Log has no errors so this is strange. Is there anything that happens at 6am?
To me it looks like you restarted the app at 6am.
User Message:
Lost connection
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HomeWizard app ready!
HomeWizard has been inited
HomeWizard Heatlink has been inited
HomeWizard EnergyLink has been inited
HomeWizard Thermometer has been inited
HomeWizard Kakusensors has been inited
HomeWizard Windmeter has been inited
HomeWizard Wattcher has been inited
HomeWizard Rainmeter has been inited
2024-10-14T06:00:08.860Z [log] [ManagerDrivers] [Driver:energy] [Device:15081926-e810-4853-8593-3bd8d28dc7f0] URL: http://192.168.1.15:80/api/v1
Oh yes. At 6 in the morning I preventive do restart the homewizard app. In the past sometimes the P1 meter of Homewizard disconnected and preventive I restart the app in the night, so the connection is re-established.
I have taken this out now and check tomorrow again.
Multicast issue(s), local DNS resolver inside your wifi/network.
Check if there are known issues with Netgear Orbi and mDNS (same as Google Chromecast).
See if the Netgear communinity/forum/support has some suggestions there.
I am not familiar with Netgear, using Ubiquiti and OPNsense myself.
To troubleshoot and see if this is indeed the issue, you can check all mDNS records on your network using zeroconfServiceBrowser | Tobias Erichsen (tobias-erichsen.de).
I would run it when everything works as expected (you should see an entry for your P1 dongle) and save a screenshot of it and then run it again when it fails and compare.
If this is indeed the issue, then depending on your network device, configuration and troubleshooting will be different. Sometimes, mDNS is also overloaded if you have too many devices using it. You can get more info here on a potential solution: Issue with Google Chromecast
A short update:
Since I stopped 3 days ago the flows that restarted the Homewizard app every morning, the sockets and P1 didn’t go offline anymore. So far… so good. Stays strange for me that after a restart from the app, the sockets won’t come online. But for now I keep checking the next days.
I understand your view, I did see some of my sockets are slow in mDNS updates.
Not sure if you have some local/internal dns server like pihole or adguard running for adblocking. I use adguard for example to protect my kids for nasty stuff and some caching dns results does help. mDNS is *.local so if you have for example something resolving locally it is advised to step away from that and use something else than .local like *.lan for your private devices.
During the month I get curious about my KWH use of that month and if the daily use is on average the same how it would be at the end of the month. For this I created a small VB app, but I would love to have this permanent visible in the Homey app. Is this doable in a flow or can it be built into the Homewizard app? I’ve asked Homewizard to get this in the Energy display, but they have no intension to add this feature soon.
Now I go to the Android app, click the Year, read the current month usage and fill it into my little application and get the requested values. That works fine, but there must be a smarter way.
Thanks! I will look into that. Update: It works! At least for the month total. The rest will be a bit more complex but that’s part of the home-automation hobby
I too sometimes have my Homewizard devices unavailable in Homey Pro 2023.
My entire network is ubiquiti based (access points, switches and router). Usually I can fix this by restarting the Homewizard Homey app and reconnect the devices in the ubiquiti portal.
Related to mDNS/device recognition I have these settings in Ubiquiti:
On device level:
All homewizard devices have a fixed IP address
On the wifi level:
Multicast enhancement ON
On the network level:
IGMP snooping ON
mDNS ON
For the remainder nothing too fancy in Ubiquiti (no special VLANs, DNS, … configs). Is there anything else I should be mindful of to increase the uptime of my homewizard devices in Homey?
Hi, are there already plans to integrate the temperature and humidity measurements of the energy display into homey? Would like to use the display as a thermostat measurement point.
