Beta feedback Ezlo Plus

The Ezlo Plus finally arrived being on the road since 15th of May :open_mouth:
Adding it as a new controller went well although I had to add in manually since it is on a different sub-net than my phone. Added a Fibaro Wall Plug and it went well, very fast.
Trying to add a custom dashboard it says “No devices have been detected” although I can see the plug in the device-list. It works sometimes but sometimes not. It seems that all of the Tiles needs to have a device otherwise you can not save the dashboard or?
In creating a scene I can not see sunset/sunrise condition. Is that not implemented yet? Forget It I found it :slight_smile:
In the Web-interface it states that the controller is “offline” but in the Mios app it is “online”. I understand that no web interface is implemented yet but the condition should be the same or?
Testing continues …

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My Ezlo Plus arrived today. First impressions.

Its small it fits in the palm of my hand. The enclosure is a nice design, looks a bit like a clam shell.

The unit came with a EU plug and a USB and Ethernet cable, white not black. No UK adaptor plug supplied however.

In the Vera Mobile app I added a new “Vera Edge” controller as per the Beta Test Guide, I tried to scan the “barcode” which didn’t seem to work so I manually entered the units Serial Number and MAC address.

The unit was then added to the Vera Mobile app. In the Unit settings the Time Zone / Countries list is still not organised in order.

Also for some reason I cannot name the unit “Ezlo-Plus” it says invalid name and it does not llike the dash. Please fix this. My Vera units are called “Vera-Edge” and “Vera-Plus”.

The light on the front of the unit is blue.

Looking in the https://nexus.getvera.com/ portal the Ezlo Plus is showing as “Offline”

I can login to the console with Putty the root password is on the sticker on the back of the unit.

Its OpenWRT still, I thought they were moving away from using OpenWRT but seems not.

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I was able to assign a static IP of my choosing on my router and once I rebooted the Ezlo Plus from the Linux console, it now pings and replies to the IP address I gave it.

I can also connect to the unit using WinSCP and view the file structure.

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That’s it for now.

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The reported Firmware version is 1.2.1000.4 is this the latest version ?

Yes, thats the latest.

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Still no answer about the status of the enclosures? Have the enclosures been sent out? Was there an email notification that I’ve missed? And what about the assembly manual?

This is still an issue Unable to disable scenes
I’ve narrowed it down to Ezlo firmware as it’s working as intended when connected to my Vera using either iOS beta apps.

My Ezlo Plus unit also arrived here in the U.S. with an EU plug, which was unexpected.

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Yesterday, I twice manually operated the Schlage BE369 deadbolt that I have paired with the e-Plus, expecting an “OR” Scene to run in response to both the “Unsecure” and “Secure” transitions.

However, the Scene did not run immediately. Instead, it ran approximately 12 and 14 hours later, whereupon I received the corresponding email notifications. Definitely not expected behavior! :frowning:

Just tried to pair my first device to the Ezlo Plus a Xiaomi Aqara Humidity Sensor

( ooh the Zigbee ! )

I used the Generic Zigbee device option, it seems to detect the device and changes to say “Pairing your device please wait” but it never gets past this stage.

I also one time saw the “Inclusion process has failed” message.

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I would also like to know. Is it the H2 chip that is the processor? It seems it would be the best size fit for the thermal pad that came with the heatsink

Got mine the other day. I found it interesting that the instructions say to pug it in to a 2 amp power adapter, but the US adapter that came with it is only a 1 amp adapter. Presumably this is just a beta issue, and a better adapter would be included with the final product? The EU adapter that also came with it could do 2+ amps, it’s only the US adapter that is 1 amp limited.

Regardless, I was able to get it powered up and added to the account without issue following the directions in the e-mail. Obviously the “normal” methods of wireless setup or wired and scanning a barcode didn’t work, but that was expected at this point.

Adding/deleting rooms was fine. I would say that adding a room is fast enough that the message about the new room showing up momentarily is probably un-needed, as the new room shows up as quickly as said message does.

Ezlo VOI with my alexa is not working, although I’m not sure this is Ezlo Plus specific, as I get the same behavior on my Atom V2 at this point. Specifically, I get a message about having un-synced my Amazon Alexa account.


I hope to have a chance to try with some z-wave devices this weekend, see how they work.

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Found an issue, with trying to either update or add a new trigger to a scene.

Scenario - turn off plug adaptor:

Create new scene - choose the trigger based on a time, action = device action - turn off plug adaptor, save the trigger. At this point, the save happens.

Edit scene, change the time of the trigger, and follow the train to the end of the line, click to save change. Receive message “failed to save scene”

Same happens if adding a new trigger.

Light in scene, triggered by Voi is turn on and of continually(every minute or so for last 20minutes). The scene is will not fire manually. This scene was working until the issue with VOI after last firmware update. The scene has not been working for days, now it randomaly fires.

Sorry, only received my unit yesterday, so some questions:

Is it possible to reboot the unit without pulling the cable, or perform a network heal via the mobile interface?

Also, how do we update the firmware? Does this happen automatically?

The firmware should update automatically.

Don’t think you can reboot the unit from the Vera mobile app.

I used putty on my PC earlier logged in as root and issued a reboot command.

Thanks, I thought that would be the case, but so used to having to approve firmware updates, having waited for other users to have tested, and offered fedback on any changes.

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Well I certainly hope that the auto firmware updates are only for the beta.

I do not want my production Ezlo hub to be auto updating firmware that’s for sure.

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I never did hear anything on my last post about where the heat pad and sink were supposed to drop, but I eventually looked each chip up online. So it’s been asked but a direct answer was never given here. Now, you have one. It is indeed the center chip that says H2+. It is a quad-core processor and therefore the only thing that would need the heat pad/sink. It’s quite the heatsink for how small the processor is though. So if you have a store of heat pads laying around, I’d drop one on each of the data/storage chips (SKhynix and SanDisk) as well so they are fully touching it too and taking advantage of it. but the H2+ processor would be the focus point.

I noticed the other day in the Api tool you can see some system information.

https://apitool.ezlo.com/auth

Using the hub.info.get query.

I guess the model is the processor.

result:

architecture: “armv7l”

firmware: “1.2.1000.4”

kernel: “4.19.75”

model: “h2.1”

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What would happen if I plugged a standard USB webcam into the slot of my Ezlo Plus? Could I use it to grab still images or video?

I think nothing will happen. Cams are generally not yet supported, but it could be a future feature.