I have two controllers in two separate locations and I am updating each one at a time. Each controller is complimented with less than 10 physical hard devices and a few/several apps.
The first controller, I created backups including Z-Wave Network, one backup file before starting the upgrade and when I clicked the button to upgrade, a second backup that was part of the upgrade process. I have two backup files saved to my laptop hard drive.
When I clicked to upgrade, a count up timer box appeared and a blurb about it could take 15 minutes to do the update and that if the controller has not responded in 15 minutes, to unplug the controller (I assume power) and allow it to reboot.
After 15 minutes of no response, I unplugged the power to the controller and rebooted it. After reboot, there was no response from the controller either locally or from the mios server relay which showed the controller as Off-Line. There was also no wireless SSID signal present from the controller. I thought the update had killed the controller.
So I rebooted both the controller and my router and still the controller was not responding. Being as I had other pressing issues I just left the controller plugged in and figured I?d work on this issue at a later time. I left for about 5 hours and when I returned, my controller showed as On-Line via the mios relay login page and when I logged in, I had a blank controller and the Setup Wizard was ready to guide me through a new setup.
At that point, I did a restore of the file that the update process had requested I make and to my surprise, everything is up and working just fine?. so far anyways?.. I didn?t test all things out yet, but I see everything looks the same; just to my surprise, I have an updated controller that I initially thought was dead.
So that is good news. I don?t know exactly what happened while I was away, but patience played in my favor.
I just finished updating my second controller while writing this, which updated just fine and easy like expected. Less than 5 minutes in and the controller rebooted itself. I did not have to restore any backup this time. Everything is as it should be except my edits to LUUP files, which I replaced those with backup .json files and everything is good to go.
Overall, my experience was far less daunting than I expected. There was that blurp on the first controller, which I thought had set the stage for the second controller, but things actually went well.
Now when I use the mios relay to log in I don?t get the painful fail to load issues and then I need to clear cookies to get the page to load. So that is an improvement. I haven?t looked at the Vera App on my iPhone yet. I?m assuming it?s working fine as well.
. I may be able to duplicate it.