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    • Caller ID in HA workflow

      LibraSun

      Has anyone successfully incorporated incoming call(er) information** within an automation workflow?

      I'm talking about having Alexa speak out the name and/or phone number of a caller, or activating a routine/scene based on that info.

      Always been a dream of mine. Wouldn't know how to achieve it! Do they make an Ethernet/WiFi-connected CallerID box?

      **from a LANDLINE, not a MOBILE PHONE (although in the case of my Google Voice #, both lines ring, and if my smartphone is home and turned on, I could see invoking Tasker somehow)

      REFERENCES:

      NCID - Network Caller ID

      [Please file under proper category, as you see fit]

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    • MQTT – setup and use

      akbooer

      General discussion on all things MQTT.

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    • Homer Dashboard - Vera/OpenLuup

      parkerc

      Hi all

      I’ve recently started to build out my own ‘Homer’ dashboard (https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer) and I must admit I really like what it’s given me.

      Thinking about future use-cases. I can see potential for this being an alternative (albeit simple ) UI for Vera/OpenLuup..

      Is anyone else using Homer ?

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    • Would you use a self-hosted geofencing solution?

      toggledbits

      Some of you may know that I took at shot at building an alternate geofencing solution for Vera. The core of it was system agnostic, using the OwnTracks application and AWS lambdas to track devices and keep a central data, then disseminate that to the Vera via a websocket-based plugin. It worked with other apps as well, including Tasker and GPSLogger, but of the dozen people that were testing it, most used OwnTracks.

      A lot was learned in the process, not the least of which is that the success of any such solution is highly dependent on the phone and its settings. Phone manufacturers love to set things up for the longest battery life, of course, but that's usually very anti-geofencing behavior. In the case of at least one brand, it was unusable and the settings could not be modified. It was also cost-prohibitive to maintain on Amazon, as AWS grabs a dime here and a dollar there and before you know it, it added $100/month to my AWS bill, which my wife deducted from my Scotch budget. Unacceptable.

      But it's quite reasonable to use OwnTracks to a local endpoint, and I could pretty easily replicate the functionality as a local application, or maybe even as an additional endpoint built into MSR's API (still separate port and process, but in the package).

      So the question really is... would you do it, or would you be too concerned about the security risks associated (e.g., dynamic DNS and NAT mapping in the firewall necessary for the phone to contact the service when not on LAN)?

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    • Apple Homepod mini

      rafale77

      After having optimized my video processing integration of 8 cameras into my openLuup based automation, I have been wondering what I could possibly improve on my setup. Instead of pestering @akbooer with petty localized console optimizations I am looking at these Apple Homepod minis as a potential improvement from my alexa based voice command system. openLuup is presently already bridged to both platforms using habridge and homekitbridge.

      I am seeing two issues with Alexa:

      Speed. The cloud processing of the voice commands takes ~1s (I don't use anything cloud to cloud) and I would really prefer it to be local. These devices can go a bit crazy when they lose DNS connections and sometimes do random things. Privacy because all the recordings go to the amazon cloud all the time.

      I have been exploring open source solutions for this but I would lose the benefit of optionally being able to go to the cloud for search information.

      The downside of the homepods are that siri is not nearly as good in terms of helpfulness as alexa at this point. They also don't have a version with a screen which I found to be very useful at a couple of locations on the other hand, the sound quality of the homepod minis seem to be better than the echos...

      What do you guys think?

      This thread from longtime vera user @dJOS inspired me

      Feb 4 Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOW Hubitat + HomeKit + HomeBridge + HomePod Mini = WOW

      Howdy all, I got a HomePod Mini very recently for my study (the audio quality is great and hand-off is magical) and to replace my iPad as the main HomeKit controller for my house (we use HomeKit mainly for Presence detection which is IMO best in class). We also have a dozen Amazon Echo's of...

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    • Recover an ‘assumed bricked’ Vera Secure

      parkerc

      Hi

      Go with me here... I recently pick up a unresponsive Vera Secure from eBay for next to nothing, thinking I’d could have a go at trying to restore it, if only as a play thing..

      Situation - The power led comes on, but the internet and service leds just flash - no connection made (and even using a direct cable and Wireshark, I can’t see an arp request being made to see if it has a default in address) - I’ve also tried various reset button combinations - no luck.

      Perhaps this post is a long shot, but seeing so many familiar ex Micasaverde/Vera forum names - i thought I’d at least ask - just in case anyone had any guidance/advice etc. I could use ..

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    • ubiquiti breach

      rafale77
      Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

      On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who...

      Reposting an article I got from a reddit thread.
      I won't stop advocating against cloud dependence and unnecessary cloud reliance especially in the field of smarthomes.
      I divested from a fairly large ubiquiti unifi system almost a year ago and I never connected my controller to their cloud service but as some may have sensed, it was a direction they were going towards. What got me off of it actually was the large disparity in product performance and a decreasing trust in the company with large amount of dubious advertising, inconsistent products for some of which the hardware could obviously not meet the marketing promises.

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    • Easy way to convert to SSD from SD card on Pi with MSR

      M

      So have been migrating a bunch of automations to MSR from Hubitat and no I feel like I want to have an SSD instead of SD card on my Pi3.What is an Easy way to convert to SSD from SD card on Pi with MSR. What files do I need to copy to keep my rules?

      /Mattias

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    • Vera watch variable / startup LUA how ?

      cw-kid

      I want to set something up natively if possible on Vera, so a virtual motion sensor device is tripped / not tripped by following the tripped variable state of a real device.

      This LUA code works if I run it manually but I don't know how to have this running all the time and watching for that "tripped" variable to change ?

      local istripped = luup.variable_get("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", 100) --Real Device luup.variable_set("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Tripped", istripped,101) --Virtual Motion Sensor Device return true

      How do you add something like this in to Vera's startup LUA feature ?

      Thanks

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    • Ezlo to openLuup to Homebridge

      Crille

      @mrFarmer I'm trying to add my Ezlo devices to Homebridge via openLupp Ezlobridge using the Vera plugin for Homebridge.
      Do you or anyone else know why they are ignored. My devices provisioned by Verabridge is visible in Homebridge but not those from Ezlobridge.

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    • Incrementing an outside awning with Reactor/MSR

      Black Cat

      I have a Reactor set up to extend an outside awning when the OAT reaches 26C and it's after 1100, that part is straightforward enough, however I wanted to take it one step further and rather than it being either fully out or the reverse I'd like to have the ability to increment it either In or Out by a certain distance (typically 500mm) every 120 secs or so.
      I had tried to do this with PLEG based on Sun position but failed miserably and never attempted to do this with distance and time.
      I have looked at adding it to the current Reactor but not being fully fluent in Reactor I've hit a brick wall and don't see if it can be done - anyone point me in the right direction is is this something that Reactor can't do?

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    • Need help backing up Raspberry Pi

      cw-kid

      Hello

      I have a 64GB SD card in my Raspberry Pi.

      I read some guides online and the ones that looked easy to follow use a program call Win32 Disk Imager to make an image of the entire SD card.

      I shutdown the Pi and when I insert the SD card in to my Windows 10 PC, I can see drive letter D:\ appear and its label is "boot"

      8094c349-baee-414a-b9e4-96f3d2e7c9c7-image.png

      Looking at this disk in Windows Disk management it looks a bit strange however as it has a massive unallocated area.

      f5eb87a7-cd83-4846-a7b6-c4315a691f58-image.png

      Anyway I proceeded to backup the disk D:\ using Win32 Disk Imager program.

      1d8e45d0-c38b-414f-b188-05d183d4baf4-image.png

      It took a long time but it has created an .img file which is 27.4GB in file size.

      57b59b29-1f56-4a54-923d-2b401129b3db-image.png

      I then put the SD card back in to the Pi and powered it on.

      Here is a "df" output from the Pi

      faaf5744-45c6-459c-a2c2-8b1c63ff3801-image.png

      Looks like I am not using the full 64GB of the SD card.

      When I first setup the Pi I was using a much smaller SD card and then I bought a decent Sandisk 64GB card and followed some other user guide found online to clone my original smaller card to the new card and expand etc.

      So have I actually just backed up the Pi's SD card and all its contents successfully ?

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    • My Turn! Suspended at Ezlo Forum

      M

      My turn now... Shit Ezlo CEO is really on slipper ice.

      I sak that in the thread that someone has contacted his wife and is Boeing concerened about his behavior.

      When you read the mail you clearly read that its someone close to him at the Company...

      Sad that he is ruining his Company and allt of peoples Jobs at risk.

      /M

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    • Voice Control and TTS Projects

      rafale77

      Some of my favorite projects I have been using on my setup for over 5 years:
      Bridge the vera or openluup to amazon echo through a local hue emulator. A much faster solution than the vera native bloatware as the only cloud service is used by this alternative is the voice recognition. It was initiated for vera control but later expanded to many other platforms like the logitech Harmony and other controllers. No cloud to cloud so no need for mios servers:

      bwssytems/ha-bridge bwssytems/ha-bridge

      Home automation bridge that emulates a Philips Hue light system and can control other systems such as a Vera, Harmony Hub, Nest, MiLight bulbs or any other system that has an http/https/tcp/udp int...

      The equivalent for Apple Siri:

      Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge

      Contribute to Hackworth/VeraHomeKitBridge development by creating an account on GitHub.

      Alternative SONOS TTS implementation from all the plugin versions applicable for any platform since it is an API you can call. It is run also locally on a MacOS desktop in my case but can run on anything running nodeJS. For the TTS to be fully local though, you will need a mac or bear with the robotic voice of maryTTS. I have been hesitant to move my TTS to the amazon echos (project by @therealdb), but the echos lack synchronization and are cloud dependent which causes a 3-5s delay I do not have with this local solution, so this remains my choice:

      jishi/node-sonos-http-api jishi/node-sonos-http-api

      An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar. - jishi/node-sonos-http-api

      Use my fork if you need to install on Catalina because some fixes are needed and my pull request from months ago has not yet been merged.

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    • Not so quiet around here :)

      tunnus

      Got banned quite quickly from Vera/ezlo forum, without any warning. I was kinda asking for it, but still, they could have some sense of humour over there 🙂

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    • Starlink Available in Some Areas

      toggledbits

      This morning I signed up for Starlink internet. This is the Musk project that has been aboard many of the SpaceX launches for some time. I watched this morning's launch (60 additional Starlink satellites), and they announced that the Beta was open in some areas. I went to the site, and it was open in my area.

      The site (starlink.com) quoted $99/mo with $499 initial equipment and setup. I realize that's pretty pricey compared to Internet access in many areas, but I currently pay a fair amount more (monthly) to my current cable- (TV) based ISP, quality and speed are inconsistent, and every year I have to fight their customer retention staff to keep my pricing from nearly doubling as my "special offer" expires.

      Verizon, the dominant cellular carrier where I live, has been slow to roll out home-based Internet on 5G. This is another alternative I've been excited to investigate, but still waiting.

      I'm pretty excited. Yes, I'm a Musk fan-boy. Don't judge me. 🙂

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    • Controller shift - How do you do it ?

      parkerc

      A while back the z-wave module on my veraplus stopped working and as it couldnt be fixed, I bought an external usb z-wave dongle UZB1 (which I plugged in and setup on ‘port’ /dev/ttyACM0 ) which made it operational again, and I’ve been using it again since.

      Recently I picked up a new (well 2nd hand) VeraPlus unit and tried to do a full system/zwave network restore from the original one, but it didn’t work.

      The restore looked like it worked fine, as it brought everything over, but when nothing worked, I checked the z-wave ‘port’ settings on the new unit, and it too had been set to use an external usb (/dev/ttyACM0) which it obviously doesn’t have , but when I changed it back to the onboard zwave module (/dev/ttyS0) all the z-wave devices disappeared.

      To fix this, it sounds like I need to do a controller shift to get the details off the UZB1 key and onto the zwave chip on the veraplus board ?

      However not having done one before I’m not sure if the process is - any ideas ?

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    • Raspberry Pi - Cron Jobs for Lua scripts ?

      parkerc

      Hi,

      I’ve got a few Lua scripts that I’d like to run periodically on my Pi, and I’ve tried to get them to run via Cron, but I can’t seem to get them to work..

      Does anyone have anything similar set up that works ?

      Crontab -e

      I’ve tried it a couple of ways based on the forum posts I’ve read, but neither have worked..

      0 0 * * * home/pi/shared/TS_cabin_graph_email_24h.lua 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/lua /home/pi/shared/TS_cabin_graph_email_24h.lua
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    • SiteSensor triggered my both sirens

      S

      Installed Sitesensor yesterday. Defined a http request towards yr.no for the weather.
      Default it only sends requests when the device is armed. When I armed the sensor both of my sirens started bleeping. Not funny with at night with two kids asleep.

      Simultaneous with arming the device, the first http request probably is send and my first http request did not have the Useragent http header so the result was a 403; this probably made the sitesensor device being triggered.

      I unchecked the box "only send requests when armed" and disarmed the sitesensor. This works ok but only one slight mistake with thick fingers and I have armed it again.

      I see the sitesensor device is being configured as a SecuritySensor (as it implements the securitysensor serivce?). This makes that sirens react when the sitesensor trips. I have a leakage sensor as well and I know this one triggers the sirens as well. Do not have any doorsensors right now but hope these will not trigger sirens as well.

      Is there a way to tell Sirens to ignore Sitesensor and/or other specific devices. Or should sitesensor not be configured as a security device?
      Is there an easy solution?

      Grtz Swiddy

      Some details:
      -Vera Secure box with built in siren (siren is a separate device)
      -POPP Smokedetector with siren
      -Upto-date with Vera firmware and Not on Openluup yet but don't think this would make a difference here

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    • Connected Home Over IP. (CHIP)

      rafale77

      Yet another attempt to create the one standard to rule them all. "The ring of power".

      What Is “Project Connected Home Over IP” for Smart Homes? What Is “Project Connected Home Over IP” for Smart Homes?

      Project Connected Home over IP is a new industry group announced by Apple, Google, Amazon, and the ZigBee Alliance. The group will create a new unifying standard for smart home devices, and that’s a big deal. Here’s why.

      I am very skeptical about this. I don't feel it is needed and I think it will only add to the confusion but I am probably not a typical consumer. Thoughts? It seems to want to do the same thing as what a lot of us have already achieved through open source but commercializing it. It's not so different from Apple's HomeKit.

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    Recover an ‘assumed bricked’ Vera Secure

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    • parkerc
      parkerc last edited by

      Hi

      Go with me here... I recently pick up a unresponsive Vera Secure from eBay for next to nothing, thinking I’d could have a go at trying to restore it, if only as a play thing..

      Situation - The power led comes on, but the internet and service leds just flash - no connection made (and even using a direct cable and Wireshark, I can’t see an arp request being made to see if it has a default in address) - I’ve also tried various reset button combinations - no luck.

      Perhaps this post is a long shot, but seeing so many familiar ex Micasaverde/Vera forum names - i thought I’d at least ask - just in case anyone had any guidance/advice etc. I could use ..

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      • rafale77
        rafale77 last edited by

        All too familiar with this situation unfortunately. This sounds like one of two things: A storage flash corruption due to flash cells failure or a error made in one of the boot script which is so bad that it is also preventing the recovery script from working.
        The only way to recover is to push a full firmware refresh through TFTP and mios has a tool to do this. You will need to set the device in bootloader mode by powering it up while maintaining the the reset button pressed and connect to it using the mios tool under windows XP. The problem is to procure the vera secure firmware image which I don't have. I only have it for the vera plus and edge and the plus is significantly different as it uses a different zwave chip and storage partitioning structure.

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        • parkerc
          parkerc last edited by

          Many Thanks @rafale77 ,

          I can recall years back doing a firmware recovery on my Vera lite, or it might have been a Vera 3 (long term Vera user here !!) - i wasn’t sure if the process would be similar or not.

          I can set up a TFTP server (I think my QNAP NAS has that option), and it sounds like getting it into bootloader mode is reasonably straight forward to do, the challenge is getting the image, now when you say ‘procure’ do you mean it has to be purchased from MIOS? When you created your for the Edge and Plus, did you do them yourself (extract the image), or was it something you had to get from MIOS too ?

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          • rafale77
            rafale77 last edited by

            Back then I actually opened a ticket to request the image from vera support since it is oddly not published anywhere and they are strangely reluctant to make it easily available,

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            • parkerc
              parkerc last edited by

              Hi @rafale77 -

              Hope all is well and that you had a good Xmas etc..

              I’m resurrecting an old post to see if I can give things another go, but so as I’ve not been able to get the VeraSecure to show very much (if any life) to connect to the network.

              With that in mind, have you tried any of the following ‘debricking’ techniques?

              OpenWrt Debricking Guide
              Recover from a bad flash - DD-WRT Wiki
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              • rafale77
                rafale77 @parkerc last edited by

                @parkerc

                Honestly I have kind of given up tinkering with all forms of "embedded" devices which rely on a bootloader. They are just much too fragile and yes these are the various features/methods to access the bootloader. I have jettisoned all my veras to the trash where they belong and even deleted all my backups and the windows XP VM I used to unbrick my veras. It's just not worth the time and effort. I moved all my work to BIOS based devices which much less brick-able and as I found out more flexible, cheaper and more power efficient. Saves me a lot of time too.

                Happy New Year to you too!

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                • parkerc
                  parkerc last edited by

                  Thanks @rafale77 i totally understand 🙂

                  can I ask what you’re using now that’s “ much less brick-able and as I found out more flexible, cheaper and more power efficient ‘ -

                  that sounds like the holy grail !!

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                  • rafale77
                    rafale77 last edited by

                    I am using a small gemini lake mini PC with a Celeron N4100 CPU. Cost me about $100 with 4GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. It dual boots windows 10 and ubuntu server which is what I am using for home automation. I used it as my "vera" for a couple of years, running the vera UI (i.e firmware) on it through QEMU. It now runs z-way server. Running exactly the same programs and plugging it through a POE splitter next to a rPi3B, I realized it consumes half the power of the rPi while running 2-3x faster and is naturally cooler. When I did the math of having the storage and the case etc... I also came to realize that it is cheaper than any rPi. And the flexibility of course comes from the ability to run any OS you want.

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                    • parkerc
                      parkerc last edited by parkerc

                      Interesting set up - I’ve lost count of the different setups I’ve tried over the years, from mini pcs, rPis, VM, Dockers etc. all of which had their merits, but I often found myself back under the hood of my Vera trying to make something work.

                      It was evident early on that Vera was never going to do everything - hence looking back (7 years ago) I was trying to work out what ‘combo’ would be best - https://community.getvera.com/t/the-ultimate-partner-for-vera/175184 - and that journey continues.

                      Today it’s

                      2 x VeraPlus,
                      2 x Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (Lua, z-way, Node-Red, USB/Serial Bridges for RFXTRX433, DSC Alarm, CurrentCost Energy)
                      2 x QNAP NAS (Running 1 x Homebridge (Docker) , 1 x Openluup ** (Docker) and is the SMB/CIFS target for any/all storage needs

                      ** - more for interest/fun as the UI is terrible on my iPad (which is my primary device)

                      But.. no matter what I do, my Vera and it’s UI continues to remain my focal point (primary controller) ..

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                      • rafale77
                        rafale77 last edited by

                        Wow, pretty elaborate... I have tinkered quite a bit too and have finally settled on this:

                        1x Mini PC which has now become a radio bridge with 1 uzb and 1 conbee stick(it was a hacked vera but I got tired of the fragility of the platform)
                        1x QNAP NAS as my NVR with 16 IPCams, main storage server with 3 VMs:
                        a. home-assistant (my own version for zigbee and video recognition)/pihole/grafana
                        b. pfSense with dual WAN (1.5Gbit internet)
                        c. openLuup/Z-way/habridge/HomeKitbridge
                        1x macOS desktop which is my main pc and on which I run sonos-http-api and provides a local TTS server using the Siri voice.

                        I tried docker containers too but found their benefits were not worth the management complexity they were adding. I tried the vera obviously and a number of rPi2 and 3B+ and at the end regrouped them all into the setup above. I could actually merge the programs of the two VMs into one these days since there is no longer any reason to keep them separate. Back a while ago I had some nodejs version conflicts which I could have addressed differently than creating a new VM. openLuup is at the center of everything... and my only cloud dependency for home control is the amazon echo voice resolution. I even run them with no cloud hosted "skills" to eliminate cloud to cloud schemes.

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                        • parkerc
                          parkerc last edited by

                          Looks a nice set up..

                          Oh, you’ve just reminded me, I use my QNAP as a NVR too (6 cameras), plus I also have ‘ sonos-http-api’ running (using Joanna), and PiHole’ too.

                          Connectivity wise, I use my UniFi home set up for VPN, and it has 3 networks, (I) Private LAN, (ii) Guest (Internet Only) for visitors & IoT devices (Alexa/Ring etc) and (iii) Video (IP TV) - I’d really like to embed my UniFi controller into my HA much more, as it has a lot of useful info, energy usage (via PoE), presence awareness via access points. Currently I just do some json calls here and there.

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                          • parkerc
                            parkerc last edited by

                            Hi @rafale77

                            There was some interesting developments on the Vera forum about recovering a veraplus, through connecting a USB to TTY device to some connectors on the board . Opening up the unit and looking at the VeraSecure board, I can see 4 connectors too. (Photo posted on that forum) https://community.ezlo.com/t/can-the-veraplus-be-unbricked/204485/34

                            Is that a route you’ve used before ?

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                            • rafale77
                              rafale77 last edited by

                              Not really. The route used before was using a custom windows tool from vera designed for the vera3 which I believe to start a TFTP server which then injects a firmware image to the device over ethernet. This would be something new (well sort of since I think someone on the forum also used TTY to recover one unit as well but not through USB.)

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                              • parkerc
                                parkerc last edited by parkerc

                                Thanks,

                                While I’ve got the vera3 program somewhere, although as yet I’ve not been able to get it to install/run, having built an XP machine just for that purpose..

                                it’s interesting you talk about a TFTP server, as I had to do a recovery with a different product, and they sent me instructions on setting up a DHCP server and a TFTP service all using tftd32/64 - http://tftpd32.jounin.net/tftpd32_download.html

                                I’ve also seen these..

                                Rich Brown  /  Jan 14, 2017  /  2021-01-27T13:18:55+00:00

                                Setting up a TFTP server for TFTP Recovery/Install

                                Setting up a TFTP server for TFTP Recovery/Install

                                Setting up a TFTP server for TFTP Recovery/Install What is TFTP Recovery over Ethernet? On most devices, the vendor provided boot loader is a partition separated from the actual firmware. In case of a failed flash process or in case of a misconfiguration, the device's boot loader usually is still...

                                Installing OpenWrt via TFTP

                                And then for the cable/connection..

                                Nov 6, 2014  /  2021-01-25T14:16:36+00:00

                                Serial Console

                                Serial Console

                                Serial Console Overview Most people get along without a serial console for their device because they're able to flash a working firmware the first time - or are able to apply various recovery methods - and do all their communicating with the device over a network. However, some bootloaders don't...

                                David  /  May 5, 2012  /  2020-05-28T22:16:36+00:00

                                Serial Cables

                                Serial Cables

                                Serial Cables The most likely adapter you need is USB-TTL serial adapter, consumer routers with rs-232 ports are pretty rare This page assumes you have identified a serial connector on the router that you want to connect to from the PC. Modern PCs will usually have only a USB port to use for...

                                Assuming I can get to the command line via putty and the usb-tty cable on Vera; any idea what the sequence and command line(s) might be download and run the firmware update ?

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                                • rafale77
                                  rafale77 last edited by

                                  Yup! These are the two known methods to write the flash memory of an embedded device (TFTP and TTY). I don’t have a vera secure and have only recovered vera plus and vera edge through TFTP. Sorry can’t help with the TTY USB as have taken down my veras.

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                                    destination @rafale77 last edited by

                                    @rafale77 said in Recover an ‘assumed bricked’ Vera Secure:

                                    Yup! These are the two known methods to write the flash memory of an embedded device (TFTP and TTY). I don’t have a vera secure and have only recovered vera plus and vera edge through TFTP. Sorry can’t help with the TTY USB as have taken down my veras.

                                    Hello @rafale77 , I have G550-35-1.7.4061.bin, mt7621s_Luup_ui7-1.7.5187-en-mios.squashfs and newmios-hooks.sh files. Can you tell me how can I use these files for recovery? There is no a clear tutorial about it. Is it possible to tell us how can you recover your vera plus with TFTP ? I want to apply the same stages to my vera secure. Thanks.

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                                    • rafale77
                                      rafale77 last edited by

                                      This post from Richie Digital in the old place is how I did it:

                                      Aug 4, 2019

                                      Video: Recover Bricked Vera plus

                                      Video: Recover Bricked Vera plus

                                      Yes it was bricked no ssh no telnet nada P.s Forgive my feet you can try with Vera edge as well I am not in the mood to type instructions b/c I have been working on this for 2 weeks almost and excuse my feet you can try with vera edge or vera plus if u do extroot … do it after the firmware...

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                                        destination last edited by destination

                                        Is it means you use vera3_recovery_tool for recovery not TFTP? If it is yes, vera3_recovery_tool does not works at vera secure for me.

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                                          rafale77 last edited by rafale77

                                          Under the hood, the recovery tool is using TFTP... I just used it and didn't really bother to inquire deeper as to how one would reproduce what it does.

                                          And as far as I know it should work for the vera secure as well (I tested on both the plus and the edge) since all three are based on the same platform. I just don't have a firmware image for the secure.

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                                            destination last edited by destination

                                            Thanks @rafale77. After using that tool, i still have the warning at the firmware upgrade page.

                                            cat: can't open "etc/cmh/PK_AccessPoint' No such file or directory cat: can't open "etc/cmh/PK_AccessPoint' No such file or directory. Manually upgrade the firmware to the latest release. 
                                            

                                            Do you have any idea about that warning?

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