Find out which trigger/scene switched on the light

[Roland declerck 0]

Since a couple of days i have a light which is occasionally switches on while this is not expected. I can not find out what triggers it.
I checked my scenes but can not see what may be the problem.
Any way i can see what the trigger is ?

[darren-mc 11]

ahh.. the holy grail of automation systems...no fraid not unless someone more education than me can point the way.

[petergebruers 1,268]

Check with support, they can peek at logfiles that are not accessible to an end-user.

 

Unfortunately, the sender might not be in any log file. Z-Wave allows device to device communication. So check associations.

 

A collision on the network can cause random turn-on too. It is rare. Reducing traffic might help.

 

And lastly... it might be an RGBW module. You are running the most recent firmware on all of them?

 

For sake of completeness: you can pay an installer to check your network. Some of them own a special tool to sniff the network. I am not an installer, so I tend to forget to talk about this option.

Edited November 3, 2017 by petergebruers

[Roland declerck 0]

I have checked and i have currently no association running, no RGB module installed.

 

I think It  started since i have turned on the gps functionality.  I have a scene running that the light should switch on when i am in 100m range:

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Has anybody experience with this funtionality?

 

[petergebruers 1,268]

Can I make an educated guess... If your phone reports < 100 m when it is on GPS, it turns on the light. When your phone goes to sleep, it'll turn to a less precise mechanism to determine its location and it starts reporting random distances like 300 m, 90 m, 500 m, 50 m ...

 

I've only toyed a few times with distance reporting but here's my guess... You need some hysteresis. So I would make one scene that sets a global variable to "home" when d < 100 m. Make another one that sets the variable to "away" if d > 1000 m. Then base your lamp scene on the status of your variable. Now if your phone reports anything in between 100 and 1000, your lamp won't change state.

 

I am sorry I cannot be more precise, I am a "Lua only person". I really do not know how this graphic scene stuff works.