Great work as always JK - I have just updated with no issues at all!

Great news that version 2.0 is soon in progress!!

I would like to see a more user focused product with many more guages 'out of the box' and colour options to fully customise the web interface, individual graph colour options, and more drag and click to setup the windows in the dashboard.
I strongly suggest you go to the my sensors site and visit all the 'other' controller sites to seek inspiration to take your next version to the top!

I think the automation rules/actions is far to annoying in its current state and a better way of getting something to happen based on conditions would be a bonus.
I'd prefer to keep the operations in one place on one page, that would help to start with!

It would be nice if we could also have the ability to add a video window to the dashboard pages. I use motioneye as cctv controller and would love to easily be able to add cameras from this to the mycontroller pages. All cameras are pi+camera and motion pi runs on a pi3 next to the mycontroller pi. An option to have a 'pop-up' video window on motion detect would also be nice to have.

Ability for dark mode display on timer or light sensor. Good for night time usage and also powersaving.

Ability to add floorplans for bulidings and surrounding area (gardens, outbuildings) etc with sensor locations and sensor status shown on there. Would then see at a glance which security sensor has triggered the alarm on the plan.

Ability to add photos similar to the above. Then taping or clicking on (for example) the lamp in the photo of the room would control that item.

Built in voice control - but probably a step too far for a controller, but maybe the ability to interface with another pi running voice recognition. This is very low on the list though.

Full support for 'ack' messages and better debugging of the system. Maybe some form of test page where each sensor can be interrogated and report back the result?

An automated installer! - I think that setting this all up puts a lot of people off even trying it,which is a shame. Add to that an updater script. These two things alone would improve usability to those who are put off by the current process!

Battery level graph on the dashboard. A must really.

Ability to zoom and pan the graphs within the dashboard environment. Would be probably more use on tablets, but with mouse would also work.

Easy implementation of min/max values and reporting.

Easy support for 'multi use' sensors. E.g. A motion sensor in my kitchen has various modes. Armed = send alarm on detection. Perimeter= Turn on kitchen lights on motion detection and leave on until no motion detceted for x minutes, but only if it is dark enough (that info is from another sensor). Off = Do nothing on sensor detection. Currently it is a pain to get this type of thing working.... which gives me the idae to be able to create a rule and then use that rule as a template for the next sensor/actuator by copying and changing the node/sensor/automation to suit, that would speed up setting things up!

I hope this will give you some thoughts to making an even better mycontroller in 2018!.......

Thank you for making and sharing mycontroller and making this all possible in the first place - Your support and talent is amazing!

Thank you!

@jkandasa Thank you so much for this!

It had slipped my mind with other more important issues taking the focus away. Today I found some 'ghost' variables and remembered that I had the problem before, but not the solution. Now I know why!

Anyway it worked perfectly and I will keep a lookout for any future ghost variables. This would be a good thing to have built into ver 2.0

I will do that - It only needs to display the data users enter into settings instead of the lat/lon info currently displayed. e.g. 'home' or 'London' or whatever....

Amazing progress = well done!!!!

So, version 2 beta, when will we see that then ?

Hoorah !!!! - It is working now !!!!

Thank you so much for your kind support and time today. Whilst I have only been running this for a week or so I have learnt a lot in the process. But don't worry, I will soon be back with more questions!

typo in 4th command - missing 'o'

@jkandasa Of course I will share it ...

I set MyC to back up to a server /mnt/server.
Then made crontab job to copy from the server back to the myc sd card.

No need to worry about sorting by date or anything as MyC backup has been set to only keep so many backups and therefore that is all there will be when I copy the server backup directory back to the SD card....

Problem solved!

Great news!

One question though..... Won't we also have to uninstall previous oracle java and install openjdk as well?

If so can you add the steps to acomplish this in the 'how to update' section.

Still a nice early Christmas present to us all..... Thank you!

You asked for suggestions so here's a couple for now....

1. Monitor and report network lan traffic bandwidth used (maybe with options to see different types of traffic eg tcp/http/udp etc....).

2. Get data for the number of packets sent/received by the nrf24l01+ attached to the pi.

Still, it's working well now and very useful to see this info!

@jkandasa BME280.

From this I get graphs of atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, dew point and a forecast of the weather to come.

Here is the full view.....

I just saw in the news that we had the highest atmospheric pressure for decades here in the UK today. It is reported at over 1050 millibars (or hectopascals) and when I got home I immediately checked MyController to see if the BME280 had caught this rare event.....

It did! - Here is a screen shot of how it happened today.....

@skywatch Yup! - As always you have fixed it promptly.

@jkandasa Somwthing else I'd like to see within the controller is a facility to get user defined updates (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) from an NTP server with added function to push updated time to an attached RTC module. Also for MYC to determine if NTP time is available and if not use the RTC as time source.
The DS3231 is the most popular of the 'reasonable' RTC modules and is relatively cheap too.

So in summary something in the settings to allow/enable use of RTC and to select how often to update system/RTC time. Then also a test of NTP connectivity and if lost switch to RTC time (or maybe use RTC time all the time if available).

@Daniele That is the opposite of what I have - here my GW is 'up' in mycontroller but node 0 is 'down' and yet it is working perfectly with myc and all nodes!

If this is a random thing I would suggest triple checking all connections individually to ensure they are tight and no movement at all can happen. I took out a DC barrel connector and replaced it and things got a lot better from just that one change.

I also put the arduino watchdog on the GW node as another way to recover from any 'hangs'.

I added the previously posted operations as another way to tackle problems with the gw, but not sure how to tell if it is working as expected!

Finally I upgraded the pi from stretch to buster and fully updated everything.

Since then I have had 7-8 weeks without any issues (previously 1-2 weeks was about all I could hope for).

I still have a ups on my to do list. That will happen soon I hope.

@Daniele Aha! - OK then. Here is what I did to try and stop this issue causing problems......

Then under operations I added the name for the following operation....

With this running in the controller and the watchdog enabled on the uno gateway node I seem to have a good and stable result for the last 7 or 8 weeks.

Maybe someone else has a better way to do it? If so, I'll be interested as well!

Once the GW is reloaded you can then send reboot command using info in my first post to any node you want.

@Daniele I can't help with an example but I did just have a look to see if I could help and found what I think you are wanting.

Just go in mycontroller to <resources>, <operations> and there you can make an operation with the drop down options to send a reboot to a particular node.

So....

Under operation, type = payload.
Under Resource node followed by your desired node.
Under payload - Reboot. You can add a delay as well here if you want.

Then go to <rules> and add a rule to trigger the operation.

Hope this helps.

Just wanted to wish all of you who celebrate one or both a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Good health and good luck to you all in 2020!

I don't think it is MyController causing the issue. It usually hums along with 4-10% on my pi 3B+. This is with no other servers etc running and only a small python script to control it's own cooling fan.
Try disabling all other running items and see if that helps. If it does, re-enable them one by one until you find the culprit!

@jkandasa I had no issues previously when I uploaded an image months ago. But last week and now it is not working for me. Even after several reboots of laptop. Not sure if anything has changed recently but be advised that I get occasional 503 errors as well. Usually reloading the page cures that though.