haunted zwave devices turning themselves on

Hi,

After working smoothly for months, my Vera Lite seems to have gone a little crazy yesterday afternoon, with half my zwave devices disappearing, half being placed into odd states, and other zwave devices appearing that I definitely don’t have (e.g. a humidity sensor). I restored the zwave network and settings from a backup. The zwave devices are back and seem to work fine. However every few hours all my zwave devices mysteriously turn themselves on.

I’d be really grateful for any suggestions as to what the problems might be. It’s definitely not a scene or PLEG event. I’m running the latest UI

thanks!

Dan

Consider the possibility that you have been hacked. Try disconnecting vera from the net and see if it still happens.

I hadn’t thought of that - thank you. The logs don’t show any remote access except by me; it would also be odd for a hacker to turn on all my zwave devices but ignore all my other devices (which are much more interesting, e.g. burglar alarm). So doesn’t seem likely, but I’ll switch on detailed logging on the router and keep an eye on things.

Actually looking at the boards, I see others are seeing devices they don’t have mysteriously appear ((http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,32643.0.html) so I wonder if it’s connected with that?

My thought is that a restore from a recent backup is in order. Hopefully you can find a good backup form the last day or three.

If that fails, open a support call with Vera tech support.