Ever need to reboot your Vera REMOTELY?

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I’ve been out of town, or at work, and my Vera becomes unresponsive. We all know what we would do if home; unplug the Vera power and plug it back in LOL.

But how do you do this remotely?

Consider the following device:

It’s expensive (about $70), but sure gives me peace of mind that I can “fix” my Vera no matter where I am.

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[quote=“hmspain, post:1, topic:188389”]I’ve been out of town, or at work, and my Vera becomes unresponsive. We all know what we would do if home; unplug the Vera power and plug it back in LOL.

But how do you do this remotely?

Consider the following device:

It’s expensive (about $70), but sure gives me peace of mind that I can “fix” my Vera no matter where I am.[/quote]

Yep, good find.

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Much cheaper to do it via a relay. I have my Elk security panel I can log into and trip a relay to power cycle my Vera. I also have relays for my DSL modem, router, IPTV box, XEP(comm controller for the Elk).

Finally I can RDP directly to my PC and play with Vera via my LAN.

You can also just wait 24 hrs for the Vera to heal and reload.

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How often do people have to do this? I feel like I’ve had to restart mine 4 or 5 times this summer. Don’t ever remember having to do this in the past at all ???

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What abou a crontab in Vera box to restart every week?

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Several Options
Cron job - scheduled restart
Scene with luup os.execute( ‘reboot’ )
Could be scheduled cyclic or manually executed as long as Vera is assessable remotely.

Ip power that can monitor (there is also an Vera app)
http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html

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http://www.lowes.com/pd_148297-66906-UTTNI2412_1z0vgbm__?productId=4176999&pl=1

This was the preferred method when Vera was requiring regular reboots in the past. It goes along the thinking that a regularly rebooted Vera wouldn’t crap out on you when you need it most, so an on demand remote reboot wouldn’t be necessary. It’s cheap $4, it reboots every night so at worst you’d have to wait 24 hours to get to a working Vera, also it may take 10 minutes or so to get the off/on cycle due to the mechanical switching. Digital versions could probably on/off cycle in a single minute.

I realize that remote reboot is ideal considering you may be wanting to verify something important like locked doors, etc.

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here is my setup
a) I have scene , executed every 48h with os.execute(‘reboot’)

b) on top, I use my old vera lite with one zwave power plug on which my vera edge is plugged in , and I use my vera edge with one zwave power plug on which my vera lite is plugged in … each vera being accessible from remote access, I can eventually force a on off on the other vera this way

c) on top, I have a VPN on my internet box so I can VPN from outside if needed as a plan C

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Is it a good idea to reboot nightly?

Wouldn’t a simple solution be to plug Vera into a WeMo plug, and then remotely on/off the WeMo plug?

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[quote=“kyb2012, post:9, topic:188389”]Is it a good idea to reboot nightly?

Wouldn’t a simple solution be to plug Vera into a WeMo plug, and then remotely on/off the WeMo plug?[/quote]

Yeah when I saw the first post I thought the same thing that thing is to expensive to do what the WeMo plug (wifi Outlet) can do.

45.00 on amazon.

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I ended up using a Wemo outlet as a ‘hail mary’ remote reboot too. Had some left over from when I thought wemo was going to.be more useful.