could not open connection to the host on port 23 connect failed for Veralite

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I am having problems with my veralite. The firmware appears corrupted.

I have a Vera 3 which ran into the same problems, but I was able to telnet in and it runs perfectly afterward.

when I telnet into the veralite unit, I get the message “could not open connection to the host on port 23 connect failed”.

I set up my computer with 192.168.81.2, and gateway of 192.168.81.1.

I can access the webpage via 192.168.81.1, but not via telnet.

I can ping veralite however.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

2

Instead of telnet, you need to ssh into the VeraLite. Telnet is not enabled hence, the connection refused message.

3

Thank you for your reply, but unfortunately I don’t know this method.

Can you explain it?

4

If you are on a windows pc, you will need to use putty. If you are on a mac, you can open up a terminal and type in “ssh root@192.168.81.1”. Putty would be similar for windows. You say you can access the webpage? What does the webpage provide you?

  • Garrett
5

I have a Windows 7 and an XP machine.

What exactly do I do?

Pardon my lack of expertise in this area.

6

Putty is a windows program. You can download it at www.putty.org

John

7

Thank you, I’m at the login, and it asks now for a password, but I don’t seem to have this in my documentation, or on the Veralite.

Any ideas?

8

Have a look at http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,7741.msg63317.html#msg63317

9

Yet a step closer!

I have the backup downloaded, and it is a .tgz file, but I can’t seem to extract files.

I’m clearly doing something wrong.

10

On windows it is going to be slightly trickier as the .tgz format is a tarred gzip file (widely used on unix). I may be wrong (not a big windows user myself) but Winzip may be able to handle the extract? Or something like Winrar?

11

Winzip did open it, and the password contained doesn’t work…

I also have problems seeing the backups stored at mios.com.

Is there some other way to see them?

12

PW finally worked, but there was a zwave appliance controller that I see still exists, and also, the firmware and new name I gave the veralite is still present.

I guess it didn’t properly reset.

Do you press the reset button on the veralite just once?

13

I believe it needs to be pressed twice in quick succession. It’s been mentioned on the forums before, but I’ve not had a need to perform it so far

14

You need to reset the Z-Wave network in order to get rid of the devices.

15

Thank you, that did it!