I'm having this same issue with a bare metal install. I assume this fix will be included in a future release? (No hurry. This is just a nice-to-have thing...)
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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'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
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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
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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....
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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
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.
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
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Gradually turn on lights. -
Error After UpgradeKids -
Remember to run "npm run deps" after an update. (I knew I'd regret this post)
Apologies.
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Error After Upgradelogs seems clean on startup. no obvious errors. I can include them here if it's helpful
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Error After UpgradeHello All -
I have a feeling I'm going to regret this as it's probably something dumb. I just did an update to the latest version (reactor-latest-25139-fbd67abc).
My normal process is to stop reactor, take a tar of the ./reactor directory, untar the new version, restart. That's been pretty flawless over the years.
Did that today and am getting the below error. Restarted browser. ctrl-refresh, etc.
Thoughts? (Rules seem to be working OK even though the UI is inop)
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Dynamic Alert Based on Tripped ExpressionThis is fantastic (and I’m sure is covered in the manual - oops). Thank you, @tunnus
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Dynamic Alert Based on Tripped ExpressionHello -
Long time. Hope everyone is good.
I have a rule that looks at a number of temperature sensors around the house. It simply sends a general alert if any of them fall below their threshold. (A basic “House is too cold” alert for when we’re away)
Generally, this has worked well. But I was wondering if there’s a way to make the message somewhat dynamic without creating separate rules for each sensor.
E.g. “House is too cold due to Sump Temperature below 45 degrees.”
I thought I remember reading about someone doing this in the past but couldn’t find it.
Thanks for any ideas!
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Reactor Start - System Crash/RestartIn my exhaustion (anger? Lol), I mistyped. I’m at 22.04.
I do fire an email just before the reboot. I took a break to check emails and wrap up for the day and this is what triggered it for me. If it wasn’t for this, I think I’d still be digging. I send lots of emails, perhaps too many, when different things happen. This is a great idea!
I have to go look at the rule today. I thought I set a variable on reboot which would only allow one event/reboot. At least I thought about this possibility but I clearly missed something.
Thanks for the consoling, gents. I’ve appreciated both of your support over the past year as I’ve slowly moved away from Vera to HASS with Reactor being the central rules engine.
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Reactor Start - System Crash/RestartI could delete these posts but I won't. In short, I'm an idiot.
I remembered I have a rule which reboots my Linux host when my weather station goes in to error. Reactor lives on that host. (sigh)
My fix was to temporarily rename the "reboot" command in the filesystem to something else. Start Reactor (imagine that, no reboot!). Disable the rule. Fix the command back to "reboot" in the FS.
Happy New Year! (ugh)
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Reactor Start - System Crash/RestartSorry for talking to myself. Just trying to relay what I know.
I tried running it manually and got the following:
tbully@homeauto03:~/reactor$ npm run deps npm ERR! Missing script: "deps" npm ERR! npm ERR! To see a list of scripts, run: npm ERR! npm run npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/tbully/.npm/_logs/2022-12-31T01_15_30_113Z-debug-0.log tbully@homeauto03:~/reactor$ NODE_PATH=$(pwd) node app.js Reactor stable-22337-1a0a685f app 22328 configuration from /home/tbully/reactor/config NODE_PATH /home/tbully/reactor [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.631Z <app:null> Reactor build stable-22337-1a0a685f starting on v17.9.0 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.632Z <app:null> Process ID 2239 user/group 1000/1000; bare-metal; platform linux/x64 #62-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 19:54:14 UTC 2022; locale en_CA.UTF-8 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.633Z <app:null> Basedir /home/tbully/reactor; data in /home/tbully/reactor/storage [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.633Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/home/tbully/reactor [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.651Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v22323 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.652Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.709Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.716Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.720Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22314 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.724Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v22323 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.734Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.735Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v21096 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.743Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v21333 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.753Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v22305 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.757Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.759Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v22335 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.763Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.765Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.769Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v22337 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.783Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.845Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:55.846Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v22325 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:56.133Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v22334 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T01:15:57.494Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22306 -
Reactor Start - System Crash/RestartI have the logs but can't find a way to upload them. I don't have permissions to upload a file and if I paste it in here it says the post is too large.
Here's a few pieces:
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.745Z <app:null> Reactor build stable-22337-1a0a685f starting on v17.9.0 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.746Z <app:null> Process ID 7240 user/group 1000/1000; bare-metal; platform linux/x64 #62-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 19:54:14 UTC 2022; locale en_CA.UTF-8 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.746Z <app:null> Basedir /home/tbully/reactor; data in /home/tbully/reactor/storage [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.747Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/home/tbully/reactor [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.750Z <app:INFO> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en_CA.UTF-8 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.761Z <app:INFO> Loaded locale en-US [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.764Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v22323 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.765Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.819Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.827Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.831Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22314 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.835Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v22323 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.847Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.848Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v21096 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.854Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v21333 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.864Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v22305 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.867Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.869Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v22335 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.872Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.873Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.877Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v22337 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.886Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.887Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Structure... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.890Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure#1 plugin ID influx disabled; skipping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.892Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface vera (VeraController) [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.949Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.950Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v22325 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:47.193Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface hass (HassController) [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:47.200Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v22334 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.290Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface reactor_system (SystemController) [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.294Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22306 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.297Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller VeraController#vera [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.298Z <VeraController:NOTICE> VeraController#vera starting... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.304Z <Controller:INFO> VeraController#vera loaded vera capabilities ver 22253 rev 1 format 1 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.341Z <Controller:INFO> VeraController#vera loaded implementation data ver 22280 rev 8 format 1 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.341Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller HassController#hass [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.341Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass starting... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.343Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded hass capabilities ver 22312 rev 2 format 1 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.354Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded implementation data ver 22335 rev 1 format 1 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.354Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.359Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.518Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController: deviceclass room capability sys_group does not provide attribute members [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.518Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController: deviceclass room capability sys_group does not provide attribute empty [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.519Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.520Z <VeraController:NOTICE> VeraController#vera updating capabilities for system entity System#vera>system [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.525Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.34.17:8123/api/websocket [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.529Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.530Z <httpapi:NOTICE> Starting HTTP API v1 22337 on http://192.168.34.:8111 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.533Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.534Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.534Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.539Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules...```[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.745Z Rule:INFO Master Closet Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k28ehz in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.761Z Rule:ERR Rule#rule-grp17k28qlp trigger evaluation failed: [ReferenceError] Can't find entity "vera>device_368" [-]
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.762Z Rule:CRIT ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_368" [-]
ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_368"
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:366:27)
at Predicate._evaluateGroup (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:748:106)
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:354:47)
at Predicate.evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:60:37)
at Rule._evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:875:54)
at async /home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:830:17
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.762Z Rule:INFO Panic Button Battery Low (rule-grp17k28qlp in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state changed ((null)), but rule state remains NULL
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.762Z Rule:INFO Panic Button Battery Low (rule-grp17k28qlp in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Office Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k28znh in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Office Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k28znh in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Door Battery Low (rule-grp17k29vsx in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Door Battery Low (rule-grp17k29vsx in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k2abok in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k2abok in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.763Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Flood Battery Low (rule-grp17k2am7t in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.764Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Flood Battery Low (rule-grp17k2am7t in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.764Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Hall Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k2b0ha in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (true); rule state remains SET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.764Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Hall Motion Battery Low (rule-grp17k2b0ha in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.773Z Rule:ERR Rule#rule-grp17k2iotv trigger evaluation failed: [ReferenceError] Can't find entity "vera>device_543" [-]
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.773Z Rule:CRIT ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_543" [-]
ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_543"
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:366:27)
at Predicate._evaluateGroup (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:748:106)
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:354:47)
at Predicate.evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:60:37)
at Rule._evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:875:54)
at async /home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:830:17
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.773Z Rule:INFO Home Button Battery Low (rule-grp17k2iotv in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state changed ((null)), but rule state remains NULL
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.774Z Rule:INFO Home Button Battery Low (rule-grp17k2iotv in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.774Z Rule:INFO Sump Pump Flood Detected (rule-grp17k301y1 in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.774Z Rule:INFO Sump Pump Flood Detected (rule-grp17k301y1 in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.774Z Rule:INFO Rec Room Flood Detected (rule-grp17k30cm0 in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.774Z Rule:INFO Rec Room Flood Detected (rule-grp17k30cm0 in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Office Flood Detected (rule-grp17k30mqa in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Office Flood Detected (rule-grp17k30mqa in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Laundry Flood Detected (rule-grp17k31kf1 in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Laundry Flood Detected (rule-grp17k31kf1 in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Half-Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k31z13 in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Half-Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k31z13 in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.775Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k327c0 in Flood Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.776Z Rule:INFO Upstairs Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k327c0 in Flood Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.776Z Rule:INFO Garage Tilt Sensor Battery Low (rule-grp17k3frdb in Battery Checks) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.776Z Rule:INFO Garage Tilt Sensor Battery Low (rule-grp17k3frdb in Battery Checks) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.782Z Rule:ERR Rule#rule-grp17k3ui8q trigger evaluation failed: [ReferenceError] Entity Vera (vera>system) has no attribute "x_vera_sys.reloads" [-]
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.782Z Rule:CRIT ReferenceError: Entity Vera (vera>system) has no attribute "x_vera_sys.reloads" [-]
ReferenceError: Entity Vera (vera>system) has no attribute "x_vera_sys.reloads"
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:373:27)
at Predicate._evaluateGroup (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:748:106)
at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:354:47)
at Predicate.evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:60:37)
at Rule._evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:875:54)
at async /home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:830:17
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.782Z Rule:INFO LuupReload (rule-grp17k3ui8q in House Reactor) evaluated; trigger state changed ((null)), but rule state remains NULL
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.783Z Rule:INFO LuupReload (rule-grp17k3ui8q in House Reactor) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.783Z Rule:INFO VeraSecureTriggered (rule-grplg89w7x in House Reactor) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.783Z Rule:INFO VeraSecureTriggered (rule-grplg89w7x in House Reactor) started
[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.783Z Rule:INFO TurnOffPantryLights (rule-grplt8fpma in Basement Reactor) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.902Z <Rule:INFO> Garage Lights Off - After Auto On (rule-grpp2yoxfg in Garage Reactor) evaluated; trigger state unchanged (false); rule state remains RESET [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.902Z <Rule:INFO> Garage Reactor (rule-492 in Garage Reactor) evaluation complete [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.902Z <Rule:INFO> Garage Lights Off - After Auto On (rule-grpp2yoxfg in Garage Reactor) evaluation complete [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.907Z <httpapi:NOTICE> httpapi: listening [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.921Z <app:NOTICE> Starting WSAPI... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.922Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: starting version 22320 [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.112Z <Engine:INFO> [Engine]Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "12/30/2022, 7:33:50 PM" (TZ offset -300 mins from UTC) [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.120Z <app:NOTICE> Shutdown signal (SIGTERM) received. Stopping Reaction Engine... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.121Z <app:NOTICE> Closing APIs... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.121Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: closing... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.121Z <httpapi:NOTICE> HTTP API closing... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.121Z <app:NOTICE> Stopping Engine... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.128Z <Rule:NOTICE> Turn Off Upstairs Hall Light (rule-grprsxsoqm in UpstairsHall Reactor) stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.129Z <Rule:NOTICE> Run Hot Water Recirculation (rule-l7ey8s4w in House Reactor) stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.130Z <Rule:NOTICE> Run Fans (rule-l6pi77c2 in House Reactor) stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.130Z <Rule:NOTICE> VeraSecureTriggered (rule-grplg89w7x in House Reactor) stopping[stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.329Z <Rule:NOTICE> Half-Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k31z13 in Flood Checks) stopped [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.330Z <Rule:NOTICE> Upstairs Bath Flood Detected (rule-grp17k327c0 in Flood Checks) stopped [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.417Z <Engine:NOTICE> [Engine]Engine#1 has shut down. [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.417Z <app:NOTICE> Closing Structure... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.418Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 Stopping controllers... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.418Z <Controller:NOTICE> VeraController#vera stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.524Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.526Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass websocket error during open/negotation: [Error] WebSocket was closed before the connection was established [-] [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.526Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass ws error code (undefined) [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.526Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass failed to connect/initialize communication: [Error] WebSocket was closed before the connection was established [-] [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.527Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket to ws://192.168.34.17:8123/api/websocket closed during open/negotiation [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.527Z <Controller:NOTICE> HassController#hass stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.803Z <Controller:NOTICE> SystemController#reactor_system stopping [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.811Z <Controller:ERR> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is off-line! [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.814Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 Final data sync... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.838Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure Structure#1 stopped [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.839Z <app:NOTICE> Stopping timers... [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:50.840Z <app:NOTICE> Shutdown complete, process ID 7240 -
Reactor Start - System Crash/RestartHello All -
I upgraded my OS to Ubuntu 20.04 today and have been regretting it for several hours. I have most of my system up. However, I've found that, when I start Reactor, it panics / reboots my OS. I've included the syslog during startup below. There's a benign message about not finding a Vera device just before the reboot but that's it.Needless to say, I've learned my lesson regarding OS upgrades.
Bare metal Linux / Ubuntu 20.04 (Running inside VirtualBox)
Reactor Version: stable-22337-1a0a685fDec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 systemd[1]: Started Multi System Reactor. Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 weewx[6592] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground-RF: Published record 2022-12-30 19:33:46 EST (1672446826) Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: Reactor stable-22337-1a0a685f app 22328 configuration from /home/tbully/reactor/config Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: NODE_PATH /home/tbully/reactor Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.745Z <app:null> Reactor build stable-22337-1a0a685f starting on v17.9.0 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.746Z <app:null> Process ID 7240 user/group 1000/1000; bare-metal; platform linux/x64 #62-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 19:54:14 UTC 2022; locale en_CA.UTF-8 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.746Z <app:null> Basedir /home/tbully/reactor; data in /home/tbully/reactor/storage Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.747Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/home/tbully/reactor Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.764Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v22323 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.765Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v22283 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.819Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.827Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.831Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22314 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.835Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v22323 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.847Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.848Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v21096 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.854Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v21333 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.864Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v22305 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.867Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.869Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v22335 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.872Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22320 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.873Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v22320 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.877Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v22337 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.886Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v22320 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.949Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 Dec 30 19:33:46 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:46.950Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v22325 Dec 30 19:33:47 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:47.200Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v22334 Dec 30 19:33:48 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:48.294Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v22306 Dec 30 19:33:48 homeauto03 weewx[6592] INFO weewx.restx: Wunderground-RF: Published record 2022-12-30 19:33:48 EST (1672446828) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: [stable-22337]2022-12-31T00:33:49.110Z <Rule:CRIT> ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_368" [-] Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: ReferenceError: Can't find entity "vera>device_368" Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:366:27) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at Predicate._evaluateGroup (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:748:106) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at Predicate._evaluateCondition (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:354:47) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at Predicate.evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Predicate.js:60:37) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at Rule._evaluate (/home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:875:54) Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 node[7240]: at async /home/tbully/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:830:17 Dec 30 19:33:49 homeauto03 systemd[1]: Stopping Session 14 of User tbully... -
Where Used Functionality?I have the rules migrated and running on the external Reactor (doing some tweaking as you mentioned). That's not my issue.
My issue is I'm now starting to exclude some devices from Vera and adding them to HASS. For the most part, I've been successful in knowing where the device is used in my ruleset. However, on a few occasions, I've forgotten / missed some rules.
It would be great to look up an entity in MSR and see where it's used (either in rules or reactions) so I can account for the myriad places some devices exist.
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Where Used Functionality?Hello All -
I'm still working on moving dozens of devices from Vera (internal Reactor) to HASS and (external - bare metal) Reactor.
One thing I've noticed is sometimes I move a few ZWave/Vera devices and find myself digging through rules finding where a device was used. Has anyone found a good way to do this?
I plan on digging in to this thread but thought I'd check to see if there's anything more recent.
https://smarthome.community/topic/483/entities-where-used-and-what-triggered-it?_=1669137134654
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Hot Water Recirc - Global Date/Time VariableAll -
I took a different approach. I didn't feel like asking the forum a bunch of stupid questions.
- Setup a global variable ("ReadyForRecirc") which will contain a true or false
- Utilize my global "Start Hot Water Recirculation" reaction. After starting the reaction, wait for 60 minutes before "ReadyForRecirc" is set to TRUE.
- Where I have logic to run recirculation, call the "Start Hot Water Recirculation" reaction, wait 5 seconds, set "ReadyForRecirc" to FALSE.
Seems to work OK.
p.s. I don't know why I have to manually enter true/false for my motions but seems to be OK.
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Hot Water Recirc - Global Date/Time VariableInteresting on the time() eval. Makes sense. I have to rethink this as I want it to be rather responsive without MSR constantly running the function. In other words, I don't want to wait a minute (as an example) for recirc to start when someone enters the bathroom.
Also agree on boolean vs. string and thought it was weird that it wanted a string. Because it was a test (and that part worked), I didn't put much thought in to it.
The time piece is really the issue at the moment.
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Hot Water Recirc - Global Date/Time Variable@crille
Argh. Thanks. I meant time and clearly saw it in the manual. I was caught up on the function / call and syntax so this was helpful.Can someone check me on my logic? As a test, I'm looking for recirc to be ran 10 minutes or later and motion in the workshop.
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Hot Water Recirc - Global Date/Time VariableHello All -
I've finally gotten to the point where I can start / stop hot water recirculation using MSR and a HASS service call, reliably.I'd like to start with some simple automation to start circulation in certain instances (e.g. motion in bathroom, etc).
That said, I do not want to obsessively run circulation in the spirit of energy conservation and equipment abuse. So I'd like to use a time stamp of last run and perhaps limit the execution to something like once per hour.
I read the manual and see references to date handling in expressions. I see that response to the date() call is in EPOCH. That's great and should make math easy. However, in the reaction to start the circulation, I'm having a hard time setting a global variable to the current date/time.
Can someone point me to examples? Using a 'Set Variable' and date() just puts "date()" in as a string value.
Thanks.
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"changes from" operator stops to detect changeSigh. So this is weird. I updated to the latest and no change.
I then took your advice and just was manually changing the Value8 variable in Vera from alpha to beta. It still didn't help. I finally took the 600 second delay out and noted that the set/reset started working. Put the delay back and all is good (I think).
I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for sticking with me on this one.
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"changes from" operator stops to detect changeApologies for the silence. The work week got away from me.
While I wouldn't put it past me, the rule is indeed enabled.
I'm doing something similar to your suggestion in order to test.
- MSR status up in one window (see screenshot)
- In Vera console in another window, I disarm/arm SiteSensor. As you're aware, this causes a re-fire of the recipe.
- I can then visual see the Value8 value change in the window.
Is that a good enough test or should I go further somehow? (e.g. manually modifying Value8) Is there a way to increase debug level so we can see the payload coming back from Vera to MSR?
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"changes from" operator stops to detect change@toggledbits
I have thought about that. But I just checked again. Value 8 updates (to the second) each time it successfully runs. This is the observation time from the weather station itself (the station at my home). This is important as it's that lack-of-update that I'm trying to detect. Otherwise, I would agree that time() would be sufficient.Another interesting fact is that this rule/reaction works OK in the "Vera Instance" of Reactor.
