Get Greenwave Power Node to work flawlessly

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I have a couple of Greenwave Power Nodes and have included them sucessfully, but I have a couple of problems.

  1. The green ring flashes to indicate “PowerNode cannot communicate with Gateway”

  2. It loses response every now and then. “Device failed to configure”.

05/02/2015 9:43:23 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:43:13 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:43:10 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:42:59 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:42:12 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:41:58 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:12:13 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:12:03 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:12:00 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:11:50 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:11:02 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 9:10:49 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:57:56 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:57:45 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:57:43 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:57:32 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:56:44 PM Device NOT responding Power Node Device status
05/02/2015 8:56:31 PM Device responding again Power Node Device status

I can switch the plug on/off and get response immediately but it’s very annoying the see the green light flash all the time
and that Vera alerts no response all the time. ??? :frowning:

I’m totally new to Vera and UI7 and I can’t concentrate on anything else before I get this to work.
I hope you can help me out with this. :-[

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Couple questions, how far is it from Vera? Do you have any other zwave devices added to Vera?

  • Garrett
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One is 3 meters from the Vera in the same room, the other ones is 5-6 meter away in different rooms.

I have a couple of Aeon Labs smart energy switches that works perfect.

4

Have you set the Param 1 (1 byte DEC) to 255 ?

The green flash will come less often.

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[quote=“vosmont, post:4, topic:185802”]Have you set the Param 1 (1 byte DEC) to 255 ?

The green flash will come less often.[/quote]

Can’t find that param anywhere. I use UI7 so maybe it’s called something else?

And I have looked everywhere for explanations for the device params under advanced settings. Anyone know where I can find something?

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It’s in “Device Options” and you have to add it (on UI5).
It depends on the constructor, that’s why it’s not documented.

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[quote=“vosmont, post:6, topic:185802”]It’s in “Device Options” and you have to add it (on UI5).
It depends on the constructor, that’s why it’s not documented.[/quote]

Still can’t find it… But the biggest problem is that Vera alerts that they are no longer connected.
Any clues on that?

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Now I’ve picked upp my installation of z-wave devices again.
I have set the Param 1 (1 byte DEC) to 255. But the devices still flashes green very often…

My main issue is still that Vera alerts that the nodes don’t respond from time to time.

And it often says, “Please wait, getting multichannel info” under the devices in UI7

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Vesternet in the UK is selling the single socket version for a very low price. I’m guessing the manufacturer has pulled out of them and they’re being flogged off. I’ve bought 3 and they seem to work OK.

The device is very needy. The flashing light is caused by the unit getting upset if it doesn’t hear from the controller for a while. I presume their proprietary controller must have met this need.

According to the data at [url=http://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/102]http://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/102[/url] variable 1 sets the time in minutes before the device panics and variable 4 can stop it flashing the light if it does.

Variable 1 works, as noted above, but I haven’t been able to set variable 4. However by running a scene every couple of hours to read the state from the unit and write it right back I seem to have placated the little flashing light. When I got home today they were all happy and quiet.

the array contains the device IDs of the sockets.

[code]-- Keep the lights happy
– Read their state and write it back to them.

local aLights = {136, 138, 137 }
local strState

for i = 1, 3 do
strState = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1”,
“Target” , aLights [i])
print (strState)

 luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1","SetTarget" ,
               {  newTargetValue = strState } , aLights [i] )

end[/code]

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Got myself a couple of these from vesternet last week too.

Both work fine every time and report the wattage updated regularly.

Both do that green panic light regular too.

I’ll have a play with the parameters when I get the chance.
Cheers guys.