I recently tried changing from broadband to dsl and for some reason Vera couldn’t get internet access from the 2wire router. Since Vera couldn’t access the internet, my scenes did not activate. I switched back to broadband and everything is find now. Does Vera need to connect to their servers in order for the scenes to work?
Vera doesn’t need internet to play scenes, but Vera need internet to get its time.
If your scenes are time based, then you are in trouble. unless you set the time manually.
I found the answer: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=1049.0
I think if Vera is meant to be a standalone solution, then MCV will have to come up with a solution on how Vera can maintain its internal clock in its next generation Vera.
Reply from Mi Casa Verde:
[quote]"To clear the confusion, Vera does have an internal clock. But Vera does not have an internal battery to keep the clock running without power. So, if you power up Vera, it has the date 1999, and, using the internet, it sets the current time. At that point, the internet connection can go down and it won’t need the internet again to set the time unless you cycle power on Vera.
If you install Vera in a location without an internet connection, then when you turn Vera on, you will need to set the date manually. You can do this now with telnet, although it’s not intuitive, so we’re adding a ‘manually set the date/time’ option to the location tab. The clock will keep going fine unless Vera loses power, at which point it will reboot and have the time 1999 again.
You don’t lose any data when Vera’s power cycles because the data is stored in permanent flash rom.
I have a battery operated handheld Z-Wave remote and it works the same way. If it loses power (ie remove the batteries), your settings are preserved, but the clock is not. AFAIK all the Z-Wave controllers work like this. To add the battery would substantially increase the cost of Vera, not because the battery is expensive, but because we couldn’t use standard components and would have to do our own custom board."