Any way to get the logs from the Vera servers?

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Last night at precisely 3:00 a.m., the smoke detector (First Alert Z-Wave Combo) by the kitchen decided to go off, since it is linked to all the sirens around the house, it woke everyone up. Needless to say, the wife was less than pleased. i turned off the sirens, and tried to get back to sleep. i woke up this morning to go take a look at the logs to see if there was anything there to see why it tripped at precisely 3:00 a.m. Well, by the time i got to looking at the vera, the logs had rotated (conveniently at 3:09:34 a.m.). So, is there a way to get the logs from the Vera servers?

I also have enabled and mounted a CIFS share, is there a way to re-direct logs to the CIFS share so i don’t have to worry about this rotation?

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I got rid of my 3 year old First Alert Z-wave combos for doing this exact same thing.
The first time was in the middle of the night about 2 months ago. I then called their customer support line and was told that this sometimes happens with dust in the sensor. I blew out the unit with air and put a fresh battery in and within a month it happened again during the middle of the day. I them promptly took the unit off of my system and recycled it as I can only assume they only last a few years.
I will not use them in my systems again.
This makes my investment in my 4 year old Nest Protects seem much better as they are still going strong for the few extra bucks I spent for them.

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Thanks Jamr, i will take a look at the Nest ones now.

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The end-users do not have access to the logs that are uploaded to our servers.
If you will need some specific logs that got uploaded to the cloud, you will need to get in touch with our support department to get them.

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[quote=“bogdanf, post:4, topic:200025”]The end-users do not have access to the logs that are uploaded to our servers.
If you will need some specific logs that got uploaded to the cloud, you will need to get in touch with our support department to get them.[/quote]

thanks Bogdanf. do you have any input on my second question regarding being able to pus these logs to a mount point so i don’t have to rely on the Mios servers for long term logging?

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[quote=“sebby, post:5, topic:200025”][quote=“bogdanf, post:4, topic:200025”]The end-users do not have access to the logs that are uploaded to our servers.
If you will need some specific logs that got uploaded to the cloud, you will need to get in touch with our support department to get them.[/quote]

thanks Bogdanf. do you have any input on my second question regarding being able to pus these logs to a mount point so i don’t have to rely on the Mios servers for long term logging?[/quote]

This would be relatively easy to do once you have a remote drive mounted on the vera, you can setup /usr/bin/Rotate_Logs.sh to upload to it instead of the mios server. You would have to know the mount point of the drive you just mounted obviously…