Two ZRF113s bite the dust...

Other Devices & Integrations Door Locks & Sensors
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Apparently, anyway. I won’t know for sure until I peel them out of the project box by the garage door opener buttons. But I did a network heal earlier today, and those came back with “no response” messages. Took the cover off the box, and poked their on/off buttons, nothing. The other one in the same project box works fine, so I know I have 110V into the box.

Sad. I hope the FM20 proves more durable.

–Richard

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Mmm, that sounds familiar. Try disconnecting them from the juice for a while and wire it back up. That seems to have brought back mine, after being completely unresponsive (unless it was wiring that came undone, but that wasn’t obvious).

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Mmm, that sounds familiar. Try disconnecting them from the juice for a while and wire it back up. That seems to have brought back mine, after being completely unresponsive (unless it was wiring that came undone, but that wasn’t obvious).

I had that on my list of things to try before I spent a dime on replacements. For me, this is pretty easy–the box is plugged into a wall outlet in the garage. Will report back if that resolves everything. Or not.

–Richard

[edit] Workee. First relays I’ve ever had to reboot.

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Maybe the run Windows…

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[quote=“rlmalisz, post:3, topic:171114”][…]–the box is plugged into a wall outlet in the garage.
[…]
[edit] Workee. First relays I’ve ever had to reboot.[/quote]
::slight_smile: No kidding. I take it the wall outlet is now of the Z-Wave kind and you implemented your own ‘nighty heal’ to cycle the relays plugged into it? :slight_smile:

Not sure; the LED would have turned blue.

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[quote=“oTi@, post:5, topic:171114”][quote=“rlmalisz, post:3, topic:171114”][…]–the box is plugged into a wall outlet in the garage.
[…]
[edit] Workee. First relays I’ve ever had to reboot.[/quote]
::slight_smile: No kidding. I take it the wall outlet is now of the Z-Wave kind and you implemented your own ‘nighty heal’ to cycle the relays plugged into it? :slight_smile:

Not sure; the LED would have turned blue.[/quote]

It’s right next to the Foscam that gets a bump every night (so it doesn’t lock up). That’s plugged into a GE appliance module. I’ll just plug a two-way pigtail into that, and plug the camera and the feed for the relays into the pigtail, and the relays can catch a bounce with the camera every night at 2am.

–Richard

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@ rlmalisz
Does your own “nighly heal” prevent the relay from locking up?
Im having the same issue with my Evolve relay so I am just debating if I should just sent it back or if your tweak works :slight_smile:
Please let me know.

Flo

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[quote=“frichter09, post:7, topic:171114”]@ rlmalisz
Does your own “nighly heal” prevent the relay from locking up?
Im having the same issue with my Evolve relay so I am just debating if I should just sent it back or if your tweak works :slight_smile:
Please let me know.

Flo[/quote]

I never actually put the relays on a nightly bounce. Have not had them go catatonic since but once, and can easily unplug the power and let them sit for a few minutes if they do.

–Richard

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Data point: had to power cycle the LFM20 again, the other day.

(And link to @frichter09’s report.)

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[quote=“oTi@, post:9, topic:171114”]Data point: had to power cycle the LFM20 again, the other day.

(And link to @frichter09’s report.)[/quote]

Thanks oTi@

Also another lockup on my side. I now set a manual route for the relay (set manual route to 0) and see if / when it locks up again!

Does the power cycle revive your LFM20?
I usually have to power cycle for a loong time (couple of minutes) and then use the switch on the relay to bring it back to life.

There was another interesting thread in this forum (cant find it anymore) but a user was having issues with Evolve dimmer lockups. Evolve figured out that this was due to explorer frames being introduced my MCVs last firmware version that apparently locks the dimmer switches. Not sure if those two issues are related but I figured Id mention this here.

Thanks for the update!
Flo

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[quote=“frichter09, post:10, topic:171114”]Does the power cycle revive your LFM20?
I usually have to power cycle for a loong time (couple of minutes) and then use the switch on the relay to bring it back to life.[/quote]
Interesting! Yup. So when it happened the first time, a while ago, I first opened up the box, checked connections, disconnected it from power, etc. This time, I did none of that, except cycle the power. Did not work with, say, a 5 second cycle. So I threw the breaker again. And then popped it back hours later. That fixed it!

Link.