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Having added a DoubleSwitch2 to my HC2 (4.130) recently the inclusion seems to have worked as the switches appeared and have ID's but under advanced there are no parameters showing and saying requires a template. What should I do now?
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so i havn't updated my hc-2 for a while, still running 4.180. finally want to do and making preperations, tried to do a local backup and system would not do backup noticed this. what to do.
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ISSUE 1 My Fibaro HC2 no longer has a Serial Number displayed in Recovery Mode, Configuration Tab and in the Fibaro Finder Home Center app. Obviously I know what it is, as its on the label underneath, but is there anyway I can re-enter it? - Step by Step if possible??? Perhaps that's why its not getting detected in the cloud for remote access too...? ISSUE 2 EVERY time I attempt to update the software from v4.180 to v4.530, I get the same 503 Error at the end and if I click Refresh, the error re-appears. If I choose Restart Services, it reboots the HC2 and does not complete the upgrade, still on the same version 4.180. It appears to be stuck in a Loop!! Any suggestions?? So frustrating....
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Hi , Anybody that could clarify/help on following my current config config : HC2 fw 4.580 univ sensor with 2 inputs detected; a scene is triggered if 1 one the inputs are tripped (works fine) 5 X fibaro flush switches , 2 inputs managing 3 lights ; a scene manages these and other lights 2 ea fibaro flush dimmers , working in association 2 flush dimmers working autonomous 1 smoke sensor fibaro; based on other comments i don't dare to put in the network 1 additional smoke semsor POPP 4001 : works perfect ; one can command the sirene and is a part of a scene now : I want to add a "smart implant " to detect a trigger from an alarm panel , Purpose is to sound the POPP sirene ( see above) when fire or smoke is detected . The alarm panel sends its output using OC outputs ; Vcc is 12v; configuration set to "N.O" (i can change) Smart Implant has a Vcc of 12V configuration of Smart Implant: input 2: Binary sensor, smoke alarm. active when NO ( see above) incident becoming a problem: whatever the output of the alarmpanel is (0v or 12V ) the value notified at the Smart Implant stays "0" ( using a small scene in a loop to retrieve the "value") Anybody an idea? Is the 12V at IN2 too high and sets the read value to 0 ? ( see other posts on the input used as analog input) Or is the Smart implant defective? txs Geert
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New HC3 on its way: Do I Migrate my HC2 via the transfer process or setup everything from new? I am sure many people are asking what are the pro's and con#'s of each route: Migrating Pros - Known: Sections, rooms and icons will be migrated Z-Wave devices assigned to the rooms and their icons parameters of these devices Cameras not created via plugins associations Migration Con's - Won't be transferred Scenes plugins virtual devices cameras via plugins schedules (watering & climate) Questions: If a device is transferred, does HC3 tell the device to use 500 series communications automatically and will HC2 put the device in secure mode? (All my Heating Controllers (Fibaro Thermostats) are not in secure mode as you cannot upgrade if they are in secure mode Can I force Secure mode of a device that is transferred or do I have to remove it and re-add it to enable secure mode? Are my LUA scenes compatible (Cut and Paste [Changing deviceid as needed] from HC2 to HC3)? What are the other Pro's and Con's people have seen? Any pit-falls to watch out for?
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I do see that some things simply does not work in the HC3 yet. For example i have a lock that does not do anything except getting assigned to the HC3. I do have a HC2 where it did work. So can i set up the HC3 to control the HC2 to control the lock?
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In making the transfer from HC2 to HC3 based on a cloud backup (update 4.581 Beta) it is stated that "scenes will not be moved and need to be created again". That's OK, but it would be helpful when planning the transfer to know what the differences are (in syntax and available functions) between the two LUA versions. I know that the new LUA editor is documented in https://manuals.fibaro.com/home-center-3-lua-scenes/ . What I would hope to see in addition, is a side by side comparison of all the crucial differences, to enable a pre-edit of the old LUA scenes before entering them into the new editor. Something like this: If you used this in HC2 LUA: You need to do this in HC3 LUA: fibaro.debug("txt") fibaro.debug("tag", "txt") os.time() ??? etc. If we all contribute to such a table as we identify all the differences, we may be able to help each other prepare for HC3. Not all differences can easily be summarized in the simple two-column format above, however. For the new definition of conditions and triggers, it seems it would be more appropriate to give a few examples of old codes (with triggers) converted to new codes. PS: I haven't even decided to buy the HC3 yet! But getting a feel for the amount of re-programming needed to convert my scene is an important factor in making that decision. The suggested table is now shown in a pdf file attached to this post, see below. It is regularly updated as new contributions are posted. LUA HC2 vs HC3.pdf
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I have some Qubino Flush On/Off Thermostats for controlling electric floor heating. I'm using the HC2 with 4.580 SW. My problem is the frequency of reading the actual temperature from Fibaro room sensors, the temperature is only updated once per hour. I have asked for support from Qubino and from Fibaro but no solution offered. From Fibaro it was promissed that the template for these thermostats would be included in the next update but when that (4.580) was rolled out a few weeks later the support for these thermostats were still missing. Anyone having a clue how to get the temperature reading updated more frequently?
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This is JavaScript code, which displays debug information (in parallel to code development) at full screen on desktop (supports HC2 and HC3 controllers) Main purpose is to support scenes where debug information is in HTML format, like All-in-One Scene, Z-wave monitor/viewer, Z-Range analyzer . All other formats will be displayed in same format as in debugger window. Since HTML format is not supported by HC3 and debugger window is too small, it could be a helpful alternative for better view and debug your code. In many cases variables values include a lot of information (like jSON table) and it couldn't be reviewed by HC interface, this application offers to display Global variables (including QuickApp variables) on "big" screen. Follow information and features are supported: Display debug information of selected scene. (HC2) Display scenes debug information filtered by messages tags including levels (trace, warning,error). (HC3). Note: Currently all scenes print info in same debugger. Issue reported to Fibaro Group - in Progress. Start scene. (HC2/3) VD main and buttons' debug information. (HC2) Select and Press VD button. (HC2) Display current value of selected global variable. (HC2/3) QuickApp debug information. (HC3) . Note: Currently when debug info is loaded it clears debug info from HC3 debugger window. Display current value of selected QuickApp variable. (HC3) Turn On/Off (toggle method) QuickApp (HC3) Select and Press QuickApp button. (HC3) Note: Since HC3 doesn't support HTML format anymore, this is the only option to view and analyze information on upcoming All-in-One Scene and Z-wave monitor applications. After downloading the file please remove .txt extension. Currently supported browser are Firefox, Chrome or IE browsers. Recently Java Scripts are blocked by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) mechanism, please download Disable CORS file for further instructions how to disable CORS. How it works: Before execution, open the file to define HC IP-address and HC3 transfer protocol at User Configurable Parameters // ============= USER CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS ================ var hcip={"HC3":"192.68.0.10","HC2":"10.0.0.69"} var protocol={"HC3":"https"} On first run, login information will be required. (To keep your credentials secured, login data is not stored in file ) Application interface is very simple and self-guided. Select controller: HC2 or HC3 Select item : Scene, V Device, Variable, QuicpApp... Select item of previous selected section. Press "Reload" button to load debug information. By checking debug checkbox, API executed commands are shown. 1. If scene selected "Start" button appears. 2. If V Device selected list of available buttons shown and "Press" button appears. 3. If QuickAppDevice selected, list of available buttons shown. "Press" and "Toggle" buttons appear. By pressing "Toggle" button, QuickApp will turned ON or OFF in sequential order. 4. If Variables selected,list of available variables shown. By selecting the variable, his current value displayed. -
Hi, I'm trying to find a topic about a status update on harmony elite. The remote is working fine and the integration with the plugin is amazing BUT when I turn on the activity with the remote is not updating the status in HC2. More than that when I'm turning on the activity in HC2 is working great but I need to turn it on twice to reflect the actual status. Any ideas or workaround for this issue? Thanks in advance! P.s. Solving this issue will help me later on writing some Lua scrips to integrate activities with scenes.
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Hi guys I ask for Lua scene to control the lights automatically into star's by motion detection bt problem not for that The problem is I want that scene work between 6 pm to 7am and if motion detection don't detect any move then turn off light after 20 minutes Any one hare can help my to do that And Thanks for every one
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HC2 stuck in 'Starting Services' endlessly after power trip
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HC2 on 4.560 was stuck in endless 'Starting Services' state after a power trip. Action taken are: Tried power cycle repeatedly and still stuck in this state. Enter Recovery Mode and select to repair system with latest software. Successful but upon power up, still stuck in the same state. What other actions can be use to recover the system? -
Yesterday upgraded HC2 firmware to 4.570. Since then (it seems) that we now cannot connect bia the app, getting error message 'User authorisation issues' when we click on the HC2 at the select your home page. Nothing was changed yesterday except the firmware. Can still connect via IP address on browser. Any thoughts?
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Hello. Totaly new and I have start using nodred now. think it looks good and there ae some good tings to try with the dashbord. Is it possible to use the heating panel i Nodered. If yes, can you explain how to do it. Hve include the light from Hc2 to Nodered and it is working . Also got the "who is home " up and running.
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My HC2 was working perfectly last 4 months and today, after deleting a device, it has stopped working. I reset it and I couldn't connect anymore. I tried to restart it in recovery mode but it was not possible. When I try recovery mode, the blue indicators start to turn on from right to left until the process reach the last one on the left and at that point, they all turn off. This process is being done cyclically by HC2 every 5 minutes. Any idea how to do a full reboot?
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Does anyone else have this same issue with the fibaro motion sensor? Did you resolve it, if so how? you add the motion sensor to home center and it works for a month then all of a sudden it will not detect motion and becomes a dead. it will not wakeup or respond to any commands in HC2. checked the sensor and has full battery so its not a battery issue. this has happened twice already. supposedly it is "up to date" in terms of software updates. Fibaro please fix this issue!!! *yes I have re-added it to HC2 but that does not resolve the issue permanently.
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Hello. I would need some help with connecting a Fakro VMZ Solar window sunshade to my Home Center 2. I possess with a Fakro ZRH12 remote, which should serve as a bridge to connect the VMZ Solar to the HC2, but I do not know how to integrate it. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you
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can someone help me? I am trying to create a scene that checks to see if a variable changes. if variable x=1 don't check variable (do nothing) but if variable x=0 then continuously search to see if a variable x changes from 0 to 1 then the loop stops until variable x changes to 0 again. *yes there is another scene that will change it from 0 to 1. *Edit, I figured this out.
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I have never quite figured out how the data logging in the HC2 works. The Energy and Temperature Panels give me access to data from such devices, but I would like to know how the logging is done and where the data are stored. Monitoring my system is important to me, as it controls a vacation home which is uninhabited for long periods, e.g. through the winter season. Here is a fresh example which makes me really curious: December 15 between 5 and 6 am the house lost power (the main intake relay had tripped, probably because of a disturbance or surge in the grid). I was able to get to the house today, and reestablished power on December 18 at 9:50 am. The house is set to maintain temperature at about 11 C through the winter, but without power the temperature had dropped to about 5 C when I arrived. After power was reestablished, all thermostats and the HC2 resumed operation as planned. Now look below at the log from the temperature panel which I was able to retrieve after restart. The three curves on this chart are: Red: Measured floor temperature from a thermostat (220 V powered unit) Blue: Room temperature reading from an Aeotec multisensor (battery powered) Purple: Room temperature (another room) from a Fibaro Door/Window sensor (battery powered) I can clearly see where power was lost, where the purple line does not continue to oscillate. My questions are: Are these data stored in the HC2 or on the Fibaro server? What happens to older data (before December 14 in this case) when power is lost? Why is there a data point at December 17 13:39? The HC2 was down at this time, and the values are clearly just repeats of the last known values from December 15. What parameter controls the frequency with which data from devices are stored?
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Buongiorno, vorrei produrre della reportistica sugli eventi e relativi valori dei sensori. La reportistica richiesta non è molto complessa e sto cercando di produrla all'interno di una scena accedendo alla tabella eventi (vedi altro post pubblicato ), ma comunque farlo con LUA sembra non essere semplice. c'è modo di farla comunque all'interno di HC2, ma utilizzando un linguaggio di programmazione più potente? Grazie. Lorenzo
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I have a scene that gets the sunrise and sunset for the day. I recently noticed that both sunrise and sunset times are not correct. They are about 30min - 1 hour off from what they should be. has anyone else seen this issue? Does anyone know if fibaro is going to fix it? @T.Konopka
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Hello everybody, how should I configure the HC2, so that when the alarm system is armed and a motion is detected, all roller shutters go up. In the alarm control can only be specified that all should go down. What really does not recommend security service here in Germany. Does anyone have a solution for me? I use the HC2 with the latest firmware and the Rollershutter 3 with the latest firmware. Many thanks in advance.
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Wykonałem eksport danych o temperaturze z panelu fibaro/pl/consumption/temperature.html do pliku tekstowego. wartości temp. są z kropką, ale to nie problem ale wartości czasu opisane jako #timestamp są kompletnie niezrozumiałe i nie dają się sprowadzić do "ludzkiego" formatu w open office, np.: Bojler 1 1574096287 15.5 niedziela kwiecień 1 00:00-00:00 Bojler 1 1574096476 15.62 niedziela październik 7 00:00-00:00 proszę o pomoc
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Please read the following with the understanding that I have well over 100 z-wave devices, in fact I will soon be approaching and (if all goes well) exceeding 200. If you have a smaller system you may never experience the following, although with some unfortunate parameter settings it's still possible. Also, the issues described below may be resolved with time. Both my HC2 are currently on v4.560. Since not long after I installed my first HC2 I have had an extensive and generally growing list of unresolved issues. Many of which I have posted on this site, many of which I have just kept to myself. For well over 5 years I have considered the system I installed to be broken, not fit for purpose or for mass consumption. Why? Have you experience or are you still experiencing any of the following? - Zwave lags - sometimes you go into a room and the automated lighting turns on in a couple of seconds, sometimes it takes 5 seconds to come on, sometimes 10 seconds, sometimes 60 seconds, sometimes you just don’t wait long enough to find out and manually turn the lights on yourself. Sometimes lights don’t automatically turn off (in the end I wrote a scene to sweep through my lights to keep trying to turn them off each 15 mins) - HC2 freeze – after a number of days my HC2 just freezes up. Nothing I can do other than a hard restart from the 2x HC2 will resolve it or a soft reboot through LUA before the problem happens. Once upon a time I could run an auto reboot scene every 7 days, there was a time I HAD to run it every single day, recently I was rebooting every 3 days - Random behaviour* – sometimes heating relays turn on, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes I have to click 2 or 3 times to get a light to turn on, sometimes once. Sometimes I have to click 2 or 3 times to override automated lighting scene - BUI and MUI – very often do not reflect reality. Light levels and RGBW colours randomly reflect reality correctly to the point where I simple ignored them when it came to light levels and colours - Including/Excluding devices – multiple attempts required to add / delete devices, sometimes taking hours to get a few devices added Random behaviour* Even after applying everything stated below and now (barring random DB crashes) having a relatively stable HC2/system, I still have many devices that do not work as expected e.g. devices do not turn on or off consistently, sometimes requiring many (more than 3) clicks to respond; despite there being no zniffer activity at the point of clicking. In the end I have concluded that because I was adding these devices when my zwave network was in total mayhem (usually more than 40 frames per second of activity when nothing was actually happening in the house), that the devices were not added correctly. I think this assertion is true. I have in many cases found it very difficult to fix. The best resolution has been to: 1. add the device again through inclusion 2. delete the device through exclusion, checking zniffer to make sure the device is actually deleted i.e. no more comms from the nodeid 3. add the device again from scratch, checking zniffer to ensure a new nodeID has been added Why complete step 1, not just 2 and 3? It seems to work better. If I try to just delete the device, in many cases they they just won't delete. Adding the device, even though it's in the interface already seems to do something to stabilise it. Perhaps a "read configuration" or "soft reset" or "hard reset" would also work, however many of these devices I have found seem to be in a bad state, so I have gone for the scalpel approach, cut it out and replace it new. I thought I would share this as it's a new step I have identified to improving my system and it may be something you need to do if you system gets into a bad a place as mine was and you are still adding devices during this period. The good news is that, for now, the fix seems to work. All of the above with a still substantial list of other bugs leaves one to wonder what have I done wrong. It also consumes days, weeks, months, years of checking and rechecking code and config, over and over again and, rebooting the HC2s. Sometimes things get better, sometimes they get worse, sometimes they stay the same, but you're never really sure what you did to change the state of play. How is it that my automated lighting override scene works sometimes but not other times? Did I forget to add this particular switch to the scene? But wait it is working now after the 3rd click. What on earth is going on?!?!?! The short of it is, you end up living in a house where you kind of accept that the system is rubbish, but as so long as (most of the time) there is hot water for showers and baths, the heating works and the lights come automatically it is good enough. I came to the conclusion at the start of this year that I had to leave Fibaro, or at least that I had to leave my 2x HC2 behind. In the process of researching for other options I started talking to @robmac who has all but left his HC2 behind. What a great loss for the Fibaro community. Fortunately after an epic journey into the abyss this story has a good ending and I want to share this good ending with you. Firstly however the credit for this does not go to me. I am just another Guinea pig following advice entirely from the members of this forum. Two people mainly: one that is still fully using Fibaro equipment (thankfully) @petergebruers and of course @robmac. Others along the way have also made great breakthroughs and will be referenced below: So what’s the root cause of all of the issues I summarised above? Zwave traffic, and too much of it. Many times over the years Fibaro Support have logged into my 2x HC2 and every time I get the same comment… wow, you have a lot of traffic. On rare occasions I have been advised to do something with 1 or 2 devices and it usually improved things. Most of the time nothing was forthcoming. So, if you are experiencing any of the stability issues I have mentioned, what can you do about it? Two things: 1. Buy a Zniffer and see what is REALLY happening with your zwave traffic and then address those issues 2. Make config and other updates to your system to reduce traffic Is it possible to do 2 without 1? - Yes, but you will never know for sure if there is still some rogue issue out there Is it hard to get a Zniffer up and running? - Absolutely not. It took me about an hour to get it up and running. Once you realise that the Zniffer captures node id’s and you can find these by looking at the api: http://[HC2 IP ADDRESS]/api/devices. It’s relatively easy to START see what’s happening. To fully understand Zniffer takes more work though. Let’s begin: What I have done to get my system from broken to working? Zniffer 1. I ordered and flashed a UZB3 USB zniffer. Installed the ZWaveProgrammerSetup.msi software on a Windows machine and started sniffing. Thank you to @tinman for posting this: PS: There are many suggestions here that you can do without a Zniffer, however if you choose to not get one then at the end of the day you are making changes without really knowing the impact. At the end of this post I will suggest some other tools that you can use in place of a Zniffer, however be aware that they will not give you the same detail as a Zniffer. You will be limited to what the HC2 exposes through the API which is not the whole picture. Given the size of your system and the size of the issues you are facing you may choose to not get a Zniffer, however if you have a larger system with issues, I would expect that you will want one eventually. Reducing Traffic – Sanity Check Script 2. Some devices by default send a lot of energy and power data updates. With the Zniffer you can check for any devices going absolutely bonkers on the network i.e. frames (the transmissions that make up an action) just keep repeating over and over again rapidly. Now the question is what to do. One path is to diagnose and fix them one by one or else (with or without a Zniffer) you can start by running @petergebruers Sanity Script: This script will tell you (for many devices) sane parameters for reporting energy and power. Personally I have made much more drastic changes to my parameters. In almost all cases I have turned off energy and power reporting, on devices that allow me to do so, as my number one goal is stability. Once I have a stable system I may consider what to turn back on again. Reducing Traffic – Other Bugs/Issues 3. Once you have run the Sanity Script and made necessary parameter updates you can look again at the Zniffer. You may find other issues. I had at least 6 of them. They were Fibaro Double and Single Switch modules where I had turned reporting off. By doing this a bug is exposed where the devices spam the network constantly to the point where my system was dealing with a constant traffic of over 40 frames per second. In the first instance you can set parameters to default to stop it. The issue appears to be with setting certain parameters: - Fibaro Single Switch, as soon as you set parameter 53 = 0 to disable it or 320 to set it to the max enabled value, the reverse spamming begins with what looks like the controller sending single sided 9.6k frames every 1000ms. When I set 53 = 319 the spamming stops! - Fibaro Double Switch: I haven't tested extensively, but by setting parameters 53 and 57 to 319 the spamming stops PS: You need to set the above parameters to 31900 if you are doing this using LUA, else 319 through the interface and to make things interesting I have found 2x Fibaro Single Switched where I can set parameter 53=0 and the spamming doesn't happen. Go figure. If you have a Zniffer you can instantly see the impact of buggy parameter combinations. Without you will need to rely on others sharing their own experience and with some of the tools mentioned at the bottom of this post. Once you have tuned the traffic down, assuming you did have a traffic issue in the first place, then you can move onto other things. I went from 25-45 frames per second down to much less than 1 frame per second now when there is little activity and I haven’t seen anything much above 10 frames per second when there is activity, but I’m still testing so that figure may change. I have been advised by @petergebruers that as a rule of thumb zwave (when using the HC2) can do around 10 commands per second, so think about this when writing your LUA scripts. Please don't confuse the individual frames that you see in Zniffer with a single command. A command will show as two or more frames. Reducing Traffic - Global Polling 4. Given the size of my system I have given up on the idea of global polling. I set every device to “device excluded from polling”. Again, this may not be something you want to do, but for me it is stability above all else and then I can add back functionality one day if I feel l really need it… which I doubt will be the case TBH. There is one exception to this rule: I did keep polling on for important devices which currently are all the relays that control my heating (boiler, radiators, underfloor heating). Polling is set to 5400 to ensure that every 90 mins there is a poll on those devices. Run this code to see what the status of Wakeup and Polling is by device. You will need to run it for each HC2 in your system (if you have more than one), thanks again @petergebruers for sharing this code: What is polling? The HC2 will connect with the device to check things like status and retrieve information such as energy usage, temperatures. This all adds to zwave traffic, but for some critical devices it’s worth the extra traffic. This is an excerpt from Robmac's post on another forum, worth reading in the context of configuring polling: "Reducing polling down to virtually nothing rather than no polling has one small advantage. It provides the network with a self tuning capability. The polling tests the routes and if they are not good and stable the routes slowly improve to the most stable route available. If there is no stable route you will also have regular traffic that shows up in your zniffer with retries/explorer and even application retries. How regularly you poll or how many nodes you poll is your decision. In time I have reduced all of the nodes I poll to a period of 10 days. I have also tweaked the binding in the past so a no polling option is possible and 80% of my nodes were no longer polled with no adverse effects. It was just not required." Reducing Traffic (and increasing personal sanity) - Phantom Association 5. I thought it had gone away, however when I was setting associations on Fibaro RGBW modules recently I saw associations selected on random devices, so I ran this script which I thought Fibaro Support gave me years ago, however if it’s yours @jakub.jezek, thank you for the contribution: If you run this it will reset all associations including those you might want to keep. There is room to improve this script to reset only “phantom” associations across ALL devices by including a list of hardcoded exceptions that should remain. This is something to look into later at which point this scene could be run once a week (for example) in the early hours to keep the system clean of phantom associations until this issue is FINALLY resolved by Fibaro. Update: @petergebruers has confirmed that v27.27 of the Fibaro RGBW firmware really does fix the phantom association issue (with the right parameters set), so please consider this when deciding your personal course of action. Reducing Traffic - Scenes & VDs I have done or am in the process of doing the following. You may want to do something similar. Thanks to @robmacand others for these suggestions: 6. Adding sleeps - Add a fibaro:sleep(x), where x could be ~100 in between each fibaro:call to allow time for each command to be executed; this may help by not creating zwave bottlenecks. I have been advised by @petergebruers that as a rule of thumb zwave (when using the HC2) can do around 10 commands per second, so think about this when writing your LUA scripts. 7. Staggering autostart scenes - Add a staggered fibaro:sleep(x), where x could be ~60000+ with appropriate gaps in-between scenes, to all autostart scenes, so they don’t all collide with each other and add load when the system first starts up. Update: some additional notes from @petergebruers as to why to add the delay on boot "(1) the network is not ready (2) if you ever write a bug that crashes the HC or makes login impossible - you'll thank me for suggesting that delay". If you have a Zniffer you should check to see how long your HC2 scan your devices on startup to inform you as to how long the delay should be. 8. Remove code from the VD Main loop - The VD main loop runs constantly every 3 seconds. Instead move the code to a button (which you will need to add to the VD) and press the button each time you want the code to run 9. Check state before changing state - In LUA always check the state of a device before changing the state of a device - I've been using this one since the beginning. It will help reduce zwave traffic. 10. I am sure there are more out there, please share and I will add to this list.... General Tidy-up & Tips 11. Much can be said for a general tidy up: - Dead Devices - Delete dead devices not used anymore - Firmware - Update firmware on devices; this is something I simply could not do before as my network was in constant turmoil - “Waiting for wakeup and synchronisation” – this is an issue on 1/3 to 1/2 of all my devices. These were introduce in an upgrade along the way and seemingly need to be addressed one by one. The only way I have been able to get rid of this issue is: read config, soft reconfig and then come back to it later if that doesn’t work eventually maybe devices need to be excluded and included again. I am still waiting on Fibaro Support to come back with a solution to this… - Clean Database: Ask Fibaro Support to log into your machine and clean your database - Network Connection Type: A few months ago my HC2 were locking up on a daily and sub-daily basis. I finally figured out what was going one. Despite setting a static ip address on my router for both HC2, in Configuration => Lan settings =>Connection Type was set to: DHCP rather than Static IP. Setting it to Static IP stopped this issue from happening. The Heavy Stuff - Improving your network A huge thank you to the resident zwave gurus @petergebruers and @robmac for all of the information that I am summarising below of which there is always more to learn, but this should give you enough to get you going: Update: Some additional tips from @petergebruers: "Please be warned that you are working with a source routed network", the hops are called "repeaters" because they are "NOT routers" and when thinking about how the zwave mesh network works, you should forget everything they know about IP routing. 12. Understanding Zniffer a little better I have been advised by @robmacto not focus too much on routing. Zwave routing can be weird. Routing transmissions look like this in zniffer (103)-21-114>1, where 103 is the source device and 1 is the destination controller, with 21 and 114 being the routing devices) and consider what can be done with these. Is it possible to move the device 103? Can you move the device antenna (if it has one)? In my opinion (putting routing/repeating aside) you should however try to resolve explorer frames and single sided messages that keep repeating on the network. So what types of issues you can detect with Zniffer? I mentioned some above, if you are seeing the following then you know which devices to target: a. Explorer frames – This happens when all else fails and a device cannot be reached and caused a lot of zwave traffic whilst the controller is trying to find the device. You need to consider things like the device locations, the direction it’s antenna is facing (if it has an external one), can it be moved, can your HC2 be moved closer, can another device be put in between to improve connectivity. b. Single sided 9.6k – This was happening when I had buggy parameter settings on Fibaro Switches that were spamming the network. You see them as the blue records at 9.6k below. Good communication happens at 40k for the 300 series controller which is what we have in the HC2. c. Traffic overload: You may spot devices that just keep sending and receiving frames. Consider the parameters for these devices, is it just lots of energy and power reports, if so, do you need this frequency of reporting? And also check for the type of error message to come to a solution for dealing with this type of issue. Some quick tips on reading Zniffer output: - Src = source node, where 1 = HC2 - Dst = destination node - Home = you will only see one if you only have 1x HC2 - Speed = with the HC2 you will see either 9.6k or 40k as the HC2 cannot do anything faster, however the Zniffer will also report 100k (you will see 100k between Z-Wave Plus (aka ZW5) devices) with the right hardware (controller and device) and even 200k is possible. - RSSI = “Received Signal Strength Indicator,” is a measurement of how well your device can hear a signal There is a world to learn about with a Zniffer. I do not intend this to be a tutorial on using it. So far, the issues I have spotted have been easy to find as I have been looking for devices that are sending too many frames in a short time period. There is a much deeper world to explore for the inquisitive mind. You will most likely see CRC_ERRORs in the Zniffer output. The current consensus as shared by @petergebruers is that this is more to do with the location of your zniffer i.e. it is too far away from the device that the signal has come from and the Zniffer is reporting a CRC_ERROR. Until further notice it can be assumed to be something you can ignore. 13. Mesh Rebuild – Although it may be a painful thing to hear, it may be better to rebuild the mesh one device at a time starting with the major issues identified. FYI, I don’t plan to perform a complete mesh rebuild ever again. To do a mesh rebuild for just one device go to (Configuration => Z-Wave network => Mesh network re-configuration => select the individual device). If you are watching Zniffer you will soon see the mesh rebuild start and see what happens when a mesh rebuild occurs. You’ll learn something new just by watching Hint: I have seen two different types of process so far to date. So far I have only rebuilt the mesh manually on about 12-15 devices and the system is running infinitely better. I'm not sure you have to rebuild every device manually. I'd be interested to hear people's feedback in this one. Helpful updates from @petergebruers: 1. a tip of building a good mesh network, when starting from scratch, "strategically place your newest, fastest, mains operated devices that are NOT in secure mode and that won't be reporting a lot and won't be turned on/off a lot, FIRST" 2. You may have issues getting a mesh update to work, here are some possible explanations: - device is out of reach - it is sleeping - if you get "failed" the network might be busy or unstable - Even on a 100% OK network it can fail. Cannot tell much about it. It is not limited to the HC2, eg OpenZWave has that issue too 14. Relocating your HC2 - Sometimes just relocating your HC2 to a more central location can reduce the number of hops. My master HC2 in its current location has over 80% direct communication with the controller. My slave has only about 45% direct, so that’s where my focus is now. You may have to do a targeted mesh rebuild if the HC2 is moved a significant distance. 15. Moving Device Antenna – it has been reported by @robmacthat by just moving the antenna on a device it has improved communication. You can try doing this to see what happens and then do a mesh rebuild for that device. Also make sure you HC2 antenna is screwed on well to the controller. 16. Moving the Device – if you have the luxury, try moving the individual device and rebuilding the mesh network for that device Update from @petergebruers "yes and maybe [move] the devices around it or make educated guesses based on Zniffer. The controller might have better routes for other devices after this but those other devices do not get updated unless you do mesh update" 17. Adding a repeater - You can add a repeater in between the controller and the device and then complete a mesh rebuild to see if that improves communication eg resolves routing errors Z-Wave Rule of Thumb by @petergebruers "My Z-Wave rules of thumb: less than 5 modules, sometimes issues because not enough devices to cover all areas. Between 5 and 20...almost never issues. Between 20 and 50... sometimes trouble. Between 50 and 100 devices real "weirdness" starts and communication gets "fragile". Above 100 make sure you have the tools to diagnose network issues (ie Zniffer, you can make one yourself) or get in touch with a good certified installer to support you (I am and end user, not an installer). Know about CPU and memory usage. Follow this forum. I have participated in many topics regarding "delays" and it is never easy..." Tools to use if you don’t have a Zniffer Following are some suggestions of tools to use if you don't have a Zniffer. Z-Wave monitor helped me at the start of this year to get my system to "just" work from completely broken/unmanageable performance. Z-Wave Monitor, thanks @cag014 Z-Wave Analyser, thanks @cag014 I have used these tools and they helped me when I really needed it. They may help you. But please be aware that they are not a substitute for a Zniffer. Useful Links If you have connectivity issues with your HC2 you can check status using this: http://[HC2 IP ADDRESS]/services/system/servicesStatus.php Or run this scene from @petergebruers to get a dump of node id to master and slave device ids on your controller: If you want to find out details on devices including node id to device id mapping for when using the Zniffer: http://[HC2 IP ADDRESS]/api/devices Finally, I’ll aim to update this post with feedback plus additional detail that I learn along the way and apologies in advance if i've misstated something technical. I'm still learning myself.
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Hello. I wanted post it here: https://forum.fibaro.com/forum/129-other-solutions/ but i have no rights for it. First of all I want to say that it is totally not recommended to do it. If you have similar problems - ask for support first! DO IT ON YOUR OWN RISK! Probably this will end your warranty (but my already ended). Two days ago a need to do some electric works and I shutdown my HC2 by pressing power button. Then, when I finished - I switch it on leds start to blinking... but nothing hapened. I tried to boot to recovery but it did not boot also. I unscrewed left panel of HC and attach monitor to see whtats hapening. And I sawed that it is immediatly reboot after selcecting a boot device. It was a GRUB problem. This tutorial is for linux users. Btw, my HC2 version is 4.550. 1. You need: >=1Gb flash drive Keyboard Monitor with VGA connector Linux PC (you can prepare USB drive on Windows, but I do not know how, sorry) 2. Preparing flash drive Download Debian 6 image: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/6.0.10-live/amd64/usb-hdd/debian-live-6.0.10-amd64-rescue.img And flash it to usb drive (this will erase all your data on flash drive): dd if=debian-live-6.0.10-amd64-rescue.img of=/dev/sdc /dev/sdc - is your USB Flash. 3. Boot with prepared flash drive Power off HC2. Insert USB Flash. Remove fibaro recovery usb-drive. Press F10 like crazy after power on. Select your USB flash in menu. 4. Fixing grub When GRUB of flash drive appering - select failsafe mode and press enter After boot sequence will compleate you have about 5 minutes to fix your problem (after sometime something will reboot your HC2). Determine system drive device: ls -al /dev/disk/by-label You will see something like: ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 9 14:38 SystemFS -> ../../sdb2 ... So, sdb is your target drive. Mount SystemFS with write permissions: sudo mount /dev/disk/by-label/SystemFS /mnt -rw Install GRUB to your target device. sudo /usr/grub/grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb Now you need to fix grub.cfg vi /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg grub.cfg should become like this: set default="0" set timeout="5" menuentry "Buildroot" { set root=(hd0,msdos2) linux /boot/bzImage initrd /boot/initramfs boot } 5. Reboot Do not forget to remove your flash drive. It shodl boot normaly now.