So, I attempted to upgrade to v1.5.322 from UI4 & v1.1.1362, but it hasn’t gone well…
After the upgrade, it seems my Z-Wave chip is “out to lunch” and refuses to communicate with my Z-Wave devices (all Poll/Configure and Repair commands fail) and every Z-Wave device appears to be unconfigured and unreachable.
I then attempted to dowgrade (to v1.1.1338) and reset to factory defaults, with the intent to restore one of the three (3) backups I have on the local system. The restore operation fails with the following message:
haserl CGI Error
Attempted to send content larger than allowed limits.
And now I’m stuck with a number of unconfigured/uncategorised Z-Wave devices which will not let Vera configure them as well as none of my scenes or other Luup/Lua scripts.
Am looking for good to grea ideas!?!
Thanks,
// Thomas
Had a similar issue happen to a friend of mine, the only difference was his said “z-wave chip is busy” even after a factory reset. the only way we got his system back up and running again was to do an “exclude” of each zwave device, then add them in as new devices.
my advice is:
1: to clear your zwave network and chip,
2: do an exclude of each device. this resets the device and allow it to be paired with any zwave controller.
3: re add the devices in full power mode.
granted this will completely wipe all of your luup, and scenes and need to be redone. but is most likely your surefire solution.
The advice from FlyingTech is the best option. Note, one you excluded and then included, do not try to use an old back up as the association to your devices will be different.
resetting the vera does NOT reset the devices. when resetting vera it changes the zwave network ID.
A zwave device can only be apart of one network, by excluding it with the vera it resets the device making it able to be added to your zwave network.
Hope this helps (and that you have a small network, cause it sucks to have to do this to 50 
)
to do the exclude press the z-wave button on the back of the vera till the zwave light is blinking rappidly.
@sjolshagen,
Maybe contact MCV Support and see what they can do. If the Z-Wave database in one of your backups is intact, they can at least restore that.
[quote=“oTi@, post:5, topic:170776”]@sjolshagen,
Maybe contact MCV Support and see what they can do. If the Z-Wave database in one of your backups is intact, they can at least restore that.[/quote]
Thanks @oTi.
I have and got the “we’re running behind but as fast as we can and hope to have the ability to help you as soon as possible” message.
The “can’t upload” is my biggest concern since it prevents me from returning to the pre-UI5 state.
However, it seems like the backup archive is “simply” a tar.gz archive so I wonder if I could restore this manually I have the USB option configured and could scp the file to that partition, unpack it & move the file(s) into the correct locations. However, I don’t know how/if I can restore the -wave DB (and whether that will restore communication with my Z-wave devices)?
[quote=“FlyingTech, post:4, topic:170776”]Hope this helps (and that you have a small network, cause it sucks to have to do this to 50 )
to do the exclude press the z-wave button on the back of the vera till the zwave light is blinking rappidly.[/quote]
I do not have a small network (and parts of the network is outdoors so full-power includes are a bit of a challenge, to put it mildly). I’m not going to go through the pain of resetting he network and exclude/include all parts of my network until I know, for a fact, that it is the only option (I’ll cycle the main breakers before I go to the drastic step of invalidating several weeks worth of effort.
It may also mean I’ll have to consider dropping Vera completely, to be honest. I have a really hard time accepting that a solution responsible for managing heat (and thus has the power to burn my house down!) is so fickle it will invalidate the entire network as part of the upgrade to UI5 (this is my second attempt at upgrading and the second time it’s failed me!).
I am not a happy customer right now!
I see.
However, it seems like the backup archive is "simply" a tar.gz archive so I wonder if I could restore this manually I have the USB option configured and could scp the file to that partition, unpack it & move the file(s) into the correct locations. However, I don't know how/if I can restore the -wave DB (and whether that will restore communication with my Z-wave devices)?
My guess is you can recover comms with the Z-Wave devices as long as they have not been reset/excluded, i.e. they still have a [tt]NodeID[/tt] and [tt]HomeID[/tt]. (Personally, I have not once (had to) rebuild my network).
As for just restoring the Z-Wave database, you could possibly reverse engineer the restore script. See also here for some comments.