T’is the season to be… taking down the christmas decorations. This year I had a bunch of stuff on Z-wave switches plugged into wall sockets. I want to remove those switches along with the decorations, but I don’t want their absence triggering a lot of “node unreachable” errors and nightly routing table rebuilds. I also don’t want to exclude them from the network, so that I don’t have to add them to my scenes next year.
Is it possible to flag a Z-wave device as being dormant, so that Vera won’t bother sending anything to it, and won’t get worried when it can’t get a response from the node?
Excellent question. I’m going through the same thing – GE Outdoor switches controlled the exterior and interior christmas lights. (Very well, too)
I’d like them to be removed, but not forgotten, for easy re-add.
Last time I tried to change a parent I got a warning that it might brick the Vera. I tried it, and although it didn’t brick, I lost all my stuff and had to reload from backup. Be careful…
Same problem myself. Just wondering if changing polling interval to zero helps? I noticed that doing this for some battery powered temperature sensors (which aren’t supposed to be polled at all) meant that the readings were never updated - the devices effectively ignored???
I suspect for the hard/soft wired devices EG switches, appliance modules, weather proof switches, vera won’t care. But you will get a bunch of reds. Actually in the device → advanced tab, there is a check box to disable it. I just tested it on a red. The device (a temp sensor with no batteries) has always shown red, I checked the check box and now it looks just like the regular device. But I bet vera won’t pay attention to it no more.
Battery devices being stored should have the batteries removed anyhow, just in case when you go to use it next you don’t get a pile of battery goo in the unit.
Even if you can set it to dormant, the routing would have to be updated as well.
If other nodes use that particular node for routing information I would imagine that info would have to be updates as well…
[quote=“turb0, post:6, topic:173881”]I suspect for the hard/soft wired devices EG switches, appliance modules, weather proof switches, vera won’t care. But you will get a bunch of reds. Actually in the device → advanced tab, there is a check box to disable it. I just tested it on a red. The device (a temp sensor with no batteries) has always shown red, I checked the check box and now it looks just like the regular device. But I bet vera won’t pay attention to it no more.
Battery devices being stored should have the batteries removed anyhow, just in case when you go to use it next you don’t get a pile of battery goo in the unit.[/quote]
Last year I tried just unplugging the holiday lights switches and not deleting them from Vera. Bad idea!!! I had performance problems with the vera network all year and didn’t know it until I tried to re-connect the switchwa this December.
Rather than unplugging the outdoor switches I now have merely re-located them inside the house (in the same general area as the outdoor location) and kept them plugged into a powered receptacle. This way Vera is happy, network performance isn’t a problem and re-locating them next December won’t be a problem!
[quote=“turb0, post:6, topic:173881”]I suspect for the hard/soft wired devices EG switches, appliance modules, weather proof switches, vera won’t care. But you will get a bunch of reds. Actually in the device → advanced tab, there is a check box to disable it. I just tested it on a red. The device (a temp sensor with no batteries) has always shown red, I checked the check box and now it looks just like the regular device. But I bet vera won’t pay attention to it no more.
Battery devices being stored should have the batteries removed anyhow, just in case when you go to use it next you don’t get a pile of battery goo in the unit.[/quote]
I know this is an OLD topic but it would be nice if Vera removed head from butt and fixed some of these very basic issues instead of working on UI 256,700 which I’m sure will be no better than UI5.
If it was not for a few stellar user community devs I think Vera would be out of business.
I am going to get the two devices out from the loft (Christmas tree lights switches and still in Vera as part of scenes etc.) and plug them back in as think that may be adding to my system issues!
Please do! Especially for mains powered devices (i.e. devices participating in routing), I’d think it is extremely important that these are present and functional, for optimal performance.
Keep in mind that core Z-Wave functionality happens inside the Z-Wave chip, so it is important that it (i.e. the primary controller Z-Wave chip and any secondary controller that received the same network information) has a correct view of the network.
A Vera feature to (temporarily) ‘hide’ a node, may also require such functionality inside the Z-Wave chip; which may, or may not exist.