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Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 16:18
by janpep
May be it is since the upgrade to 2025.1 that I notice strange behaviour of text devices that are updated from dzvents scripts.
The scripts have been working without any problems for a long time.
After update of the device, the text shows up very short (second) and immediatly disapears.
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Notice the update time of the EMPTY text device and see the same update time of the LOG.
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- Am I the only one experiencing this?
- What could be the cause of this?
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 16:48
by RonkA
Also on 2025.1 and no problems with textdevices beeing updated via dzVents. (have several running..)
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 16:58
by HvdW
Look in the script for updateText.
Maybe it is there twice.
Maybe there are 2 scripts updating the same device.
Use description to describe which script changes the text sensor.
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Besides: no problems here after updating Domoticz.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 17:15
by lost
Same here, I have a text device logging METAR (aviation related meteo information) every half hour that did not show any glitch, updated from Lua.
Seems unrelated, but take care "textlog" HTTP/JSON API was deprecated and no more usable:
https://wiki.domoticz.com/Domoticz_API/ ... and_newer)
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 19:27
by janpep
RonkA wrote: ↑Tuesday 13 May 2025 16:48
Also on 2025.1 and no problems with textdevices beeing updated via dzVents. (have several running..)
Thanks. It seems that some text devices suffer from this phenomenon and others do not. Always the same ones.
Occasionally I see the text appear, that seems to stay there, but then it disappears with a refresh. Very strange.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 19:31
by janpep
HvdW wrote: ↑Tuesday 13 May 2025 16:58
Look in the script for updateText. Maybe it is there twice.
Maybe there are 2 scripts updating the same device.
Besides: no problems here after updating Domoticz.
Thanks for the tip with the description. I had never used that before. But in this case it doesn't add much for me, because I know it can only come from 1 script. Also the update command is there only once.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 19:38
by janpep
lost wrote: ↑Tuesday 13 May 2025 17:15
Same here, I have a text device logging METAR (aviation related meteo information) every half hour that did not show any glitch, updated from Lua.
Seems unrelated, but take care "textlog" HTTP/JSON API was deprecated and no more usable:
https://wiki.domoticz.com/Domoticz_API/ ... and_newer)
Thank you for the tip with the api. I am updating the device from the script with
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dz.devices( wl_verw_idx ).updateText( verw_text )
where the wl_verw_idx holds the idx of my text device and verw_text is the variable that contains the text that disapears from the text device body, but is/remains visible in the log as shown. Very weird.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 20:44
by waltervl
Perhaps try with a simple text instead of probably a complex html formatted text.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 21:02
by HvdW
What about logging verw_text to check the contents of what you put in updateText.
BTW In my setup Weerlive acts as it did before.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 21:20
by janpep
waltervl wrote: ↑Tuesday 13 May 2025 20:44
Perhaps try with a simple text instead of probably a complex html formatted text.
Good idea. I will try! (But still strange that it appears in the log the way I expect it.)
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Tuesday 13 May 2025 21:29
by janpep
HvdW wrote: ↑Tuesday 13 May 2025 21:02
What about logging verw_text to check the contents of what you put in updateText.
BTW In my setup Weerlive acts as it did before.
Yes, I will dig into it a bit further tomorrow to find out what is actually happening here.
Nothing changed in the script recently.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Wednesday 14 May 2025 23:54
by janpep
I didn't think about it yesterday, but after the text the icon is also changed.
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dz.devices(wl_verw_idx).setIcon(iconNumber)
That seems to be the cause, although I do not yet understand.
When I comment out the that line, the content remains.
I will continue looking tomorrow.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Thursday 15 May 2025 11:35
by janpep
After next investigation step, I can confirm that the attempt to change the icon causes the problem.
The line ...
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dz.devices(wl_verw_idx).setIcon(iconNumber)
... is (in the log) translated into the following command ...
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OpenURL: url = http://localIPaddress:portnumber/json.htm?type=command¶m=setused&used=true&name=Weerlive+Weersverwachting&description=&idx=1029&switchtype=0&customimage=124
When I look into the wiki, this command seems to be good.
I cannot oversee, but could it have to do something with the upgrade, where it says:
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- Fixed: Custom Icons, making sure they are valid and loaded OK
The custom icons are created with the online generator.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Thursday 15 May 2025 14:27
by gizmocuz
Thanks for reporting. I was able to debug this issue and have already pushed a fix in the current code branch.
A new beta release will shortly be released. This does however need OpenSSL3 (Debian Bookworm), see the News/Update section here on the forum
(If you are using Docker or Windows this is no problem)
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Thursday 15 May 2025 16:16
by janpep
gizmocuz wrote: ↑Thursday 15 May 2025 14:27
I was able to debug this issue and have already pushed a fix in the current code branch.
Great! Thank you!
I will look into what I have to do for the OpenSSL3.
That was already on my list to check.
I am running Domoticz on Ubuntu 24.04.
For the time being, as workaround, I will skip the icon changes.
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Saturday 17 May 2025 7:35
by gizmocuz
Ubuntu 24 should be fine and you should already have OpenSSL3
if you issue the below command this will tell you which version it has:
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Saturday 17 May 2025 14:51
by janpep
gizmocuz wrote: ↑Saturday 17 May 2025 7:35
Ubuntu 24 should be fine and you should already have OpenSSL3
I upgraded also my production environment to:
Version: 2025.1 (build 16695)
Compile Date: 2025-05-16 11:00:11
On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS I have:
OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024)
Then I did an uninstall of the previous needed libssl1.1
Ran my scripts with the icon changes and I can confirm that the problem is solved.
Thanks again!
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Saturday 17 May 2025 21:06
by janpep
Maybe a stupid question. How do I mark this topic as solved?
Re: Update of text device disappears
Posted: Saturday 17 May 2025 21:43
by waltervl
Accept an answer response as the answer with the pull down menu on the top right of an answer.