in phases. I'm running MSR in Docker on a NAS. I added HA for some integrations that do not exist for Hubitat, also using docker, and also linked with MSR. Last I use openLuup to run some plugins that came from Vera and have not found good replacements for. All logic that is complex or needs more than one platform sits in MSR.
When you move a (zwave) device from Vera to Hubitat (or HA) it is just a matter of changing to old device to the new in MSR rules and the wife does not even notice

For fun I also added InfluxDB and Grafana and am now learning to build some nice dashboard as a sort of datamine replacement. Using MSR you can feed Influx form any of the connected systems. HA and Hubitat have InfluxDB connections.

As you see, many options to ditch Vera.

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

I found that this works.
power_sensor:
attributes:
value:
include: true
type: "number"
skip_null: true

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Hi,

For the standard capabilities MSR sends both a value record and a units record to InfluxDB. The latter I would like not to send as they are not really any use for me and it will reduce the number of records send to my InfluxDB.

Is there a quick way to do this with a filter_entities line like: *>units?

Or do I have to update all capabilities to read like this:
power_sensor:
attributes:
value: true

Cheers Rene

mrFarmer

Normally there is no need for a Reactor "bless" for HA, this is for Home Assistant as they are known to have function braking updates.
So far I am not seeing issues.

mrFarmer

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