I am about ready to throw my Vera Lite out the window and get Wink or SmartThings Hub… I updated to latest Firmware a couple days ago, and everything appeared good. I added a light switch, and changed configured the settings, and then it bricked on me. After 4 hours of trying to figure out how to fix it, I finally managed to do a reset (reset button wouldn’t reset it no matter how many times or length of time I pressed it) by going in with SSH to do the reset. I restored from a backup, and got my switch working. Happy. Then today, I unplugged it and went to battery mode to add an outlet, and it wouldn’t work, yet again, and its bricked again. I have had the thing for 2 years without complaint. What gives? I get the blue light flashing, then it goes solid, then green flashing, then it resets with a 4-light flash and back to blue flashing. When in battery mode, I get a blue light flash, then it goes solid, then turns off.
Very frustrated right now!
Anyone have any ideas what could be going on?
Thanks
Yep! I was going to include that in my original post, but forgot. The batteries were good, but I replaced them with fresh ones, just in case. I also removed my USB to see if that was causing issues. No luck on either front. I also rebooted my router.
Why do you keep using it in battery mode? I had 2 vera lites I never kept batteries in. My new edges don’t even come with batteries. Have you tried doing “Full power inclusion” ?
I was not aware that full power inclusion would let me add switches in other rooms. Regardless, that doesn’t fix my problem of it bricking its self just by unplugging it and using battery mode… Even without batteries, it’s failing to connect.
Well yes and no. If you don’t have batteries and you don’t keep unplugging it technically your problem is fixed. ;D
But I get ya. Will it brick only with unplugging and plugging back in? I haven’t seen this as a common problem and without some testing might not have a good solution.
Also reading your first post seems like it only bricked once after unplugging it.
Does anyone know what the current light pattern could mean? Blue flashing, then goes solid, followed by green flashing and then it resets. I never see the orange light. Any ideas?
[quote=“Wayd, post:7, topic:186825”]Does anyone know what the current light pattern could mean? Blue flashing, then goes solid, followed by green flashing and then it resets. I never see the orange light. Any ideas?
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Have you called VERA? This is probley a good time.
I experienced something similar when trying to set user associations on switches and controllers. Battery mode is not working too well so I gave up on that. I had taken the habit of doing power inclusions too which did not work for some more complex devices. Eventually what I did was to do factory resets, recover from backup and retry with a long ethernet cable to get close to the device I wanted to include. It eventually worked on the 3rd try. I never had problems including though, only configuring devices and specifically setting user associations. When it crashes, or bricks, basically the orange light does not come back up meaning something in the Luup engine is crashing. Maybe support could shed some light on this.
Thanks Anhman. I think that may have been what messed me up too. I was trying to get some switches to talk to one another.
I ended up doing a factory reset with TELNET and just starting over fresh.
One thing I did do, in a fit of frustration, was buy a Wink Hub. I got my VeraLite up and running again and I have to say, the VeraLite has way more control features. I do like how many cool devices are available for the Wink though. I want to keep the Wink and have it as a Slave Hub to the Vera so I can pair ZigBee devices and Wink devices to the Wink hub, but control them in VeraLite… I believe I have read this is possible, right? Can anyone point me to a solid thread that explains the capabilities and How-To’s of doing this? There is a lot of misinformation out there, and would appreciate any recommendations to good readings on this topic. Thanks!