After the veralert service was shut down and Richard confirmed that it will not be available again, I searched for a new notification service to use in my vere secure. I signed up for the PushOver service.
I want to take a snapshot from a camera with camera snapshot address “192.168.4.37/img/snapshot.cgi?size=4&quality=1” and video address “192.168.4.37/img/video.mjpeg” according to a trigger.
Actually, someone (Tlex) did a work about this years ago on the vera forum, but I couldn't understand that script. I also wrote to him to be more descriptive, but I didn't get an answer. Can you help me with this?
I have an older Vera Plus controller that has been collecting dust for a little while. I know the hardware is no longer supported but I would prefer it to go to a good home vs the eWaste center. No charge, just pay for shipping and it's yours. If you are interested, let me know.
With their awesome new X10 switch!
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I'm hopping in my 1980s time machine to go see whether this is exactly what I think it is. 🙂
(Srsly, tho, I love(d) X10 and did everything humanly possible to keep that old equipment perking along with Vera, and almost succeeded.)
LibraP.S. Just got banned for the 9th time from Hubitat Forum, so had a little extra time to throw shade.
P.P.S. The boilerplate 5-star reviews for this brand-new product come from bots with names like Avery, Phoenix and Owen (two from Mateo!). Sheesh.
Let's assume you have done the following:
Downloaded and installed Z-Way following these instructions. No Zway license is required to do the following. The software is now all up and running with your UZB stick (whole other post). Dial up this Zway web page: http://<Zway_server_IP_address>:8083/expert/#/network/controller Under the heading "Firmware" take note of the "SDK version" and the "Serial API Version". Say they equal 6.71.01 & 05.23 respectively like it shows here.Now on to Vera:
Go to the Vera UI --> Z-Wave Settings and taken note of the "Version" shown for Vera's internal Zwave IC. For example purposes, say it equals "6.01". You plug your UZB stick into Vera. In the Z-Wave Settings you set the port to "/dev/ttyACM0" You've rebooted Vera, so that it starts using the UZB stick.OK, so what "Version" will Vera now display and the version of what? The version shown by Vera is the "Z-Wave protocol" version or the "Serial API" version - it's unclear which but I suspect the former. However on most occasions the numbers are the same. It's not the Software Developers Kit (SDK) version number.
Knowing the UZB firmware version you can identify what Vera will show with the following table.
From the example above: Zway stated the version as 5.23. It will show in Vera as version 4.61 - see table. However the Vera internals showed up as 6.01. So using this method to copy the Zwave configuration to the stick will not work, as the stick represents a downgrade and you can only do same to same or upgrades. So in this case you need to update the stick firmware from 5.23 to 5.32 as a minimum. Then the stick will show up in Vera with version of 6.01.
Which is great. So you then use the Zway software to upgrade the stick firmware. And that's the last you hear from it because this happens:
"Sorry to inform you, but there is a known issue in some UZB manufactured by our partners on license base that after upgrade they become bricked."
And you have to do this to unbrick it. So time to try someone else's stick. Sigh.
ZWay UZB version Vera version SDK version 5.39 6.09 6.82.01 6.08 6.82.00 6.07 6.81.06 6.06 6.81.05 6.05 6.81.04 6.04 6.81.03 6.03 6.81.02 5.37 6.02 6.81.01 5.36 6.02??? 6.81.00 ???? 5.33 6.02??? 6.81.00 ???? 5.32 6.01 6.81.00 5.03 6.71.03 5.02 6.71.02 5.27 BL 48059 4.61 6.71.0? 5.26 4.61 6.71.0? 5.23 4.61 6.71.01 4.6 6.71.00 5.2 4.6? 6.7?.00 5.16 4.6? 6.70.00 4.62 6.61.01 4.33 6.61.00 4.54 6.51.10 5.07 4.38 6.51.09 4.34 6.51.08 4.24 6.51.07 4.05 6.51.06 5.06 4.01 6.51.04 3.99 6.51.03 3.95 6.51.02 3.92 6.51.01 3.83 6.51.00 3.79 6.50.01 3.71 6.50.00 3.67 3.35 6.10.00 3.41 6.02.00 3.37 6.01.03 2.78The table is based on page 434 of silabs app INS13954 and the UZB firmware revision information found here. The table may have errors!
The vera can run both its zwave and zigbee network off of external USB radios instead of the onboard ones. This could have advantages in terms of portability, facilitating migrations or recoveries in case the vera craps out. It could also enable testing of newer radio firmwares.
Zwave is pretty straightforward as its serial API is standardized and the protocol is the same regardless of what brand of USB stick you use. I have run my vera off of USB sticks of various brands for years going from Aeotec, Zooz, Homeseer and even the most generic silabs/Sigma Design. You just insert the stick in the usb port, find out which serial port it created (under the /dev/ folder) and use that port (ie. /dev/ttyACM0, /dev/ttyUSB0 etc) in the zwave advance menu.
Zigbee is a little trickier as the protocol and chipset was not quite as standardized as zwave. The vera only works with ember Znet protocol and you will need to find a usb stick with an EM35x chip in it which already has an ember zigbee firmware loaded. One example of such a stick is the Go Control HUSBZB1 (dual zwave-zigbee stick). The port is not readily accessible on the vera UI but can be accessed either through editing of the /etc/cmh/user-data.json or through ALTUI by going into the hidden zigbee radio device through the "table devices " menu and changing modifying the port variable there.
You can also upgrade the onboard zwave and zigbee radio firmwares from the command line SSH...
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Hello everybody.
I would like to automate the underfloor heating. At the moment I have the gateway from vera secure and thermostat with receiver from SRT SECURE with z-wave. I would like to connect to the gateway a receiver with 4 channels from sonoff and 3 temperature and humidity sensors from aliexpress as a thermostat. do you think it is possible?
and one more question... how can I change the name of the wireless network and the password from the gateway?
Thank you very much!
Script to disable all the mios/vera proprietary program and broadcast its zwave and zigbee radio serial ports in your network so it can be picked up by another controller... For example z-way.
GitHub - rafale77/Nuke-Vera: Script to neuter the vera and broadcast its zwave and zigbee serial ports
GitHub - rafale77/Nuke-Vera: Script to neuter the vera and broadcast its zwave and zigbee serial ports
Script to neuter the vera and broadcast its zwave and zigbee serial ports - rafale77/Nuke-Vera
Good morning all,
I've got a stable Home Assistant running on a RPI 4 with a Aeotec Z-Stick 7 Plus, and of course the Z-wave JS integration. I've manually moved a handful of devices, and I'm overall much happier with the HA z-wave capability than I am with Vera. There are still some things I'm trying to figure out that I have in Vera that I'm not sure how they'll work in HA, but no deal breakers.
I've got all of my automation on MSR and off of luup Reactor, so really the only thing left for me is to migrate my Z-wave network. I saw @rafale77's post about using a Zwave.me UZB1 to Zway, but of course that's not what I'm using.
Is there a similar method that I can use my Aeotec Z-Stick 7 plus to Home Assistant? I have around 70 Z-wave devices (give or take devices that generate multiple instances in Vera), so manual unpairing, including, etc, would be quite a chore.
So ... I am trying to do the following:
Current setup:
Vera Plus (1.7.4955) Zwave only -> HASSIO VM (full control via Vera Integration)
Future Target:
HASSIO VM (leveraging zwave.me UZB1 dongle via USB)
I have done the following so far:
Updated UZB1 dongle (via RPi SmartHome) to latest 5.39 FirmwareI followed the following steps to try and migrate my existing Z-Wave NW (currently on Vera) onto the UZB1 dongle following the steps listed here:
Problem:
Steps 1-3: went fine (although the dumps are labeled as dongle.6.1.dump.x)
Step 4: went fine and the UZB1 was recognized as it should be (per dmesg)
Step 5: updating the port to /dev/ttyACM0 went fine, although I didn't see any indication of luup reload (or a save button for that matter when updating the port mapping)
Step 6: I did the touch for dongle.restore, but wasn't sure where to trigger a luup reload (I assumed it was Z-Wave Settings > Advanced > Reload Engine). I believe I got an error message when trying to do that step
Step 7: verify dongle.restore.go I don't recall being in the directions when I was going the test, but I rebooted
Post Reboot: None of my previous z-wave devices were listed. I also checked dmesg via ssh and noticed the following items:
[ 4.328000] Unsupported Device! [ 4.328000] Vendor=658 ProdID=200 [ 4.328000] Manufacturer= Product=I saw that item a couple times which almost seems like Vera is blocking the UZB1 or at least complaining about it.
I ended up switching the Z-Wave back to the embedded controller, and restoring configuration from backup.
Any suggestions what I did wrong??
Having trouble getting a Vera 3 to recognise a Z-Wave.Me UZB stick.
WinSCP indicates it's mounted at /dev/ttyACM0, so the Vera Z-Wave settings were adjusted to match. On a Luup engine reload Vera UI states: "ZWave : Failed To Start". Ditto for a complete Vera reboot.
Has anyone successfully used a UZB stick with a Vera 3?
Hello Everyone,
I am using iPhone locator on Vera, and yesterday it stopped working. Looking at the logs, I can see the connection is refused, but nothing on my end changed. iPhone locator is really important in my particular setup, so I guess I have two questions.
Is it broken, or is it me?
I don't see anyone else saying there is an issue, but I am not sure how many people are still using it (or Vera for location) at this point. I installed it on a blank Vera test controller, same issue. It might be something with the iCloud account, but it works everywhere else.
Is there something similar on another platform?
Mainly what I would like is the ability to force a poll of iCloud location on demand. I have a bunch of triggers setup, including magnetic sensors in my driveway to sense vehicles and determine if the motion is egress or ingress. These triggers in conjunction with MSR have been a great way to double check phone location, and I would hate to lose this functionality. It looks like HA might have something with "iCloud3". Is anyone using it?
Thanks,
Mike
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The only thing left on Vera is now electricity meter readers, and I simply can't find any suitable WiFi replacement.
My hem stopped reporting this august and I’ve replaced it with a Shelly EM. I’m using another one on my solar and they’re amazing fast to report and quite precise. They’re WiFi, and mqtt based. Recommended!
Long story short: I need to tweak some parameters for Fibaro Plugs, to remove frequent notifications about watts (I just need a very good approximation, in order to detect the cycle of washer/dryer), but the parameters depend on the firmware version, and I have:
271,1554,21554
and the other one has:
271,4102,0
Any help is apprreciated.
Hi all! I am almost relieved from Vera 🙏. Around 65 decices to go. Of which some are on very hard places (under floor etc.). Is there any way to easily get the vera devices on the zwave network without repairing them per piece?
I think I knowthe answer, but I am asking 😉
Anyone installed the new beta f/w on their Vera unit and liking it?
Read https://community.ezlo.com/t/7-32-vera-firmware-beta-release/217060
Have Aeotec Smart Switch 6 in use with Vera Plus (fw 7.31 - 1.7.5186, decoupled) and now as I'm trying to change its configuration, it seems impossible.
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"Save changes" just initiates luup reload, but parameters stay the same. "Configure node right now" does not help either, Vera informs that command sent, but nothing happens. Hard refresh of the browser done.
Device itself is working, e.g. it reports current wattage.
"Automatically configure" is set to "No", if set to "Yes", configuration change is initiated but fails with the message "Failed at: Setting special association"
EDIT: in the end this was solved by unplugging the switch and then plugging it back, some internal state corrupted...
Hi there,
I know this was floating around on the other forum but just hoping someone can post the steps as I’m finally biting the bullet and moving to a USB stick and Zwave JS in home assistant.
Thanks!
So, I recently added Pi-Hole (pi-hole.net) to my networked clients for its open-sourced Ad and Tracker Blocking. Essentially, it’s a DNS Blacklisting solution and it can display the Domains being accessed.
To my dismay I’m seeing the VERA+ attempting calls to facebook.com on a regular basis between 20 – 70 minutes each.
The Active apps on VERA are Sercomm IP Camera, Amazon Alexa Helper, Garage Door, Foscam HD, Reator, SiteSensor and Ezlo Cameras. I just recently removed AltUI before disconnecting from the cloud services.
Any ideas on how I could track down the culprit caller?
Thanks for your consideration.
I've got a Nokia/Withings bathroom scale on which I weigh myself daily. I used to use IFTTT to push every weighing result into a Google Spreadsheet in the cloud, but now that I use MSR, I'm more interested in integrating this data into that workflow.
Has anyone figured out a way to move data from a WiFi-connected scale into the Vera environment? I don't mind trying something indirect, as for instance I've already linked the weights over to my Google Fit app.
Open to suggestions!
vera - motion sensor stays tripped
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I assume you mean that Vera is not seeing the "untrip" event from the motion detector, a sadly common problem in recent firmwares. I 've solved it by adding the "AutoUntrip' variable to the device with a \ time-out delay to untrip the sensor. 60 seconds is a good value, but you can choose any number you want.
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I practically completely eliminated this problem after ditching the vera.
It is as @HSD99 says due to misses of the untrip frame coming from the device and this frame often lost because the vera is having fun with itself... either in a got CAN, in a tardy wait mode, reloading luup or that portion of the network doing a wakeup nnu or a wakeup poll. There are all kinds of mechanisms as you can see for it to fail and the larger the network is with battery operated devices and secure class devices, the more likely this happens. Hopefully this is not a ghost trip which then means that there is no untrip frame coming behind it... this is a vera data corruption problem either in the user-data.json file or in the vera RAM.
The auto untrip is one way to resolve it but it is really a workaround, patch... not one that I would recommend. The fundamental solution is to get the untrip frame from the sensor and to do this we need to reduce chattiness of the zwave network.The autountrip is below:
http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_UPnP_Variables_and_Actions#SecuritySensor1
local deviceID = **the device you want to set** local time = **the time after which it untrips in seconds** luup.variable_set("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "AutoUntrip", time, deviceID) -
Short of going with z-way, you can go to the native openzwave on Home Assistant... Vera offers no advantage over OZW anymore. It has actually fallen quite a bit behind it.
The Future of Z-Wave in HA - QT-OpenZWave
Hi all, In the state of the union 2019 presentation there was a brief update on the path to Open Z-Wave 1.6. Short mention of it can be found here. This sounds like a great path forward. There will be a separation between Home Assistant and Z-Wave meaning that restarting HA will...
And you don't even need new hardware. You can just "nuke" the vera and use it as your zwave and zigbee radio for home assistant using the home assistant components for them. In that case, you won't even have to rebuild your network. OZW will just take over the vera zwave network and make it this much better. You will have to rebuild Zigbee though.
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Makes no difference that it is an edge
https://smarthome.community/topic/5/nuke-vera-script
The zigbee part just won't work
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Using a Vera Edge as a network-attached zwave device (skipping the vera software)
I have a few Vera’s lying around and I wanted to migrate one to home assistant, and instead of going the tedious way of adding again all my zwave devices to a zwave stick, I decided to try and make a zwave-to-tcp device out of the controller, and connect home assistant to it. Data path: zwave...
There is zero risk in doing this. Just run a vera backup. Worst case, you just restore. I just provided a script to make it easier.
It's actually much less risky than starting a network from scratch since you don't risk not being able to include or configure devices and you can go back easily. Starting from scratch is a "no return" path.
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Sorry, but for me this is rocket science. I do not fully understand it as a whole and therefor dont know where to start. For example, killing the processes except the ones listed... will that survive a reboot? The thing is, if I do something wrong I don't have enough skills to revert or go forward...
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A bit surprising given the fact that you run home assistant which is much more involved and complicated to setup and maintain than this:
To answer your questions:
Does it survive reboot? yes... the last step of the process is to reboot.
How to undo? Factory reset and restore backup.All it does is prevent all the mios programs from loading at boot up and adds ser2net which sends the serial signal over your network. You then get socat to pick up that port and reflect it on Home assistant as if it was a local serial port. You can thereafter use the openzwave component (zwave2mqtt, QTopenzwave, zwave, they are all based on openzwave) of your choice on Home Assistant. No different from your vera component today, just much better integrated.
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Ok, I have a spare vera... I am willing to try...
So what should I do step by step?
Step 1. This vera has no zwave devices currenlty
Step 2. Nuke vera with you script?
Step 3. Follow home assistant link above?
Step 4. Have a zwave device connected to vera and it should show in hass?What I dont get yet, I run hass core. A vm on esxi. I cant ssh to "linux" other than the basic linux on which hass runs but it seems I cannot really "do" something there. So how could I do:
On Home Assistant - first ssh connectioninstall socat with “apt-get install socat” or whatever package manager your distribution has...
And what I do not understand fully is how vera could then be an OZW1.6 one?
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The Home Assistant link is a step by step. That one does not fully survive reboot.
My script run on the vera only does the vera part. It just goes a little further by making it resistant to reboot and disabling really everything from vera/mios. You still need to access your home assistant machine and install/setup socat per the home assistant forum. Maybe I should add that in my github read me to make it easier.You have two possible scenario here.
- If you have no device on the vera, you will need to use Home Assistant to include them... yeah no more vera inclusions.
- If it is your vera you are migrating, all your devices will show in home assistant under the zwave menu if you use the zwave component, or the other zwave interfaces (zwave2mqtt or QTopenzwave) if you use one of the other 2 components. You can continue expanding your network from there. Again, no more vera software. You are just reusing the hardware.
Do your research and decide which one to choose. Home assistant offers many components. The newest one is QTopenzwave. The native zwave is the oldest but most integrated one.
I too run “Hass Core”. It’s really a misleading name because it is the most complete and flexible version of Hass. Not just the core. The others are just customized, limited versions to run as a container or a self contained OS. If you run Hass Core, you probably have a full linux OS in the VM.
As to your last question. Maybe this is where you are the most confused. What you call vera is primarily a piece of software. I described it in my post about the vera different layers of connections but I admit, does not really address your confusion. It is really just a program running on OpenWRT which is a Linux distro. No different than say Home Assistant running on ubuntu, z-way running on windows or any other OS.
The UI you see is an open source webserver program called lighttpd reading from the /www folder.
The Luup engine is a binary compiled from C code called LuaUPnP located in /usr/bin and it relies on a number of libraries and connects to the zwave radio through a program called zwaveserial which I talk about in another thread here. The zwave radio is connected to the mini computer through a serial port which is what the zwaveserial program calls. What you see on windows as a COM port is shown under linux as in the /dev/ folder as a TTYXXXX port.Now the hardware. The various Vera Edge/VeraPlus/Vera Secure are devices sourced from SerComm, ａ company in Taiwan notorious for being an OEM for other companies producing mostly wireless routers and IPcams. The vera is hardware wise a wireless router with additional radios with its original operating system on top of which mios slapped a couple of programs. You prevent the mios programs from starting, and you end up with basically a device like a rPI with a zwave radio running OpenWRT linux. From here on you can think of it as just that. A tiny computer with your zwave radio onboard and forget that it is a vera.
Now zwave radio chips have the particularity to have onboard memory and this memory stores all the data from your network. It is made of the HomeID, which identifies your network, the list of nodes, your device list, and their routing. It does not contain the command class information for these nodes.
So... If you kill the vera programs, you end up with a tiny linux computer with a zwave radio and all your zwave network info in it. You can just send this serial port through ethernet to your home assistant VM and have home assistant manage it. This the purpose of folks in the link above.
