Apparently I have one of the older vera’s (Vera 1?). It has a dongle with a blinking blue light stuck into a USB port on what seems to be a hacked Wi-Fi router with the Vera logo on it. The lights on the front don’t look like the Vera 2 and Vera 3 units. I bought it from MiCasaVerde, so it is whatever the official hardware was at the time about three years ago. Until now I’ve been too busy to set it up. Is this hardware obsolete? None of the setup pictures for Vera 2 or 3 match it.
Anyhow, I did findvera.com, and it recommended to upgrade the firmware. So, I did. However, when I try to set my location, from either the wizard or the dashbord, and move-on, I get either “Engine busy” if I’m directly connected to the unit, or else “Server busy” if I’m doing it through my micasaverde account. Either way, I can’t move forward.
Drat. Now I’m wishing I hadn’t upgraded the firmware. Presumably, what came out of the box should have worked, at least in some capacity, even if it wasn’t the current release.
With that in mind I just tried restoring the original firmware (a backup was made prior to the update), but no joy. For some reason, the firmware is remaining as the current release.
I have no experience with the vera1, but enough with the vera 2 to tell you this: Just do yourself a favour and get a vera3 or vera lite, you will be better of!
I got the Vera 1 to work. FWIW, the mistake I made was upgrading to the current firmware without first upgrading to an intermediate firmware. I did a firmware recovery using the rescue tool from a Windows XP machine (I had no joy when I tried doing it from Windows 7). Incidentally, I was able to “upgrade” to firmware 1.1.1350 using the same rescue tool, whereas the regular browser upgrade tool would tell me I should upgrade to firmware 1.1.1350, but would balk at actually doing so.
Anyhow, maybe this info will help some other Vera 1 user someday.
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