Vera Alerts - Plugin Version 7.23

RichardTSchaefer · December 9, 2014, 2:29pm

@ cyanet

Refresh your browser
Goto Vera ALerts - Verify that the Scene does not show up in the list for notifications.
Goto the scene that is alerting.
Do you see LUA code ?
If so than post it

If not than it should not be reporting … If you are getting notifications, what is the Text of the notification ?
Have you done a Report to see where the identified message text is coming from ?
Maybe you also have a device notification.

mda · December 11, 2014, 7:21pm

@RTS - i had to factory reset my vera and start rebuilding it from scratch (fun times) and have so far just setup my z-wave nodes and the Ademco plug-in and Vera Alerts plug-in from the app store. Once in a while when luup reloads i get these errors in my log and then Luup restarts by itself and all is fine (Vera Alerts is device #3):

01 12/11/14 11:09:44.794 Device_LuaUPnP::LoadDeviceDoc can't load /etc/cmh-lu//D_VeraAlert.xml <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:44.795 JobHandler_LuaUPnP::CreateDevice_LuaUPnP failed to load 3/D_VeraAlert.xml so device 3 is offline <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:45.054 Device_LuaUPnP::CreateServices Aborting device 3 because the topmost device has no interface <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:45.055 JobHandler_LuaUPnP::CreateAllServices failed to create 3 <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:45.329 UPnPAction_Send::ParseState can't find name <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:45.525 Device_LuaUPnP::CreateImplementations Aborting 3 because it failed to load <0x2b0eb000> 01 12/11/14 11:09:45.525 JobHandler_LuaUPnP::CreateAllImplementations failed to create 3 <0x2b0eb000>

Odd that Vera is looking for Vera Alerts /etc/cmh-lu//D_VeraAlert.xml since (a) it never is there and (b) its in /etc/cmh-ludl (where i think it belongs).

The “ParseState can’t find name” error seems to come from the Ademco plug-in and not be related to this (i get that on every reload, do not think it causes a problem, and have already opened a ticket with TS since Florin wrote it – though i don’t expect a fix from MCV sadly)

Do you have any idea what might be going on / what i should do to fix VA? Thanks much.

RichardTSchaefer · December 11, 2014, 7:36pm

Looks like it failed to Download the plugin.
That message is generated by Vera itself.
This may be a timing issue because MCV just approved a Vera Alerts release this morning. So it’s tying to download, and maybe having a problem.

Actually the // in the file is strange … but when it works properly with the detailed log turned on it also has // in the file names. (Not just my plugin)

mda · December 11, 2014, 7:38pm

Cool, thanks. I’ll attribute it to some combination of update pending + cosmic rays and get back to rebuilding

YzRacer · December 11, 2014, 8:40pm

Richard, just wanted to let you know the latest Android update fixed my connection woes from overseas. Much appreciated sir.

Any way I can customize the picture/video storage location and prevent deletion? I successfully mounted my nas to the Vera today.

RichardTSchaefer · December 11, 2014, 10:19pm

The pictures are stored in /tmp space and cleaned up quickly on the Vera side.
There might be some way to store pictures for your cameras locally … need to check in the security forum.

I heard rumors of Vera providing the ability to store images on the cloud .

cyanet · December 12, 2014, 11:49am

Thank You version 6.29 has stopped alerting all the scenes. However when running report they are still listed. Going to scene shows no LUUP code defined or user notified.

Is there a way to remove those scenes from reporting

RichardTSchaefer · December 12, 2014, 12:40pm

That’s intentional.
It shows ALL notifications and scenes that can have alerts … and for the ones that have alerts, it shows who is getting them.

The Notification Configuration tab shows ONLY the currently active Notifications and Scenes.

AndreasE · December 23, 2014, 6:06pm

Running UI7 and Vera Alerts v 6.29.

Vera Alerts only alerts reboots and changes in the configuration, not the alerts I’ve set up under Notification Configuration. Why is this?

RichardTSchaefer · December 24, 2014, 12:11am

Goto Settings Page

Verify Notifications on Top is checked
Select your USER on Lower Left
Make sure there is an associated profile on Lower Right

Save Changes
Refresh browser

chixxi · January 7, 2015, 11:39am

Even though version 6.31 doesn’t seem to be available yet on apps.mios.com I have already installed it (I reported this bug years ago).

I was surprised and excited to see pushbullet support. I am able to send camera-images with “{Picture(DeviceID)}” to my devices. Then I wanted to add a title (according to Pushbullet API and Vera Alerts - Vera Plugin for Notifications) this should work like this “{title=TEST}{Picture(DeviceID)}”. The image is still sent, but no changes in title. Did I get something wrong?

Another little detail: On your support page (Vera Alerts - Vera Plugin for Notifications) “Pushpullet” is misspelled several time, also in the link.

Edit: This example already works fine enough for me “Motion Alarm{Picture(DeviceID)}”

RichardTSchaefer · January 7, 2015, 2:29pm

When I send a Picture … I use a file PUSH. The file PUSH does not support the title attribute.
When I send a url … I use a link PUSH. Otherwise I use a note PUSH.

I fixed the spelling errors … thanks for reporting.

jolerius · January 9, 2015, 11:21am

is there anyway to update thios plugin remotely? I am away over the weekend and want the pushbullet support sooooo badly

korttoma · January 9, 2015, 11:27am

To update “VeraAlerts” remotely

https://////data_request?id=update_plugin&Plugin=3008

for example my remote server is fwd7.mios.com

same can be use for other plugins allso if you can find the plugin number from apps.mios

jolerius · January 9, 2015, 1:59pm

Does this work on UI7??

integlikewhoa · January 9, 2015, 2:08pm

ui6 and ui7 use different servers. So the address he posted is a forward server from UI5.

RichardTSchaefer · January 9, 2015, 2:36pm

You can NOT use this technique to remotely upgrade UI6 or UI7. You must be local … If you have AutoUpdate turned on for that plugin, it should update itself.
But then you are assuming I will make no mistakes … and you know what they say about people that AssUMe.

jolerius · January 9, 2015, 9:55pm

I guided my wife into it. But I’m still at version 6.29… Why is it like that? I ran the update link locally. And then it came up a new page saying OK…

clabos · January 18, 2015, 12:23am

Hi. I am trying to use VeraAlerts to send events to my Eventghost but I am struggeling. I have created a “Vera-Alerts-LAN” profile and entered the host ip (192.168.0.44) and port (80). I want VeraAlert to make a request like this: “192.168.0.44/ajax.html?.”.

When looking in the Vera log it seems as the host and port is combined (as they should) into “192.168.0.44:80” but if I add “/ajax.html?test.test” it is combined into the GET statement I am looking for. I have not been able to work out if the {url:Destination;Description} thing can be used in some way. I have looked at the traffic on the Eventghost side (with Wireshark) and the message as specified in VeraAlerts appears as a separate segment.

It seems to be a great plugin, I just don’t understand how to do this (hopefully) simple thing

RichardTSchaefer · January 18, 2015, 12:36am

The LAN profile does NOT use a HTTP request.

It opens the specified port and sends the messages as a string.

You would have to write a filter on your target device that reads the string and forwards via http to your target url.

The {url:…} syntax is for embedding a URL into the message string. This will not do what you want.

See:
http://rts-services.com/Android/VeraAlerts/#Usage

For an example of how sending a message to a LAN profile is implemented in LUA.