2000 devices running 10 years on coin cell battery

When the team in Z-wave alliance takes the leap from home automation to IoT it seems pretty interesting. Like the news that the new long range devices can run 10 year on a coin cell battery.
Support for 200 devices with 4x the range.

Go have a look at the specs and do comment bellow if this is what you will enlighten your Christmas with.

 https://z-wavealliance.org/z-wave-alliance-announces-new-z-wave-long-range-specification/

 

Fibaro Smart Implant

https://www.fibaro.com/en/products/smart-implant/

Fibaro will release the Fibaro Smart Implant. What a name! All friends of cyber-anything must love such a name as Smart Implant!
What it basicly does is take your normally stupid device and turn it into something you can connect to your zwave gateway and controll from e.g. remote, with your voice or via a schedule.

Slow Samsung S8 Oreo. Solved!

Updated, since I found the issue.

Suddenly my Samsung S8 Android Oreo become un-responsive and very slow. 

Screen button was tactile but power button did not work, unless presses for very long time.. 

When it decided to unlock the screen it sometime paused or froze using the apps and browsing.

I installed a CPU monitor (Tinycore) and noticed that the cores 5,6,7,8 never got above 741Mhz. 

First I tried to start the phone in fail safe mode and it did help! So then we can rule out the phones own hardware. So the suggestion was to uninstall the app causing this. How can you find that out without a working CPU monitor / app in Oreo. Impossible, unless rooted.

I uninstalled a lot of apps to no help.

I wiped the cache partion and immediately after I wiped the cache partitions the second half of the cores could use all their power.

I did it twice, but it has not completely solved the issue.Just that when the phone gets slow it has more CPU capacity to not go totally slow.

Wipe cache partition

1. Turn off the device.
2. Press and hold the Volume Up key and the Bixby key, then press and hold the Power key.
3. When the Android logo displays, release all keys ('Installing system update' will show for about 30 - 60 seconds before showing the Android system recovery menu options).
4. Press the Volume down key several times to highlight “wipe cache partition.”
5. Press the Power key to select.
6. Press the Volume down key to highlight “yes” and press the Power key to select.
7. When the wipe cache partition is complete, “Reboot system now” is highlighted.
8. Press the Power key to restart the device.

Solution

Then I got to think that maybe it's the SD card. I checked the My Files -> and there it said SD card Not inserted.
So something has happened with the SD card (possible Max write cycles) so I opened the sim card / memory card holder and removed the SD card and since then it has been working perfectly again.

Plugging the SD card into my computer still shows the content on it so it might have been just bad contact also in this case.

Qubino, Flush On/Off Thermostat 10A

Well,
Home automation is not always unicorn and rainbows...

In the autumn I ordered, well in time for the colder weather to set in and a bit of needed time for me to install it, The Qubino Flush On/Off Thermostat 10A.

 

I especially selected the Qubino since it was mentioned on the Vera home page to be supported. Ding and Darn I was wrong... Vera does not have support in the Firmware to for the constantly heat function which is the function I wished for, since I have own thermostats in the heater and wanted to use this only to lower the room temperature when needed. E.g. when somebody is out for a longer period and the crib don't necessarily have the need to be fully heated.

As some forum posters on the Vera support site already have posted out that's not the case and now we have been waiting for a firmware that hopefully is coming (my unqualified guess) by summer when I'm not in need for a thermostat any longer...

Well, next* future winter I might be able to use it....

Lesson learned, always check on Vera support forum first...

*Noticed on the forum that issue is still not solved...

Domitech z-wave smart LED light bulb

This is a 60-watt z-wave enabled light with dimming function.

It was long time ago since I installed a z-wave plus device and it's so easy from the Mios.com Vera when you just need to drill down to the light in the list, instead of the early devices where you had to press a tiny button in the right moment, sometimes as fast as possible. 

The light is not larger than any normal LED light and the color is very nicely and warm. Build quality was as far as I could tell also OK.

Dimming function from the Vera worked very well. Just slide it. From the scenes you can set the percentage. The light is supposed to remember the setting when started next time.

So in perfect timing for the dark autumn evenings the porch is lit.

Uplay.exe - System Error libcef.dll is missing caused by Winzip.

Uplay.exe - System Error
The program can't start because libcef.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

Thats what faced me today :-(

Turn out that I had installed Winzip and it seems to destroy some dll links.

Fix it this way:
1) Uninstall winzip
2) Re-start
3) Re-install uplay
4) Game-on!
:-)

Telldus goes z-wave

In Sweden there is one provider that seems to be available in every store, that I visit :-)
http://www.telldus.se/
Telldus has a very price friendly approach with user friendly equipment so now when I noticed that they are going to launch a z-wave gateway and possible later some own z-wave plug in socket modules I got excited.
If you want to start shopping (probably Swedish only) right away, you'll find all you need here:
https://www.m.nu/telldus-znet-lite-forhandsbestallning-preliminar-leverans-september-p-2341.html