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vezinpi

@vezinpi
Disaster recovery and virtualisation
CatmanV2C

Following on from my last thread, some progress has been made over the weekend.

With 18G of spanky RAM in my Synology DS224+. I've jumped into the murky world of virtualisation and already eliminated the need for two Raspberry Pi's from my system.

Home Assistant: In theory they provide an OVA file which is supported by the Synology. I couldn't get it to work, however, so grabbed a copy of the .img file they supply, renamed it .iso and imported it as a VM. Restored from my full back up and that all seems fantastic.

Minidnla Music server: Trivial. Grabbed a Debian .iso for Bookworm and copied that onto the NAS. Created a new machine which mirrored the specs of the Raspberry Pi, booted from the ISO then did an expert install. Once that was all stable with a basic core of stuff and networking, I've made a copy of that as a good base system. Then fired up minidnla on it, mounted my media and that's also woking. Not bad for a short weekend's work.

Still not sure about the main NUC though. I'm thinking of buying a new USB stick so I can mess around getting it working on the Synology before I do anything drastic.

Once that hurdle is sorted I'm torn between:

Using a brand new install of Bookworm, re-installing Z-way server, OpenLuup, AltUI, MSR and HA bridge, then restoring across or Making an ISO of the current system, importing that and upgrading in place (which will be pretty risk free since I can snapshot everything before I make any changes.)

Decisions, decisions.

C

General Discussion
Local notification methods?
CatmanV2C

Morning, experts. Hard on learning about the internet check script in MSR tools, I was wondering what suggestions anyone has about a local (i.e. non-internet dependent) notification method.

This was prompted by yesterday's fun and games with my ISP.

I've got the script Cronned and working properly but short of flashing a light on and off, I'm struggling to think of a way of alerting me (ideally to my phone)

I guess I could set up a Discord server at home, but that feels like overkill for a rare occasion. Any other suggestions?

TIA

C

Multi-System Reactor
RFC: When disaster strikes (sorry it's a bit verbose)
CatmanV2C

Hi everyone. Thanks for all your input recently on the topic of local notifications. I think we got some really interesting solutions 🙂

Back to more prosaic matters. Most of you will know that I've been messing around with this stuff for some years. My last major change was when I migrated from Vera, which was something like 4-5 years ago.

While my system has grown, it's not really altered very regularly, although I try to keep most of it kind of up to date.

Current set up:
Intel NUC that runs:
Bare metal install of Debian
Z-way server with Z-wave.me USB stick
Openluup
Altui
Multi system reactor
HA Bridge
Mosquito

Raspberry Pi
Running Home Assistant

About 40 varied Z-wave and Wifi devices

I also have a Synology DS224+ which may inform some responses.

Home Assistant recovery is pretty simple. I get a full backup of the system every night dumped onto my SAN and I know from experience that it would simply be a case of booting up a new install and feeding it the backup.

The NUC on the other hand....
Coming from a commercial IT world, I am becoming more and more conscious that I don't really feel I have a suitable disaster recovery plan, and my core system is running on hardware heading for 10 years old.

My initial thought, which I've kept putting off as it's awkward would be to grab a nice SSD, reboot the NUC into Mint or something similar and simply do a dd copy onto a new drive. I can get a replacement NUC on ebay simply enough, and keep it in a cupboard if anything other than the hard drive fails on the existing one, but this feels rather like a stop gap. However one immediate question:

If I had to use the replacement NUC would all the Z-wave devices simply carry on talking to the stick, or would they all need to be re-paired?

How easy would it be to move everything the NUC does (as a start) onto the NAS? Create a VM and clone the disc onto it?

Should I move to Docker? Something else?

What are the hive mind's thoughts?

Apologies if we've done this before, but while it all just works...

Cheers!

C

General Discussion
AltUI sans internet connection
CatmanV2C

Morning world. Looking for some thoughts on recent experience 🙂

Yesterday my ISP had something of a catastrophic failure (in theory not yet fixed but seems OK for now)

While this is annoying for several reasons, one thing that I wasn't expecting was for AltUI to become pretty much un-usable.

Unless I have a tab already open and active, connecting to the Home page is pretty much random / impossible, just presenting with a white page and (sometimes) 'Waiting for initial data' on the bottom. Everything works (i.e. where I have controllers or Reactions I can trigger, they function flawlessly) it's just something of a pain since 99.9% of my control is via Alexa now, and not being able to access devices in AltUI makes things like turning some lights of a bit tricky 😉

I suspect that this is due to AltUI trying to pull licence info and Weather data, and failing. What I should do is probably access the OpelLuup console direct and see if that works better in future.

Does that make sense to anyone, or am I completely off track?

Cheers

C

Software
Eachen No Neutral smart wall switch to lights and Sonoff Mini R4 switch for LEDs
R

Hi all. First post so please be gentle.

I have an Eachen two-gang smart wall switch wired no neutral (with capacitor) connected to existing bathroom lights which works perfectly. It's also wired to a Sonoff Mini R4 Extreme connected to LED lights. I want the LED lights to switch on when the bathroom lights switch on (and vice versa). The Mini R4 works separately on my phone via Ewelink as well as on the Mini R4 itself (physical button). The switch is installed inside the wall and the rest of the components are in the ceiling / attic / roof cavity. The Mini R4 is set to Edge switch mode which works in my example I wired.

How I wired it:

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I have a video showcasing the example I wired today works. I could share it if required. Ignore the white cable. I only used it to power the example.

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The wiring diagram I used for the mini R4.

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I wired it together with the existing lights of the bathroom so that L1 switches on both the Mini R4 and the bathroom lights:

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This is the wiring diagram for the Eachen switch:
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The Eachen's first gang (L1) doesn't trigger the Mini R4 in any way.

Any help or advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
R

General Discussion
Custom capabilities in MQTT templates
M

Hi,
I'm trying to integrate the sonos-mqtt (https://sonos2mqtt.svrooij.io/) with the MSR and it's coming along nicely so far.
But cannot wrap my head around how to define custom capabilities in MQTT templates. I need this for the TTS announcements and similarly for the notification sounds where I would pass the sound file as parameter.

So this is what I have in the local_mqtt_devices.yaml

capabilities: x_sonos_announcement: attributes: actions: speak: arguments: text: type: string volume: type: int delay: type: int

And this is the template:

templates: sonos-announcement: capabilities: - x_sonos_announcement actions: x_sonos_announcement: speak: topic: "sonos/cmd/speak" payload: expr: > { "text": parameters.text, "volume": parameters.volume, "delayMs": parameters.delay, "onlyWhenPlaying": false, "engine": "neural" } type: json

So the speak action should send something like this to topic sonos/cmd/speak

{ "text": "message goes here", "volume": 50, "delayMs": 100, "onlyWhenPlaying": false, "engine": "neural" }

At startup the MSR seems to be quite unhappy with my configuration:

reactor | [latest-25016]2025-02-09T08:19:59.029Z <MQTTController:WARN> MQTTController#mqtt entity Entity#mqtt>sonos-announcement unable to configure capabilities [Array][ "x_sonos_announcement" ] reactor | i18n: missing fi-FI language string: Configuration for {0:q} is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: {1} reactor | i18n: missing fi-FI language string: Configuration for {0:q} has unrecognized capability {1:q} in actions reactor | Trace: Configuration for {0:q} is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: {1} reactor | at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:611:28) reactor | at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:125:25) reactor | at MQTTController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:627:30) reactor | at MQTTController.start (/var/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:268:26) reactor | at async Promise.allSettled (index 0) Configuration for "sonos-announcement" has unrecognized capability "x_sonos_announcement" in actions Controller: MQTTController#mqtt Last 10:21:37 AM Configuration for "sonos-announcement" is incomplete because the following requested capabilities are undefined: x_sonos_announcement Controller: MQTTController#mqtt Last 10:21:37 AM

This is probably a pretty stupid question and the approach may not even work at all, but maybe someone or @toggledbits for sure, could point me to the right direction.
Basically the idea is to be able to send TTS messages from reactions using entity actions. I've previously used HTTP requests to Sonos HTTP API (https://hub.docker.com/r/chrisns/docker-node-sonos-http-api/) for the same functionality, but since moving to sonos-mqtt, I need a way to send the TTS notifications using MQTTController. Along with the actual message, volume and delay must also be parameterizable.

br,
mgvra

MSR latest-25016-d47fea38 / MQTTController [0.2.24293]

Multi-System Reactor
[SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
V

Hi, @toggledbits

I just noticed that following a reboot of my raspberry pi, some of the rules, that I was expecting to recover, are not catching up following a reboot. I have made a simple test rule (rule-m6rz6ol1) with only "after Date/time" as trigger and "turn on a lamp" as a set reaction. All my infrastructure is on the same board so Reactor, Hass, Zwavejs, ... are all rebooting.

Here is the sequence of the test case (All time converted to Zulu to match logs):

Rule "after Date/Time" set to 14:05:00z Shutdown on Raspberry Pi at 14:04:00z Power back up at 14:08:00z Rule overview shows true as of 14:08:14z waiting for 00:00:00 in GUI

From the log I can see that MSR is picking up the rule and knows that the state of the rule has changed from false to true and tries to send the update to HASS but failed with websocket error.

Here is what I see from the log:

14:04:04z shutdown complete 14:08:08z Power up 14:08:13.111z websocket connection 14:08:15:323z Reaction to the light failed, Websocket not opened After there is a series of websocket connection attempt until 14:08:51z where it seemed to be really ready.

Back in 2021 we had a discussion (https://smarthome.community/topic/700/solved-start-up?_=1738766986566) and you proposed to add a startup_delay:xxxx and startup_wait:xxxx parameter in the engine section of "reactor.yaml". When I try the startup_delay (this used to be a hard delay), the engine failed to start (I think). I then try the startup_wait:xxxx without any success. Since it wait for the connection status to be up to cancel the delay, it does not do anyting since Hass is reporting the socket up without really being up ( I think...).

Questions:

Did I figured it all wrong? should the startup_delay:xxxxx have worked? Any ideas?

Here is the log:

OK now I am stuck. I did add the log but when I submit the editor complained saying that I am limited to 32767 characters. The log from the shutdown to the time the websocket is stable is about 300000 character long. What are my options?

Multi-System Reactor
[SOLVED]Logs permissions for Docker Install
V

Not a big issue simply a request if easily doable.

The MSR logs files inside the container are owned by root witch is fine however, the permissions are very restrictive. I do not know if there is something wrong with my installation but the logs permission are set to 222 (write only). Even if the docker volume is set for Read/Write the log files are retaining these values.

I go around the problem by doing a chmod 777 on all reactor logs but every time there is an MSR log rotation the permissions are set back to 222. So unless the permission are implemented in the container there is no permanent solution to this (that I know of).

I do not know much about Docker container so I do not know what is involved here.

Can the logfiles permission be simply chaged in the container to at least allow "other" read permission?

Could the MSR log rotation routine implement a chmod to set the permission?

Just a small anoyance

Thanks

Multi-System Reactor
Button.Since Revisited
SnowmanS

@toggledbits In the MSR documentation, under Standard Capabilities, I noticed that the
button.since attribute was deprecated as of version 22256 and the metadata is the preferred way to access the last-modified time of an attribute.

Am I reading this right? Should I stop using it in my rules?

Thanks

Multi-System Reactor
[SOLVED] reactor_inet_check script... and containers
G

When on my bare metal RPi with MSR I had a rule that ran every minute to check Internet status via a script in MSR called reactor_inet_check.sh

I've moved to containerized MSR and see in the instructions that this cannot be run from the container.

The script cannot run within the Reactor docker container. If you are using Reactor in a docker container, the script needs to be run by cron or an equivalent facility on the host system (e.g. some systems, like Synology NAS, have separate task managers that may be used to schedule the repeated execution of tasks such as this).

I've put a script on my container host that calls the reator_inet_check.sh script and it isn't erroring... but I still see the internet status within MSR as null.

Before I go diving down the rabbit hole... should this work?

My cronjob on the proxmox host:
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The contents of msr_internet_check_caller.sh
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Multi-System Reactor
Hello and first network question
D

Just bought a couple of generic smart plugs and set them up easily using SmartLife app in the house I then plugged one into a workshop over 100m away This workshop has a hardwired internet connection with a separate wireless access router (not mesh) after doing a reset on the device and pairing to the new router it actually works from the house when my phone is connected to a completely separate wifi network - how is that possible ?
I did read something about these devices connecting to a server somewhere in China similar to IP cameras but there is no lag

General Discussion
Lights switches for warehouse
S

I need to replace about 15 traditional wall light switches (no neutral wire) to turn on/off all lights with one operation inside the warehouse. And still maintain the ability to control each light individually.

The preference is not to set up a Wifi for each switch to reduce the number of devices connected to the network, and also, they change the Wifi password regularly, so they do not want to change all 15 switches.

I am looking for some solution that will achieve this with either Bluetooth/RF or any other technology.
The warehouse dimensions are about 100ftx100ft with sheetrock walls.

Please assist.

General Discussion
Catch-all lights rule
G

Background: this is a Windows MSR install I've done for our local pool/amenity center just to run some fans and lights (not my daily driver at home). Install went perfectly fine.

Scenario: I want the lights to go on when it's dark enough (even if during a storm, not just after sunset) so I'm using solarRadiation from my weather station to drive that Trigger. Easy stuff.

Issue: sometimes, someone goes in the office and just starts flipping switches and the result can be lights turned on in the daytime or off at night. I'm trying to create a "catch-all" wherein if it is daytime and the lights somehow find their way ON, they will turn themselves back OFF.

I have the following Reaction built:

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I also have this Reaction for opposite, ie the lights find themselves turned off after dark and they will turn themselves back on:

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Here are my two rules:

288cba86-f941-4157-86d9-d8e7487905f7-image.png *NOTE that in my manual testing, ie I turn on the light switch at the incorrect time, when the solarRadiation level changes the Lights ON rule flags and shows as SET. On the next change of solarRadiation it goes back to reset again.

My expectation is that Lights OFF rule should see the lights are on, the solarRadiation is above the set limit, and turn them off. Instead, every other run, the ON rule moves to SET and then reset again on the following run.

Logs appear angry:

[latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:31.696Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "Lights ON<RESET>" (rule-m6e4ajh7:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:31.712Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction Lights ON<RESET> (rule-m6e4ajh7:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:31.713Z <Engine:INFO> Lights ON<RESET> all actions completed. [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:42.565Z <wsapi:INFO> client "127.0.0.1#3" closed, code=1001, reason= [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:42.753Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/lang [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:42.754Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/lang from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/lang ACL (#7): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/lang", "allow": true, "index": 7 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:42.790Z <wsapi:INFO> wsapi: connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:42.839Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 client "127.0.0.1#6" authorized [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:43.353Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/systime [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:43.353Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/systime from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/systime ACL (#5): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/systime", "allow": true, "index": 5 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:48.146Z <wsapi:INFO> client "127.0.0.1#6" closed, code=1001, reason= [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:48.308Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/lang [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:48.309Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/lang from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/lang ACL (#7): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/lang", "allow": true, "index": 7 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:48.346Z <wsapi:INFO> wsapi: connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:48.390Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 client "127.0.0.1#7" authorized [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:49.412Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/systime [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:49.413Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/systime from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/systime ACL (#5): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/systime", "allow": true, "index": 5 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:52.734Z <wsapi:INFO> client "127.0.0.1#7" closed, code=1001, reason= [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:52.891Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/lang [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:52.892Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/lang from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/lang ACL (#7): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/lang", "allow": true, "index": 7 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:52.925Z <wsapi:INFO> wsapi: connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:52.965Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 client "127.0.0.1#8" authorized [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:54.383Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 API request from ::ffff:127.0.0.1: GET /api/v1/systime [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:03:54.384Z <httpapi:INFO> [HTTPAPI]#1 request for /api/v1/systime from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 user anonymous auth none matches /api/v1/systime ACL (#5): [Object]{ "url": "/api/v1/systime", "allow": true, "index": 5 } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:01.590Z <wsapi:INFO> [WSAPI]wsapi#1 rpc_echo [Object]{ "comment": "UI activity" } [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.646Z <Rule:INFO> Lights OFF (rule-m6e33ja3 in Atrium Lights) evaluated; rule state transition from RESET to SET! [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.656Z <Rule:INFO> Lights ON (rule-m6e4ajh7 in Atrium Lights) evaluated; rule state transition from RESET to SET! [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.663Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "Lights OFF<SET>" (rule-m6e33ja3:S) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.665Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "Lights ON<SET>" (rule-m6e4ajh7:S) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.668Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction Lights OFF<SET> (rule-m6e33ja3:S) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.669Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction Lights ON<SET> (rule-m6e4ajh7:S) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.669Z <Engine:INFO> Lights ON<SET> all actions completed. [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.675Z <Rule:INFO> Lights OFF (rule-m6e33ja3 in Atrium Lights) evaluated; rule state transition from SET to RESET! [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.680Z <Engine:NOTICE> ReactionHistory: no entry for [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.683Z <Engine:NOTICE> [Engine]Engine#1 entry 256 reaction rule-m6e33ja3:S-1q2f1j0p: [Error] terminated [parent terminating] [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.683Z <Engine:CRIT> Error: terminated [parent terminating] Error: terminated at Engine._process_reaction_queue (C:\Users\Jalan\msr\reactor\server\lib\Engine.js:1644:47) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.699Z <Engine:NOTICE> [Engine]Engine#1 entry 254 reaction rule-m6e33ja3:S: [Error] terminated [preempted by rule state change] [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.699Z <Engine:CRIT> Error: terminated [preempted by rule state change] Error: terminated at Engine._process_reaction_queue (C:\Users\Jalan\msr\reactor\server\lib\Engine.js:1644:47) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.700Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "Lights OFF<RESET>" (rule-m6e33ja3:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.704Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction Lights OFF<RESET> (rule-m6e33ja3:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:04:39.705Z <Engine:INFO> Lights OFF<RESET> all actions completed. [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:05:48.822Z <Rule:INFO> Lights ON (rule-m6e4ajh7 in Atrium Lights) evaluated; rule state transition from SET to RESET! [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:05:48.831Z <Engine:INFO> Enqueueing "Lights ON<RESET>" (rule-m6e4ajh7:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:05:48.847Z <Engine:NOTICE> Starting reaction Lights ON<RESET> (rule-m6e4ajh7:R) [latest-25016]2025-01-26T22:05:48.847Z <Engine:INFO> Lights ON<RESET> all actions completed.
Multi-System Reactor
Throttled problem
wmarcolinW

Hi @toggledbits

I found this very old post that talked about a way to limit device reading to avoid the throttled problem, because it's not a question of logic, it's that the device actually sends a lot of information, in my case the NUT ups installed in HE.

https://smarthome.community/topic/687/flapping-device?_=1737652139854

It mentions engine section of reactor.yaml by setting update_rate_limit, but I looked in the current MSR documentation and I can't find this information, so I don't know if it's still valid, its effect and parameters.

My situation is simple, when I have a UPS problem the NUT is sending dozens of reports per second and then I have the throttled problem. The same rule applies when the power is normal.

This is the rule, and the parameter that fails is the Tripp Lite UPS status.

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a813a077-974e-4737-897c-e383085b3d8f-image.png

All error is the same scenario.

[latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.753Z <Rule:WARN> (13) NUT Disconected (rule-l4djr0p7 in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttl> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.756Z <Rule:WARN> (27) Falta de Energia (rule-l4h9ceod in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Thrott> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.769Z <Rule:WARN> (73) UPS Battery Low (rule-l4hj850o in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttl> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.772Z <Rule:WARN> (74) UPS Comm Fail (rule-l4kbs5cp in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttlin> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.776Z <Rule:WARN> (76) UPS Utility Back (rule-l4hjhs6m in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Thrott> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.780Z <Rule:WARN> UPS On Battery (rule-l4hjuka5 in Datacenter) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttling> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:32.781Z <Rule:WARN> UPS Info (rule-l4gheo63 in Datacenter) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttling... [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:40.757Z <Rule:WARN> (13) NUT Disconected (rule-l4djr0p7 in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttl> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:40.759Z <Rule:WARN> (27) Falta de Energia (rule-l4h9ceod in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Thrott> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:40.776Z <Rule:WARN> (73) UPS Battery Low (rule-l4hj850o in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttl> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:40.777Z <Rule:WARN> (74) UPS Comm Fail (rule-l4kbs5cp in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Throttlin> [latest-25016]2025-01-23T12:01:40.778Z <Rule:WARN> (76) UPS Utility Back (rule-l4hjhs6m in Warning) update rate 121/min exceeds limit (120/min)! Logic loop? Thrott>

Thanks.

Multi-System Reactor
Dynamic Alert Based on Tripped Expression
T

Hello -

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!

Multi-System Reactor
latest-25016 toggle.toggle on VeraController Lock entity not working
CrilleC

After upgrade from 24366 to 25016 toggle on Vera (openLuup) lock entity doesn't seem to work.

VeraController log level 5
24366:

[latest-24366]2025-01-20T20:26:49.724Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{ } [latest-24366]2025-01-20T20:26:49.725Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:514> [VeraController:verarequest] requesting http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?id=action&serviceId=urn%3Amicasaverde-com%3AserviceId%3ADoorLock1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=10016&output_format=json&_r=1737404809725 ([Object]{ })

25016:

[latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.457Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{ } [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.458Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:1210> VeraController#vera no configured implementation for toggle.toggle on Lock#vera>device_10016; calling super [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.458Z <VeraController:INFO> VeraController#vera perform action lock.set on Lock#vera>device_10016 with [Object]{ "state": false } [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.461Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:1255> VeraController#vera sending action request [Object]{ "newTargetValue": "0", "DeviceNum": 10016, "id": "action", "serviceId": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:DoorLock1", "action": "SetTarget" } [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.461Z <VeraController:5:VeraController.js:515> [VeraController:verarequest] requesting http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=10016&id=action&serviceId=urn%3Aupnp-org%3AserviceId%3ADoorLock1&action=SetTarget&output_format=json&_r=1737405025461 ([Object]{ }) [latest-25016]2025-01-20T20:30:25.463Z <VeraController:NOTICE> VeraController#vera action lock.set([Object]{ "state": false }) on Lock#vera>device_10016 succeeded

I tried to log an issue in Mantis Bug Tracker but I can't log in anymore?

Multi-System Reactor
[Solved] Local expression evaluation
V

Trying to understand what cause a local expresssion to be evaluated. I have read the manual but I am still not clear about it. Using the test rule below, I can see in the log that the rule is being automatically evaluated every time the temperature entity is changing. That is great...

What I am trying to understand is why the expression is not evaluated based on time as well since the "case" statement has time dependencies.

Any help would be appreciated

I have the following test rule:

eba6a3ea-ff61-4610-88c9-9b9864f11ff8-Screenshot 2025-01-21 095244.png

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Here is the expressioncode:

vFrom1 = "09:25:00", vFrom2 = "09:30:00", vFrom3 = "09:41:00", vTo = "10:55:00", # Get current time (format HH:MM:SS) vToDay = strftime("%H:%M:%S"), #Get current house temperature CurrentHouseTemp = getEntity( "hass>Thermostat2 " ).attributes.temperature_sensor.value, case when CurrentHouseTemp <= 19 and vToDay >= vFrom1 && vToDay <= vTo: "true1" # From1 when CurrentHouseTemp <= 20 and vToDay >= vFrom2 && vToDay <= vTo: "true2" # From2 when CurrentHouseTemp < 26  and vToDay >= vFrom3 && vToDay <= vTo: "true3" # From3 else "false" end
Multi-System Reactor
Apple Home Automation Issue
J

I’ve set up an automation in Apple Home to turn on the lights when the first person arrives. However, the lights also turn on when I leave for work. It seems like the automation is triggered when I cross the geofence, whether arriving or leaving.

I’m using Matter-compatible Tapo smart plugs. Is there a way to fix this behavior?

How-To
Migration Vera to HA > how to send sensor data from Vera to HA?
M

Hi,

I started home automation in 2013 and using Vera controllers from the start. When Reactor plugin became available (super plugin of @toggledbits !!) I transferred all scenes to Reactor.
I must say everything here works still okay and I have a lot of devices, plugins and Reactors. But I fear at some point my Vera's will stop working.
I recognize many of your names here from the Vera forum. I also was banned a couple of years ago.
Recently I decided to switch to Home Assistant. I already transferred some of my zwave devices from Vera to HA and made some new automations.
I must say HA is great and with huge amount of integrations, add-ons, the HACS store and many examples (like blueprints) the opportunites to increase home automation are huge.
HA will be for sure my central system (incl UI)

But... the learning curve is quite steap (YAML is completely different from Lua/luup).
So for the time being I will keep my most complex Reactor automations.
I already found how I can connect/integrate Vera for binairy sensors via webhooks (as an example: changes in my home modes are directly send from Vera to HA).

Now I also want to use some data like sensors or Reactor variables automatically to HA via https requests (put those in Reactor).
I know I can create virtual sensors in HA via templates.

As an example: I have my own PWS with a rainmeter. In Reactor I compare the amount of rain (in mm) in the actual year with historical figures (past 15 years) and calculate the difference actual vs history in % Every day at 0.00h these figures are updated. I defined variables in Reactor and use Multistring plugin (Variable container) to show the data.

I know several specialists in coding with experience in both Vera and HA are active here on this forum.

Who can help me with this ?

Home Assistant
[Solved] Migrating MSR to Docker on Proxmox
G
Zero issues installing Proxmox on a new MiniPC. Zero issues migrating my HA instance over to the new hotness (I know, I was surprised, too!)

And then MSR...

My first issue: I'm logged into the msr CT as reactor (I used the suggested username just to keep things simple as this is new space for me and I was high off my success of migrating HA over).

When I run

docker pull toggledbits/reactor:latest-amd64

... it assigns the \reactor\ subdirectory where installed root ownership. I am absolutely logged in with the correct non-root user.
1c58aead-85ca-4b2c-8f48-c3d1f57d7fe3-image.png

Second issue: I copied over the following folders:
67e7e4a5-cee8-4de1-90c7-1df35f1070b9-image.png When MSR loads, all of my Global Expressions are missing.

Third issue:
All controllers connect wonderfully (Hubitat, etc)... except HA.
After changing ownership of the logs to reactor again I can see this when MSR calls HA:

[latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.128Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat successful connection to ws://192.168.1.214/eventsocket [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.151Z <HubitatController:NOTICE> HubitatController#hubitat current mode is Evening (2) [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.212Z <HubitatController:NOTICE> HubitatController#hubitat HSM status is disarmed [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.214Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller HubitatController#hubitat is now online. [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.255Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 connected; opening subscriptions [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.371Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 sending inits and going online! [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:43.373Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller MQTTController#mqtt2 is now online. [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:47.179Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.1.123:8123/api/websocket [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:47.180Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass websocket error during open/negotation: [Error] connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.1.123:8123 [-] [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:47.180Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass ws error code ECONNREFUSED [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:47.180Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket to ws://192.168.1.123:8123/api/websocket closed during open/negotiation [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:47.180Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass failed to connect/initialize communication: [Error] connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.1.123:8123 [-] [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:52.181Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.1.123:8123/api/websocket [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:52.183Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass websocket error during open/negotation: [Error] connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.1.123:8123 [-] [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:52.183Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass ws error code ECONNREFUSED [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:52.183Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket to ws://192.168.1.123:8123/api/websocket closed during open/negotiation [latest-24366]2025-01-12T00:03:52.183Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass failed to connect/initialize communication: [Error] connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.1.123:8123 [-]

Yes, I created a fresh new long-lived access token for the MSR containerized install and updated the reactor.yaml config file correctly.

Honestly, all-in-all, for my total lack of expertise here I'm very pleased that I only have these three issues. But they are def blockers atm.

My RPi bare metal install of MSR hooked right up to the new HA and is humming along just fine (I used hostnames were possible and shuffled some IPs in other places so I wouldn't run into things later that were mapped incorrectly that I'd forgotten about.)

Proxmox 8.3.2 MSR lives in an Ubuntu 24.04 Proxmox container MSR is latest docker version

What else can I provide to those smarter than me here?

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  • [SOLVED]Logs permissions for Docker Install
    V vezinpi

    Super, it worked as expected.

    My MSR installation date from all the way back at the begining of this treck. I do recollect adjusting the # of logs and size but not adding the "mode". In any case, I see from the dist-config/logging.yaml that the default is 0644 (which would work just fine) and that it is commented out. That is probably what everybody have and the reason why I was the lone woolf out there. I think I will follow the pack and comment it out.

    EDIT: I did add the "mode" back in dec 2021 to fix a similar issue. Things have changed/evolved since causing the issue to show up again.

    Many thanks

  • [SOLVED]Logs permissions for Docker Install
    V vezinpi

    All my docker applications, including reactor, have a volume in my "automation" folder on the host.

    vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation $ ls -l
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  2 vezinpi vezinpi 4096 May 28  2023 docker-compose
drwxrwxrwx  4 vezinpi vezinpi 4096 Jan 14 13:41 esphome
drwxrwxrwx  8     472     472 4096 Feb  8 07:45 grafana
drwxrwxrwx 12 vezinpi vezinpi 4096 Feb  6 15:25 homeassistant
drwx------  3 vezinpi root    4096 Feb 22  2023 influxdb2
drwxrwxrwx  6 vezinpi vezinpi 4096 Jun 20  2024 reactor
drwxr-xr-x  9 vezinpi root    4096 Feb  8 03:28 ssl
drwxrwxrwx 11 vezinpi vezinpi 4096 Feb  8 07:52 zwave-js-ui

    Here is the reactor folder:

    vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation $ ls -l reactor
total 64
drwxrwxrwx 2 vezinpi vezinpi  4096 Feb  5 21:38 config
drwxrwxr-x 2 root    root     4096 Feb  6 14:07 dist-config
drwxrwxrwx 2 vezinpi vezinpi  4096 Feb  8 06:23 logs
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi 45473 Jan  3  2022 reactor-config-backup.json
drwxrwxrwx 7 vezinpi vezinpi  4096 Jun 20  2024 storage
vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation $

    Here is the log folder. Please note that some files still have read/write permissions for "other" . This is me changing the permission on the host to grant me access from my PC. The most recent one are back to write only (222). As the log rotation progresses they will all become 222.

    vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation/reactor $ ls -l logs
total 44688
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi    6572 Feb  6 14:07 hass_config.json
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi  288139 Feb  6 14:07 hass_services.json
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi  308677 Feb  6 14:07 hass_states.json
--w--w--w- 1 root    root    1802037 Feb  8 08:02 reactor.log
--w--w--w- 1 root    root    4194194 Feb  8 06:23 reactor.log.1
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194347 Feb  7 06:16 reactor.log.10
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194366 Feb  8 02:48 reactor.log.2
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4193980 Feb  7 21:59 reactor.log.3
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194236 Feb  7 19:04 reactor.log.4
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194260 Feb  7 17:18 reactor.log.5
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194318 Feb  7 15:13 reactor.log.6
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194256 Feb  7 12:39 reactor.log.7
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4193917 Feb  7 10:39 reactor.log.8
--w--w-rw- 1 root    root    4194228 Feb  7 09:10 reactor.log.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root      11755 Feb  5 19:45 unhandled.json
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi   24164 Feb 28  2022 vera-status-initial.json
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi   48401 Feb 28  2022 vera-user_data-initial.json
-rwxrw-rw- 1 vezinpi vezinpi 1263301 Nov  6  2022 zwavejs_devices_initial.json
vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation/reactor $

    config/logging.yaml

    vezinpi@RPI8G:~/automation/reactor/config $ more logging.yaml
---
logging:
  default:
    level: 4
    streams:
      - type: console
        level: 0
      - type: file
        name: "reactor.log"
        mode: 0666
        maxsize: 4  # megabytes max size
        keep: 10     # copies of old logs
        #
        # capture_console: if true, (most) console output will be captured to
        #                  this stream (if you have multiple streams, this
        #                  feature can only be used by ONE of them). If you
        #                  turn this on (true), set the "console" type stream
        #                  (above) log level to 0 to avoid duplicate logging
        #                  entries. The default is false, console not captured.
        #capture_console: true
  app:
    level: 4
  httpapi:
    level: 4
  httpproxy:
    level: 4
  wsapi:
    level: 4
  Structure:
    level: 4
  Controller:
    level: 4
  OWMWeatherController:
    level: 4
  VeraController:
    level: 4
  HubitatController:
    level: 4
  HassController:
    level: 4
  Rule:
    level: 5
  Engine:
    level: 5
(END)

    Hope this help

  • [SOLVED]Logs permissions for Docker Install
    V vezinpi

    Ok, I guess that I did not put enough information to be clear. I skipped the intro and went directely into what I beleive to be the issue. I should stick with the issue not the solution. My bad.

    I do not go in the container to access the logs or change permissions but I did looked at them, trying understand how that works. Docker volumes, map the /var/reactor of the container to a directory on the host with read/write premissions. From the host it is then, via samba, shared to my PC where I would like to access the logs.

    Because of the permissions of the files, I cannot access the files directely from my PC. I have to change the permissions on the Host before I can access them (It can however, be access from the hosts by using "sudo" ).

    What I was trying to say in my initial post is that the permission are set to 222 in the container that get mapped to the the hosts and eventually to my PC. Changing the permissions on the host is only temporary until Reactor do a log rotation where the files changed back to 222. If the logfiles in the container were created with something like 226 the "read" permission for "other" would ripple all the way to the hosts a then to the PC.

    Like I said in my first post, I am not a Docker specialist but I thought that the only way to permanentely change the logs permissions would be by the application at the container level where they are created.

    That being said, I have been wrong before!

    Again, not a big deal just convenience.

  • [SOLVED]Logs permissions for Docker Install
    V vezinpi

    Not a big issue simply a request if easily doable.

    The MSR logs files inside the container are owned by root witch is fine however, the permissions are very restrictive. I do not know if there is something wrong with my installation but the logs permission are set to 222 (write only). Even if the docker volume is set for Read/Write the log files are retaining these values.

    I go around the problem by doing a chmod 777 on all reactor logs but every time there is an MSR log rotation the permissions are set back to 222. So unless the permission are implemented in the container there is no permanent solution to this (that I know of).

    I do not know much about Docker container so I do not know what is involved here.

    Can the logfiles permission be simply chaged in the container to at least allow "other" read permission?

    Could the MSR log rotation routine implement a chmod to set the permission?

    Just a small anoyance

    Thanks

  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    @mrFarmer said in [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??:

    Yes, clear status messages. Click reload. Wait until I see Connected and then go to the status page to see them in alerts.

    When you say reload do you mean "Restart Reactor" from the "Tool" menu? If so, the alarm will show right back until you refresh the page or restart your browser again. In my case the messages are only transitory following a "Restart Reactor" and are gone after I refresh the page.

  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    Roger that.

    Again many thanks for your patience.

  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    All right, that did the trick.

    I can clearly see in the log where it is waiting for the connection to be stable and sending the request only after. This is great!

    The 3 alarm are still showing when I use the "reboot reactor" from the Tools menu. It seems that it is only transitory since a screen refresh or re-starting the browser clears it. This is also fine.

    Just making sure that I understand the process. Please correct me where I am wrong.

    • without adding wait_all_controllers: true to the engine subsection, there is no delay

    • with the wait_all_controllers: true the default delay is 60 second

    • If the default delay is not enough then we can use startup_wait: xxxx to change the default delay

    • In all cases the delay is only the maximum delay and the wait will be terminated when the connections is made.

    • If I have 5 controllers, are they all treated individually or the slowest one need to be up before anything happen?

    @toggledbits said in Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??:

    The controllers section is an array. Make sure DynamicGroupController and SystemController are the last two entries in the array.

    I am not sure I understand this one. I never played with the reactor.yaml file, I simply took the template and fill it up. I fail to see why these 2 controller need to be last. In my case I had 2 unused one between the two like it is in the template. I did move them but I am not sure that it really did anything.

    Many thanks for your support

  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    With startup_wait: 120000 I have the same result as before.

    -Rule set to trigger at 00:55z
    -Shutdown down completed at 00:54:27z
    -First log entry after power up at 00:58:06
    -Socket connection with Hass at 00:58:12z

    [latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.398Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure Structure#1 stopped
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.398Z <app:NOTICE> Closing APIs...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.398Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: closing...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.399Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: disconnecting from "192.168.2.33#1" (1001 service closing)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.401Z <httpapi:NOTICE> HTTP API closing...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.403Z <wsapi:NOTICE> wsapi: server closed
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:54:27.405Z <wsapi:WARN> client close from unknown connection? "192.168.2.33#1"

[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.180Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-25016-d47fea38 starting on v20.10.0 /usr/local/bin/node
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.198Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/arm64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.74-1+rpt1 (2025-01-27); locale (undefined)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.203Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.207Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.278Z <app:null> Resolved timezone=America/Toronto, environment TZ=America/Toronto; offset minutes from UTC=-300
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.337Z <app:null> Configured locale (undefined); selected locale(s) en-US.UTF-8
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.532Z <app:null> Loaded locale en-US for en-US
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:06.534Z <app:null> Local date/time using configured timezone and locale formatting is "2/5/2025, 7:58:06 PM"
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:07.077Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v24287
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:07.086Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v24312
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:07.289Z <Capabilities:NOTICE> System capabilities loaded from core distribution, data version 25004 revision 1
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:07.784Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:08.260Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:08.284Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v25014
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:08.455Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v25014
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:08.786Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v24288
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:08.789Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v24220
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.072Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v24209
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.216Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v24350
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.274Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v24099
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.310Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v24329
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.348Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v24220
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.368Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v24344
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.422Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v24298
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.517Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v25016
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.520Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Structure...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.548Z <Structure:NOTICE> Structure#1 plugin ID influx disabled; skipping
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.553Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface hass (HassController)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:09.796Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v25010
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.086Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface groups (DynamicGroupController)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.119Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v24279
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.157Z <Structure:INFO> Structure#1 loading controller interface reactor_system (SystemController)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.177Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v24279
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.202Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller HassController#hass
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.203Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass starting...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.205Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller DynamicGroupController#groups
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.218Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller DynamicGroupController#groups is now online.
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.218Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.226Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online.
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.515Z <Engine:null> [Engine]Engine#1 config [Object]{ "enabled": true, "startup_wait": 120000, "monitored_entities": [ "vera>device_XXX" ] }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.563Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass performing one-time initialization for HassController class
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.598Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded hass capabilities ver 25004 rev 1 format 1 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.686Z <Controller:INFO> HassController#hass loaded implementation data ver 25004 rev 2 format 1 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.715Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.752Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to wss://192.168.2.163:8123/api/websocket
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.818Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.861Z <httpapi:NOTICE> [HTTPAPI]#1 starting HTTP service on port 8111
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.874Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.876Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.878Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.907Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.921Z <Rule:5:Rule.js:209> Rule#rule-134 cleaning loaded condition states
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:12.931Z <Rule:5:Rule.js:209> Rule#rule-136 cleaning loaded condition states

    At 00:58:15z Sending reaction request to hass failed

    [latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.289Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1786> [Engine]Engine#1 reaction rule-m6rz6ol1:S step 0 perform [Object]{ "entity": "hass>switch_plug_in_outlet_floater", "action": "power_switch.on" }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.293Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass perform power_switch.on on Switch#hass>switch_plug_in_outlet_floater with [Object]{  }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.296Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass unknown service homeassistant.turn_on in power_switch.on action on Switch#hass>switch_plug_in_outlet_floater
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.296Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass no entity/target for homeassistant.(undefined)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.296Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass: sending payload for power_switch.on on Switch#hass>switch_plug_in_outlet_floater action: [Object]{ "type": "call_service", "service_data": {  }, "domain": "homeassistant", "service": "turn_on" }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.301Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1641> _process_reaction_queue() task returned, new status 3; task 1, history 86213
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.303Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass request 1738803495298<2/5/2025, 7:58:15 PM> (call_service) failed: [Error] WebSocket is not open: readyState 0 (CONNECTING) [-]
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.304Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1688> _process_reaction_queue ending with 1 in queue; none delayed/ready; waiting
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.305Z <HassController:WARN> HassController#hass action power_switch.on([Object]{  }) on Switch#hass>switch_plug_in_outlet_floater failed!
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.306Z <HassController:INFO> Service call payload:
{"type":"call_service","service_data":{},"domain":"homeassistant","service":"turn_on","id":1738803495298}
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.307Z <HassController:INFO> Service data:
{}
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.309Z <Engine:ERR> [Engine]Engine#1 reaction rule-m6rz6ol1:S step 0 perform power_switch.on failed: [Error] WebSocket is not open: readyState 0 (CONNECTING) [-]
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.309Z <Engine:INFO> [Engine]Engine#1 action args: [Object]{  }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.310Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1688> _process_reaction_queue() wake-up!
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.311Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1627> _process_reaction_queue() running task 1: [Object]{ "tid": 1, "id": "rule-m6rz6ol1:S", "rule": "rule-m6rz6ol1", "__reaction": [RuleReaction#rule-m6rz6ol1:S], "next_step": 1, "status": 1, "ts": 1738803495021, "parent": --null--, "__resolve": --function--, "__reject": --function--, "__promise": [object Promise], "attempts": 0, "history_id": 86213 }
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.313Z <Engine:INFO> Resuming reaction rule-m6rz6ol1<SET> (rule-m6rz6ol1:S) from step 1
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.313Z <Engine:INFO> rule-m6rz6ol1<SET> all actions completed.
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.314Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1641> _process_reaction_queue() task returned, new status -1; task 1, history 86213
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:15.323Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1688> _process_reaction_queue ending with 0 in queue; none delayed/ready; waiting

    After that I have several socket up and down message until 00:58:52z where it seemed to stabilised.

    Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready
    at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1291:66
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:30.573Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket closing, 1006 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.574Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to wss://192.168.2.163:8123/api/websocket
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.892Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.900Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with wss://192.168.2.163:8123; fetching initial data...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.908Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2025.1.0" location Maison timezone America/Toronto state NOT_RUNNING safe_mode false
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.909Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass failed to complete startup: [Error] Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.910Z <HassController:CRIT> Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready
    at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1291:66
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:35.912Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket closing, 1006 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.918Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to wss://192.168.2.163:8123/api/websocket
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.954Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.959Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with wss://192.168.2.163:8123; fetching initial data...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.963Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2025.1.0" location Maison timezone America/Toronto state NOT_RUNNING safe_mode false
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.964Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass failed to complete startup: [Error] Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.964Z <HassController:CRIT> Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready
    at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1291:66
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:40.966Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket closing, 1006 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:45.969Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to wss://192.168.2.163:8123/api/websocket
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.716Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.735Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with wss://192.168.2.163:8123; fetching initial data...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.747Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2025.1.0" location Maison timezone America/Toronto state NOT_RUNNING safe_mode false
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.748Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass failed to complete startup: [Error] Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.748Z <HassController:CRIT> Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready [-]
Error: Hub reports it is starting but not yet ready
    at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1291:66
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:46.750Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass websocket closing, 1006 
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:51.756Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to wss://192.168.2.163:8123/api/websocket
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:51.898Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:51.930Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with wss://192.168.2.163:8123; fetching initial data...
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:52.055Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2025.1.0" location Maison timezone America/Toronto state RUNNING safe_mode false
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:52.935Z <Rule:5:Rule.js:366> Rule#rule-grpol1jp4l Summer Day At Home requesting eval; entity-changed from Entity#hass>input_select_house_mode
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:52.936Z <Rule:5:Rule.js:366> Rule#rule-grp15p0yq5k Summer Evening At Home requesting eval; entity-changed from Entity#hass>input_select_house_mode
[latest-25016]2025-02-06T00:58:52.936Z <Rule:5:Rule.js:366> Rule#rule-grpol67dc7 Summer Night At Home requesting eval; entity-chang
  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    Well, I just added wait_all_controllers: true and got the following:

    81d0112f-8abe-48d4-aa9d-45dfb5898264-Screenshot 2025-02-05 194050.png

    Commented out the wait_all_controllers: true and change the startup_wait from 60000 to 120000. Will be re-testing my test case shortly.

    Standby

  • [SOLVED]Hass websocket falsely reporting ready on boot??
    V vezinpi

    Hi, @toggledbits

    I just noticed that following a reboot of my raspberry pi, some of the rules, that I was expecting to recover, are not catching up following a reboot. I have made a simple test rule (rule-m6rz6ol1) with only "after Date/time" as trigger and "turn on a lamp" as a set reaction. All my infrastructure is on the same board so Reactor, Hass, Zwavejs, ... are all rebooting.

    Here is the sequence of the test case (All time converted to Zulu to match logs):

    • Rule "after Date/Time" set to 14:05:00z
    • Shutdown on Raspberry Pi at 14:04:00z
    • Power back up at 14:08:00z
    • Rule overview shows true as of 14:08:14z waiting for 00:00:00 in GUI

    From the log I can see that MSR is picking up the rule and knows that the state of the rule has changed from false to true and tries to send the update to HASS but failed with websocket error.

    Here is what I see from the log:

    • 14:04:04z shutdown complete
    • 14:08:08z Power up
    • 14:08:13.111z websocket connection
    • 14:08:15:323z Reaction to the light failed, Websocket not opened
    • After there is a series of websocket connection attempt until 14:08:51z where it seemed to be really ready.

    Back in 2021 we had a discussion (https://smarthome.community/topic/700/solved-start-up?_=1738766986566) and you proposed to add a startup_delay:xxxx and startup_wait:xxxx parameter in the engine section of "reactor.yaml". When I try the startup_delay (this used to be a hard delay), the engine failed to start (I think). I then try the startup_wait:xxxx without any success. Since it wait for the connection status to be up to cancel the delay, it does not do anyting since Hass is reporting the socket up without really being up ( I think...).

    Questions:

    • Did I figured it all wrong?
    • should the startup_delay:xxxxx have worked?
    • Any ideas?

    Here is the log:

    OK now I am stuck. I did add the log but when I submit the editor complained saying that I am limited to 32767 characters. The log from the shutdown to the time the websocket is stable is about 300000 character long. What are my options?

  • [Solved] Local expression evaluation
    V vezinpi

    @tunnus @toggledbits Thank you both for all your explanation.

    Much appreciated.

  • [Solved] Local expression evaluation
    V vezinpi

    @toggledbits said in [Solved] Local expression evaluation:

    Also: it's not correct to compare a time string to another time string. Basically, everything about this expression won't work.

    I understand that, as you explained, expression cannot auto evaluate based on time. However when manually trigger, the expression do work as intended with time and all.

    I Know that your not in the business of teaching others how to code but does it means that, inside an expression, we should never attempt to perform actions based on time like:

    if strftime("%H:%M:%S") < "08:00:00" then
    ...

    Thanks

  • [Solved] Local expression evaluation
    V vezinpi

    Roger that. Up to this point I was really thinking that It would work like Date/Time.

    Thank you.

  • [Solved] Local expression evaluation
    V vezinpi

    Trying to understand what cause a local expresssion to be evaluated. I have read the manual but I am still not clear about it. Using the test rule below, I can see in the log that the rule is being automatically evaluated every time the temperature entity is changing. That is great...

    What I am trying to understand is why the expression is not evaluated based on time as well since the "case" statement has time dependencies.

    Any help would be appreciated

    I have the following test rule:

    eba6a3ea-ff61-4610-88c9-9b9864f11ff8-Screenshot 2025-01-21 095244.png

    2d9c1ff5-7b73-4005-b324-9029c2709db9-Screenshot 2025-01-21 095302.png

    Here is the expressioncode:

    vFrom1 = "09:25:00",
vFrom2 = "09:30:00",
vFrom3 = "09:41:00",
vTo = "10:55:00",

# Get current time (format HH:MM:SS)
vToDay = strftime("%H:%M:%S"),

#Get current house temperature
CurrentHouseTemp = getEntity( "hass>Thermostat2 " ).attributes.temperature_sensor.value,

case
  when CurrentHouseTemp <= 19 and vToDay >= vFrom1 && vToDay <= vTo: "true1"   # From1
  when CurrentHouseTemp <= 20 and vToDay >= vFrom2 && vToDay <= vTo: "true2"     # From2
  when CurrentHouseTemp < 26  and vToDay >= vFrom3 && vToDay <= vTo: "true3"  # From3
  else "false"
end
  • Reactor-Editor / Reactor-ui-Status Errors
    V vezinpi

    Thanks for the update and sorry about the timeout issue, I was not aware of it.

    Here is the requested rule:

    ac60b96d-b639-4baf-95d4-853332bc62be-image.png

    10cbe2e7-0af9-4ede-afa8-060b0f99befe-image.png

    f9282548-9462-4c52-a125-dc57fc9c3fa6-image.png

  • Reactor-Editor / Reactor-ui-Status Errors
    V vezinpi

    @toggledbits Sorry about that. I wrote a second post following that one but probably never hit submit. My bad

    MSR Version 24302

    I simply push the play button for the "Set reaction" of a rule. The action performed as expected even with the error message. (since this happened yesterday, I am just re-typing the error from the screen capture for easy reading)

    EDIT 1: I noticed that the error message was showing 15 second after I push the play button. Since I have a delay in the "Set reaction", I try to remove it and this error is gone. Somehow the delay I am using prior to the "Entity Action" is causing this timeout error.

    Error: Command timeout (195 start_reaction) at _ClientAPI._commandTimeout (http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/clientAPI.js:552:136)

    Screenshot 2024-12-29 231851.png

    Here is a different one, more inline with this post, that I just did by editing a "Date/Time" trigger from 8:05h to 8:10h and save. The error message occured when I pushed the save button. The action (save) actually work despite the error message.

    TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getEditor')
    at RuleEditor.makeExprMenu (http://192.168.2.163:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/rule-editor.js:1788:86)
    at Object.handler (http://192.168.2.163:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/rule-editor.js:2174:54)
    at http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/MessageBus.js:49:44
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at MessageBus._sendToBus (http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/MessageBus.js:46:54)
    at MessageBus.send (http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/MessageBus.js:57:44)
    at ExpressionEditor.publish (http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/Observable.js:51:37)
    at ExpressionEditor.notifySaved (http://192.168.2.163:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/ee.js:82:14)
    at ExpressionEditor.notifySaved (http://192.168.2.163:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/expression-editor.js:47:15)
    at http://192.168.2.163:8111/reactor/en-US/lib/js/reactor-ui-rules.js:1459:28

    c362f2b0-9df3-4d0f-b20f-7c871a930c43-Screenshot 2024-12-30 130650.png

  • [Solved] Error dialog running reaction in build 24302
    V vezinpi

    Not sure that it is the same issue but just got this on built 24302 when running a reaction for testing purpose. Despite the error message, the reaction ran properly.

    Error: Command timeout (195 start_reaction)
    at _ClientAPI._commandTimeout (http://192.168.2.163:8111/client/ClientAPI.js:552:136)

    1a3422eb-d760-4609-a740-a40d04a6bab2-Screenshot 2024-12-29 231851.png

  • Reactor-Editor / Reactor-ui-Status Errors
    V vezinpi

    I do not think that this issue is limited to MAC computers. I also have seen similar errors with Chrome from a PC running Win 11.

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