So my weekend was eventful.
I got a UPS on friday, super excited to get home, link it with my NAS and had an app for HE to grab the info from the NAS and create a nice little power safe setup for my shiny devices.
Woke up saturday, everything running normally, left the house at 8am.
got home after lunch to find the poor little HE going through a world of database issues.
ontop of that, all my yeelights (only) were dropping telnets and freaking out. A power cycle didnt help any of the situation.
Did a soft reset, after rushing through the instructions Missed the part to restore and clicked new, but must of been one step off completing it (which resets your radios and all devices associated) - so did a soft reset again.
Saturday night, all the database issues seem to have been resolved, but the yeelights are freaking out, all dropping in and out of telnet errors and reconnecting- sometimes, not fun. None of the wifes lights are working, shes pissed.
Sunday morning, no database issues (but I am fearful it will happen at 8am and I am out all day again), but the yeelights are still broken.
So im thinking, power cycle the lights, didnt fix it. Power cycled the 2.4 router I have them all connected to, didnt fix it. The only way it seems is to delete the bulb from HE and Yeelight app and re-add them.
(sorry - during this whole time the yeelights worked perfected in the yeelight app, just in HE they timed out and never reconnected).
sunday arvo for about 5hrs i delete every yeelight, both in HE and the yeelight app and have to re-add them to both, whilst also fixing their groups, scenes and other automations they were tied to.
Post mortum:
I "think" what happened was I powered down the Nas, HE, Router and switch.. but not the 2.4 router that controls the lights - that something fucked up. I then powered the router, switch, HE and NAS back up but forgot to plugin the phone line to the router (might not of be part of the problem).
Now friday night, when all of that was backup and working, all lights and modes worked no issue.
I know it was saturday after 8am because sat morning all modes and lights fired as usual. @bobbyD suggested disabling the app that I had just added by @ritchierich as that used telnet for the NAS application, after the soft reset that was the only other issue I was having, the yeelights with dropped telnets.
But after I deleted the driver and reset the hub, the telnet issue stayed.
As of this morning, I have 1 bulb that I reset that is still dropping its telnet (but after 1 or 2 retrys it connects again), but its one ive had issues with before (maybe its the furthest one from the 2.4 router - but by furthest I mean within 15m). The Modes started working again when i went in and clicked "done" on them. My hub still seems quite slow navigating the dashboards etc.
And to top it off one of my ST multisenors for the back door was stuck on open. Reset it and it now reads temp, acceleration and axis but not opened or closed. I reset it, battery pulled it, but I was so frustrated with the whole weekend I just ripped it off the wall, pulled the battery and threw it in the cupboard.
I know 100%, its probably something i did wrong, or the way I did it. But it really got me thinking is it worth all this frustration (my biggest personal flaw) for the fun that is HA if I dont really know what im doing.
