I've been fighting a issue with delayed motion sensor->Light activation issues(15-20sec). I can manually activate the scene and the light activation has no delay. I moved my z-stick to another PC and still noticed a regular 50% CPU consumption by the z-wave service. It would stay at 50% for 10-15 sec and drop to 15-20% for 10-15 sec and then back to 50%. I do have one light module that is not responding but I turned off polling on it first but it made no difference.
I adjusting polling to 60sec and it made little difference. I turned off polling on all my devices(motion sensors were already off), and the CPU use has dropped dramatically and there is little or no delay in motion triggered light activation. The CPU decreased gradually as I turned off polling on the devices..
My setup is as follows;
- 2 Thermostats
- 8 motion sensors
- 12 lights (AEON labs in-wall smart modules)
- 5 outlets (AEON labs plug-in smart outlet)
Questions:
- Is this normal?
- What do I lose by turning off polling?
Thanks......Jeff
Poling & High CPU use
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jschiesser
posted this
26 September 2014
Ryan-Scott
posted this
26 September 2014
I've been fighting a issue with delayed motion sensor->Light activation issues(15-20sec). I can manually activate the scene and the light activation has no delay. I moved my z-stick to another PC and still noticed a regular 50% CPU consumption by the z-wave service. It would stay at 50% for 10-15 sec and drop to 15-20% for 10-15 sec and then back to 50%. I do have one light module that is not responding but I turned off polling on it first but it made no difference.
I adjusting polling to 60sec and it made little difference. I turned off polling on all my devices(motion sensors were already off), and the CPU use has dropped dramatically and there is little or no delay in motion triggered light activation. The CPU decreased gradually as I turned off polling on the devices..
My setup is as follows;
- 2 Thermostats
- 8 motion sensors
- 12 lights (AEON labs in-wall smart modules)
- 5 outlets (AEON labs plug-in smart outlet)
Questions:
- Is this normal?
- What do I lose by turning off polling?
Thanks......Jeff
Polling is the process by which InControl asks the lights what their current state is set to. It's odd that you'd be seeing this issue though, typically there isn't a whole lot going on with a poll.
If you devices support associations, you shouldn't need to poll except at startup, in which case a really long time poll would suffice (something like 3-4 hours).
Aeon Labs devices do support polling.
What is your CPU? How much ram do you have?
jschiesser
posted this
28 September 2014
Intel 2 core E6550 @ 2.33MHZ
4 GB - Memory
Win 7
