Seems to be working perfectly. Thanks! Should have thought of that myself.
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If you’re like me and still running HABridge to control your devices locally via Alexa, you might need to tweak your endpoints to call Reactor via HTTP. Here’s the best way to do it, IMO:
Insert the Reactor Canonical ID (e.g., zwavejs>71-1) into the MapID field, but make sure it’s URL-encoded like this: zwavejs%3E71-1.
Then, configure these endpoints as needed:
On: http://[ReactorIP]:8111/api/v1/entity/${device.mapId}/perform/power_switch.on
Off: http://[ReactorIP]:8111/api/v1/entity/${device.mapId}/perform/power_switch.off
Dim:
For lights: http://[ReactorIP]:8111/api/v1/entity/${device.mapId}/perform/dimming.set?level=${intensity.decimal_percent}
For roller shutters: http://[ReactorIP]:8111/api/v1/entity/${device.mapId}/perform/position.set?value=${intensity.decimal_percent}
Color: http://[ReactorIP]:8111/api/v1/entity/${device.mapId}/perform/rgb_color.set_rgb?red=${color.r}&green=${color.g}&blue=${color.b}
Just replace [ReactorIP] with your actual IP address. By using these placeholders, you can standardize your endpoints across all devices, making maintenance easier.
This setup works with any device mapped under MSR, regardless of the controller (ZWaveJS, Vera, HASS, OpenSprinkler, virtual, MQTT, DynamicEntities, etc.). If you need different calls, just go to the entities, get the action and parameters, and adjust accordingly. Enjoy super fast access to your devices via Alexa!
If you're migrating from Vera, the endpoints are (URL-encoded) in a file called device.db, in JSON format, under your config. You'd write a script to align the new endpoints to the new one, if you prefer to do it automatically. YMMV.
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.
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I have tried numerous ways to define a recurring annual period, for example from December 15 to January 15. No matter which method I try - after and before, between, after and/not after, Reactor reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date. Some constructs also seem to cause Reactor to hang, timeout and restart. For example "before January 15 is evaluated as true, but reports "waiting for invalid date, invalid date". Does anyone have a tried and true method to define a recurring annual period? I think the "between" that I used successfully in the past may have broken with one of the updates.
Good evening all,
For about the past week or so, I've been having problems with a specific rule in my home automation that controls when my home goes from an Away mode to Home mode. One of the conditions it checked for was my alarm panel, when it changed from Armed Away to Disarmed. There seems to have been a firmware update on the panel that added an intermittent step of "pending", and I can't say for certain it happens 100% of the time.
Is there a way to write a condition that so it changes from one condition, to the next, and then another condition? As in, Home alarm changes from armed_away to pending to disarmed.
Thanks.
No idea how easy this would be. During my migration away from Z-wave I've been replacing the Z-wave devices with Sonoff which has broken some of my automations.
Any chance of a 'Test Reaction' function to call out which ones are broken because an entity no longer exists? Without actually running the reaction?
Or does this exist already and I'm just not aware of how to do it? Obviously I can see entities that are no longer available, but not quite what I'm looking for.
I guess it's something of an edge case so no huge issue.
TIA!
C
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
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
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
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
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
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handler@toggledbits Thanks, this is great. I will try it out!
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handlerAdditional question:
- The entity value is not changing, because the value doesn't change, right? Or is the event not even triggered? (I don't see the entity flashing in the entities section, when I try to trigger the event)
- Can I add attribute metadata to the rule trigger to see if there was an update?
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Reset attribute value of entity in event handlerHi all,
I have successfully created an event handler for the interactive notifications of HA, see: https://smarthome.community/post/15414
However, I'm not able to reset the value that the event has set.
This is my event handler:
event_targets: interactive_notification_responses: name: "Handle notification responses" capabilities: - string_sensor events: - event: event_type: mobile_app_notification_action data: action: "LAUNDRY_INSIDE" response: "string_sensor.value": expr: "event.data.action"I have only 1 button in the notification, so the value is the same every time.
Because of this my rule does not trigger a second time, because the value is the same.
My solution was to use an entity action and do a set_attribute to reset the value of the entity. But this does not seem to work.
This is my set reaction part:
Shouldn't this be working? And maybe there is a smarter way?
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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rulesThanks for your answer, that's basically the same way I use the rule sets.
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Organizing/ structuring rule sets and rulesHi 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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Feature Request: Sublevel in RulesetsHi @toggledbits
Would you please consider adding an extra sublevel in the rulesets?
I have grouped my rules in rooms/ areas. This works great for me, but I would also like to group rules for the same functionality (in a room). This would make the rules easier to find and name.
Please let me know if this is an option. Thanks!
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Switching between z-wave software controllersHi all,
Is it easy to switch between z-wave software controllers? I have a UZB and I want to update the firmware through Z-Way, but in the end I would like to use Z-Wave JS UI.
Can I just turn the controller off and switch to another one?
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Docker container for Z-Way@PerH said in Docker container for Z-Way:
Its been a while since i've used this now, I've moved to Z-WaveJS..
Socat - so you have a remote connection to your z-stick? Should work fine with this contatiner, just set it up in the docker-compose file.
That said, I would ask on the z-way forum, you may find a more current z-way version in a newer container..All settings should be persistent if volumes are set up correctly.
I don't have a remote connection yet, I'm preparing for the migration from Vera to Z-way. I wanted to nuke the Vera and use it as a central hub for my Z-way stick.
From what I've read, Socat will not work in combination with docker. The Ser2net/ Socat solution is giving me a headache with the preparation alone. It is difficult with docker, so it seems, unless you create a docker specifically with Socat in it. But creating docker images is not a skill I possess (yet).
Unlike others in this thread, I'm a fan of docker containers. (Easier to maintain, troubleshoot and keep up-to-date). But Socat is a show stopper for now.
I think I'll ditch the Vera Edge and Z-way docker. I'm looking at using a Raspberry Pi with USB/IP (can't easily install this on the Vera) now instead of Ser2net/Socat and running the Z-way addon for HA.
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Docker container for Z-Way@PerH Does your docker image support Socat? And, if so, is the configuration persistent after a container update?
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Expressions page showing old dataThe only lead I have is the disk space, I don't know what else it could be, although I cleared some space as soon as I got the notification.
I don't know what to do to further analyze this. I will monitor this and see if it happens again.
It would be helpful if Reactor could save the expressions to the json more often.
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Expressions page showing old dataThe exit procedure seems fine.
[latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.159Z <Rule:INFO> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) starting evaluation; because expression-state-changed GlobalExpression#gTempOutside [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.159Z <Rule:INFO> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) starting evaluation; because expression-state-changed GlobalExpression#gTempOutside [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.160Z <Rule:INFO> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) trigger evaluation result is true (previously true) [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.160Z <Rule:INFO> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (true); rule state remains SET [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.161Z <Rule:INFO> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) trigger evaluation result is false (previously false) [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.162Z <Rule:INFO> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.162Z <Rule:INFO> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) evaluation complete [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:47:59.162Z <Rule:INFO> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) evaluation complete [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.032Z <app:NOTICE> Shutdown signal (SIGTERM) received. Stopping Reaction Engine... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.034Z <app:NOTICE> Closing APIs... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.035Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: closing... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.036Z <httpapi:NOTICE> HTTP API closing... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.036Z <app:NOTICE> Stopping Engine... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.039Z <Rule:NOTICE> Motor op lader (rule-liot7yyg in Garage) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.039Z <Rule:NOTICE> Zonnescherm auto IN (rule-lipp4379 in Tuin) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.039Z <Rule:NOTICE> Zonnescherm auto UIT (rule-lhdixs68 in Tuin) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.039Z <Rule:NOTICE> Disk space low (rule-lgyxocj5 in System) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.039Z <Rule:NOTICE> Niels at home (rule-lg7vjm7n in Proximity) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.042Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at home (rule-lg7v960f in Proximity) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.043Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa driving (rule-lg7v6f3w in Proximity) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.043Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at work (rule-lg7v3cm6 in Proximity) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.043Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at S&K (rule-lg7uxvzo in Proximity) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.088Z <Rule:NOTICE> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.088Z <Rule:NOTICE> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.088Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: server closed [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.089Z <httpapi:INFO> HTTP server closed. [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.090Z <Rule:NOTICE> Motor op lader (rule-liot7yyg in Garage) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.091Z <Rule:NOTICE> Zonnescherm auto IN (rule-lipp4379 in Tuin) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.094Z <Rule:NOTICE> Zonnescherm auto UIT (rule-lhdixs68 in Tuin) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.095Z <Rule:NOTICE> Disk space low (rule-lgyxocj5 in System) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.096Z <Rule:NOTICE> Niels at home (rule-lg7vjm7n in Proximity) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.097Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at home (rule-lg7v960f in Proximity) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.098Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa driving (rule-lg7v6f3w in Proximity) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.099Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at work (rule-lg7v3cm6 in Proximity) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.100Z <Rule:NOTICE> Tessa at S&K (rule-lg7uxvzo in Proximity) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.101Z <Rule:NOTICE> Windows open (rule-grp1myo029o in Weer) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.102Z <Rule:NOTICE> Windows closed (rule-grp1mznck5b in Weer) stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.111Z <Engine:NOTICE> [Engine]Engine#1 has shut down. [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.112Z <app:NOTICE> Closing Structure... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.112Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure#1 Stopping controllers... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.112Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 stopping VeraController#openluup [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.113Z <Controller:NOTICE> VeraController#openluup stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.117Z <Controller:ERR> Controller VeraController#openluup is off-line! [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.952Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 stopping HassController#hass [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.952Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.965Z <wsapi:WARN> client close from unknown connection? "192.168.1.174#25" [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.966Z <wsapi:WARN> client close from unknown connection? "192.168.1.174#24" [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.983Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket closing, 1000 [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.985Z <Controller:NOTICE> HassController#hass stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:07.988Z <Controller:ERR> Controller HassController#hass is off-line! [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.266Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 stopping DynamicGroupController#groups [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.266Z <DynamicGroupController:null> DynamicGroupController#groups stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.267Z <Controller:NOTICE> DynamicGroupController#groups stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.268Z <Controller:ERR> Controller DynamicGroupController#groups is off-line! [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.279Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 stopping SystemController#reactor_system [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.279Z <Controller:NOTICE> SystemController#reactor_system stopping [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.281Z <Controller:ERR> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is off-line! [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.288Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 Final data sync... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.288Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#rulesets [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.289Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#rules [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.289Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#reactions [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.289Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#states [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.316Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#default [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.316Z <default:INFO> Closing container Container#expressions [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.318Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure Structure#1 stopped [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.319Z <app:NOTICE> Stopping timers... [latest-23114]2023-06-21T17:48:09.319Z <app:NOTICE> Shutdown complete, process ID 1I did get a disk space notification, so my first thought was that that was the problem. But I believe there always was enough space, more than 1 gb at least.
Does Reactor do something more then only give a signal that disk space is low? Maybe save the cache or something in that line.
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Expressions page showing old dataIs it possible to save it more often? I have to figure out what's causing the loss of the expressions, but for now my backup is "worthless". Now, the only way to get the expressions back would be a restore of a full backup of the docker files, but then I will potentially lose other changes.
Any idea why I only lose the expressions and not other changes that are done later?
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Expressions page showing old dataSorry for posting in the other thread, but the problem didn't seem to only be applicable to the add-on.
You don't understand the problem fully. The browser was not the problem. The changes were gone in the expressions.json.
After doing the changes again in the browser, the changes were still not visible in the json. Only after a restart, they were visible in the json.
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Expressions page showing old dataHi @toggledbits,
I seem to be having the same issue. Is it possible that the expressions are only saved to the json when a restart of Reactor is done?
Today I looked in Reactor and saw an old version of all my expressions. My latest changes were gone (done a few days ago). Reactor didn't have a restart in the meantime.
When I recreated all new expressions and looked in expression.json, the new expressions weren't there (yet). After I did a restart of Reactor, the changes were visible.
Which moments are the expressions saved to the file?
I'm not running the add-on, but the docker. I do not have the latest update yet (latest-23114-e4060aae)
This doesn't explain why my changes were gone, but I'm still tinkering about that. Maybe my backup messes something up.
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Can't post screen shots here now?Same here.
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Testing reaction set global expressionOk, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing this up! Maybe make a note in the documentation? Most kind of expect all the actions to run when you click the "Run action now" button on the Reaction, I think. And it's even more confusing if it's also dependent on the rule being active or not.
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Testing reaction set global expression@toggledbits But why do other actions DO run, when I hit "Run action now", even though my rule is deactivated.
I have an "entity action" next to the "set variable" in the same reaction and this action does fire.
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Testing reaction set global expressionSorry, can't upload a screenshot. The website gives me a connection error when I try to add it.
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Testing reaction set global expressionHi @toggledbits
Just a quick question. I noticed that I can't test a "set variable" action when the rule is not active. I wanted to set a global expression in a reaction and wanted to test it by pushing the "Run action now" button in the border of the reaction, but it didn't do anything. Only when I activated the rule, the button worked.
Is this a bug or is this by design?
I'm running the latest docker build:
latest-23114-e4060aae