EvoControl - custom Alexa skill for Evohome

[philchillbill]

Haven't been here for a while, summer and too many other things to do, but just tried to use the skill and its saying.

"FYI your version of Domoticz is no longer supported'
When I opened the skill about 1-3 weeks ago, It didn't do this and I haven't updated Domotiz for a while.
I am currently on Version: 2023.1

I see you are now supporting HA... however at present Domoticz does everything I need and I can't face the hassle of switching just yet.
I hadn't copied the letsencrypt keys across for a while (really need to automate this), but have done this now and can access Domoticz via its https address.

BTW is there any where I can see a summary of latest changes and FAQs etc as searching through this thread can be a pain, I did have a look, but sorry if I missed something about this.

Yep, it's in post #593 like Paul said. However, just get on a recent beta (from after June 1st), slide the allow basic-auth slider in the Domoticz UI security tab to 'on', and make sure you add a user to Domoticz with the same username/password as you have for your proxy.

[bruce_miranda]

Don't you also have to give access to all the Evohome devices to this new user? I think its time someone wrote a new starter guide for evofw3, ramses_cc, HA, Domoticz, EvoControl etc.

[philchillbill]

Don't you also have to give access to all the Evohome devices to this new user? I think its time someone wrote a new starter guide for evofw3, ramses_cc, HA, Domoticz, EvoControl etc.

Are you volunteering, Bruce?

[bruce_miranda]

Might do it for HA....Domoticz, nope absolutely not. I am still trying to sterilise my VM after I had to reload that horrible piece of software. Can't believe I used to develop code for that thing at one point.

[philchillbill]

The Graphing/USB tab on the EvoControl website at https://smartskills.tech/evocontrol now explains in full how to set up either Domoticz or HA for use with the skill.

[Stevedh]

Thanks.

Yep, it's in post #593 like Paul said. However, just get on a recent beta (from after June 1st), slide the allow basic-auth slider in the Domoticz UI security tab to 'on', and make sure you add a user to Domoticz with the same username/password as you have for your proxy.

Hi, I am not sure what is meant by this step.

'make sure you add a user to Domoticz with the same username/password as you have for your proxy.'
or this
'Assign the same username and password to this user as you use with your ngrok tunnel or with apache/nginx.'

I don't use a proxy and Domitcz as far as I can tell connects using its own inbuilt server.

The https url I use points straight to the linux machine hosting Domitcz and port 443 is directed straight to it.

However as suggested, an update to a newer Beta fixed the issue... basically the error

' The response was not from a valid Domoticz instance' ?

pretty much meant what it said

[philchillbill]

I don't use a proxy and Domitcz as far as I can tell connects using its own inbuilt server.

The https url I use points straight to the linux machine hosting Domoitcz and port 443 is directed straight to it.

Indeed no need for a proxy if you only wish to expose a single IP address on your LAN to 443 externally (your router's routing table can be configured to do that).

[philchillbill]

I pulled the power on my boiler today and TCC returned a BoilerCommunicationLost error in activeFaults. Domoticz has it as (4) FAULT: COMMS FAULT on ACTUATOR(2902da).

I've added it to EvoControl's list of known faults.

[bruce_miranda]

I pulled the power on my boiler today and TCC returned a BoilerCommunicationLost error in activeFaults. Domoticz has it as (4) FAULT: COMMS FAULT on ACTUATOR(2902da).

I've added it to EvoControl's list of known faults.

I find it incredibly lazy on Resideo's part that the API provides a way for the controller to tell the TCC mothership exactly what the error is. But the TCC does not notify the mobile app of them. What is the point of that!!

[s.w.webb1]

How do I copy a schedule between zones? e.g. copy my "B" schedule form one zone, onto B in another zone?

[philchillbill]

How do I copy a schedule between zones? e.g. copy my "B" schedule form one zone, onto B in another zone?

From the online help (Section titled 'Schedule Editing'):

It's also possible to copy entire schedule blocks from zone to zone. Tap on a tile on the main dashboard to select the donor zone. Select 'View' and then choose either the Live schedule or any of the ABC-presets, as desired. Next, choose 'More' and then 'Copy To'. This will launch a zone-selector which looks like the Group-selector screen familiar from group-creation. When you have selected all the target zones, pressing 'Finish' will complete the cloning process.

[s.w.webb1]

[philchillbill]

Good one. A new feature I'm implementing broke something I had not spotted. Should work now.

[s.w.webb1]

[s.w.webb1]

Good one. A new feature I'm implementing broke something I had not spotted. Should work now.

Is there potentially a related issues with viewing line charts? I get the same performance

Zone > View > More > Line Chart

Gives me a flash of a UI, then reverts to schedule set points.