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!
(Problem) Migration Z-Wave NW from Vera to UZB1 dongle
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I think I figured out part of my problem... in looking closer at the controller information in SmartHome app, it looks like I got an EU version instead of a US version of the dongle so it was on the wrong frequencies. I am sending it back to Amazon and re-ordered the chip off of your recommended eBay seller.
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hmm interesting and weird... You know you can recode the dongle to US frequency right? I am just not sure if the embedded antenna was calibrated properly for it. The difference is in the number of channels and how they are optimized for their specific frequencies. The US use only two channels while 3 are used in other regions.
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I was having issues where using OZWD I would try and add a node (inclusion) and it wouldn't register the device even if was almost on top of it.. so that eventually led me there.
I looked on the sticker on the dongle which claims it is the US version (ZMEUUZB1).
In Z-way app, it shows EU and only options that appear to be for the ZMEEUZB version (EU) dongle for changing frequency.
I tried changing frequency via shell script to US, which says it does, but Z-way still showed EU even after that.
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I received the new USB dongle from e-bay seller. Shows US frequency in Zwave SW (5.27 release) and connected into OZWD in Home Assistant fine. Was able to successfully pair a Fibaro Dongle with it (which I couldn't get anything to pair with old dongle). So I think we have a winner
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My wild guess is that there is a problem with the SDK version between the vera and the uzb. When I did this, my uzb was running version 6.81.05, the same version I was running on the vera, so I had no problems at all. The latest uzb firmware runs on 6.82.01. The vera also officially only supported 6.81.01 so I was already being very adventurous.
My advice would be to check what SDK your vera is running and then downgrade your uzb to a firmware version supporting this same SDK so that the zwave serial API program on the vera doesn't need to do an SDK translation. There are so many people who did this, including on the HA forum that if it isn't working anymore, probably something changed on the vera which I am not aware of. -
I might try the whole thing again. I just did a restore because at some point after I thought that none of it worked all my devices names were reset and all sitting in 'No Room'. Of course this was after I had switched the port back to the default Vera device. So something was happening maybe just at a snail's pace? Also how do I check the Vera's SDK version?
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Sorry for not responding sooner, I was busy with work today. The SDK version of the vera should be shown in the advanced page under the z-wave submenu. You should see something like 6.1 or 6.01. which is the version of the serial API corresponding to 6.71. The point is to downgrade the firmware of the uzb to a version old enough that the vera can support. Not much more you can do on the vera.
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Just to update: I decided to bite the bullet and just manually move everything over from Vera to Z-way. Still a couple of outstanding devices to transition. It went mostly smooth. I have a couple of devices that aren't responding as they did with the Vera network. Shouldn't be an issue of coverage.
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@rafale77 said in (Problem) Migration Z-Wave NW from Vera to UZB1 dongle:
wow... so it did recognize the UZB just fine and can read the network ID from it. It is purely about triggering the recovery from your backup to the Uzb dongle then. I am a bit surprised that it didn't work.
So the "/etc/cmh/dongle.restore" file never got replaced?... I wonder if the script has changed. Unfortunately I wiped my vera from anything mios so I can't test with this firmware. The nuclear option would be to edit the user-data.json from a backup and recover from it.... You are sure you have all your dongle files in the etc/cmh folder right?extract from my own old posting:
Just for documentation purpose, I also found how to restore only the onboard zwave dongle:
-move your desired dongle file (example: “dongle.6.1.dump.0”) to /etc/cmh,
-rename it “dongle.restore”,
-run Stop_cmh.sh
-run Start_cmh.sh
-run RebootRunning into the same issue with dongle.restore not getting replaced. Version shows 6.2 in Zwave settings on vera and firmware is 1.7.599 (V7.0.8 June 2015). Would you recommend renaming the dongle file and trying the above or trying a different vera firmware?
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You can try to rename it to dongle.restore.go but the number of reports that this no longer works makes me very suspiscious. I don't know if it is another of the ezlo kamikaze moves to make migrations harder or if there is some new incompatibilities from the uzb firmwares.
It could be that you will have to downgrade the uzb firmware to make the zwave SDK compatible as the vera restore tool may be balking out at translating to unknown SDKs. -
Something worked!! Believe I set fw on 1.7.1040 then factory reset. Copied over the dongle renamed to dongle.restore.go and then tried your steps with a manual reboot. Devices didn't appear in vera but the dongle lit up blue for a second so something was going on. As I resigned myself to setting up from scratch I found 32 devices copied over to UZB in zway. Huge thanks - light at the end of the tunnel. Any way of telling which device is which, an id maybe the same on vera and zway?
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Awesome news! The altid on the vera are technically the lower level zwave node IDs so they should match the altid (if I remember correctly as my memory of the vera is fading). The z-way bridge on openLuup however will add a pre-fix (2 digits) to the node ID and suffix (1 digit) corresponding respectively to the parents controller index and child device index.
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Ok, so. Reloading the luup engine doesn't remove the dongle.restore or turn in into dongle.restore.go, but rebooting the vera seems to. I checked the logs and I see this:
ZWJob_BackupDongle::FindFileToRestore found 12 files using /etc/cmh/dongle.6.1.dump.0 timestamp 1630736238 / 2021-09-04 16:17:18 version 6.1 md5 30586bc3340164f7dccfb39ca218dda1 <0x77f00320>
01 09/06/21 11:53:40.943 ZWJob_BackupDongle::FixupBufferVersion don't know how to validate since there's no zensys in the firmware <0x77f00320>
01 09/06/21 11:53:40.943 ZWJob_BackupDongle::FixupBufferVersion don't know how to convert from 6.1 to 3.95 <0x77f00320>
01 09/06/21 11:53:40.944 ZWJob_BackupDongle::ZWJob_BackupDongle restore file invalid <0x77f00320>
10 09/06/21 11:53:40.944 FileUtils::DelFile /etc/cmh/dongle.restore.go <0x77f00320>So I assume from that it doesn't recognise the file as valid so it just deletes it. I assume the 6.1 to 3.95 complaint is the version (the Vera version on the Z-Wave Settings page was 6.1, and the Aeotec stick version on that page is Version: 3.95 L:1).
No idea if any of that is useful for troubleshooting?
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I can't remember whether I tried with the aeotec stick and I usually recommend avoiding this specific stick because it is very quirky. It's firmware is not upgradable and is stuck on a very old version of zwave stack. I think indeed that the problem stems from the large gap in zwave stack version which the vera tool may not support anymore.
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I've just had a go at writing a dongle.dump file to an AeoTec USB stick on an old Vera 3. The stick actually came with the Vera as its prime ZWave interface..
A question for rafale77: when you were doing these stick writes; about how many ZWave physical devices were being copied across roughly. A handful, less than twenty, forty, eighty or more?
The reason I ask is that; I have somewhere around forty devices - noting most are dual relays so in the Vera UI there are lot more devices represented ie three widgets for every dual relay. When I do a ZWave backup in the Vera UI it takes tens of minutes to finish. I thinking the reverse is true. ie it will take ten of minutes to load up the USB stick and to get Vera to absorb all the changes?
Just for the readers: in the Vera 3: in the script restore.sh located in /www/cgi-bin/cmh --> /mios/www/cgi-bin/cmh/ you will see the creation of "dongle.restore" emulated by rafale77's method:
if [ "$FORM_dongle" == "1" ]; then # LuaUPnP will restore the Z-Wave backup file if it finds the 'dongle.restore.go' file. # To prevent LuaUPnP from restoring a dongle backup until the next boot, # we'll save the file as 'dongle.restore', and the 'Start_cmh.sh' script will rename it to 'dongle.restore.go'. log "Create $MIOS_CONF_PATH/dongle.restore" touch "$MIOS_CONF_PATH/dongle.restore" 2>>$log_file fiAnd in the script Start_cmh.sh located in /mios/usr/bin/ you will see the renaming of "dongle.restore" to "dongle.restore.go" as described in rafale77's method:
# to prevent LuaUPnP from restoring a dongle backup until the next boot, # the web ui saves .restore and LU looks for .go mv /etc/cmh/dongle.restore /etc/cmh/dongle.restore.go || /bin/trueI can't find the code that looks for "dongle.restore.go" or the code that decides which dongle file to load from - some of examples of dump files found:
"dongle.dump" or "dongle.3.20.dump.X" or "dongle.2.78.dump.X" files or "dongle.6.1.dump.X"So it may be that a huge mount of patience is required between Vera reboots to give time (eg half an hour) for everything to come into play. Need to play around further, after having achieved some partial initial success.
