Scene Ran at wrong time / for no reason

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Hi,

I have a simple VeraPlus system, 5 devices, 4 scenes, no Lua code, no plugins.

Two of the scenes turn lights on relative to sunset, the other two turn the lights off after a period of time.

Today I noticed one scene had run when it should not have. The “Front Entrance On” scene is set for Sunset + 30 minutes (my sunset today is 6:57) and it ran at 5:14:42 PM. It was the lights being on at the wrong time that started me looking at the dashboard.

The dashboard indicates the this scene:
- last ran at 3-14-2016 5:14:42 PM (wrong time but did run)
- Next run at 3-14-2016 7:27:40 PM (correct time)

I turned the lights off manually (at the wall switch) at ~ 6:00 PM. The scene did run again at 7:27:40 PM (or there abouts)

I have verified the subject scene has only one trigger. To the best of my recollection I was doing nothing with Vera at that time (earlier I was reading the forums and learning how to download logs.

Attached is my log for the time the “phantom” run occurred (17:14:42).

I don’t understand the significance of many of the log entries but I did notice two interesting items:

  1. the complete log started the same day at 10AM. The 1st occurance of
    “luvd_get_info mg conn can’t read /etc/cmh-ludl//favicon.ico or /etc/cmh-lu//favicon.ico from filename /favicon.ico pPtrFile (null) <0x75186520>”
    did not occur until 2 seconds before the scene when on in errror.

  2. there was an error ~20 seconds before the scene ran in error " 01 03/14/16 17:14:19.216 Mongoose Error 400: Bad Request"

I am running ImperiHome on my phone but no scenes are have been setup (only devices).

Any thoughts of where I should look?

Thanks

JohnRob

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I can’t answer your question as to why the scene ran at the incorrect time.

I can tell you that favicon.ico is a tiny icon used in the window bar of your browser when you visit a website. You shouldn’t be getting that message but, it’s telling you that a browser - maybe imperihome - is trying to pull the icon file and it doesn’t exist. This should have no impact on Vera whatsoever.

Mongoose is a node.js >:( framework for connecting to a Mongodb >:( database. I can’t say what was requested, but again, I doubt that this would have any impact on scheduling in this case.

There are only two/three things that I can think of that could cause the schedule to be incorrect. Incorrect location, incorrect time zone, or skewed clock. But, there’s not enough of the log to see if/how the time corrected itself for the next scheduled run. (That’s not a request for more log.)

Since you don’t know what your looking at or for, I’d suggest that you see if this misfire was a transient anomaly. If it happens again, you should open a ticket with technical support and have them figure it out.

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Complete and total guess here… but something to do with the daylight savings time change?

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Thanks Z-Waver, tomgru.

I will leave Vera along for a day or two a see what happens. I will also ask ImperiHome (which I love so far) if they know about the favicon.ico error.

I will report back if I find anything interesting.

Regards

JohnRob