YouTube Live Monday 20 June 2022 at 8:30 PM for the launch of Gladys Assistant 4.9

[pierre-gilles]

Hi everyone!

I’m happy to announce the upcoming YouTube live, this Monday, June 20 at 8:30 PM!

During this live, we’ll talk about Gladys Assistant 4.9, a new version that comes with a highly anticipated feature

I can’t wait to show you all of that — don’t forget to enable reminders on YouTube to receive a notification when the live stream starts

[Phil]

Hello,

Naive question… is it recorded or is there only a live stream, and if it’s not recorded is it lost?

Thanks

[pierre-gilles]

Hi!

It’s recorded, all YouTube live streams are available afterwards as replays on the channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GladysAssistant/videos?view=2&live_view=503

[Phil]

Thanks!
That’s THE link I was missing

[pierre-gilles]

Just a reminder, see you tonight at 8:30 PM on YouTube for the launch of Gladys Assistant 4.9!!

[pierre-gilles]

The schedule for tonight’s live!

Little surprise at the end

[pierre-gilles]

Thank you all for coming to this live!

The replay is available here:

As mentioned during the live, on the occasion of the release of the Amazon Alexa integration, I’m launching a giveaway to win an Amazon Echo Dot 4th generation!

To do this, it’s simple: just sign up for Gladys Plus before June 26, 2022 at 8:30 PM:

Lancement de Gladys Assistant 4.9 avec l'intégration Amazon Alexa ! | Gladys...

[Riquet0077]

Hi P-G,
I’ve just installed Alexa and voted *****. I have quite a bit of latency (the change in Gladys Plus is a bit faster than in Alexa but the local connection (192.168…) doesn’t

[pierre-gilles]

@Riquet0077

Hi P-G,
I just installed Alexa and voted *****.

Thanks! And thanks for your support via Gladys Plus

@Riquet0077

doesn’t update or at least not every time and I have to refresh the page. Normal?

That’s not normal! Which integration are those devices from?

@Riquet0077

By the way, I have a Gladys Plus account but I paired two different Gladys instances to it (one in Belgium and the other in France). I think that’s not a good solution

Ah! It’s not designed to work like that at all, 1 Gladys Plus account = 1 instance. If you connect 2 instances, it makes a mess; it’s really not made for that ^^

@Riquet0077

How do I create a second Gladys Plus, connect only one local instance to it and remove it from the other Gladys Plus?

Disconnect from both instances (Gladys Plus tab in settings), and reconnect to the one you want to keep

If you want to have 2 instances accessible remotely, you have no choice — you need 2 Gladys Plus accounts

[Riquet0077]

This is an Ewelink integration. I just retested with Ewelink live (via the app on the iPhone), the Gladys plus instance updates with latency as well) but not the one via the local address.
In fact, (I just retested) it does not update locally via the iPhone but does via the PC (same latency as Gladys plus). The problem may therefore not be related to Ewelink but to the iPhone connection!

I will log out right away and order a

[pierre-gilles]

@Riquet0077

Actually, (I just retested) it does not update locally via the iPhone but does via the PC (same latency as Gladys Plus). The problem may therefore not be related to Ewelink but to the iPhone connection!

Ok, interesting, on the iPhone what version of iOS is it?

@Riquet0077

Gladys Plus also updates with latency too

Regarding the latency:

• Where are you located approximately?
• Is your connection ADSL or fiber?
• Where is the Gladys instance located?
• On Gladys Plus, in the « Settings » => « Systems » tab, what latency is displayed? It’s a good way to measure the latency

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[Riquet0077]

iPhone XR. iOS 15.5 but I think this was already present before.

location: geographic center of Belgium
ADSL connection
Gladys on my desk 1 m from me

[pierre-gilles]

@Riquet0077

iPhone XR. iOS 15.5, but I think this was already present before.

Ok, so an up-to-date version… That’s weird, I just tested and on my iPhone 12 iOS 15.5 as well, I don’t have the bug:

• Turning on a light via Alexa
• On Gladys Plus and locally, the toggle switches immediately..

Don’t you have a network configuration that could explain this?

Do you also get the bug when you just turn on a device from another browser (like turning on a device from your PC — is it propagated to your mobile in the UI?)

Can anyone else here reproduce the same bug? (even without going through Alexa)

@Riquet0077

connexion ADSL

I think that explains the latency unfortunately ADSL has quite high latency compared to fibre.

Central Belgium is ideal in terms of location, you’re very well placed relative to the Gladys Plus servers.

[Riquet0077]

The bug is not related to Alexa, I experience it directly as well.

I just tested with the MQTT NODE RED request (which I can’t connect to a Smartlife device but which works with Gladys), it doesn’t update on the iPhone but does on the PC (and there, without latency)

The latency is 2 to 3 seconds on Gladys Plus. Locally I have to refresh and it updates with the same latency, I think. So the latency problem is indeed related to the connection.

[djokoss22]

I just tested and have no latency. (I’m in Belgium too )
I only have 11 ms of latency in Gladys compared to your 242 ms.
It’s a network problem on your side, I think.

However, I encountered a problem with device updates in Alexa. If I create a new device on Gladys, no matter how many times I refresh in Alexa, it doesn’t appear. I’m forced to disable the Gladys skill and then add it again in Alexa in order to see the device recently added to Gladys.

[pierre-gilles]

@Riquet0077

it doesn’t update on the iPhone but does on the PC (and there, without latency)

Ok, surprising… If you ever have more information at some point, or an idea of what might be different on your iPhone, don’t hesitate because I’m stuck here I can’t reproduce it!

@Riquet0077

So the latency problem is indeed related to the connection.

Yes, that’s for sure

@djokoss22

On the other hand, I encountered a problem updating devices in Alexa. If I create a new device on Gladys, no matter how much I refresh in Alexa, it doesn’t appear.

Normally you can tell Alexa a phrase like « discover my devices » (something like that) so that Alexa restarts a scan

Does that work?

For the other integrations, is this step necessary or not? Ideally it would be that from Gladys I can ask Alexa to do a scan again, but I haven’t found that API on Amazon’s side (maybe I didn’t search enough )

[Riquet0077]

Hi P-G,
I don’t know if this is related, but the refresh doesn’t

[Riquet0077]

Thanks for the info djokoss22?
The 242 ms latency was a one-off peak yesterday at the time of the screenshot; it varies a lot. Over the last minute it went from 28 to 940 ms, passing through 40, 80, 561, 634…
For my information,

[pierre-gilles]

@Riquet0077

I don’t know if this is related but the refresh doesn’t always work correctly on other info as well. Here’s a screenshot of my dashboard this morning (kept open in the browser all night). The energy sensor data is indeed updated every x seconds but the weather is still yesterday’s!

When you say « kept open in the browser all night », do you mean the computer was on all night, open on that screen, or do you mean « you shut down your computer and came back to it this morning » with the tab still open?

@Riquet0077

Since yesterday, I’m again getting the format with the .0000000! (release 4.9??)

Which integration does this data come from?

We really didn’t change anything in this release in that area, I’m surprised.

@Riquet0077

For my info, is this the latency on my local network between the PC (on Wi-Fi) and its browser and the Pi hosting Gladys (also on Wi-Fi for the moment) or does this include the trip through the cloud and Gladys Plus?

If you are on plus.gladysassistant.com, that includes going through Gladys Plus — it’s precisely meant to measure the latency with the service.

Also, with ADSL it’s true that this technology is unstable; I don’t know if you’ll be able to do any miracles regarding latency