My Vera Lite stopped working the other day. I wasn’t doing anything too unusual at the time it stopped responding - just configuring notifications from a Motion sensor with the Vera Alerts plugin. Saved my changes, and the Vera Lite stopped responding. I’ve tried plugging/unplugging it several times, and even changed the batteries in the unit. I am unable to ping the Vera Lite, or connect to it via SSH or a web browser.
When I plug in the Vera Lite, all four LEDs briefly flash, then the blue power LED will continue to flash about once a second. Then after about 50 seconds, the blue light will stay illuminated and green network light will flash twice, then all four LEDs will briefly flash again and the cycle starts over…
I tried performing a factory reset by holding down the reset button for 10+ seconds, but this didn’t appear to do anything. same flashing LED cycle continues.
I tried holding down the reset button for a looooong time. what I found is that if I’m holding down the reset button when it gets to the point in the cycle where all 4 LEDs flash (about 50 seconds into the cycle), the Orange LED will begin to slowly flash, and all other LEDs are dark. The Orange LED will continue to flash indefinitely
I also found this same behavior if I hold down the reset button with the Vera unplugged from power and I plug it in while still holding down the reset button.
I’m hoping this is some sort of progress? Is this some kind of maintenance mode where I might have a chance of re-flashing the firmware?
One other interesting behavior: If I power up Vera, and press the reset button many times very quickly, I’ve noticed the Blue LED alone will begin to flash - more quickly than before. It flashes very quickly and will continue to flash indefinitely - it doesn’t go through the flashing light cycle I originally described.
Any additional thoughts or suggestions? I think it’s time to log a support ticket! :-\
The voodoo seems to have worked. :o I was able to bring my Vera back to the land of the living using the firmware flash process documented here (Whilst shaking my bag of chicken bones and repeating the Vera chant):
I’m using Windows 7 Pro, but I wasn’t able to get the flash utility to run in XP Compatibility mode, so I went down the path of downloading Microsoft VirtualPC and Installing the XP Mode virtual machine and running the utility from there (as documented in the above Wiki page). The process was a bit tedious, and could be better explained the the documentation, but it worked.
I restored my Vera’s settings from a backup, and now it is working just as before the incident.
I think I’ll still hold on to my bag of chicken bones for a while - just in case I need them again.
Good morning all, any luck with blinking blue light of death? I was trying to install a motion sensor also and mine locked up and now is cycling lights like below. I have tryed everything below except the chicken bone dance (need to go to the store). I am now try to use the recovery tool but am also getting a broadcast error. Thanks
Did anyone ever get the recovery tool to see interfaces? I’ve tried in Win7, I’ve tried in no-joke XP SP2, and it just goes through the same blank interface list and “Broadcast error” as posted above.
Update: After giving up on the recovery “tool”, I have been trying the manual tftp mode. I managed to get it to arp for 192.168.0.1 (so it is listening and in recovery) but it isn’t acknowledging tftp firmware attempts:
[tt]ARPING 192.168.0.1
60 bytes from 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:50 (192.168.0.1): index=0 time=5.540 msec
60 bytes from 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:50 (192.168.0.1): index=1 time=5.572 msec
[/tt]
[tt]$ tftp 192.168.0.1
tftp> binary
tftp> trace
Packet tracing on.
tftp> put openwrt-ramips-rt3883-veralite-squashfs-full-81.bin
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-ramips-rt3883-veralite-squashfs-full-81.bin, mode=octet>
sent WRQ <file=openwrt-ramips-rt3883-veralite-squashfs-full-81.bin, mode=octet>
Transfer timed out.[/tt]
Well, what do you know – I just had this happen to me last night and found this thread. Was hoping I might HAVE to upgarde to a PLUS. I guess I’ll give this a try and see if it works under Win 10 or not. Will report back … Thanks for the info, I guess there is hope.
Anyone know the root cause of WHY this is happening. I was doing nothing at all and sometime during Sunday it when south.
No go under Windows 10 – as expected. I set the executable as X compatible but it didn’t help. I suspect the network drivers are not working as expected. The XP emulator under Win 7 doesn’t exist under Win 10 (or 8). :-(.
I have a Vera 3 and in February, I had to do a hard reset. I plugged the cable modem into the WAN port of my 3. It took time for the firmware to be downloaded and Vera to restart. Flashing lights for 10 minutes makes you think nothing is happening. I did not need a computer to do this.
Once it booted up, I plugged my Windows 10 computer into Vera’s LAN port, used the IP address of the Vera and a Chrome browser to set up the Network on Vera (Wi-Fi). Unplugged the cable from the WAN and my computer from the LAN, and after Vera booted up again, I had a fresh from the factory Vera with the latest firmware.
From there, I did a restore with z-wave and about 30 minutes later, all is working.
Hi guys, please also try the steps from the attached file.
The trickiest part is to put it in restore mode, so it responds to 192.168.1.1.
Once you have it in restore mode you can telnet and run the commands from the attached file
[quote=“Sorin M., post:17, topic:181194”]Hi guys, please also try the steps from the attached file.
The trickiest part is to put it in restore mode, so it responds to 192.168.1.1.
Once you have it in restore mode you can telnet and run the commands from the attached file
Old thread but very valuable, just want to say thank you and add my story.
After the most recent firmware update my veralite ran into the power light only blinking issue. I was unable to access it whether it was in reflash mode (orange light only blinking) or reset mode (power light rapidly blinking), couldn’t via browser or recovery tool, wasn’t even able to ping it when directly connected. The only thing that worked was telnet, maybe ssh but I didn’t try. So thanks again for posting that code to clear the memory through telnet. Up and running on the new firmware!
Just went through this last night after doing a firmware update and I have to say a heart felt thank you to the support guys at Vera for helping me work through this.
I realize the Lite is well over 5 years old and they could have very easily told me to get a new controller but they hung in there with me and it now works.
Thank you Vera Support!