Spinning Circle After Button Click in Devices

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brett.e.baldin@gmail.com posted this 01 January 2016

Whenever I click a power button in the ICHA software, I receive a spinning circle over the icon that can last as much as a minute after a device is triggered. The node powers on or off almost immediately but the icon indicator is very slow to change to the correct indicated state. Is there a way to fix this?

Also, after a controller restart all of the icons get reset to off or unlocked status. I can understand why some of the older devices that do not report state (think old Jasco wall switches and outlets) would not return to correct (on) status, but many of the newer devices like the Enerwave smart devices and the Aeon smart devices do not show as on even after they push out a new report of data. Is there a way outside of polling that ICHA can pick up this status and show the icon appropriately? All of these devices are directly associated with the USB stick already. I have polling disabled on all of these devices and do not want to re-enable it as it floods the network with unnecessary traffic and causes problems with timeouts and red error messages. The only devices that I leave polling enabled on are those that cannot be associated at all. Could a one-time polling feature be added after the controller is placed back online / service started? Maybe even a manually activated button on the software or a script that could be executed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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weidnerj posted this 01 January 2016

Whenever I click a power button in the ICHA software, I receive a spinning circle over the icon that can last as much as a minute after a device is triggered. The node powers on or off almost immediately but the icon indicator is very slow to change to the correct indicated state. Is there a way to fix this?

Also, after a controller restart all of the icons get reset to off or unlocked status. I can understand why some of the older devices that do not report state (think old Jasco wall switches and outlets) would not return to correct (on) status, but many of the newer devices like the Enerwave smart devices and the Aeon smart devices do not show as on even after they push out a new report of data. Is there a way outside of polling that ICHA can pick up this status and show the icon appropriately? All of these devices are directly associated with the USB stick already. I have polling disabled on all of these devices and do not want to re-enable it as it floods the network with unnecessary traffic and causes problems with timeouts and red error messages. The only devices that I leave polling enabled on are those that cannot be associated at all. Could a one-time polling feature be added after the controller is placed back online / service started? Maybe even a manually activated button on the software or a script that could be executed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Well... I had this problem (I think). I will take it that this only happens on a few devices, and not all of them? All I could figure out that it seemed to be something that was causing duplicate ZWAVE IDs on my network, two or more devices where miscommunicating within the network. This seemed to happen when I was playing with my ICHA network, adding and removing devices, etc. Once the circle is spinning, if you click on another device, it will wait until the circle stops spinning before turning on or off.

Now the fun part. I would first try a whole house ZWAVE network reset. Turn off the main power to the house, let every device power down completely then turn it back on. That might be all that is needed.

If not, then it might be required to go from device to device and remove them and re-add them back. I did that to the devices that I felt were in conflict, determined which ones would come on but spin in ICHA. I did this first instead of doing a reset which might actually have been the answer, but found out that I had to turn off certain ZWAVE devices so that I could do this to others since it seemed they were interfering with each other, by either physically removing them from the power or turning off the power to that circuit. Again think just turning off all the power for 10 or 15 seconds to the whole ZWAVE network probably was the resolution but I didn't realize it at the time.

Good luck.

brett.e.baldin@gmail.com posted this 02 January 2016

I added a couple of virtual switches in last night just to test - both connected to scenes and not - and they do the exact same thing. There should be no reason that a virtual switch should result in spinning circles that I can think of, especially since it is not waiting for a command back from a device to confirm that it has turned on. When I do tie the virtual switch to a device, the device physically turns off and on nearly instantaneously but the spinning circle remains.

One other interesting point is that the power indicator in the upper right (above the recent changes) changes as soon as the power button in the tile is clicked. It is only the tile button itself that shows the spinning circle.

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