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CatmanV2C
I'm sure this has been asked, and answered, but damned if I can figure it out Use case: I have a rear garden with lights. A door from the kitchen into the garden and a door from the garage. Currently if I open the kitchen door the lights come on (yay) and a 3 minute delay starts. After 3 minutes, no matter what else happens, the lights go off (Boo! But also yay!) What I would like is for the 3 minute delay until the lights go off to start from the latest door open event. That is, if I'm going from kitchen to garage, and back again, the lights stay on until there's three minutes of no activity. I've tried 'hacking' with a virtual switch, but can't seem to stop the delay. Any pointers? TIA C
Multi-System Reactor
Genuinely impressed with Zigbee and HA / Reactor
CatmanV2C
Just for the record, in case anyone is following, I'm really rather impressed. I have installed one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B6P22YJC?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 That's connected (physically) to the VM running on my Synology, with a 2m USB extension. The same host also runs Openluup, Mosquito, HA Bridge. Yesterday I installed Zigbee2mqtt. That was a bit of a PITA but mostly because of ports and permissions. Once up and running, and the correct boxes ticked, immediately visible in Home Assistant via the MQTT integration, and thence into Reactor I've only got two devices. I bought the cheapest sensor I could find, which is a door sensor. Dead easy to add to ZIgbee2mqtt and again, immediately visible in HA. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FPQLWRW1?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title The dongle is on the top floor of the house, and I wanted the sensor on the back door (just about as far apart as it's possible to get short of going into the garage) When I moved the sensor downstairs it dropped out pretty instantly (which wasn't a huge surprise) so quick bit of research found out that smart plugs will act as routers so... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FDQDPGBB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title Took me about 30 seconds to connect. Updated the name. Instantly visible in Reactor with the new name pushed over from Zigbee2mqtt. And lo, the door sensor now has a signal of 140 and works as far as I can tell perfectly and instantly (unlike my z-wave one). A few more of those will be purchased and used to replace the Tuya wifi cloud devices and the (continually failing) Z-wave plugs (yeah, they were TKB so....) Commended to the house. Thanks for everyone that got me on the right lines. C
Zigbee
Time series documentation
tunnusT
Is the current manual (incl. examples) up to date with how retention value is handled in time series configuration? Referring to this post
Multi-System Reactor
Zigbee2mqtt installed! sytemctl not happy :(
CatmanV2C
Hello oh great ones. After a couple of hours messing with ports and permissions I have Zigbee2mqtt installed and running on my virtual pi Can connect to the front end and everything Odd one though, simply cannot get systemctl to work and the error is, well, unhelpful. The service file is this: [Unit] Description=zigbee2mqtt After=network.target [Service] Environment=NODE_ENV=production Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node index.js WorkingDirectory=/opt/zigbee2mqtt StandardOutput=inherit # Or use StandardOutput=null if you don't want Zigbee2MQTT messages filling syslog, for more options see systemd.exec(5) StandardError=inherit WatchdogSec=10s Restart=always RestartSec=10s User=pi [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Straight out of the docs with the change to point to my local node install (which we know works as it's the same as the very fine Reactor is using. Running manually pnpm start in /opt/zigbee2mqtt works fine However: catman@openluup:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo systemctl start zigbee2mqtt.service Job for zigbee2mqtt.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status zigbee2mqtt.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Which I have catman@openluup:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo systemctl status zigbee2mqtt.service ● zigbee2mqtt.service - zigbee2mqtt Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/zigbee2mqtt.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-12-16 12:32:42 GMT; 4s ago Process: 3093 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node index.js (code=exited, status=217/USER) Main PID: 3093 (code=exited, status=217/USER) and -- A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has begun execution. -- -- The job identifier is 17477. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[3178]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[3178]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/local/bin/node: No such process -- Subject: Process /usr/local/bin/node could not be executed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The process /usr/local/bin/node could not be executed and failed. -- -- The error number returned by this process is ERRNO. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER -- Subject: Unit process exited -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit zigbee2mqtt.service has exited. -- -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 217. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: zigbee2mqtt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit zigbee2mqtt.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'. Dec 16 12:35:16 openluup systemd[1]: Failed to start zigbee2mqtt. -- Subject: A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A start job for unit zigbee2mqtt.service has finished with a failure. Which strikes me as very odd. Any blindingly obvious things I'm missing? TIA! C
Zigbee
Any thoughts on which is better
CatmanV2C
Obviously a quiet forum, but perhaps it's time I'm looking at rolling Zigbee into my system, in large part for the Aqara FP300 presence sensors which seem to finally provide a solution to if the wasp is actually in the box. My current set up is as follows: One Debian VM on Synology NAS running: Z-wave Server Open Luup Multi system reactor HA bridge Mosquito MQQT broker This machine has a UZB Z-wave stick connected via the USB port on the NAS Another HAOS VM on the same NAS running HAOS I've got some older Z-wave stuff that I keep around until it fails. I have some Tuya stuff integrated in HA My thought was to get either a SMLIGHT SLZB-06M or an Aqara Hub M2 Integrate them via Zigbee2MQQT (running on the Debian machine) and then expose them in HA so I can continue to automate in MSR. Thoughts on which of those devices wold be preferable long term. Both are POE capable which is good. It also appears I could add a USB dongle to the NAS and expose it to the HAOS machine. Any thoughts from the assembled experts here? TIA C
Zigbee
Single protocol?
CatmanV2C
Another question to the hive mind. Prompted by the fact that I lost yet another z-wave device over the weekend due to a power issue. It looks like z-way server is reporting another device failed (although it's working fine) and message queue is far too long IMHO. Also the failed device has been removed in the expert interface, but still there in the 'normal' one. Sigh. Currently I have z-wave, Tuya, thinking about Zigbee.... Does anyone use one single protocol for everything? Right now I'm feeling that as the z-wave stuff dies, I'm just gonna replace it with something else.... C
General Discussion
HDMI oddness
CatmanV2C
Not really Smart Home stuff, but going to ask as we have smart people... Bear with me on this one. Asking here because of the font of knowledge! For many eek years I have had a Virgin V6 box and a Raspberry Pi running Kodi connected to my TV through a cheap *** HDMI switch. It all worked beautifully but the absolutely critical thing was that the TV remote passed the signals back to the Pi to allow remote control of Kodi. Couple of changes of late: Installed a soundbar on the TV using the ARC (audio return channel). That then turns the soundbar on and off when the TV turns on and off and the TV volume control controls the soundbar volume direct. Everything continues to work Upgraded the software of the Tivo box to Virgin 360. This is literally software only. You get sent a snacky new Bluetooth remote hit 'upgrade' on the screen and off it goes. Now, things are not playing well. Typically when I turn on to watch Kodi the soundbar comes on (as it should) but the TV either puts out sound through its own speakers and the soundbar, or just the soundbar. It's not possible to control the volume of the soundbar through the TV. Also it's not longer possible to control Kodi using the TV remote. If I turn the TV360 box off, i.e. power it down, before turning on to watch Kodi, everything is fine. This makes little to no sense to me. My assumption is that the cheap *** HDMI switch is getting something from the TV360 connection that it didn't used to get when the software was Tivo and that's screwing up the HDMI communications. I'm upgrading the switch to something a little less chap, but wondered if anyone could validate my theory at all? TIA C
General Discussion
Reactor Loading Screen Safari
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Multi-System Reactor
Constraints states visually do not match actual
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Oh the joy of pairing
CatmanV2C
When I remember the old days Just added a new Tuya plug (OK so it's cloud) Start to finish, visible in HA and MSR < 30 seconds... C
Vera
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 & ZBT-2
therealdbT
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Hardware
[MSR] Feature request: For Each action on arrays/groups
therealdbT
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Multi-System Reactor
[Solved] Error: Command timeout
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at _ClientAPI._commandTimeout (http://192.168.1.100:8111/client/ClientAPI.js:807:179 Seeing this randomly when returning to open browser tab after being away awhile. Once, maybe twice a day. "What did you do to trigger it?" Literally nothing, just walked away and returned and there it was. Actions taken in reasonably close proximity to this particular instance of it popping up: I'd restarted the MSR container in Portainer. I'll try to grab some logs here shortly.
Multi-System Reactor
Issue with MSR UI becoming unresponsive
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I'm having an issue with MSR's UI being very unresponsive. It started happening a couple days ago and I didn't make any changes that would have caused this except adding some meross lan devices in HA. When I go into an entity action and use the search functionality, it usually will start filtering and then get to a place after a few letters are entered where it will take 30 seconds or more (sometimes minutes) for the UI to show what I am typing. During this time MSR ui is completely unresponsive. I've tried multiple browsers and multiple computers. HA and MSR are both deployed in docker. I have run HTOP on the host and when the problem happens there are no CPU/Memory spikes at all. From a functionality standpoint MSR is working perfectly. This seems to be an UI issue only. Do i need to ditch Docker and run MSR on a Proxmox VM? I have both stand alone Docker and Proxmox environments. I dont mind doing that I just want to be able to use the UI again... Installation method Home Assistant Container Core 2025.7.3 Frontend 20250702.3 nothing crazy in the logs except some openweather map stuff that doesn't make any sense as it is working fine in MSR Any help would be greatly appreciated Reactor latest-25328-b2ed1365 app 25328 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.843Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-25328-b2ed1365 starting on v24.11.1 /usr/local/bin/node [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #161-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 22 14:25:40 UTC 2025; locale (undefined) [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.844Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.865Z <app:null> Resolved timezone=America/New_York, environment TZ=America/New_York; offset minutes from UTC=-300 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <default:null> Module i18n v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.867Z <app:null> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Loaded locale en-US for en-US [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.879Z <app:null> Local date/time using configured timezone and locale formatting is "11/30/2025, 3:01:53 PM" [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.889Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v25326 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.890Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v24312 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.904Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.923Z <Timer:null> Module Timer v25279 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.924Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v25314 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.927Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v25251 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.929Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v25253 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.930Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v25318 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v25283 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.937Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.942Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v25258 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.953Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.956Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.958Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v25292 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.959Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.964Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.972Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v25328 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 24138 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:53.994Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v25141 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:01:54.179Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v25325 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.797Z <OWMWeatherController:null> Module OWMWeatherController v25268 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.800Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v25323 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:13.807Z <MQTTController:null> Module MQTTController v22092 [latest-25328]2025-11-30T20:02:20.630Z <OWMWeatherController:CRIT> FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: [-] FetchError: request to https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=xxxxxxxxxxx&lon=-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&appid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&units=standard&_r=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxfailed, reason: at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/opt/reactor/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1501:11) at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:508:28) at ClientRequest.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorEvent (node:_http_client:108:11) at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:575:5) at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:508:28) at TLSSocket.emit (node:domain:489:12) at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8) at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:89:21
Multi-System Reactor
Date/time condition
tunnusT
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Is there a way to turn this section (image in post) off?
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Comments & Feedback
Device log?
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@toggledbits is there a log that will show me what rule is turning on a specific device? I've got a switch that has been kicking on at 2200 ET for several nights now and the reactor.log doesn't have a thing in it that I can see on a device level (it being more rules-based).
Multi-System Reactor
Midnight crossing not working in date/time condition (build 25325)
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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.
Multi-System Reactor
[Solved] Local expression in Rule does not evaluate as they used to do
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  • Openluup - verabridge can not load devices.
    parkercP parkerc

    Just wanted to add that my Vera Bridges stopped working, I can’t be sure exactly when, maybe after a reboot ? But wanted to share here as they were working fine..

    850065d5-00f8-44e6-b75d-5ae9a21a272d-image.png

    The Variable for the RemotePort on both is /port_3480

    Updating to :3480 fixes it..

    @akbooer - not sure why this worked first and then stopped..

    Vera Bridge

  • Why different types of Triggers within openLuup & ALTUI
    parkercP parkerc

    Many thanks @akbooer

    QQ: Should I expect to see a Trigger tile in a scene, when looking at it under the Console view (to avoid thinking there isn’t one) ? Similar to that I can see a tile under the Header and Timer options in other scenes I’ve created?

    openLuup

  • Why different types of Triggers within openLuup & ALTUI
    parkercP parkerc

    Thanks @akbooer - to avoid confusion and to help me learn/concentrate on just your openLuup (Console) setup. How do I remove (disable ?) ALTUI so I just have the one interface?

    openLuup

  • Why different types of Triggers within openLuup & ALTUI
    parkercP parkerc

    FYI, if I go back via the console screen to edit the same scene, it actually still doesn’t show the trigger(s). A bug ?

    image.png

    openLuup

  • Why different types of Triggers within openLuup & ALTUI
    parkercP parkerc

    Sorry if this has been covered before, just curious why triggers in openluup are not consistent..

    I looked at a scene i’d created a while back via ALTUI using the Console view and noticed it didn’t show any Triggers, which was strange as it was my main front door event 🙂 . So I added the door tripped trigger again, but I’ve just noticed I now how two tiggers using this view.

    25bfe00a-d63e-4dc1-a501-23e779c64379-image.png

    In ALTUI it shows this.

    9b430cc4-49be-4276-ad36-d1dfdaa1ca47-image.png

    openLuup

  • OpenLuup : Loading Global Modules
    parkercP parkerc

    Thanks @akbooer,

    OK to confirm, my current xxpushover.lua module has mainly global functions e.g.

    function push_specific(apptoken, title, device, message, priority, url, urltitle)
    	local status = https.request ( "https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json" , "token="..apptoken.."&user="..usertoken.."&device="..device.."&message="..message.."&title="..title.."&priority="..priority.."&timestamp="..os.time().."&url="..url.."&url_title="..urltitle)
    
    luup.log(" <<<< - xxpushover module loaded - >>>>> ")
    
    

    I should change these to local functions, and add the return table to the end..

    local function push_specific(apptoken, title, device, message, priority, url, urltitle)
    	local status = https.request ( "https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json" , "token="..apptoken.."&user="..usertoken.."&device="..device.."&message="..message.."&title="..title.."&priority="..priority.."&timestamp="..os.time().."&url="..url.."&url_title="..urltitle)
    
    return {
      push_file = push_file,
      push_basic = push_basic,
      push_link = push_link,
      push_html = push_html,
      push_mono = push_mono,
      push_specific = push_specific,
    }
    
    luup.log(" <<<< - xxpushover module loaded - >>>>> ")
    
    
    openLuup

  • OpenLuup : Loading Global Modules
    parkercP parkerc

    It’s been a while since I looked at openLuup as it had been running nicely and quietly in the background doing some basic tasks. With my VeraPlus looking like it’s finally succumbing to old age, I want to shift a number of the global module I have over to openLuup.

    To do this, I have added the files (example would be xxpushover.lua to the cmh-ludl folder and the following to the startup

    require “xxpushover”

    The xxpushover.lua file itself starts with the following..

    module("xxpushover", package.seeall)

    And I always have a line in these files to allow me to check it’s been read in the start up related logs, which in this case it is..

    The challenge I’m having is that when I try to call any of the functions within the module, it returns the following error..

    "[string "ALTUI - LuaRunHandler"]:1: attempt to index global 'xxpushover' (a nil value)”

    I’m no doubt missing something obvious, can anyone help me find out what it is ? Many thanks

    openLuup

  • Console view: - No Live refreshes via :3480/console?page=devices
    parkercP parkerc

    Hi @akbooer how can I help you ‘develop’ the console UI ?

    As you mentioned AJAX-Style calls earlier, which openLuup files and associated programming language can I look into ?

    openLuup

  • Console view: - No Live refreshes via :3480/console?page=devices
    parkercP parkerc

    Thanks @akbooer , I’ll make those updates..

    For me, the console is a great little compact dashboard, which for sensors provides some nice addional information.

    If I can help/test anything let me know.

    If/when you have time, it’lll be nice if the console could have its own Favicon assigned (http://www.maxi-pedia.com/Favicon+how+to+create) 🙂

    openLuup

  • Console view: - No Live refreshes via :3480/console?page=devices
    parkercP parkerc

    That’s great news, many thanks @akbooer (ALTUI never worked properly on my iPad, so It’s nice to know there are options) and I love the simplicity of the console...

    As I’m running the openLuup docker instance (@vwout ) how do I benefit from this recent update, are there specific file I can update ?

    Will console become the default UI now, rather than ALTUI..(how best do we switch)?

    Also not sure if you are aware, but the ‘bypass’ option on the console view appears as a power symbol (example below)..

    CC460096-8646-45C4-A30D-1D399C1A2836.jpeg

    openLuup

  • Console view: - No Live refreshes via :3480/console?page=devices
    parkercP parkerc

    Hi @akbooer

    Just bringing this over as suggested..

    I’ve started to use the console view a lot more, mainly for it’s look and simplicity , but I noticed it does not do any live updates compared to ALTUI, you have to do a full browser reload. Is that by design, or is mine not working?

    Also if I want to go strait to the console view, rather than into ALTUI, I recall seeing something abut altering that in the guide by for the life of me I can’t find it. Is it possible to do, if so how would I do that..

    You suggested this was something you were looking at ? Also you said You don't need a "full browser reload", just click on the display menu item to refresh the screen. - what do you mean by `display menu?

    openLuup

  • DisplayLine1 & 2 - Ability to align text?
    parkercP parkerc

    Hi

    Just wondering if it’s possible when writing plugins to set if the text shown via DisplayLine1/2 can be left, right or centre aligned ?

    openLuup

  • Lua - multi-part/form submission (Paperless-ngx API)
    parkercP parkerc

    Managed to get there in the end, posting here to help others..

    local http = require("socket.http")
    local ltn12 = require("ltn12")
    local mime = require("mime")
    local lfs = require("lfs")
    
    local username = "username,"
    local password = "password"
    
    http.TIMEOUT = 5
    
    local function upload_file ( url, filename, title, correspondent )
        local fileHandle = io.open( filename,"rb")
        local fileContent = fileHandle:read( "*a" )
        fileHandle:close()
    
        local boundary = 'abcd'
    	local cdfd = 'Content-Disposition: form-data; '
    
        local header_b = cdfd.. 'name="document"; filename="' ..filename.. '"\r\nContent-Type: application/pdf'
        local header_c = cdfd.. 'name="title"\r\n\r\n'..title
        local header_d = cdfd.. 'name="correspondent"\r\n\r\n'..correspondent
    
        local MP_b = '--'..boundary..'\r\n'..header_b..'\r\n\r\n'..fileContent..'\r\n'
        local MP_c = '--'..boundary..'\r\n'..header_c..'\r\n'
        local MP_d = '--'..boundary..'\r\n'..header_d..'\r\n'
    
        local MPCombined = MP_b..MP_c..MP_d..'--'..boundary..'--\r\n'
    
        local   response_body = { }
        local   _, code = http.request {
                url = url ,
                method = "POST",
                headers = {    
    						["Authorization"] = "Basic " .. (mime.b64(username ..":" .. password)),
    						["Content-Length"] =  MPCombined:len(),
                            ['Content-Type'] = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=' .. boundary
                             },
                source = ltn12.source.string(MPCombined) ,
                sink = ltn12.sink.table(response_body),
                    }
         return code, table.concat(response_body)
    end
    
     -- local rc,content = upload_file ('http://httpbin.org/post', '/mnt/nas/10.pdf' )
     local rc,content = upload_file ('http://192.168.1.134:8777/api/documents/post_document/', '/mnt/nas/10.pdf', 'Companies House', '12')
     print(rc,content)
    
    Code/Snippet library

  • Lua - multi-part/form submission (Paperless-ngx API)
    parkercP parkerc

    --

    To provide some additional information, the following Curl command sent to httpbin.org/post..

    local url_open = 'curl -u "username:password" -F "title=Companies House File" -F "correspondent=12" -F "document=@/mnt/nas/10.pdf" http://httpbin.org/post'
    local command = io.popen(url_open)
    local result = command:read("*a")
    print(result)
    

    Returns the following, which looks good…

    {
    "args": {}, 
    "data": "", 
    "files": {
    "document": "data:application/octet-stream;base64,JVBERi0xLjMNJeLjz9MNCjIyNyAwIG9iag08PCANL0xpbmVhcml6ZWQgMSANL08gMjMxIA0vSCBbIDIzNTAgODc5IF<REDACTED>T5dDT4+DXN0YXJ0eHJlZg0xNzMNJSVFT0YN"
    }, 
    "form": {
    "correspondent": "12", 
    "title": "Companies House File"
    }, 
    "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Authorization": "Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=", 
    "Content-Length": "66501", 
    "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------1a4c10e40f1ccf8e", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.38.0", 
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-6360dbdb-6bea68142a74a1762e74ca04"
    }, 
    "json": null, 
    "origin": "82.30.93.28", 
    "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
    }
    

    Then using the following Lua code to try and achieve the same thing..

    local http = require("socket.http")
    local ltn12 = require("ltn12")
    local mime = require("mime")
    local lfs = require("lfs")
    
    local username = "username"
    local password = "password"
    
    local httpendpoint = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
    local filepath = "/mnt/nas/10.pdf"
    local file = io.open(filepath, "rb")
    local contents = file:read( "*a" )
    
    -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3508338/what-is-the-boundary-in-multipart-form-data
    
    local boundary = "-----BoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L"
    local send = "--"..boundary..
                "\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; title='Companies House File'\r\n"
    			.."----"..boundary..
    			"\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; document="..filepath..
                "\r\nContent-type: application/pdf".."\r\n"
    			..contents.."\r\n"
    			.."------"..boundary.."--\r\n"
    
    -- Execute request (returns response body, response code, response header)
    
    local resp = {}
    local body, code, headers, status = http.request {
        url = httpendpoint,
        method = 'POST',
        headers = {
    		["Authorization"] = "Basic " .. (mime.b64(username ..":" .. password)),
    		["Content-Length"] = lfs.attributes(filepath, 'size'),
    		['Content-Type'] = "multipart/form-data; boundary="..boundary,
        },
       -- source = ltn12.source.file( io.open(filepath,"rb") ),
       source = ltn12.source.file( io.open(send) ),
        sink = ltn12.sink.table(resp)
    }
    
    print(body, code, headers, status)
    print(table.concat(resp))
    
    if headers then 
        for k,v in pairs(headers) do 
            print(k,v) 
        end
    end
    
    

    I get this returned..

    nil     -------BoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L 
    Content-Disposition: form-data; title='Companies House File' 
    ---------BoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L 
    Content-Disposition: form-data; document=/mnt/nas/10.pdf 
    Content-type: application/pdf 
    %PDF-1.3 %âãÏÓ 
    227 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 231 /H [ 2350 879 ] /L 66081 /E 19639 /N 4 /T 61422 >> endobj xref 227 57 0000000016 00000 n 
    0000001509 00000 n 
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    0000008046 00000 n 
    0000008253 00000 n 
    0000008400 00000 n 
    0000008622 00000 n 
    0000008770 00000 n 
    0000008982 00000 n 
    0000009130 00000 n 
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    0000019315 00000 n 
    0000019394 00000 n 
    0000002350 00000 n 
    0000003207 00000 n 
    trailer << /Size 284 /Info 226 0 R /Encrypt 229 0 R /Root 228 0 R /Prev 61411 /ID[] >> startxref 0 %%EOF 228 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 225 0 R /AcroForm 230 0 R >> endobj 229 0 obj << /Filter /Standard /V 1 /R 2 /O (ÞŒŠþ0á6xƒV\nX¹#'ügã;Èè_Žu®ãªæu_-) /U (Ôeè³~„ˆ¸ÚC»ÒV!Øm: No such file or directory     
    

    It’s clear I’m not getting the content sent in the right format/structure, but I cannot find any guidance that clearly explains how to construct a multi-part form submissions via Lua code..

    Hoping someone can help…

    Code/Snippet library

  • Lua - multi-part/form submission (Paperless-ngx API)
    parkercP parkerc

    Hi

    I’ve been investing a lot of time recently trying to digitise everything I can, and my current adventure is with all my paper documents.

    My tool of choice is Paperless-ngx, which so far is an amazing open source solution, and highly recommended if you’re interest in such a thing…

    Such a move to Paperless would not be complete without some form of integration into Vera / openLuup, and thankfully it has a nice Rest API (https://paperless-ngx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html) I can use. So far I’ve been able to make use the GET requests, to provide document counts etc., but it’s the mutipart/form data piece where I’m struggling..

    The Curl command to upload a document, is as follows

    curl -H "Authorization: Basic Y2hyaXM62tgbsgjunotmeY2hyaXNob3N0aW5n" -F "title=Companies House File 10" -F "correspondent=12" -F "document=@/mnt/nas/10.pdf" http://192.168.102.134:8777/api/documents/post_document/
    

    But, I’d like to know how to do this with Lua code, more just to help me in my Lua learning curve, and what I thought would be reasonably straight forward thing to do, has turned out to be quite the opposite 🙂 Sending a multipart form data submission via http.request, is not as straight forward as I hoped. If anyone has any time to help, I’d appreciate some guidance on what I’m missing with the following, as based on the feedback, it looks like it not seeing the file (which I think I’ve confirmed by trying to sending both the curl and Lua commands to httbin.org ) …

    local http = require("socket.http")
    local ltn12 = require("ltn12")
    local mime = require("mime")
    local lfs = require("lfs")
    
    local username = "username"
    local password = "password"
    
    local httpendpoint = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
    local filepath = "/mnt/nas/10.pdf"
    local file = io.open(filepath, "rb")
    local contents = file:read( "*a" )
    
    -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3508338/what-is-the-boundary-in-multipart-form-data
    
    local boundary = "-----BoundaryePkpFF7tjBAqx29L"
    local send = "--"..boundary..
                "\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; title='Companies House File'\r\n"
    			.."----"..boundary..
    			"\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; document="..filepath..
                "\r\nContent-type: application/pdf".."\r\n"
    			..contents.."\r\n"
    			.."------"..boundary.."--\r\n"
    
    -- Execute request (returns response body, response code, response header)
    
    local resp = {}
    local body, code, headers, status = http.request {
        url = httpendpoint,
        method = 'POST',
        headers = {
    		["Authorization"] = "Basic " .. (mime.b64(username ..":" .. password)),
    		["Content-Length"] = lfs.attributes(filepath, 'size'),
    		['Content-Type'] = "multipart/form-data; boundary="..boundary,
        },
       -- source = ltn12.source.file( io.open(filepath,"rb") ),
       source = ltn12.source.file( io.open(send) ),
        sink = ltn12.sink.table(resp)
    }
    
    print(body, code, headers, status)
    print(table.concat(resp))
    
    if headers then 
        for k,v in pairs(headers) do 
            print(k,v) 
        end
    end
    
    Code/Snippet library

  • Generic support for vacuums
    parkercP parkerc

    Ok, I decided to dive into Robot Vaccum cleaners , so picked up an 2nd hand Roomba e5 and have also got a Deenkee arriving tomorrow (damn you Amazon and your lightening deals !!!)

    Now, I obviously will want to get them both integrated into my Vera/OpenLuup world at some point, and starting with the Roomba, I’ve been trying to get Rest980 up and running (https://github.com/koalazak/rest980)..

    Is anyone already using this to interface with their Roomba ?
    If not, what are people using with their Roombas?

    Plugins

  • Lua : Downloading a file over https
    parkercP parkerc

    Ok, not had much luck with the variations I tried, 😞

    One thing I did notice was that the luasec version on VeraPlus is v0.4 and the openssl version is v1.0.2

    # openssl version
    OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017
    

    Checking the luasec guidance here, https://github.com/brunoos/luasec/wiki/LuaSec-1.0.x , that VeraPlus openSSL version supports luasec v 1.0.x ?

    Without being able to install/use Luarocks, any idea how to upgrade from luasec 0.4 to 1.0.x?

    Code/Snippet library

  • Lua : Downloading a file over https
    parkercP parkerc

    Thanks all..

    Looks like curl is the way to go in situations like this..

    Quick question in regards to being able to do this all in Lua on a VeraPlus, I came across the following bit of code (not sure of the origin, but i can see it specifies a certificate file, is this an option ?

    require("socket")
    local ssl = require("ssl")
    local url = "test"
    
    local params = {
      mode = "client",
      protocol = "tlsv1_2",
      cafile = "/path/to/downloaded/cacert.pem", --<-- added cafile parameters
      verify = "peer", --<-- changed "none" to "peer"
      options = "all",
    }
    
    local conn = socket.tcp()
    conn:connect(url, 443)
    
    -- TLS/SSL initialization
    conn = ssl.wrap(conn, params)
    conn:dohandshake()
    
    conn:send("GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n")
    local line, err = conn:receive()
    print(err or line)
    conn:close()
    
    Code/Snippet library

  • Lua : Downloading a file over https
    parkercP parkerc

    Is the lack of TLS 1.2 with Vera addressed with something like this, not sure how this works, but I assume there is a default if something is not specified ?

    local _, code = https.request{
          url = url,
          protocol = "tlsv1_2",
         }
         ResetData()
         Log(" sent data status: " .. code)
    return code
    
    Code/Snippet library

  • Lua : Downloading a file over https
    parkercP parkerc

    Sorry, yes this is being done on my VeraPlus, with latest ‘production’ firmware 7.31..

    When I run this, i get nothing back not even an error for the https call.

    Print output
    --------DOWNLOAD http---------     
    { status="HTTP/1.1 200 OK", length=129373, headers={ x-content-type-options="nosniff", x-cache="MISS", server-timing="x-cache;desc=MISS, x-tw-cdn;desc=FT", x-served-by="cache-lhr6621-LHR, cache-tw-ZZZ1", content-length="129373", strict-transport-security="max-age=631138519", access-control-allow-origin="*", x-tw-cdn="FT", access-control-expose-headers="Content-Length", content-type="image/jpeg", timing-allow-origin="https://twitter.com, https://mobile.twitter.com", accept-ranges="bytes", connection="close", date="Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:31:56 GMT", cache-control="max-age=604800, must-revalidate", last-modified="Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:57:23 GMT" }, code=200 }     
    --------DOWNLOAD https---------    
    
    
    Code/Snippet library
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