Since I upgraded to 2.5M4, I have serious issues with looong delays in my zwave network.
Normally they arrive after about one day, so I have restarted oh about once a day.
It seems to kind of mend itself, I mean, you can see that there’s some traffic coming again after the ~10 minutes, but in reality the nodes can’t be controlled from e.g. basic UI. In fact just now, when I tried to control my office lamps, the binding has been frozen for about ten minutes again.
Again, my problem is not related to heal.
But for others having this problem, I simply removed the batteries on node in question, and now my network seems to work again. Have had run stable it for three days now. Something must have changed between 2.4 and 2.5M4.
The node is one of my oldest zwave components, an Ez-motion 3in1, so I decided it should be retired. Problem solved I hope. Strange that the controller hanged though.
probably the flakey node, like stated, was swamping the zwave network. At some point it gets bad enough that the controller is so backlogged trying to do stuff, the controller appears hung.
We’ve had more then a few cases where someone upgrades to a newer version of OpenHAB, then begins to have problems with the zwave binding and the natural assumption is that the upgrade caused the problem. After much investigation and reviewing the logs, the problem turns out to be a battery device with low batteries or some other problem that was there all along and just not noticed until the upgrade
Please let us know if your problem is in fact fixed, report back and if so mark the thread as [SOLVED] thanks
Yeah, maybe. Although I find it bit hard to believe that the node broke on the update. It has been working for about 6-7 years. It might be that it has some bug that set off the issues in 2.5 though. Batteries not too bad, maybe 2 months old. Well, anyway - I’ll report back if this is the end of the issue in a couple of days. I don’t have the stamina to verify that that it still works fine in 2.4.
Not trying to be the smart ass here, just trying to help. I completely understand that you do not have the time to read each and every topic here on the forum.
So, I decided to do some more testing. I deleted the thing, inserted the batteries and woke the node manually. Not much seemed to happen, so I restarted oh, woke the node re-added the new thing from inbox. Then after a wile the controller hung again. I stopped oh, pulled the controller and reinserterted it again, and started oh, a last time. The network seemed to work until:
So I closed down oh again, removed the batteries of 84, pulled the controller and reinserted it again, and restarted.
I have the complete log since the last restart, if you @chris are interested in this. I don’t mind putting my old 84 into the recycling bin, but if this is might help others upgrading to 2.5, it might perhaps be useful.
I suppose I should exclude it and reset it. Maybe I’ll do that later on, just to see if it makes any difference. But since the whole house is frozen, it is kind of annoying.
Sorry - I missed that. There haven’t really been a lot of updates since 2.4 and I don’t think there were any fundamental changes other than the change to the serial drivers to use the new OH driver.
I’m happy to have a quick look at the log though, although I’m not sure it will show a lot. It looks to me like there is no communication with the controller during this period as there are not even any RX ACK messages when commands are sent.
Unfortunately the log doesn’t show any problems - just that the controller stops responding. It could be an issue with the serial port, or drivers, or the controller - it’s hard to say.
The code in the binding to send/receive data via the serial port has not changed for 3 years, other than to change some logging statements in the event of an exception.
