I’m only half kidding, of course. But Friday night we were watching a movie in our family room. Typically at 8:30 every night the sonos comes on to tell the boys it’s time to take their shower, and then all the lights upstairs turn on because my youngest is deathly afraid of the upstairs at night. since we were watching a movie, we pushed bedtime back, obviously. However the strangest thing happened. The lights upstairs started to dim and then turn back on, dim, then turn back on over and over until I pulled up the app and turned the lights off upstairs. I’ve never had that happen before. Any ideas on what might have caused that? I can’t remember if the sonos fired off or not.
When something like that happens you have to look at the logs generated …
What movie were you watching?
You say that you pushed bedtime back, but you weren’t clear about whether you actually changed anything on Vera or if you just told the kids they were allowed to ignore it.
@CudaNet is right, you’ll need to look at the log to see what’s really happening. If you made any change to Vera, I would say that you had some form or conflicting logic where a scene or PLEG tells the lights turn On which triggers another action to dim the lights down.
If you made no changes to Vera, I would say that there are three possibilities listed in order of likelihood:
Conflicting logic. Most likely by a mile.
Twisted Vera needs a reboot.
Switch failing.
[quote=“Z-Waver, post:3, topic:191048”]What movie were you watching?
You say that you pushed bedtime back, but you weren’t clear about whether you actually changed anything on Vera or if you just told the kids they were allowed to ignore it.
@CudaNet is right, you’ll need to look at the log to see what’s really happening. If you made any change to Vera, I would say that you had some form or conflicting logic where a scene or PLEG tells the lights turn On which triggers another action to dim the lights down.
If you made no changes to Vera, I would say that there are three possibilities listed in order of likelihood:
Conflicting logic. Most likely by a mile.
Twisted Vera needs a reboot.
Switch failing.[/quote]
We were watching Avengers II…a family favorite. Not a ghost movie, however still a pretty interesting effect. 
We pushed bedtime back in a sense of “it’s saturday night, ignore the house telling you to go take a shower and let’s finish the movie” not in a “change the time of bedtime scene” sort of way.
I suppose that means I need to carve out time when I’m at home to SSH into the box? The last change I made to VERA was replacing a fried dimmer switch in an upstairs bedroom (coincidentally part of the “all lights on” scene because it’s in my 6 year old’s room) and added a GE outlet plug on the stairs to assist in repeating the zwave signal up the stairs. That was at least 2 weeks ago. The only conflict I can think of is that the “all lights on” bathtime scene runs at 8:30 and the “all upstairs lights dim to 10%” bedtime scene runs at 9:30. I haven’t had an issue with it since then, so maybe it fixed itself It was just weird that it kept dimming and then turning on, dimming and then turning on over and over.
I should add that multiple switches involved in the bathtime scene were turning on and off, not just one. So I agree, conflicting logic or twisted vera in need of a reboot.
I’ve had some similarly odd behavior with PLEG logic. In my case it turned out to be that the PLEG schedule had not changed state for some reason or another and was causing actions to fire at an incorrect time. Though the issue would have resolved itself later that day, when the scheduled time passed again, I was able to fix it immediately by going into the PLEG → Inputs → Schedules and click “Do it now” for the problematic schedule. Rebooting/reloading Vera would have done it as well.
You can easily view your Log files directly from a browser from the URL: http://vera_ip/cgi-bin/cmh/log.sh?Device=LuaUPnP
Awesome! That’s helpful! When I SSH in I can’t really follow the directory structure. Thank you!