My 2.78 Dongle arrived in the mail on Friday, very happy it came so soon after the order. So I took the plunge and upgraded to Luup 899. I started fresh and rebuilt my network just to be safe. Here are some first thoughts.
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Wow, the performance is way better! Scenes activate much faster. My Schalge Lock activates all devices instantly without previous delyas that drove me mad. I can directly program my Leviton 4 button scene controller natively now with Method 1 (my personal preference). And there are nice UI touches such as the Schlage Temp pin expiration. Overall, it just works better without much delay.
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I am much happier with the new Mobile UI and Luup pluggin. One problem though, I get a scripting error when pressing buttons. I’m using a Nokia N95 with a webkit browser. I also got the same error when using my laptop computer.
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Looks like there are some robust Lua underpinnings. I would like to see some more example code or a form based UI for Lua noobs like me. I’ll eventually jump into it, I just don’t want to commit too much time now.
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There is some bad news. My Vera is locking up hard after a network heal. It seems it gets tangled with the schalge lock and all my username codes get blown away and get replaced with generic “Code1,” "Code2.) I get a continuos blue cog that eventually halts the systems. This also messes up my scenes that rely on a specific user entering a pin. I wound up deleting all the scenes and recreating the users and pins twice. I will not be doing another network heal until this gets resolved and I hope one does not happen automatically.
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It seems If I create too many scences the Vera locks up on Save. I usually creaste one scene at a time between saves just to be safe, but after 4-6 scenes being created the Vera locks up. Sometimes the new scenes are there after a reboot, sometimes I have to recreate them and save again. I’ll probaly reboot after every scene creation now until this bug gets fixed.
I’ve only had it going for two days now, I hope it doesn’t lock up anymore, but to be safe I will reboot after any change.
I know this is in Beta, so I will be patient, but I just wanted to let the MiCasa Team know that this has been a huge increase in performance for me and I look forward to a stable release.
Thanks