Hello everyone,
I had the following problem today:
I wanted to access the controller via the web frontend. Unfortunately, the dashboard only showed “No Devices,” and the controller status was offline.
I then gave the controller a bit of time and waited to see if it was a temporary issue (server unreachable or something similar). That wasn’t the case, so I took a closer look at the controller. It was flashing orange, which means it was offline.
So I unplugged the controller and rebooted it. After that, it was accessible again.
Luckily, the controller is at my location and not in a vacation rental or something similar. Then this would have been a real problem. Perhaps someone from Ezlo would like to take a closer look at what exactly happened and what could be improved to prevent this from happening.
A workaround would be to have the controller automatically restart every x days, plug the controller into a Wi-Fi outlet for a remote restart, or create a MeshBot that restarts after x hours of offline status. But of course, that’s not really that elegant. And I don’t know if the controller would have executed it.