So I have a strange one here and I don't know if there is a way to do this or not. I have blue iris triggering a vera virtual switch when AI detects motion on my front porch. Reactor then triggers the light, this works perfect. I want to shut the light off when there is no motion, this also works perfect. What I am having am issue with is when someone turns on the light manually I don't want it to turn off after motion is detected. Example: we are expecting a pizza so we turn on the porch light. 5 min later amazon delivers a package, trips motion. 10 min later Reactor is going to turn off the light. If I manually turn on the light before motion is detected I do not want reactor to turn it off. For the life of me I cannot figure the logic out. Does anyone have any ideas?
sethlampman
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Have reactor shut off a light with no motion unless I turned it on manually -
Help with controlling Hue lights through Home Assistant & Reactor@toggledbits thanks that works great (the workaround). One slight typo though, you have script instead of scene in the graphic.
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Help with controlling Hue lights through Home Assistant & ReactorOk so I am trying to do something that I think is simple but apparently not LOL. I want to turn a hue light on yellow when a condition is met. Basically we have really high humidity here in the evenings. When the garage door is open and the humidity is over 60% then I want my hue garage door light to be yellow. If below 60% then I want it to be white. This is simple enough.
Here is my problem. I cannot find anyway to control the hue color directly from Reactor. There is an x_hass_light.turn_on function but it doesn't do anything when you define a color.
No problem, I will create a scene in Home Assistant and set my color there, then call that scene from Reactor. (Not elegant, but will work). Created a scene, works great and sets my color the way I want it.
I go back into Reactor -> Entity Action -> Garage Door Yellow (scene name) and then there is this annoying little box that requires a selection when there is no selection available. There is nothing for me to select and I cannot save because it is expecting input.
Can anyone give me some advice on how to accomplish what I am trying to do? I would like a way to do this 100% in reactor (set the light to a color of my choosing) but I am OK with a workaround by using HA scenes. I just need it to work without asking me for a section input that isnt there.
My next step is to create a virtual switch in Vera, then create a an automation in HA that will trigger my color. Then use Reactor to trigger the virtual switch... I think that is kludge and will likely confuse me months later when I go to edit a rule and forget this workflow...
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Issue with yellow triangles next to rulesHere is the crazy thing. The sensor values were stale, I changed a value in the rule and then saved it. Now there isn't an exclamation point and the sensor value is updating as well. Almost like it was stuck after the upgrade?
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Issue with yellow triangles next to rulesSo I upgraded to the latest docker version of Reactor. Now I notice that some of my rules have a yellow triangle before them. I hovered over it but I don't see any explanation as to why. I searched the docs and the forum but I can't figure out why it is showing. If I go into the rule I don't see any errors. Any ideas?
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Expressions in MQTT Payload?OK I dont know what happened. I tried it again and it worked??? SMH...
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Expressions in MQTT Payload?I'm trying to send a video overlay to BlueIris. BI is receving my MQTT Message and it is writing it to a Macro but it doesnt appear that I can use expressions in MQTT Payloads with Reactor?
Output from BlueIris (no expression data):
I figured a workaround by using HTTP GET but I just wondered if I am doing something wrong with getting expression variables to work with MQTT.
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Disk Warning on Multisystem ReactorThanks that was it. For some reason Home Assistant was configured with Debug logging on and the log file was 267GB on a 512gb drive. SMH...
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Disk Warning on Multisystem ReactorFor the life of me I cannot figure this out.
when I run the du -hs command (from the host) for the mapped volume I get 25M
(/home/seth/ReactorConfig maps to /var/reactor)Inside the container I ran du -hs for each of the folders that the ui is complaining about
/opt/reactor = 71.2M
/var/reactor/storage = 2.9M
/var/reactor/logs = 17.6MIf I run df on the docker container I get this. Disk space is not critical
What gives?
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Home Assistant Script, Reaction requires seclection that isnt thereThanks! I got the scripts working now so I have a way, although ugly as it is.. I did setup MQTT in reactor but the documentation has me very confused. I don't know how to create a template or anything like that. I basically just want to be able to publish a value that I specify to aqualinkd/Filter_Pump/RPM/set. Is there an easy way to make that work?
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Home Assistant Script, Reaction requires seclection that isnt thereI'm trying to create some automation so I can control my pool variable speed pump from reactor rather than iAqualink (which sucks). My controller is MQTT enabled so I created several scripts for my desired speeds. (I know reactor has MQTT ability but honestly I read the docs and could not make much sense of it and since I already have it set up in Home Assistant, I figured I would just leverage that instead)
So I created all of my scripts and tested them, they worked perfectly. The I created a rule in reactor and set running the script as the action. The problem is that reactor is telling me that I have to make a selection. I try to click the dropdown and there is nothing to select. I cant save the rule, the only option is to exit.
Here is my script in Home Assistant. Any advice on how to get this to work? If I am looking at this the wrong way I am open to suggestions (I would rather be able to call a specific action and specify a speed value but I cannot figure out how to do that). Thanks in advance.