Last software update fail

Community Playground Getting Started & Initial Setup
#11

A backup and restore is a connection problem for me solved but nothing more.

#13

I have tried the Lan cable direct to the controler, no success. I dont remember how I did the first time to set up Vera plus. Shall I try to connet with a USB cable between Vera and a Computer with WiFi to my home network?

#14

Do you have any advise on alternative manufactors with more stable controlers and still the same type of features as Vera provide?

#15

I am starting to wonder if I should write my own upgrade script to prevent all of this nonsense and workaround the storage partition problem which is the root cause all of these problems. It’s just insane. I am not on mios’ payroll. The solution is actually fairly simple. Because of my mods to the vera, I am now manually upgrading firmware through scp without any factory reset.

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#16

Had to do a full factory reset. That reset with the latest firmware and I was then able to restore from my last backup and delete a load of unused plugins. Generally old plugins appear to be the issue but Vera provides no indication as to their compatibility!

BTW support didn’t advise me to do any of this!!

#18

Any “hard method” to go to factory reset, as pressing 6 times the reset button does NOTHING… ?

#19

Same issue here!!! After updating the firmware yesterday, this is the first time Vera has gone almost totally nonresponsive for me, and it’s not a happy experience at all!!! I’m not even sure what to do about performing and then recovering from a factory reset!!!

#20

This is a bit out of date but…
http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/How_to_reset_to_default_network_settings

In short connect a network cable from the vera to your PC
Set your PC IP address to 192.168.81.2
Connect to Vera on 192.168.81.1

Hopefully off you go…

C

#21

@Catman, I did a full VeraEdge reset and tried setting my Mac’s IP as you suggested, but I couldn’t access the controller over my wired network. Can I connect over the controller’s WiFi? I can connect and log into it, but then I don’t know how to access the controller via my browser. I’m totally down at the moment and am unable to control many devices in my house!

#22

You should try to interface the Vera device using an Ethernet cable to an available computer and setting your network adapters IPV4 settings to DHCP. Once connected visit the Vera’s default IP address through a browser and change the subnet back to your networks subnet.

#23

Access your command prompt if using Windows and run the command “ipconfig /all” search for the response for Ethernet LAN and make note of the IPV4 address. Then visit the subnet in your browser with the ending octet as “1”…for example 192.168.100.“1” and you should be at the default address. From there you should be able to set your Vera’s network settings to your routers hosted private subnet.

#24

So I have been reading through the firmware upgrade scripts and mechanisms.
@Sorin , I can actually see that in the upgrade_prep.sh you are doing a file system check and even checking whether the /etc/cmh-firmware file is mounted in /storage. I am wondering why you are even then considering using overlay for the upgrade when it is so small. It should always be processed in storage. There are a lot of failsafe code in there preventing the upgrade if space is not suffiscient and deleting ergy and datamine plugin files. I think the dev are getting too cute with all this and given how many are failing I am wondering whether this script is being used at all.

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#25

Hi chap. That’s only going to work if your home LAN is on the same range as the default IP of the Vera. As Fryswatter suggests you really need to plug the Mac and the Vera together directly (although you might be able to access it via the Vera WiFi if your Mac can see it)

C

#26

I took the Mac off Ethernet and successfully joined the Vera Edge WiFi. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t Funt Vera’s IP address. I’ll have to get a direct wired connection and try again.

#27

Thanks for all advice! I am up and running again on an old backup. Much trail and error solved it now some tuning left.

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#28

Just out of curiousity what was the IP address of the mac when you tried that?

Cheers

C

#29

It was some unfamiliar self-assigned IP address. I realize things may have been affected by the fact that the Vera was still connected to ethernet. I may try disconnecting it from ethernet and seeing if I can access it via Wi-Fi before I give up and do a direct connection between my Mac and the Vera.

#30

Nope
So you would need to assign the Mac something like 192.168.81.2 and then try to connect to Vera on 192.168.81.1
A self assigned IP won’t work.
The Vera does have a DHCP server, but no idea if that’s on by default.

C

#31

OK, when I connect by wifi with ethernet not attached or directly ethernet pony to ethernet pony, the Mac gets a self-assigned IP address something like: 169.254.28.45.

#32

I ran an ethernet cable from my Mac to the Vera Edge and just tried exactly that.

On Safari I get “You are not connected to the internet. This page can’t be displayed because your computer is currently offline.”

OK, maybe there’s some Safari thing, so I tried Firefox. I got:

"Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.168.81.1.

  • The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
  • If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.

  • If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

I’m totally blocked. :grimacing: