I have somehow messed up my Veralite device after attempting to add a Monoprice door/window sensor. After trying to install the device, I ended up with a motion sensor, but it was of the wrong type. I attempted to delete it, but it would not delete. I reloaded from a backup, but it still was there. Which I ultimately think had been there prior to my attempt to add the Monoprice sensor.
In any case while doing a restore the 2nd time of a recent backup, the Veralite device got stuck in a mode with a blinking blue light. After hours of searching the internet for a solution, I finally decided to do a “Firmware Recovery” using the tool. I was successful at performing the recovery, and the Veralite device would complete the bootup and have all 3 lights on (Green, Orange, Blue), but I continued to get a “Zwave failed to start” message on the Web interface. I looked at the log messages, and see a zwave abort? with an exit code of 250, but I do not know why.
I then attempted to retstore to the older version of firmware that I had been running before this disaster, (7.06) and then restored from a backup. The green light and the blue light will come on solid, but the orange (zwave) does not stay lit. Eventually the web interface comes up and says the Luup has taken to long to restart and that I should contact support.
I have since done another “firmware recovery” and the device currently sits in that state with the continual message of ‘Zwave failed to start’.
I have reported this to support, but have not had any response other than to enable remote access.
I have NOT reset the z-wave chip as I know this will wipe out any hope of restoration of my scenarios, virtual devices, and etc that has taken me awhile to set up. However, this may be my only hope of fixing the problem.
I read elsewhere that sometimes a device will prevent the network from coming up, but I have removed the batteries from all of the sensor devices and only have my few light switches that have not been disabled. But since the problem occurred while restoring from backup I don’t know how those devices could have broken it.
If anybody has any thoughts or insight, I am open to suggestions.
thanks,