No logs (in App & syslog server) after upgrading to Homey 5.0 firmware

[pro-sumer]

What is your Homey version (Settings - System), your App version (Settings-Apps) ?

Homey 5.0.0 PaperTrails 0.6.3 Send Log to Developer: No

What did you try to achieve? Log info to syslog server (test flow, with a single action to log a syslog line)

What was the result?

• No new log line in Log tab of config of App
• No new log line on syslog server

What did you expect as result?

• New log line in Log tab of config of App
• New log line on syslog server

Any other remarks

• This worked fine with PaperTrails 0.6.3 on Homey 4.2.0, until the upgrade.
• Resetting the App did not help (did not try resetting Homey, since I don't know whether that is safe so soon after upgrading)

[Dijker]

Hi Rob, here it works since the first rc's and still works in the final. Even the singel papertrails send to syslog. Can you send a log?

[pro-sumer]

No change after a reboot of my Homey.

Log: 48044618-cb79-4eb8-9f82-7503a4a9d6b1

[Dijker]

Have you tried to replace the name of the syslog server for the IP address?

[pro-sumer]

Have you tried to replace the name of the syslog server for the IP address?

No, I did not, so I tried now (IP address instead of hostname).

Unfortunately no change:

• no log in App itself
• no log on syslog server

[pro-sumer]

• There's no log in the App because that's not in the implementation for "Send syslog msg" (I got confused by that)
• There's no log on the syslog server because Athom changed the reported hostname in the 5.0.0 firmware?

The relevant syslog configuration part on my server:

$template HomeyLog, "/var/log/homey.log"
:hostname, isequal, "homey" -?HomeyLog
& stop

• This worked with the 4.2.0 firmware which reported homey as hostname
• This does not work with the 5.0.0 firmware which reports homey-<unique ID> as hostname

So I fixed it by changing my configuration:

$template HomeyLog, "/var/log/homey.log"
:hostname, startswith, "homey" -?HomeyLog
& stop