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I only have one old Vue device so I can't personally confirm that Vue 3 devices will work. There isn't anything in the plug-in that would block or stop it from working with Vue 3 devices as long as they are still using the same API.

The poll settings are PG3 settings. They tell PG3 how often to send a poll event to the plug-in. The value is number of seconds between events.

The "Onecall data query failed" error is a generic message that means the plug-in didn't get anything it could use when it queried the weather server. In almost every case like this, the server is returning an error message saying the API key is invalid. You can get more information about what the plug-in is doing prior to the error by setting the log level to debug. The debug level log will show the exact https query that the plug-in is using and will show what the server returned. If the server is returning an API Key invalid, there is nothing the plug-in nor I as the plug-in's author can do to change that. You'll need to work with OpenWeatherMap to get a valid API key.

My fault, I added a syntax error which causes it to crash on start. Version 2.0.5 should fix that.

The log helped. I think I understand what's happening and I made another change to better detect the dropped connection and attempt to re-connect automatically. This change is in version 2.0.4

I had left a comment in the code wondering if it needed to perform a discovery after the reconnect. So maybe the answer to that is yes. I did add a log message that says it's trying to re-connect and it should log that every 30 seconds while disconnected. Do either of you know if that's happening?

Did you make changes to blue-iris-poly.py file at some point? The update process is failing because it sees that someone changed that file and it doesn't want to nuke those changes. There's a couple of things you can do - 1) revert the file back to it's original using 'git' commands. git checkout blue-iris-poly.py or rm blue-iris-poly.py; git checkout and then do the re-install via the GUI 2) delete the node server and then re-install 3) install the new version to a different slot 4) force git to update the files - git fetch origin master; git reset --hard origin/master The safest way is delete and re-install. Running git commands manually could end up causing problems for future updates unless you also make sure all the permissions/file ownership is correct.

First off, my comments and reasons for not wanting to allow for automated restarts of node servers/PG3 are really because that tends to be used as a band-aid to handle poorly behaving node servers. The right way to do things is to get the node servers to not behave badly. In this case, the node server isn't really behaving badly, it's behaving mostly as intended. When it can't communicate with Blue Iris, it goes into a disconnected state and waits for someone to take action to resolve the issue. Now it could and should handle this better. It should try to re-connect, the code is mostly there, just not the logic to attempt that. In cases like this, where the author has pretty much abandoned the node server, I'll typically take a look if I have time. Unfortunately, I don't always have time to dig into someone else code to figure out how it works and what can be done to resolve any issues. You happened to ask at a time when I'm not real busy so I'm going to try and make some changes. Version 2.0.3 should try to re-connect when it fails to query the Blue Iris server. I have no way to test this.

Yes, for plug-in's it doesn't display historical information, just real-time. The PG3x log itself does display historical information (back to midnight of the current day). Each daily log is saved for 2 weeks, I believe, but there's no way to view those daily logs via the GUI. debug would show the most information, critical shows the least. Typically you'd want to have this set to error or warnings. Those will show (as you might expect) error messages and warning messages. The plug-in developer determines what messages are shows at each level and there isn't any standard for what messages get shown at what level. So how useful each level is, depends on the developer. The log messages are supposed to be just human readable text. Some additional information is included in them by default: date/time, the log level, the module where the message was generated from. For the most part, you can ignore all of that. Here's a breakdown of a log message: DATE TIME Thread Name Module LOGLEVEL MESSAGE 2024-10-27 00:00:35.500 Thread-3 (run_forever) udi_interface DEBUG picos:btn_callback: Button on was Press

From the log, it appears to be working. Successfully set {UID} :: CLIFRS to 0 UOM 25 Successfully set {UID} :: CLIFRS to 1 UOM 25 Successfully set {UID} :: CLIFRS to 2 UOM 25 Successfully set {UID} :: CLIFRS to 3 UOM 25 That shows it setting the fan value to low, medium, high, auto There's nothing in that log that shows it setting the level to 'Not Supported' Based on what I see, the plug-in is working correctly. Have you restarted the Admin Console? If not, try that.

You can set the log level to debug and change the fan level. It looks like the debug log might show what the device sends which would help.

Your device isn't reporting any fan level so that value is correct. That's what was causing the failures after the first fix I added. The code was expecting a fan level and crashed if it didn't see one. It's possible that the code has the field name wrong and that's why it doesn't see it, but there's no documentation on what the field names are so I have no way to check that.

Actually, it's not the same error. It's now failing on 'fanLevel' not 'auto' like it was before. It looks like the code tried to handle the missing key 'fanLevel' but didn't do it right. I've corrected it and released as 2.0.5

I can see what the problem is from the log, but I'm not sure what to do to fix it since I don't know anything about the sensibo devices. It's failing to create a node because when it tries to update the node drivers initially (specifically the CLIMD (mode) node driver, it encounters an error. It's trying to set the mode to 'auto' but 'auto' isn't defined as a valid mode for it to set. The node defines 'cool', 'heat', 'fan', 'dry', and 'auto' as modes that can be sent to the sensibo to control it, but then it defines 'cool', 'heat', and 'fan' as modes that the sensibo can return as the current set mode. However, the sensibo is apparently returning the current mode as 'auto' which crashes the plug-in. I would say the fix is to simply add 'auto' to the list of valid modes the sensibo can return. But the control defines the modes as cool=0, heat=1, fan=2, dry=3, auto=4. While the sensibo mode status is defined as cool=2, heat=1, fan=6(?). So I think that things break if the sensibo ever sends a mode status of 'fan' since 6 isn't defined as a valid mode either. I don't know if the mode status values should match the mode control values or if they really are different. And if they're different, what should the mode status 'auto' be? The API documentation is of no help as it doesn't define what's returned by the calls at all. So I made a guess and changed the mode status to match the mode control values. I just pushed this change out as version 2.0.4 to the production store. See if works.

Yes. They should be running the same version of all OS components. However, the eisy does run a Linux VM specifically to control the wireless network card in the eisy. I believe that is because that specific network card is not supported by FreeBSD.

Yes

Seconds. And you can't slow down data from the local hub. The local hub doesn't accept queries, it pushes the data to the plug-in at the interval defined in the hub firmware.

The log doesn't show anything wrong other than loudness being misspelled. I've fixed that in the code. There's no difference between starting up from a PG3x restart and restarting the plug-in manually. In both cases the plug-in is doing the same thing, in the same order. However, when PG3x is restarting, it is doing a lot to startup all the PI's and it's possible that it's dropping update data if too much gets sent at roughly the same time. I don't really know much about how UDM gets connected to IoX, at what stage in the PG3x restart does it connect, or how it gets the initial data for each node. Possibly it's querying IoX before the plug-in has fully started and then doesn't get any updates unless something changes. I was going to suggest trying to query the zone node(s) and see if that populates everything but I don't see a way to query the node from UDM.

Yes, it's seconds between calls. And yes, that could be made more obvious. The poll configuration was like that when I started using and then later developing PG3 so I never thought to improve the wording.

What you're describing doesn't sound right. If the data is updating in the PG3x Nodes page, but not updating in the Admin Console, the problem shouldn't be in the plug-in as it is only responsible for sending the data to PG3x. However, the only way to debug is using the log files. Set the WeatherFlow plug-in log level to debug and then do a restart. Wait 5 minutes or so, the download the log package from the plug-in log page. Either post that log package here or send it to me in a PM.

The data is displayed in the units that the service returns. The plug-in doesn't have the ability to do unit conversions.

Re: the Tempest / WeatherFlow reliability I can't say that they haven't had issues because they have. But in my experience, they do own up to the issues and have been working to improve their products. I have 2 Air/Sky units, one of which was a very early model and both are still working. I had a "field test" Tempest which did fail and was replaced with a production Tempest. Having 13 different units fail seems unusual, but I've not kept up with what's going on with them to comment one way or the other.

Do you want local access to the data or do you not care? Davis is considered to be a top tier personal weather station equipment and you can get access to the data either locally or via their cloud service. Probably the most expensive option. There's a plug-in for EcoWitt weather stations which I believe is local only. Good selection of different types of sensors. Ambient Weather only allows cloud based access to the data. Tempest (I.E. WeatherFlow) allows both local and cloud based access to the data. Acurite doesn't really allow any access other than via their web/mobile app, but there are work-a-rounds to get local access to the data. Netatmo I know nothing about, but there are plug-ins for it. There is also a plug-in for Meteobridge which can get data from a number of different stations and make it available to Polisy/eisy. I've only personally had the Tempest and an older Acurite station. I've been fairly happy with the Tempest. I think I went through 3 or 4 Acurite stations before getting one that actually worked right and I've not been impressed with their ability to hold up over time.

Without any log information I can only guess, but my guess would be that the plug-in isn't running. It has to be running to create the typed configuration parameters that PG3 then displays with the fields for configuring the controller.

You should be able to view the device link tables and the PLM link table from the ISY. Right click on a device select "Diagnostics" and then show device link table or show isy link table. the former queries the device and the later shows the ISY's internal copy.