Timers fail to fire

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#1

All,

My Vera timers don’t fire as scheduled anymore. I used to have this problem occasionally in the past (every couple of weeks) that my scene timers wouldn’t fire and they would only work after I reboot my Vera. Now this problem happens every single day and my daily timers consistently fail to fire every day even if I reboot my Vera on a daily basis.

If I fire the scene manually from the web browser, it would work sometime but not all the time.

I am running version 1.0.979 and according to the system, there are no new firmware versions to download.

Any ideas on how to address this problem?

Thanks,
Sam

#2

What does your scene do? There is a known bug related to scenes triggered by a timer that try to set both the heat and cool set points of a thermostat. Not sure if it is specific to the thermostat or if it is just trying to take two actions on the same device.

#3

My Scene is a simple scene that turns on and off outdoor plugin modules and sets the levels on some of my dimmers. No A/C thermostat is part of this scene. I simply use this scene to turn my landscape lights on at sunset and off at 11:00 p.m.

#4

So you are taking more than one action in the scene. I would suggest making a test scene that turns one light on and is trigger by a timer. If that works, then you know the issue isn’t that all timers are failing which would aid in the debugging/triage process.

#5

I will do that but the same timer has been working fine for several month in the past. I will create a test timer and check if the issue is related to the config of the timer but I don’t believe so.

#6

I am having the same issue, it started with 979 and does it on 989
This is driving me crazy! I even simplified the timer by trying a separate on and off timer.
Same thing, sometimes it works and sometimes not. I believe its a communication error with device since it wont manually function with the “go” button (sometimes). Think Essentials works perfect which leads me to believe its in the dongle or vera s/w

This is not a very reliable energy management solution.
Our company has not started marketing Vera because of this and a couple other issues. I keep saying that Think Essentials has it right when it comes to ZWave optimizing, Vera does a poor job with this function