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So as you remember, I've been moving over to the zooz 700 stick, several zooz 700 switches, and several zooz 700 dimmers... It's going poorly. The switches seem fine. The dimmers act differently from my previous jasco stuff, which isn't necessarily a problem. But I've got some weird stuff going on. Such as:
Anyway, if anyone has some suggestions, let me know! It could be a corrupt SD card on my pi I guess. Could be older lightning struck devices on the network which are broken. Could be bugs in the new zooz stuff... I'll probably fight it for a few more days then move back to zwave 500 stuff until I can go 100% on zwave 700 someday. |
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That sounds hectic! I think once you get a successful network heal, it will start performing once again. I don't think there is any special treatment for 700 series during a network heal (I could be wrong) @AlCalzone, |
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Firmware on the stick, great question. @marcus-j-davies - how can I see this from inside NR, since node 1 doesn't show? Regarding the port, I'm using the same port as I was with my previous zooz 500 USB stick, same placement in the house, same power supply, etc... it's sitting on some extra piles of HDMI cables right now but otherwise unchanged. I've been running in debug for about an hour and I think I just got my first spam event, let me find it in the logs and share. |
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You should also be able to see the firmware version in the startup logs, since the stick is queried every time. |
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Cool, what should I search for in the startup log? My log is over 10k lines now... |
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Should be part of this |
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I was waiting for someone to pick up on this 😆 |
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I captured a spam event from node 26. Here's the log plus a couple minutes before and after. First spam timestamp: |
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Ah the stick. Zooz 700 stick. Let me see if I can find a usb extender and stick it to the wall a few feet away from anything else... |
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Yup, I wonder if its just a bit more fussy on its location, compared to the old 500 stick. |
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if you strip out the timestamp, you could use the rbe node, which will check if the message received was the same as the last, and if so - disregard it. you can set it to allow the fist one through (for your start up routines) |
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Actually I don't mind repeated messages, all of my other flows can handle them just fine at this point. It's just that if I expect to be able to make a command (tell Siri turn off the lights) during a spam storm then it's sometimes several minutes before the new command happens. |
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The delay was just to count "how much backup is there" ... not used for anything else |
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Alright the stick used to be plugged in right near the red ethernet cable. Now it's taped up on the bar by the paper stack. Restarted NR, started a network heal, I'll be back either very soon if the problems continue or tomorrow if things act better.
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My main radio is right in the middle of the house, under a floorpanel |
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Hey. It'll get better. Remember I've just had to rebuild ALL of the wired network since it was burnt out by lightning. I haven't finished or had time to clean up after myself yet. |
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I'll be interested to see what the heal yields. A simple move does actually do wonders. I had a door sensor, that was problematic in the hot climate, I put it down to the metal works in the doors changing shape slightly |
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Nice. This is in a "corner" of the house, probably not perfect. My house is about 35 feet (10 meters) and 2 stories. So if I remember math... the furthest device is the garage door, through a few walls. About 50 feet (15 m) away... |
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If everything changes after this then I'll move it pretty close to dead center (already have a spot in mind) of the house, still on the end of the USB extender. |
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Wanted to make an update here. I've been watching closely for 4 hours now, I haven't seen any rapid-fire repeated messages! Great progress there. I ran a heal on the network, all except one node healed properly. The one that failed is working mostly correctly but it's being a bit abusive I think, it's a motion detector. It repeats motion alerts every 9 seconds while motion is ongoing! That can't be normal, right? All my others report at a configurable interval from 15 seconds and up. Anyway, that's the reason for #66 - I'm planning to swap that node for a different motion detector in hopes it'll behave better. Otherwise the network traffic is looking good. If things continue like this, I'll be getting started into learning how the new devices work... It'll be a lot easier if the network is happy! |
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That encouraging to know. If all still settled, it seems as if the new controller, is a little more specific on its location, and seems a little more affected by its surroundings. |
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I've been watching for about an hour this morning now and I think things are all set. I'm only getting the expected messages and no repeats in sight. Thank you very much @marcus-j-davies and @AlCalzone for your support here - and the awesome project! To the future people of the internet: If your z-wave 700 stick is acting poorly, move it away from the computer and any cables you can to some "free air"! |
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Wanted to make an update here. I've been watching closely for 4 hours now, I haven't seen any rapid-fire repeated messages! Great progress there.
I ran a heal on the network, all except one node healed properly. The one that failed is working mostly correctly but it's being a bit abusive I think, it's a motion detector. It repeats motion alerts every 9 seconds while motion is ongoing! That can't be normal, right? All my others report at a configurable interval from 15 seconds and up.
Anyway, that's the reason for #66 - I'm planning to swap that node for a different motion detector in hopes it'll behave better.
Otherwise the network traffic is looking good. If things continue like this, I'…