Back-to-back messages getting dropped?

Apps & Remote Access VeraAlerts
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I have Vera Alert messages for each of “door open”, “door unlocked”, “pin code entered”, and such. These work really well, but sometimes important messages get dropped.

For example, the log might look like:

Door Unlocked
Door Opened
Door Closed

And… that’s it. “Door Locked” is missing. Disconcerting.

Then I look in the log file at /tmp/log/cmh/LuaUPnP.log and see that Vera did get the messages from the lock, and did send its own MCV notification, but nothing was received on the Android app.

This seems to happen when multiple things are happening in a short timespan. I could be wrong.
Anyone else seeing this? (And yes, I probably have too many messages, since I’m using it more as a mobile Log than a Notification.)

2

There is one piece of software I have not touched from the original author. I will be changing it out
in a few weeks. He did have a denial of service attack once … he may have added logic to ignore rapid fire notifications.

3

Thanks! Curious to know what you find. I sense that I’m not “using as intended” by keeping a running log of events.
I don’t know how Google feels about this many push notifications either – is there a limit?

Sending these to a private Twitter feed would be more the right size.

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Not to take away anything from R.T.S has done and the great service he has provided the community, but as there was a D.O.S. implemented, it would be curious to see if you encounter the same issues if you ran parallel reporting utilising the eMail Notification app or Push Notification app.

It may enable you to identify if it is contained within Vera setup or isolated to Vera Alert. It may enable you to potentially answer your own question about limits.

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I tracked the problem down to the intermediate gateway (Between Vera and the Android Phone). This is still the original software. If the messages are sent faster than google can distribute then to the phone … then it can over-write a message.

I am fixing this now as part of the transition from C2DM to GCM.

Email delivery would not have been affected by this.

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Thanks! That sounds like it. Usually happened with the door unlocked/door open/door closed/door locked barrage.

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This should be fixed with the latest Android Client/GCM Server upgrade … but I have not actually tested it yet.
Let me know if you are still seeing lost alerts.

Send me a email with your VeraAlertID and the approximate time (including time zone) when it happened.