PLEG SNAFU Indicator

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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The following is on my house system running UI5 (Vera 3)

I woke up today to find my Lighting PLEG giving me all kinds of errors … Arithmetic with nil values …

So I though I would do a status report … well then I started to get a bunch of popup dialog boxes about removing deleted triggers.
After about 10 I realized that I had serious problems.

Thinking that things have been corrupted I did a Restore from two nights earlier … Same problem.

A little more detailed look and I found a bunch of my Z-Wave devices were gone.
So I did another restore … this time indicating to restore the Z-Wave network … But I used last nights backup.
All of my devices were back … but as generic devices.
One more backup … this time without restoring the Z-Wave network, since it looked like all my z-wave devices were accounted for, … from two nights ago … and I am back running again.

I guess something zapped my Z-Wave network last night before the backup. Never had that problem before.

The moral of the story …

  1. Just because there’s a PLEG error … does not mean it’s a PLEG problem.
  2. Generate a Z-Wave backup after you add or remove any Z-Wave device from your network. I am pretty religious about that.
  3. Keep track of how many devices you have … in case one or two disappear.
    For me it was a handful out of > 100.
    It was not immediately obvious that they were missing.
    Especially since my home is automated and I hardly every touch the devices or look at them in the Dashboard or any other APP.
  4. Remember … if you have missing Z-Wave devices … you need to restore them before the Vera Backup will work properly.
    (The latter sets room, name, Vera Device ID, … to the Z-Wave devices).

All is good again … but my Vera 3 has also been rebooting a little more often than usual. Maybe it’s getting old …
I have a Vera Edge that I use for testing … I still do not consider UI7 acceptable to run my house …
If my Vera 3 dies before UI7 becomes reliable … touch choices ahead! And Vera Edge(UI7) is not the leading candidate.

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Richard, I feel your pain.
I also stuck with Vera 3 UI5. However it also has it frequent moments of brain fart. Throughout the day the ZWave network is degrading so by the evening lights are flakey and commands are way slow. I posted this earlier in fact.

Vera should be set it, forget it. But I have to watch it close and get ready for the next failure.

I hope the Vera Plus AND a working, stable UI7 is not far behind. I have a need for 2 more Veras and I will not buy the Edge or jump to UI7 until MCV gets a lot ,ore serious about addressing these issues.

I am now on the lookout for another controller, but to date there is nothing else to fit the bill. But MCV better watch out. With all the companies jumping in the HA bandwagon, a better mousetrap is just on the horizon.