Hello,
I am currently running Home Assistant and Vera at the same time. I have installed a couple of ZEN32 5 button controllers but having issues getting the additional buttons to control my Vera devices. Am using the ZEN32 (Z-wave JS) blueprint which works well for devices on HASS. In developer tools I can use the Light:Toggle service and toggle my kitchen light through Vera. If I create the same action through the ZEN blueprint it doesn't work.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Roger

Feedback / solutions with openLuup's built-in Shelly bridge.

Just noticed that when trying to reorder some expressions, e.g. move the most recent one from the bottom of the list to the first, this new order didn't "stick".

At first yes, but when visiting some other menus (obviously saving before that) and then coming back, the moved item was in its original position (in the end of the list).

I currently have 29 global expressions (which may or may not have some relevance to this problem). Using build 21281 on linux.

Can log a PR with logs, if this seems hard to reproduce.

Just updated to latest 21294, ran usual update, It appears to start ok in console, but will not load in browser. The NODE_path looks correct but the console log show the below error.

log

NODE_PATH /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor: [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.542Z <app:null> Reactor latest-21294-c13ea5d starting on v14.15.4 [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.546Z <app:INFO> Process ID 14540; platform android/arm #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 16 09:21:08 CST 2019; locale en_US.UTF-8 [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.547Z <app:INFO> Basedir /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor; data in /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor/storage [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.548Z <app:INFO> NODE_PATH /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor/app.js:231 throw new Error(a0_0x4c6635(0xd9) + process[a0_0x4c6635(0xdb)][a0_0x4c6635(0x107)] + '\x20does\x20not\x20point\x20to\x20the\x20Reactor\x20install\x20directory'); ^ Error: Environment NODE_PATH=/data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor: does not point to the Reactor install directory at Object.<anonymous> (/data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor/app.js:231:15) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:72:12) at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47 NODE_PATH /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor: [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.796Z <app:null> Reactor latest-21294-c13ea5d starting on v14.15.4 [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.800Z <app:INFO> Process ID 14547; platform android/arm #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 16 09:21:08 CST 2019; locale en_US.UTF-8 [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.801Z <app:INFO> Basedir /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor; data in /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor/storage [latest-21294]2021-10-23T15:55:41.801Z <app:INFO> NODE_PATH /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/reactor/app.js:231 throw new Error(a0_0x4c6635(0xd9) + process[a0_0x4c6635(0xdb)][a0_0x4c6635(0x107)] + '\x20does\x20not\x20point\x20to\x20the\x20Reactor\x20install\x20directory'); ^ ```===group ```java

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Hi @toggledbits and others,

Could you help me out with the following use case? I have a z-wave module that doesn't have scene functionality, but I want to trigger a double click action on the switch.

What is the easiest way to do this in reactor? I'm struggling with this and I think I'm thinking too complex at this point.

I have an odd issue which seems to be only for Fibaro wall plugs. They come in to Z-Way with two "electric meter" entrys, one "Power" meter and a couple of alarm entrys. In addition to the switch that is.

One of the "electric meters" is KWh and the other one is seemingly Watts, but it stays at 0/-1w. The "Power" meter shows the Watts used right now.

When these come into openluup, the wrong electric meter is selected for displaying the Watts, is there any way to manipulate which one openLuup uses? I see that the sub channel for power also is transferred, but it isn't in the data Veraflux is transmitting to my influxdb..

Haven't used the watts reading for anything before now, now i want to estimate when my dryer is done based on power usage. 🙂

I noticed this morning something that have seen in the past but forgotten about.

When I restart the OpenLuup server (in my case an Ubuntu PC) the Vera and Z-way bridges do not get in contact with the corresponding servers, i.e. are shown in red in AltUI. The solution for me is to make a "Relaod Luup engine" and then they are ok. I do not know if it is a general issue or only for my setup.

To be honest it is not much of a problem since OpenLuup is so stable. If and when you restart the server the hazzle of reloading is not that big. In fact I had forgotten about it since it was so long ago I had to restart anything...

The one use case I can think of is that the server gets restarted due to a power outage or something and if you are not at home the system does not fully recover without manual interaction. I my case I have the server on an UPS, but still a thought.

Is this a known issue and is it something that can be addressed somehow? As I said low priority, at least for me. 🙂

I'm using this (relatively) new option "Suppress alerts on HTTP errors", but for one reason or another MSR is still showing HTTP errors on Status page?

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(tested with build 21297)

The drums are beating - what's the truth in the rumor?

A few new functions have worked their way into Reactor's expression language over the last couple of months, and while they are documented in the change logs and documentation, it seems some of you are not aware of them, so I'm going to pick one out and highlight it, maybe do others later...

A lot of you build strings in expressions by simple concatenation, and there's nothing wrong with that, but there's a new function in the expression language that can help you clean things up, in particular when handling numeric values.

I've noticed many of you will round your results either on the calculation, or in some cases, in a separate variable. For example, say we have a pair of expressions that retrieves the indoor and outdoor temperature from a sensor and the weather service:

indoor = getEntity( 'hubitat>144' ).attributes.temperature_sensor.value' ) outdoor = getEntity( 'weather>home' ).attributes.wx.temperature

The weather service, since it converts from degrees K in its reporting to degrees C, may have an irrational or repeating value (e.g. 8.233333333...). As a result, when you compute the difference, it, too, may have an irrational or repeating result, so you decide to round it to one decimal:

tempDiff = round( outdoor - indoor, 1 )

Then, perhaps you have a rule that if the differential is greater than 10 degrees, you send a notification, and the notification uses all three variables in the message string:

${{ 'The outdoor temperature is ' + outdoor + 'C and the indoor temperature is ' + indoor + 'C; the difference is ' + tempDiff + 'C' }}

This is fine, except that the outdoor temperature isn't rounded, so you decide to fix that. There are at least three ways: add a round() to the outdoor variable expression, or create a third variable like outdoorRounded = round( outdoor, 1 ), or, use the round() function into the substitution expression

${{ 'The outdoor temperature is ' + round( outdoor, 1 ) + 'C and the indoor temperature is ' + indoor + 'C; the difference is ' + tempDiff + 'C' }}

It's all getting very messy... Let's use format() instead of string concatenation, and not worry about rounding the difference, so we keep the maximum precision possible for any calcs or tests that use it. We go back to:

indoor = getEntity( 'hubitat>144' ).attributes.temperature_sensor.value' ) outdoor = getEntity( 'weather>home' ).attributes.wx.temperature tempDiff = outdoor - indoor

Now our string substitution:

${{ format( "The outdoor temperature is {0:.1f}C and the indoor temperature is {1:.1f}C; the difference is {2:.1f}C", outdoor, indoor, tempDiff ) }}

Here, format() is building the message string. Each {} (curly-brace) pair denotes the substitution of a parameter to follow. The number first inside the opening curly brace is the parameter number, starting from 0 as the first parameter. So parameter 0 in this example refers to the variable outdoor, and 1 is indoor, and 2 is tempDiff. Using the numbers, parameters can be inserted in any order.

Each of these substitutions in the example includes an optional format specification. If no format specification is given (e.g. {0}), then the parameter is converted to a string with no special formatting, but since we can get numbers like 8.233333... it's desirable to use some formatting to make it pretty. The format is separated from the parameter number by the : (colon) in the substitution. The format we're using for all three parameters is .1f, which is <width>.<precision>f. Any number before the dot is a fixed field width, but since we want no extra spaces, we just don't specify a width (it's blank for our example), and the value will take as much space as it needs. The f at the end tells format() that the value is going to be formatted as a floating point number, and the .1 before the f tells the formatter to display a single decimal digit. So our 8.23333333 value would be displayed as 8.2, without using extra functions or variables, or dropping precision in a calculation. For clarity, 10.875 would be displayed/inserted as 10.9 in this example, because the formatter will round the displayed result to the specified number of decimal digits.

Tip: for simple string insertions that require no special formatting, format() will let you skip the parameter numbers if the parameters are in the same order as the substitutions, and the default format is (generic) string (s), so format( "{} x {} = {}", "alpha", "beta", "gamma" ) produces the string alpha x beta = gamma.

Docs for format are in the Reactor documentation under the heading Special Reactor Functions.

@toggledbits Master, following the discussion of this thread, the variable FaultMSG is composed with the list of devices that will be displayed, example below.

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As you can see, the final string of devices, not sorted by name, follows the array generated by the device ID, composed one step earlier.

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Is it possible to sort by device name? Before generating the string? I think when generating the array?

Thanks.

Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here.

Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions; Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating; Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later; Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase; Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions; Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.

Is there a way to back-up MSR Rule Sets and Configuration. I need to update my QNAP Container Station MSR install which I understand is not straight forward. If it all goes pear-shaped, and I loose my Rule Sets and Configuration, I wondered if it could be restored from a previous back-up?

Also, can someone possibly point me to the best method to update the MSR install on my QNAP?

Hello!

I want to trigger an event (like switching on a smart Zigbee power plug) when a regular light switch (that switches regular non-smart LED light bulbs) is flipped. Is there something I can put behind a light switch to achieve this? Or something to splice in between the switch and the light bulbs? A good option would also be Hue compatible.

Thank you!

Hi

I have some devices on my Vera Plus controller that sometimes change to say "Can't detect device".

I can clear those red banners that show up in the Vera UI7 web GUI, for a device by running some LUA code like this:

luup.set_failure(0, 331)

Maybe I can use the new MSR matchEntities to find and detect any devices on Vera that have developed the "Can't detect device" error and then reset them. ?

I can currently manually specify a particular problem device in a ruleset trigger like this:

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But if I could have a rule that automatically detects any device that develops this problem that would be better.

Thanks

@toggledbits I added an IP camera to my Ezlo for testing and my global variable for Ezlo devices that are not responding randomly do a quick toggle from empty to "IP camera" then back to empty.
Is it the controller interface not supporting IP cameras or something else causing this?
@2021-10-19T23:24:07.826Z

[latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.043Z <Engine:NOTICE> Resuming reaction Schema - Dräneringspump<SET> (rule-ktd8obiy:S) from step 2 [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.043Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1504> Engine#1 reaction rule-ktd8obiy:S step 2 perform { "entity": "vera>device_53", "action": "power_switch.off" } [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.043Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1407> _process_reaction_queue() task returned, new status 3; task 29 [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.044Z <VeraController:null> VeraController#vera enqueue task for Entity#vera>device_53 action power_switch.off: task { "newTargetValue": "0", "DeviceNum": 53, "id": "action", "serviceId": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1", "action": "SetTarget" } [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.044Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1442> _process_reaction_queue ending with 1 in queue; none delayed/ready; waiting [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.048Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1442> _process_reaction_queue() wake-up! [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.049Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1403> _process_reaction_queue() running task 29 { "tid": 29, "id": "rule-ktd8obiy:S", "rule": "rule-ktd8obiy", "__reaction": [RuleReaction#rule-ktd8obiy:S], "next_step": 3, "status": 1, "ts": 1634684400015, "parent": --null--, "__resolve": --function--, "__reject": --function--, "__promise": [object Promise], "attempts": 3 } [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.049Z <Engine:NOTICE> Resuming reaction Schema - Dräneringspump<SET> (rule-ktd8obiy:S) from step 3 [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.049Z <Engine:INFO> Schema - Dräneringspump<SET> all actions completed. [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.049Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1407> _process_reaction_queue() task returned, new status -1; task 29 [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:10:00.050Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1442> _process_reaction_queue ending with 0 in queue; none delayed/ready; waiting [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:17:00.724Z <VeraController:ERR> VeraController#vera update request failed: FetchError: network timeout at: http://127.0.0.1:3480/data_request?id=status&DataVersion=574966431&Timeout=15&MinimumDelay=100&output_format=json&_r=1634685402721 [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:07.826Z <EzloController:WARN> EzloController#ezlo warning: update parameter serviceNotification for Entity#ezlo>device_615e11a7129e071220cb5f8d not previously defined! (value now (boolean)false) [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:07.826Z <EzloController:WARN> EzloController#ezlo warning: update parameter syncNotification for Entity#ezlo>device_615e11a7129e071220cb5f8d not previously defined! (value now (boolean)false) [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:07.828Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-ku32xyj5 evaluation in progress; waiting for completion [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:07.828Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kue8adhf evaluation in progress; waiting for completion [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:07.828Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:981> Engine#1 set global EzloDevicesNotResponding; value=(string)IP Camera [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.474Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-ku32xyj5 evaluation in progress; waiting for completion [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.475Z <Rule:INFO> Rule#rule-kue8adhf evaluation in progress; waiting for completion [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.476Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:981> Engine#1 set global EzloDevicesNotResponding; value=(string) [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.482Z <Rule:INFO> Notifiering - Ezlo devices OK (Rule#rule-kue8adhf) SET! [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.483Z <Engine:5:Engine.js:1442> _process_reaction_queue() wake-up! [latest-21292]2021-10-19T23:24:12.487Z <Rule:INFO> Notifiering - Ezlo devices OK (Rule#rule-kue8adhf) RESET!

I am trying to display the primary attribute on this device like all my other Hubitat devices. The attribute is x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Status. This gives an error in the log. I can't see what I am doing wrong with this one. Do I need to to something different to display this?
Log:

[latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.141Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking... [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.166Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass attempting reconnection to ws://192.168.1.21:8123/api/websocket [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.168Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting via WS to ws://192.168.1.21:8123/api/websocket [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.246Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.269Z <app:INFO> Structure running; pausing for controllers' initial ready [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.273Z <HubitatController:NOTICE> HubitatController#hubitat not ready; performing initial connect/query [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.290Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connected, starting protocol [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.296Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass successful authentication with ws://192.168.1.21:8123; fetching initial data... [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.300Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass Hass reports version "2021.10.5" location Home timezone America/Chicago state RUNNING safe_mode false [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.303Z <HassController:ERR> HassController#hass reported Hass version "2021.10.5" is not supported! [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.379Z <HassController:NOTICE> Controller HassController#hass is now online. [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.563Z <default:ERR> [Entity:setPrimaryAttribute] Attempt to set primary to x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Status invalid, not in { "x_hubitat": { "id": "568", "name": "BlinkAPI", "commands": [ "ArmSystem", "Authorize", "CheckSyncModule", "DisableMotionDetection", "DisarmSystem", "EnableMotionDetection", "GetCameraInfo", "GetCameraLiveView", "GetCameraSensors", "GetCameraStatus", "GetCameraUsage", "GetHomescreen", "GetNetworkStatus", "GetNetworks", "GetNewThumbnail", "GetNotifications", "GetVideoEvents", "ListSchedules", "VerifyPIN", "refresh" ], "capabilities": [ "Actuator", "Refresh", "Sensor" ] }, "x_hubitat_Actuator": { }, "x_hubitat_Refresh": { }, "x_hubitat_Sensor": { }, "x_hubitat_extra_commands": { } } [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.566Z <HubitatController:ERR> HubitatController#hubitat failed to connect/query http://192.168.1.70/apps/api/416: Error: Entity#hubitat>568:setPrimaryAttribute() can't set x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Status, not defined for entity [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.567Z <HubitatController:CRIT> Error: Entity#hubitat>568:setPrimaryAttribute() can't set x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Status, not defined for entity Error: Entity#hubitat>568:setPrimaryAttribute() can't set x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Status, not defined for entity at Entity.setPrimaryAttribute (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Entity.js:403:19) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HubitatController.js:865:183 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HubitatController.js:805:76 at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5) [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.713Z <OWMWeatherController:INFO> OWMWeatherController#weather done; 1 locations, 0 failed [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:23.714Z <OWMWeatherController:NOTICE> Controller OWMWeatherController#weather is now online. [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.577Z <HubitatController:NOTICE> HubitatController#hubitat not ready; performing initial connect/query [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.779Z <HubitatController:INFO> HubitatController#hubitat connecting to hub's eventsocket WebSocket API at ws://192.168.1.70/eventsocket [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.781Z <HubitatController:NOTICE> Controller HubitatController#hubitat is now online. [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.786Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API... [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.791Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine... [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.792Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.792Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [latest-21286]2021-10-16T14:42:48.798Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules...

Screen Shot 2021-10-16 at 10.11.12 AM.png

local_hubitat_devices.yaml:

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Hi,

I feel a bit stupid with this issue since I know it is working and that it worked before.

I just can't seem to have a date range (between) going past dec 31 to work. In the interim, I manage to acheive what I want by using the "not between" equivalent.

I am using MSR on a raspberry Pi and I do have the latest development version (21286).

Here is a screen capture on which I have both the "between" and its equivalent "not Between" just so that you could see it.

I is probably something stupid and apologise in advance.

Thanks

Screenshot 2021-10-18 200518.png

In the background of other work, I've been putting together a build system for the OpenWrt version that Ezlo is using on the Plus. Job done. I can build pretty much any package, which may come in handy some day.

As a test of that, I thought, why not build nodejs... and you know where that leads, right?

It took some doing. There are a lot of dependencies, and the errors you get when the dependencies aren't met correctly can be cryptic and took quite a bit of research and experimentation to resolve... weeks, in fact, over a couple of hours here, a couple there.

But it's done and I now have Reactor running on an Ezlo Plus.

I'm not sure what the long term utility of this might be. Since the new Ezlo philosophy is to upgrade your system automatically on reboots, and so far the upgrades have wiped substantial parts of the file system in my experience, this could be a non-starter as a platform — you wouldn't want your automations to get blown off the machine every time Ezlo upgrades firmware (because you don't know when that's going to be, and Murphy says it will be while you are on vacation with no remote access). But, if there is some place it can be tucked away safely, or if, as probably should be demanded by the user community, updates become elective and user-driven, it actually makes a nice Pi-ish platform to run on.

On to the next skunkworks project...

Timestamps do not match the UI time or the system time:

[latest-21286]2021-10-16T03:10:43.922Z <Engine:INFO> Engine#1 master timer tick, local time "10/15/2021, 8:10:43 PM" (TZ offset -420 mins from UTC)

I tried adding TZ to the docker container with "docker exec reactor apk add tzdata" but there was no change in log timestamps. I have the TZ in the compose file as:

environment: REACTOR_DATA_PREFIX: /var/reactor TZ: America/Los_Angeles

This does set the UI time correctly. The Reactor config is also set correctly:

location: city: "Los Angeles"