Bulb turns on by itself

I'm using two gocontrol zwave led bulbs with the generic driver.

They are turning on every day at 3:04 am, which is very annoying. lol

i've searched the events and logs and have posted a screenshot of the events. I can't seem to find out why its turning on by itself?

The only thing in HE its assigned to is a dimmer switch in the dashboard.
I did have it connected to alexa, but i removed that thinking that was the cause.

Anyone have any ideas on how i can track down the culprit? My last ditch effort is to scrap the bulbs and put in generic LED bulbs and put a dimmer switch on the outlet, i'd rather not if possible.

thanks in advance

What is the "physical" event that turns the bulb off (for example at 10:29 PM)?

Not every day (stayed off on 7/27). Can you figure out if there is anything that is scheduled on your hub to run every other day at about 3:00AM?

Do you have cloud backup?

Wow - never heard of that happening before. Also haven't seen many folks use z-wave bulbs, most use zigbee here and they seem to have a good track record. So I'd say if you can't find a fix for these bulbs the last ditch approach should be to dump them and get some Zigbee bulbs. Hue are my favorite but they are expensive. Many other cheaper variants out there.

If these commands are coming from some app on the hub (including ones that facilitate external integration, like Alexa or Google Home), you'd see a command on the "Events" page in your screenshot, specifically the kind of command that would turn the device on, like "command-on" or "command-setLevel." Assuming the ones you did yourself from Dashboard are intentionally, I don't think I see anything else there that looks suspect.

But because they're Z-Wave: any chance you set up Z-Wave Association that could be turning these on via some other device (bypassing the hub)? Some devices also have onboard on/off countdown timers you can set via Z-Wave parameters, but you'd have to have done that via the device driver at some point and, unless you switched drivers, would still see that option there.

A totally different possibility: if power is lost and then restored, the default state of your bulbs could be "on" (some devices also provide a way to configure this; this is just one possibility but a common default). So, if your circuit happens to be losing power at the same time every day, whether due to an electrical problem or if maybe you have these behind a wall switch (dumb or smart) that is also turning off/on at that time for some reason...

throwing this out there - I remember having a bulb that would turn itself on as a default state if it lost power. Isn't 3:04 just about after the daily 3am refresh of a hub? about 4 mins to reboot? maybe related to that or a mode change?

Unlikely, for the reasons noted by @bertabcd1234.

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The hub doesn’t reboot automatically. It does some database maintenance and backups daily.

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And even if the hub did reboot, there are bigger problems if that causes a power cut to the circuit powering the bulb. :slight_smile:

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i'm pretty sure the physical event was me going into the device and pressing the off button from the webui.

i removed alexa on 7/27.
i thought we were good because the light did not turn on on 7/28.

but this time only gina's light turned on at 3:04am. ( i have a matching bulb for "mike's light)

well i think you're on to something here.

i tested quick flip of the switch from the power strip, and low and behold the light turned on.

i'm going to try to see if there's a default off after power restore.

Yeah - that should be a digital event. So I’m curious to learn why it’s being called a physical event.

my wife may have used the physical button the lamp to turn off the light.

Ok, so if she did that, the bulb had no power and can’t be turned on. So how did it turn on again at 3:04am?

Do you have cloud backup?

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@ignacios4415 So if you go to the device page itself, look at the bottom. Check everything listed in there.

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