Full Disclosure: I’m not certain my issue is VeraAlerts related and plan on contacting MCV on Monday but thought I’d get a head start here.
I have a fairly large implementation with dozens of PLEG conditions as well as related alerts (and of course devices behind them).
I finally took the plunge and update from UI5 to UI7. I’m finding that if I do anything related to alerts or notifications, Lua/Vera wants to reboot - usually multiple times.
If I go in to VeraAlerts, I see “26 Device Notifications were updated” in the notifications area no matter how many times I go in there. I did try to uploade the “J_VeraAlerts” file as the pinned post suggested but it didn’t change anything.
The reboots also happen when selecting notification recipients in a PLEG Action (or even a device notification).
I’m afraid that MCV may not be much of a help so thought I’d throw a line out here.
Good to talk to you again. Happy to finally be up to UI7 (albeit a few issues) so I can get your updates again!
It appears I’m on the latest published version - VeraAlerts 7.15 (UI 1.7.902)
Is there anything I can provide (logs, screenshots, reports, etc) to help? I’m also opening a case with MCV but I assume they’re going to tell me to uninstall VeraAlerts.
EDIT:
I’m running debug and seeing the following during initialization. Not sure if it is relevant:
01 12/18/16 9:46:21.319 ^[[31;1mluup_require can’t find veraUserTemplateDefinitions^[[0m <0x2bb49680>
I did try that as briefly mentioned in my original message. However, I accidentally dropped the .js . I tried again but it still restarts Lua SEVERAL times and then finally says “Failed to save configuration” in the browser after I try exiting the Veralerts Editor.
Another worrying item: It constantly says I have “26 Device Notifications updated.” However, they’re all missing. I just see two scenes at the bottom. Even more interesting is if I go to the advance tab of the VeraAlerts App/Device, I do see all of my alerts in the MsgOverride variable.
I see encoded_lua called out a few times in the file. This file is not readable by the browser if I use the “view” feature in the Luup Files area. (see attached) Is that expected or did a stray character/encoding get in there to keep it from rendering?
Also, it looks like I got the .txt version in there at some point. (attached) Can you remind me where in the file-system these files are stored?
Thanks for your time, Richard.
EDIT: As you’re aware, files are located in /etc/cmh-ludl
I removed the old .txt.lzo file but didn’t change anything (not unexpected). I also took the time to decompress the J_VeraAlerts.js.lzo file and have a look from the the file system’s perspective. The file includes the encoded_lua as expected. However, I did note ^m (control M’s) throughout the document. Likely coming from an encoding change from a windows environment. I’m unfamiliar if that causes problems for Vera or not. Some applications are OK and some need a dos2unix ran against them. Thoughts?
The trailing lines terminators are not a problem.
When you open the Vera Alerts Editor … Does it state “XXX Device Notifications where updated” at the top ?
When you exit the editor … it should restart LUA
Refresh your browser and open the Vera Alerts Editor again.
You should NOT see the “XXX Device Notifications where updated”
If you do there was a problem saving the data. You might need to check the Vera Log file.
Dropping in to say that I’m still struggling with this issue. MCV responds about once per day on average so they haven’t been terribly helpful.
Uninstalling VeraAlerts (and losing HOURS of work) has helped somewhat. However, when I reinstall it, I back to the “26 notifications need updating” message. I close out of the editor, endure 4-6 reloads, get the “Failed to Save Configuration” alert, and then go back in to find nothing has changed.
Since I’ve already committed to destroying my alert work, is there a better way to remove this application and “start fresh”? I get the feeling that removing the app isn’t truly deleting it and its remnants from the system.
Removed all notifications - or at least all of the ones I could find. (Is there a way to see all notifications globally without going in to each device?)
This seemed to stabilize the platform. Vera’s own alerts seemed to work.
Reinstalled VeraAlerts and added the J_VeraAlerts.js file
See attached. It shows “2 devices” need updating but then doesn’t actually list anything. Closing the editor or forcing a reload from the editor then causes several Lua reloads.
Why is this plugin destabilizing Vera? There must be a notification or something still hanging out there.
OK. I stumbled across something. Those two scenes in the above snapshot also had notifications. When I went to the scene, I saw this strange code in the “Also execute the following LuuP code…” section:
–[[StartVeraAlerts]]luup.call_action(‘urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1’,‘DeviceNotification’, {Msg=‘Running%20scene%3A%20Panic%20Off’, Name=‘Panic%20Off’, Description=‘Running%20scene%3A%20Panic%20Off’, DeviceID=0, HouseModeMask=undefined, Service=‘’, Variables=‘’, Recipients =‘tbully%20jkodrik’}, 216)–[[EndVeraAlerts]??? <<–actual question marks in the field not the emoticon.
I couldn’t get the code removed so I deleted both scenes. This stabilized things…HOWEVER…
Now I’m not seeing any notifications “Configure Notifications” area. I’ve tried to delete and reinstall VeraAlerts (and applied the new js file) but still nothing. Because this is a new failure-mode, I’ll read the forums a bit. But hoping for a little help with this one.
Correct. Did you see the edit to my post?