Automatic update and DHCP

Vera Controllers, Services & Devices Vera Controllers & Cameras
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Hi guys,

While I was traveling, looks like my Vera updated itself somehow. It lost all its rooms and scenes and the proxy interface (home.getvera.com) looks slightly different.

I’ve restored a backup from a couple of weeks ago and everything seems fine except that now the Vera seems to have a DHCP server running.

I searched on the advanced settings but couldn’t find how to disable it.

So I come to you guys with two questions:

  1. How to disable this DHCP server, and;

  2. What could have happened?

Thanks!

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If you are lucky you can do it from Setup > Net & WiFi. If not, you need a shell: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9895.0.html

2. What could have happened?

MCV updated some servers in the last few days. It might be related, or your Vera might really have been force-updated. You haven’t said what version of the firmware you are now on (or what Vera model you have) so without more information we can only speculate.

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Yeah, I found the topic which mentions this is a bug on UI6. I figured that’s why I couldn’t find it on the Advanced settings. I’ve got SSH access, will try to disable the DHCP.

MCV updated some servers in the last few days. It might be related, or your Vera might really have been force-updated. You haven't said what version of the firmware you are now on (or what Vera model you have) so without more information we can only speculate.

I have a Vera Lite, and its current firmware is 1.6.641. I’ve got it for about 2-3 months, but unfortunately I don’t know which firmware it came pre-installed, so I can’t tell if it was force-updated.

I’m kinda of a new user and the reason I picked the Vera Lite was because of the community and because I thought this was a mature product. It is really frustrating to see it’s not stable.

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This may not be what you want, but on my Vera3 I wanted to shut down the Wifi entirely. Unfortunately, UI6 seems to have disabled that capability through the control panel.

Elsewhere on this forum someone suggestion including the following statement in the LUUP startup code:

os.execute(“wifi down”)

This shuts down the WiFi on Vera. Of course when Vera reboots, Vera WiFi will come up again briefly, but I can live with that. I then just use the DHCP and wireless on my regular Linksys router.