Slow loading of Vera's web UI

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For context, I have a Vera Lite, and I gave it a fixed IP address so that I could give it a toolbar button in Firefox, and I’m using this URL:

http://192.168.1.20/cmh

If I haven’t used the UI for a day or so, clicking on the button gives me nothing for about 30 seconds, then an error message from Firefox, saying that it can’t connect to the server. Clicking again gives me another timeout.

Two or three minutes later, clicking the button actually gets me into the web UI. The background loads, and after a little while the UI is usable, and it’s fairly responsive most of the time.

I think it’s been this way for as long as I’ve had the Vera, but it’s been several months so I’m not entirely certain of that.

Is this normal?

Do other people notice that it takes a long time for the web UI to load, if you haven’t used it for a while?

Is there a way to make it load more quickly?

Thanks!

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How many devices do you have? If you have lots > 50 then the first load may be a little sluggish.

What you describe; timeouts, error messages, long delays, are not normal and I think you do have a problem.

Purely guessing, but the behavior that you describe sounds like an IP address conflict. You may have another device using the same IP address.

I would try changing Vera’s IP address to something else that is not currently in use nor is going to get leased out by the DHCP server and see if it improves.

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I have about 35 devices. (More like 30 if you count the Aeon 4-in-1 as a single device.)

My DHCP server normally assigns addresses in the 192.168.1.150+ range, for example the laptop I’m using right now has the .151 address. However I reserved the .20 address for the Vera using its MAC address.

I’m pretty sure that the IP address is not the problem, but it’s really easy to change so I’ll try that anyway.

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Is your vera connected to the network via wifi or ethernet? I found a significant speed improvement when I went from wifi to ethernet. However, earlier wifi speeds were not as slow as your described.

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I’m using wired ethernet. I switched the IP address yesterday and the first page load today was faster than before, but still irritatingly slow. I’ll give it a few more days to see if there’s a consistent difference one way or the other.

And there is very little traffic on my home ethernet. I rarely use video or audio streaming, other than the occasional youtube clip, and I don’t use torrents or any other sort of P2P software.

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In your first post you described error messages and being unable to connect.

Are you telling us that the error messages are now gone, but that you are still dissatisfied with the speed of the load?

If so, how long does it take?
Do you have any plugins in Firefox that might be impeding things?
Have you tried another browser?

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Have you already tried this: ?

It solved most of my response problems. it’s not extrely fast now but at least stable and always responsing the same.

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Store_logs_USB

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It was indeed an IP address conflict! Thanks for the tip.

It consistently loads without the timeout errors, and I’m still getting ping responses from the .20 address that it WAS on. So now I gotta figure out what is using has that IP. But at least the Vera web site loads properly now.

Thanks again!