Hi everybody!
I was following this web site as non-member. Finally I have a new Synology Nas to try the new @toggledbits 's reactor project and this post is first of all to thank @toggledbits for his effort and passion to share his projects and to make them accessible even for those who are not a programmer. I know many of you reading the posts from the vera community and would like to express my gratitude for the advice you give to understand things. So a big Thanks and congratulations to Patrick for this new project !!!
I just installed MSR and I am excited to try it out!
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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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
I have the following yaml configuration in local_mqtt_devices file
x_mqtt_device:
set_speed:
arguments:
speed:
type: str
topic: "command/%friendly_name%"
payload:
type: json
expr: '{ "fan": parameters.speed }'
While this works fine, I'm wondering how this could be changed to "fixed" parameters, as in this case "fan" only accepts "A", "Q" or a numeric value of 1-5?
Hi!
I get this message when I'm on the status tab:
System Configuration Check
The time on this system and on the Reactor host are significantly different. This may be due to incorrect system configuration on either or both. Please check the configuration of both systems. The host reports 2025-04-01T15:29:29.252Z; browser reports 2025-04-01T15:29:40.528Z; difference 11.276 seconds.
I have MSR installed as a docker on my Home Assistant Blue / Hardkernel ODROID-N2/N2+. MSR version is latest-25082-3c348de6.
HA versions are:
Core 2025.3.4
Supervisor 2025.03.4
Operating System 15.1
I have restarted HA as well as MSR multiple times. This message didn´t show two weeks ago. Don´t know if it have anything to do with the latest MSR version.
Do anyone know what I can try?
Thanks in advance!
Let's Be Careful Out There (Hill Street reference...)
/Fanan
I have a very strange situation, where if InfluxDB restarts, other containers may fail when restarting at the same time (under not easy to understand circumstances), and InfluxDB remains unreachable (and these containers crashes). I need to reboot these containers in an exact order, after rebooting InfluxDB.
While I understand what's going on, I need a way to reliable determine that InfluxDB is not reachable and these containers are not reachable, in order to identify this situation and manually check what's going on - and, maybe, in the future, automatically restart them if needed.
So, I was looking at HTTP Request action, but I need to capture the HTTP response code, instead of the response (becase if ping is OK, InfluxDB will reply with a 204), and, potentially, a way to programmatically detect that it's failing to get the response.
While I could write a custom HTTP controller for this or a custom HTTP virtual device, I was wondering if this is somewhat on you roadmap @toggledbits
Thanks!
Hi ,
I'm on
-Reactor (Multi-hub) latest-25067-62e21a2d
-Docker on Synology NAS
-ZWaveJSUI 9.31.0.6c80945
Problem with ZwaveJSUI:
When I try to change color to a bulb RGBWW, it doesn't change to the RGB color and the bulb remains warm or cold white.
I tryed with Zipato RGBW Bulb V2 RGBWE2, Hank Bulb HKZW-RGB01, Aentec 6 A-ZWA002, so seems that it happens with all RGBWW bulb with reactor/zwavejsui.
I'm using from reator the entity action: "rgb_color.set" and "rgb_color.set_rgb".
After I send the reactor command, It changes in zwavejsui the rgb settings but doesn't put the white channel to "0", so the prevalent channel remains warm/cold White and the bulb doesn't change into the rgb color.
This is the status of the bulb in zwavejsui after "rgb_color.set" (235,33,33,) and the bulb is still warmWhite.
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor={"warmWhite":204,"coldWhite":0,"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33}
The "cold white" and "warm white" settings interfer with the rgb color settings.
Reactor can change bulb colors with rgb_color set — (value, ui8, 0x000000 to 0xffffff) or rgb_color set_rgb — (red, green, blue, all ui1, 0 to 255) but if warm or cold white
are not to "0", zwavejsui doesn't change them and I can't find a way to change into rgb or from rgb back to warm white.
So if I use from reactor: rgb_color set_rgb — (235,33,33) in zwavejsui I have
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_targetColor={"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33}
14/03/2025, 16:43:57 - value updated
Arg 0:
└─commandClassName: Color Switch
└─commandClass: 51
└─property: targetColor
└─endpoint: 0
└─newValue
└──red: 235
└──green: 33
└──blue: 33
└─prevValue
└──red: 235
└──green: 33
└──blue: 33
└─propertyName: targetColor
14/03/2025, 16:43:57 - value updated
Arg 0:
└─commandClassName: Color Switch
└─commandClass: 51
└─property: currentColor
└─endpoint: 0
└─newValue
└──warmWhite: 204
└──coldWhite: 0
└──red: 235
└──green: 33
└──blue: 33
└─prevValue
└──warmWhite: 204
└──coldWhite: 0
└──red: 235
└──green: 33
└──blue: 33
└─propertyName: currentColor
In zwavejsui, the bulb changes rgb set but warm White remains to "204" and the bulb remais on warm White channel bacause is prevalent on rgb set.
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_0=204
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_1=0
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_2=235
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_3=33
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_currentColor_4=33
Is it possible to targetColor also for "warmWhite" and "coldWhite" and have something similar to this?
x_zwave_values.Color_Switch_targetColor={"warmWhite":0,"coldWhite":0,"red":235,"green":33,"blue":33}
Thanks in advance.
Posts
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Release 1.0.0 -
Dashboard extended to guests with visible/hidden icons - an idea?Hi, I like a lot the MSR Dashboard: it's quick and easy without an authentication system and this is great.
Not really a good idea if I give this possibility to my wife to power off all switches included the nas with MSR or to a guest to power off the light in my room.
Is it scheduled to have a main dashboard and a guest dashboard? as a sub-dashboard
Maybe from the main dashboard, using a built-in GUI editors that can set icons as visible or hidden and automatically reflect on a guest dashboard with a different ip
Just an idea
for MSR -
Merry Christmas/Happy HolidaysHappy Holidays and very best wishes for a wonderfull and reactor New Year!
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Synology Docker installation@librasun yes, of course I agree with you. In Vera I based my logic using a virtual dimmer (Switchboard Plugin) per room to interact with Alexa commands behind conditions/rules in a Reactorsensor per room and only some global reactor for the house. In this way it is possible to have until 100 voice commands per room associated to 100 preset rules per dimmer, controlling them in web gui, in mobile app or alexa. So at the moment trying to understand if there is a new approach in MSR to emulate virtual devices or to find another way.
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Plugin InfluxFeed - Selecting Capabilities for Export - how toThanks to you!
The fix is working.
Now I can truck energy consuption on Influxdb. The idea is to try to make in MSR what in HA is doing with utility_meter, Trend and Lovelace UI togheter. Maybe in future we will see a standard MSR energy plugin too.
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Power_switch.state - no change state - EzloPlus - Msr v. 21351-a3aef - Synology DockerHi, it seems working ok. Thanks! If you need more infos to test, just tell me how I can produce them.
L Bulb FibaroDimmer2 ezlo>device_61425874129e29124dfcd75e 0.65 7:30:07 PM dimming.level=0.65 dimming.step=0.1 energy_sensor.units="KWh" energy_sensor.value=11.3400001525879 power_sensor.units="W" power_sensor.value=6.90000009536743 power_switch.state=true x_ezlo_device.battery_powered=false x_ezlo_device.category="dimmable_light" x_ezlo_device.manufacturer="Fibaro" x_ezlo_device.model="FGD-212" x_ezlo_device.parent="" x_ezlo_device.reachable=true x_ezlo_device.ready=true x_ezlo_device.room="613e2024129e2912114c093b" x_ezlo_device.status="idle" x_ezlo_device.subcategory="dimmable_in_wall" x_ezlo_device.type_id="271_258_4096" x_ezlo_item.dimmer=65 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_down=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_stop=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_up=0 x_ezlo_item.electric_meter_kwh=11.3400001525879 x_ezlo_item.electric_meter_watt=6.90000009536743 x_ezlo_item.hw_state="hardware_failure" x_ezlo_item.load_error_state="unknown" x_ezlo_item.meter_reset=0 x_ezlo_item.over_current_state="unknown" x_ezlo_item.over_load_state="unknown" x_ezlo_item.power_surge_state="no_surge" x_ezlo_item.switch=true x_ezlo_item.voltage_drop_drift_state="unknown" x_ezlo_object.id="61425874129e29124dfcd75e" zwave_device.capabilities=null zwave_device.failed=false zwave_device.manufacturer_info=["Fibaro","FGD-212",null] zwave_device.node_id=27 zwave_device.version_info=null Capabilities: dimming, energy_sensor, power_sensor, power_switch, x_ezlo_device, x_ezlo_item, x_ezlo_object, zwave_device Actions: dimming.down, dimming.set, dimming.up, power_switch.off, power_switch.on, power_switch.set, x_ezlo_device.device_check, x_ezlo_device.set_item_value, x_ezlo_device.set_name, x_ezlo_device.set_room, x_ezlo_device.status_check, zwave_device.poll, zwave_device.reconfigure, zwave_device.refresh, zwave_device.reset_meters, zwave_device.set_config, zwave_device.update_neighborsanother
K Bulb Domitech ezlo>device_61423589129e29124dfcd756 0.65 7:35:42 PM dimming.level=0.65 dimming.step=0.1 power_switch.state=true x_ezlo_device.battery_powered=false x_ezlo_device.category="dimmable_light" x_ezlo_device.manufacturer="Domitech" x_ezlo_device.model="ZE27EU" x_ezlo_device.parent="" x_ezlo_device.reachable=true x_ezlo_device.ready=true x_ezlo_device.room="613e2020129e2912114c093a" x_ezlo_device.status="idle" x_ezlo_device.subcategory="dimmable_bulb" x_ezlo_device.type_id="526_19522_12596" x_ezlo_item.dimmer=65 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_down=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_stop=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_up=0 x_ezlo_item.switch=true x_ezlo_object.id="61423589129e29124dfcd756" zwave_device.capabilities=null zwave_device.failed=false zwave_device.manufacturer_info=["Domitech","ZE27EU",null] zwave_device.node_id=26 zwave_device.version_info=null Capabilities: dimming, power_switch, x_ezlo_device, x_ezlo_item, x_ezlo_object, zwave_device Actions: dimming.down, dimming.set, dimming.up, power_switch.off, power_switch.on, power_switch.set, x_ezlo_device.device_check, x_ezlo_device.set_item_value, x_ezlo_device.set_name, x_ezlo_device.set_room, x_ezlo_device.status_check, zwave_device.poll, zwave_device.reconfigure, zwave_device.refresh, zwave_device.reset_meters, zwave_device.set_config, zwave_device.update_neighborsanother
H Bulb Widom dimmer ezlo>device_6147578c129e29124dfcd814 1 7:36:56 PM dimming.level=1 dimming.step=0.1 energy_sensor.units="KWh" energy_sensor.value=0.651000022888184 power_sensor.units="W" power_sensor.value=2.47000002861023 power_switch.state=true x_ezlo_device.battery_powered=false x_ezlo_device.category="dimmable_light" x_ezlo_device.manufacturer="Unknown" x_ezlo_device.model="Unknown" x_ezlo_device.parent="" x_ezlo_device.reachable=true x_ezlo_device.ready=true x_ezlo_device.room="613e2012129e2912114c0938" x_ezlo_device.status="idle" x_ezlo_device.subcategory="dimmable_in_wall" x_ezlo_device.type_id="329_4628_2560" x_ezlo_item.dimmer=100 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_down=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_stop=0 x_ezlo_item.dimmer_up=0 x_ezlo_item.electric_meter_kwh=0.651000022888184 x_ezlo_item.electric_meter_watt=2.47000002861023 x_ezlo_item.meter_reset=0 x_ezlo_item.switch=true x_ezlo_object.id="6147578c129e29124dfcd814" zwave_device.capabilities=null zwave_device.failed=false zwave_device.manufacturer_info=["Unknown","Unknown",null] zwave_device.node_id=41 zwave_device.version_info=null Capabilities: dimming, energy_sensor, power_sensor, power_switch, x_ezlo_device, x_ezlo_item, x_ezlo_object, zwave_device Actions: dimming.down, dimming.set, dimming.up, power_switch.off, power_switch.on, power_switch.set, x_ezlo_device.device_check, x_ezlo_device.set_item_value, x_ezlo_device.set_name, x_ezlo_device.set_room, x_ezlo_device.status_check, zwave_device.poll, zwave_device.reconfigure, zwave_device.refresh, zwave_device.reset_meters, zwave_device.set_config, zwave_device.update_neighbors -
Need Testers@toggledbits happy to help!
I'm running Reactor>Docker>Synology NAS
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ZwaveJSUI - RGBWW BULB - Warm/Cold White interfered with RGB settings - Bulb doesn't change color if in WarmWhite state.040 = L Bulb Ball 1 Z-RGBW2
036 = R3 Bulb Roof 1 HKZW-RGB01
033 = R3 Bulb Wall 1 A-ZWA002
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