Vera device extended attributes ?
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Yes, It mimics the vera. The UI for openLuup is indeed ALTUI. You can treat z-way as if it was the vera. Just like the vera you can run openLuup on top of it to relief it of its plugin and automation duty. This was the very purpose of openLuup: Offloading the vera from automation and plugin which using the vera as the zwave/zigbee radio. The vera will still have its UI just as Z-way does but your plugin and automations will be on openLuup and you can copy them over from the vera. This was a great way to stabilize the vera and also make its crashes less impactful. In order to function with all the various plugins, it reproduces an identical API to the vera so for example, my Homewave mobile app works the same, my habridge works the same, heck I could even set openLuup as a child to home assistant using the vera integration component and it is also how I am testing MSR at the moment.
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OK I understand the overview now.
I think I'd like to go this direction long term, especially interested in Z-way, I don't think Ezlo is going to cut it as a Z-Wave or Zigbee hub yet and their crap Vera mobile app, I can't believe they didn't just ditch it and start from scratch to build a new mobile app, rather than trying to build on top of it, for the Ezlo platform. It was bad to begin with the Vera app.
I guess we will need to play with their Web GUI first, trying to do anything in the Vera mobile app is pointless .
You and the other banned outcasts LOL won't of seen it, they just posted on the Vera forum a few screen shots of the illusive new web GUI and their "Reactor" style logic engine.
Maybe I can post their screen shots here.
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Ahh now I remember the other dumb thing the vera does that I had requested to disable... wakeup poll. No idea where that came from but for battery devices which wakeup, the vera polls them. I have no idea why but it extends the power up time of the device and wastes battery and zwave airtime.
As for the GUI... we have ALTUI for Mobile App, Homewave or Imperihome. What they've been doing for 2 years? No idea, it's pretty but it's not as configurable and does nothing new compared to what we have had for years before their acquisition so... nope, not interested in looking at a Ferrari dashboard mounted on a Lada.
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With the latest version of MSR I can now see more Capabilities exposed.
There are two for "failed" x_vera_device.failed and zwave_device.failed
I've changed my rule to trigger on x_vera_device.failed being true and then the reaction to run the LUA code.
So now anytime the motion sensor goes to a failed state its corrected right then.
This will do for now as a work around.
Thanks
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I have taken down one of the problem motion sensors the Everspring SP816. In Vera I manually polled the sensor OK. I then tried to reconfigure the sensor but it did not work Vera said: ERROR: Unable to get any information on node
So stupidly I unpaired the sensor and paired it again, which worked but it added it as a GenericIO device not a motion sensor. I then changed its device files to be a motion sensor and also set the wakup interval to 86400 and polling to 0. These changes seem to have taken affect. However after a Luup Reload it says Waiting for device to wake up to configure.
So then I wake up the sensor by pressing the tamper button and it never configures. It always gets stuck on Please wait! Getting the manufacturer...
I've pressing the Configure Node Now button and then waking the sensor but it says again ERROR: Unable to get any information on node
The sensor is inches away from the Vera Plus when doing this also.
GRRR Pulling hair out.
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Started over, deleted the motion sensor from Vera and paired it again. This time I did each thing I had to do to configure it, one by one and more slowly and now its all configured again correctly. So maybe the first time I made a mistake somewhere and that is why it would not configure the device.
I will have to monitor it to see if the "Can't Detect Device" error comes back ?
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I have taken down one of the problem motion sensors the Everspring SP816. In Vera I manually polled the sensor OK. I then tried to reconfigure the sensor but it did not work Vera said: ERROR: Unable to get any information on node
So stupidly I unpaired the sensor and paired it again, which worked but it added it as a GenericIO device not a motion sensor. I then changed its device files to be a motion sensor and also set the wakup interval to 86400 and polling to 0. These changes seem to have taken affect. However after a Luup Reload it says Waiting for device to wake up to configure.
So then I wake up the sensor by pressing the tamper button and it never configures. It always gets stuck on Please wait! Getting the manufacturer...
I've pressing the Configure Node Now button and then waking the sensor but it says again ERROR: Unable to get any information on node
The sensor is inches away from the Vera Plus when doing this also.
GRRR Pulling hair out.
Yeah, one of the notorious problems with vera I have extensively posted about in the old place. There is a command queuing issue, I begged them to fix with the zwave serial API, combined with an excessive amount of unnecessary traffic generated by the controller from their "maintenance" and your network becomes very prone to inclusion process lags and failures forcing you to often have to retry inclusions and relying on luck.
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