I know it can be done with Vera Alerts but…
I have no need for it on my phone
I want to see/use it on a pc which allows me to use excel to sort/graph/report as desired in a millisecond
I also don’t want to touch every item to make sure it is logged… and then every item I ever add/change. This is tedious.
I guess I’ll just pull the full vera logs and clean them with excel. I just figured that since there were a few apps that did something similar it would be easy for the developer to add this functionality. There is an app that displays the full vera log in a web page… that would be great to mod, but I just don’t have time to learn the code since I’m starting a totally new job that I also have to learn.
this should provide an adequate window onto the functioning and interaction of most devices.
The problem being that, otherwise, there are a LOT of devices, a LOT of services, and a LOT of variables, most of which are really not relevant at all. Unless you are wanting to debug something particularly bizarre, this should cover most needs. I’m adding the functionality to do this to the EventServer code, which runs locally to Vera.
My approach was to work with the existing Alternative Event Server and to benefit from using a relational database, however (and someone correct me if I’m wrong), by using luup.variable_watch you could theoretically set it up to write what you want, where you want it.
Another example I have is that I recently install CIFS support on my Vera and have bee n playing with opening a text file up on an external NAS and writing ‘human’ information to it.
Not sure how much of all that helps you, but thought I’d share
I use this to monitor, real-time, when needed…
http:///port_3480/data_request?id=lr_al_log&app=localApp
… If we could find an easy way to save the output to a CSV file we could clean it up using Excel. Ideally, there would be a page just like this, already cleaned, that we could both monitor in real time and save to CSV.
[quote=“Aaron, post:24, topic:175433”]I use this to monitor, real-time, when needed…
http:///port_3480/data_request?id=lr_al_log&app=localApp
… If we could find an easy way to save the output to a CSV file we could clean it up using Excel. Ideally, there would be a page just like this, already cleaned, that we could both monitor in real time and save to CSV.[/quote]
Changing the formatting is the easy bit, it’s the data collection that’s a bit tougher.
Is the subset of information I outlined on the previous post sufficient for your needs?
…being able to watch the major variable for every device in each device category?
I’m so happy to see that there are other people that want this feature.
As I come from homeseer I was quite surprised that this is not included in Vera by default. The Log page is the one thing I miss the most from Homeseer.
The other thing I miss is a list of devices that show the current status and the timestamp of the last change like in the attachment.
Those 2 pages are basicly what I used mostly during my years of homeseer since I want things to work automaticaly and the need to interact with the controller is basicly when you need to modify an “event” (as they are called in homeseer) now I call them PLEGs When you modify something you need to know what is hapening and when.
[quote=“korttoma, post:27, topic:175433”]As I come from homeseer I was quite surprised that this is not included in Vera by default. The Log page is the one thing I miss the most from Homeseer.
The other thing I miss is a list of devices that show the current status and the timestamp of the last change like in the attachment.[/quote]
Fully agree. One of the first things I wrote when I got Vera was some utility code which runs every 5 minutes (because that seemed often enough) and produces reports of device by category in two forms…
Current status:
03-Oct-2013 09:14:09
Light sensors:
57Lx Barn 4-in-1 (light)
48Lx Hall 4-in-1 (light)
107Lx Studio 4-in-1 (light)
Temperature sensors:
18'C Barn 4-in-1 (temp)
16'C Garage - Temperature
15'C Garage Temperature
17'C Greenhouse Temperature
20'C Guest - Temperature
23'C Hall 4-in-1 (temp)
20'C High Temperature
20'C Indoor - Temperature
15'C Low Temperature
17'C Max/Min Temp (greenhouse)
16'C Outdoor - Temperature
15'C Shed Temperature
17'C Studio - Temperature
17'C Studio 4-in-1 (temp)
17'C Studio Temperature
15'C Temperature
15'C Temperature Statistics
Humidity sensors:
68% Barn 4-in-1 (humidity)
83% Garage - Humidity
90% Garage Humidity
87% Greenhouse Humidity
62% Guest - Humidity
45% Hall 4-in-1 (humidity)
99% Humidity
74% Indoor - Humidity
96% Outdoor - Humidity
90% Shed Humidity
77% Studio - Humidity
64% Studio 4-in-1 (humidity)
74% Studio Humidity
Time of last change:
03-Oct-2013 09:14:09
Thursday, Oct 03:
09:14:03 Front Door
09:13:27 Barn 4-in-1 (motion)
Wednesday, Oct 02:
19:00:55 Studio 4-in-1 (motion)
18:57:03 Studio Door
18:56:25 Studio Window
Monday, Sep 30:
18:34:02 Shed Door
13:09:42 Garage Door
Tuesday, Aug 13:
07:21:07 Hall 4-in-1 (motion)
Thursday, May 16:
11:59:01 Barn Door
These all get written to a subdirectory of /www/ so can be viewed from within my firewall by any web browser.
I’m about to migrate these scripts into the EventServer device.
[quote=“akbooer, post:28, topic:175433”][quote=“parkerc, post:26, topic:175433”]If I try that I receive
No handler
I think this is actioned by the LogViewer app, so you have to have that installed?[/quote]
I already have the info viewer app installed (which I think is the same), but considering what you have shared @akbooer I do like what you are showing
Side note - I wrote a post to @gengen earlier about the info viewer app to see where that might go… (http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,13477.msg129624.html#msg129624) And now with this in mind too - which is great stuff - it would be great for users to have all these types of reports/views accessible via one web dashboard…
When you modify something you need to know what is hapening and when.