Trouble with Vera 3 Lite

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Well, I purchased one of the Vera Lite’s in the upgrade program, but I am having second thoughts. Nothing but trouble upgrading!

So, I have it somewhat working now, but the question I have, is that I have mac address on the bottom that starts with 00:0E and that shows up in my router as being issued an IP, and I also have a mac address of 02:0E:same number as above, and it is being issued an IP. When I load the micasa page and login, it shows that I have two Veras. I have the original Vera 2 unplugged from my network, so the two ips must be the two veras. Question is how do I get back to one vera? I don’t like those two mac addresses.

Thanks for any help.

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Your old Vera will drop off in a few days if you don’t connect it. Mine were gone within the week after the upgrade.

Alternatively, connect the old Vera back to your network and paste below URL into your browser.
Replace the veraip part with the IP of the Vera unit you wish to delete.

http://veraip/cgi-bin/cmh/remove_ra.sh

A quick forum search on ‘delete vera’ would have provided you with this info.

As far as your router goes, if it used DHCP to assign an IP to the old Vera, that lease will stay until it expires. Which is a setting in the router. Some of them allow you to set the lease duration, others do not.

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There is no such thing as a “Vera 3 Lite”. Is it a Vera 3 or a Vera Lite?

My Vera 2 has a MAC Address starting with 00:0C:02. I doubt that the phantom MAC address is your Vera 2.

Can you visit the phantom IP address and do anything there?

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How long is the lease on your Router’s DHCP server? Sometimes they’re set so that the DHCP leases last for weeks on home routers. On commercial routers, the DHCP server leases can be very short.

You can see this by opening up a cmd line window from start and search for cmd. Then when the black command line window comes up, at the prompt type ipconfig /all Then look at your wireless port. It will show when you obtained your lease and when it expires. It’s that way for all devices on your LAN and WLAN. The router is going to maintain that relationship between the IP address that it issued out of the pool of addresses and the MAC address of the device, even if it’s gone. It really does not matter that your DHCP leases are long unless you have a situation like a Wi-Fi cafe or a Hotel where the users come and go relatively quickly and you run out of IP addresses. But in your house, it won’t affect anything. You won’t have rogue users unless your Wi-Fi is not secured or you have an Ethernet connector on your hitching post outside.