After Domoticz, a trial with Gladys to see if it's more user-friendly

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  • What is my profile
    I am 44 years old.
    I am a Technology teacher in a middle school near Dieppe.
    I teach my students to program in Block language with Scratch and to control systems under Arduino with mBlock.
    I have done some programming in Python.
    I introduce home automation to my students thanks to a Home I/O home simulator.

  • What were my needs
    I want to manage my electric heating, my roller shutters, my IP and USB cameras.
    Later, I would like to have controlled outlets or lamps, my water heater, my Google assistant.
    I also want anyone at home to be able to manage and use it.

  • How I got into home automation
    It is with the aim of reducing my energy consumption and using the devices as simply as possible.

  • What materials I have chosen
    I created a home automation system with Domoticz on a raspberry pi B2 that managed:
    – the underfloor heating and the bathroom towel warmer hour by hour every day of the week (Zwave Qubino), with Z-Stick Gen 5 key
    – the roller shutters (Zwave Fibaro)
    – a USB camera, managed with Motion, which took captures every minute and then created a timelapse every day
    – temperature/hygrometry probes (RF433) with daily/monthly evolution curves
    – controlled outlets (RF433) connected to lamps.
    – a NodOn Octan remote control (Zwave) to control the roller shutters and the lamps.

I would therefore like to do the same thing, and even more with Gladys (see below)

  • The most important thing, the implementation (this is the part where you can put photos, plans, in short everything you deem necessary for the description of your installation)

  • What could be the future developments of my installation
    I would like to add
    – the management of the water heater according to the presence/absence of the occupants or a schedule (stop for 10 days then automatic start -vacation-)
    – presence detectors Zipato Zwave to turn on the heating in the office
    – a NodOn Zwave wall switch
    – Qubino Zwave light dimmer modules
    – a D-Link IP camera with captures sent to my Dropbox
    – Nut mini Bluetooth trackers to detect
    – a connected mirror MagicMirror controlled by voice
    – manage the charging of my future Zoé ZE50 (replacement of my ZE40, replacement of my ZE) according to the autonomy I want to have.
    – all controlled via a smartphone app remotely from anywhere and by a tablet installed on the wall in the living room and naturally by voice via the Google pebble and microphones in the rooms (lower the heating by 2°C; Do I need an umbrella today?; What time do I finish work today?..)

  • To conclude a small personal experience feedback (you can highlight the difficulties encountered, the mistakes to avoid, as well as the benefits brought by home automation)
    A bit frustrated because the v4 has just been released and the uses are very limited.
    – no weather because the solution used is no longer usable,
    – no « variable Â» heating management (only On/Off; no Comfort/Reduced/Off; no schedule)
    – I don’t know how to manage presence/absence (with Bluetooth, I think, but I don’t know where to configure it)
    – no scenario for my roller shutters (TV mode: close the 2 on the left and put the one behind at 50%)
    – Docker, I don’t know what it’s for (a function container, I think, but I don’t know how to use it)
    – the MQTT broker, I don’t know how to make it work (I installed one on the same Rpi as Gladys, but I can’t integrate it into the interface. Certainly due to my ignorance of this communication system)

All this is under development, so I will have to arm myself with patience because I don’t know how to program.
I would like to help, but I don’t know how.
I have Arduinos, DHT22 sensors, presence sensors, motors and servomotors, LED strips…

If I can help, let me know.

In any case, BRAVO to Pierre-Gilles for his work over all these years, and to the whole community that helps him to develop this magnificent project.
Your speed of response, your availability to help us gave me the desire to try the Gladys adventure.
I had already informed myself in November 2018 and wanted to see how it evolved. I am not disappointed.

Thank you all and see you soon.

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Hello @gaetanb76!

Thank you for your very detailed feedback, it’s this kind of feedback that drives development forward :slight_smile:

Indeed, as you may have noticed, we are still in beta for v4, and many features are not yet developed/under development.

In any case, I hope you found the software more « user-friendly Â» in general?

The best way to help is to provide feedback like this, test the updates, suggest new ideas, and be present in the community :slight_smile:

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Thanks Pierre-Gilles.
I hope your vacation was relaxing.
Congratulations to Gladys, a great project.
I still don’t understand what Docker is for and whether I need to install it.
I’m tempted by Gladys Plus, I’ll try to find more information.
I can’t connect to Gladys on my Android smartphone with Firefox. I just read that it says it doesn’t work with this browser. Do you confirm?
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Gaëtan

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Thank you! :slight_smile:

If you use Gladys on Raspberry Pi via the official image, you don’t have to install or understand anything, it’s all already there :slight_smile:

Don’t hesitate if you have any questions, and if you find that the website is not clear, don’t hesitate to give me your feedback, I’m interested!

Where did you read that? No, it works well with Firefox normally.

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Citation

I think I misunderstood the following post:

Actually, it’s about setting up Gladys Plus as a Desktop application for Firefox users.

However, when on my Android smartphone, in Firefox, I enter 192.168.1.XX/login
Then I enter my email address and password,
I get a message: Invalid email address or password.
I have deleted the form history, cookies and active connections, the cache and site settings, closed and reopened Firefox, but nothing works.
Any idea what the problem might be?

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Does it work on Chrome, for example?

I would need more information to determine what’s wrong :slight_smile:

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Good evening,
Actually, I can no longer log in to Gladys, regardless of the device, PC or smartphone, and regardless of the browser, Firefox or Chrome.
I clicked on the link to reset the password and, after entering my email address, I get the message:
Success! You should see a password reset link in the Gladys logs

I therefore wanted to see the logs. To do this, I installed node, npm and pm2, then ran a pm2 logs and I don’t get all the logs, only the blue part:

pi@gladys:/ $ pm2 logs
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [all] processes (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.log last 15 lines:
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: --- New PM2 Daemon started ----------------------------------------------------
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Time                 : Mon Jul 20 2020 20:40:31 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: PM2 version          : 4.4.0
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Node.js version      : 10.21.0
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Current arch         : arm
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: PM2 home             : /home/pi/.pm2
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: PM2 PID file         : /home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: RPC socket file      : /home/pi/.pm2/rpc.sock
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: BUS socket file      : /home/pi/.pm2/pub.sock
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Application log path : /home/pi/.pm2/logs
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Worker Interval      : 30000
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Process dump file    : /home/pi/.pm2/dump.pm2
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: Concurrent actions   : 2
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: SIGTERM timeout      : 1600
PM2        | 2020-07-20T20:40:31: PM2 log: ===============================================================================

I have to press Ctrl C to exit

I can therefore not find the reset link.

Do you have enough information to help me?
Thanks in advance

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So it’s not a browser issue!

Oh no, you must have confused it with a tutorial for Gladys 3. In Gladys 4, to access the logs you need to run

docker logs gladys

Nothing to install!

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Hello Pierre-Gilles,
Indeed, it’s easier with the correct command :slight_smile:
I have reset the password and the connection works.
I don’t understand why it didn’t work anymore.
Have a nice day :smiling_face: