I’ve got my Veralite for a little over a year now and it always worked great, until last week when it started to act weird and work very slow sometimes:
it started with a fibaro wall plug that sounded like it turned on and off (you could hear a click in the plug), but never actually switched the power off. Vera showed on and off states while toggling. I’ve unplugged the device and let it rest on my table for a few hours, when I plugged it back in it worked like it should again.
my girlfriends bedside-table lamp is plugged in to an everspring wall plug. This one, and a few other lamps go on with the “bedroom-on” switch, and they all go off at once with the “bedroom-off” switch. But since last week, the bedside lamp goes of after a couple of (random) minutes. All other lights stay on, and strangely, Vera (using Authomation) shows the switch as still “on”. Unplugging and replugging after a few hours didn’t do the trick for this one.
I’ve got a fibaro motion sensor in the living room that turns a few lights on when I walk past it at night. When the sensor sees me, a light in the sensor’s lens blinks that it recognizes movement and then the Vera turns on a few lights. A lot of times this still works perfect, but some times this takes up to a minute for vera to act up on, I know the fibaro saw me because of the blinking light. After a few seconds the light should turn off again, but when the sensor saw me a couple of times in that time period that the vera didn’t do anything in, the lights go very quickly on-off-on-off-on-off, like the Vera has some catching up to do on a que or something.
The same goes for my doorsensor which automatically turns on the light in the hallway. Some times this happens instantly, lately I need to wait for up to a minute before the light goes on.
Has anyone got a clue what is causing this and how I can solve this? The web ui feels slow with loading as well, but I don’t know if that is caused by a missing/bad connection to the vera-servers (since the firmware update thingy is failing to connect sometimes as well.)
[quote=“Duncank, post:1, topic:185519”]- it started with a fibaro wall plug that sounded like it turned on and off (you could hear a click in the plug), but never actually switched the power off. Vera showed on and off states while toggling. I’ve unplugged the device and let it rest on my table for a few hours, when I plugged it back in it worked like it should again.[/quote]This sounds like a failing plugin module.
- my girlfriends bedside-table lamp is plugged in to an everspring wall plug. This one, and a few other lamps go on with the "bedroom-on" switch, and they all go off at once with the "bedroom-off" switch. But since last week, the bedside lamp goes of after a couple of (random) minutes. All other lights stay on, and strangely, Vera (using Authomation) shows the switch as still "on". Unplugging and replugging after a few hours didn't do the trick for this one.
This sounds like a failed module.
- I've got a fibaro motion sensor in the living room that turns a few lights on when I walk past it at night. When the sensor sees me, a light in the sensor's lens blinks that it recognizes movement and then the Vera turns on a few lights. A lot of times this still works perfect, but some times this takes up to a minute for vera to act up on, I know the fibaro saw me because of the blinking light. After a few seconds the light should turn off again, but when the sensor saw me a couple of times in that time period that the vera didn't do anything in, the lights go very quickly on-off-on-off-on-off, like the Vera has some catching up to do on a que or something.
The same goes for my doorsensor which automatically turns on the light in the hallway. Some times this happens instantly, lately I need to wait for up to a minute before the light goes on.
This occasional delay sounds like it may be a routing issue. Alternatively, it could be that Vera is (too) busy. But, I'd try eliminating failed and failing modules and then heal the network and see if the routing doesn't improve.
Thanks for your reply! It is strange that the module that was ‘failing’ at first, now works completely as it should again, while the second one keeps getting worse.
I ran a network repair today, and most things seem to be more responsive, so that helped for now with the door and motion sensor I guess.
The bedside lamp however just keeps ketting worse. In the beginning of this night, it turned on successfull and shut itself off (without changing the status in Vera) after about 5 minutes. Now, it does that after 20 seconds. I’ve attached a piece from the log file, starting with the line where I turn the device on. It is device-id 6. The log file ends after the light switched itself off, but there doesnt seem to be any mention of that. Only thing I see is right after switching the device on: ZW_Send_Data node 6 NO ROUTE (nil) <0x2b7d3680>. But I dont know if “NO ROUTE” is an error, since I see it more often in the log file.
Can you find something wrong in this log file, or should I be on the lookout for a new wall plug? I expected these devices to last a bit longer than 13 months. Normally, this light turns on and off once every evening, when we go to bed.
Thanks for offering a log, but it’s not going to help in this case. As you already stated that Vera does not see a state change, so there won’t be anything in the log.
You’ve got at least one failed/failing module. Nothing in the logs or Vera’s settings is going to change that. There is a very slim chance that excluding it and then including it back might reset it enough to start working, but I have almost zero expectation of this device ever working properly again.
The Fibaro may have only “lost its mind” and recovered after you unplugged it. But, it’s far too soon to be sure.
The NO ROUTE error means that Vera doesn’t have a known good route to that device. Vera will still send the command, and if the device is within direct radio range to hear it, the command will work. This is not uncommon. But, it is usually better when there is a route(s). It sounds like you would benefit from some intermediate Z-Wave nodes to improve your mesh.
Thanks for your insights! I’m going to give exluding and including of that module a chance, to see if I can stretch its lifetime for a bit, but I’m going to order some new ones as well.
As for putting some devices in between, that is going to be hard since there are no devices that need to be switched on or off in between, but there are some battery powered sensors. I think I have to relocate the Vera a bit
Thanks!
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