Z-Wave unresponsive, backup hangs at "stopping services" after updating to 5.090

[petergebruers 1,261]

Just saying.... Installed 5.090 a few days ago. When I write this, I am unable to control any Z-Wave device but the HC3 BUI is still working. Instead of rebooting I thought "let's make a backup, this restarts some services and is often faster". But that did not work as expected, the BUI is stuck on "stopping services". I am not able to do much troubleshooting at this stage, I'll pull the plug and I am sure the HC3 will eventually recover. I did not change anything on my HC3 since installing my HC3. Mmmmmmmmmm not quite true, I did change an port number in a QuickApp because I changed the port number of a server, so I did make a small change and save an FQA. But that was hours ago and debug logging looked normal.

 

I don't need any assistance with this, I am merely posting this as a warning... Possible gremlin(s) in this version.

 

Update: system is up and running again after reboot.

[m.roszak 474]

If you encounter this again we would like to take a look - we did not experienced anything like this.

[petergebruers 1,261]

Hah! This problem will go down history as "a fluke". About 1 hour after I posted this it happened again, but here is the surprise: that was about 14 days ago and did not happen again!

 

The only other oddity I've noticed a day later was equally weird: one of my 10 year old Fibaro Dimmer 1 modules seemed to have crashed in very weird way: It would still accept Z-Wave commands, it would also respond to button presses and dim up/down as expected. But no data sent either to an associated module nor any date being sent to the controller (not even after soft reconfigure because no response to config get commands). I had to power cycle that module and it has worked flawlessly after that.

 

After watching 2 seasons of the Netflix series "Dark" I am inclined to think it was either solar flares, radioactive decay, or maybe I am just in a time loop because this weird sh** happens once every 3 years.

[marcwau 30]

I am not sure it was a solar flare, unless there was another one yesterday

Yesterday afternoon, I could no longer control any Z-wave device, not via the web client, nor via the mobile app.

But apart from that, the HC3 BUI seemed to work normally, you go to the different sections, scroll through the devices, etc. Only clicking on a device had no effect. Lamps did not turn on, roller/shutters did not move.

It required a reboot to get it working again.

 

Dark magic? Not so sure after moving from a very stable HC2 setup to all sorts of issues with the HC3...