I have a C-7 hub currently running platform 2.4.2.134. A couple weeks ago, I upgraded the firmware, added some lights that didn’t play well my GE Enbrighten switch, and added a lamp module (node) that had trouble connecting to the hub all about the same time. All that to say, if I’d done just one thing perhaps I’d be able to pinpoint the problem.
Well, I lost control of all my z-wave devices (about 17 in total). I rolled the firmware back, no dice. Rolled it farther back, still no dice. Tried resetting the z-wave antenna (shutting down, unplugging the hub, waiting), no dice. Tried z-wave system repair under the newer and older firmware versions, no dice. Tried repairing the individual nodes, no dice. Of course tried multiple reboots with each version of the firmware, no dice. Tried the alternate US frequency somewhere in all that, no dice.
BUT THEN, I tried removing some old nodes from my network that I’d just never removed when they died (these are confirmed hardware failures), and suddenly the system came back to life…for a few minutes, and went right back to not working. Alright! Progress!!
I have some additional nodes I only put out at Christmas for lights that I’d also left in the device list (but aren’t plugged in). So, after restoring from an old back up and returning to the latest firmware, I removed all those, removed all the dead pieces of hardware, and the system came back long enough for me to get all the devices working with Alexa again (I’d removed all the nodes in case the Hubitat Alexa apps might have been causing an issue). “SUCCESS!,” I thought!! Everything worked with the new firmware and Alexa was controlling everything correctly.
Until an hour or so later, everything stopped working again. I’d read that doing too many repairs might be a problem, but at this point I was desperate and tried a system repair. It’s just “sat and spun” never completing. Rebooted. No dice.
I’m at the end of my rope. The device list is clean (no unused nodes), and everything SEEMS to be set correctly. I REALLY don’t want to have remove every node, factory reset them, and start over from scratch…and since there have been “signs of life” I feel like there’s probably something small I’m missing?
Please help??