I recently took advantage of the big sale, picking up one of the refurbished S6-PRO machines to upgrade my current SEL. S6 looked like it was brand new, no issue at all getting it set up, license added, etc.
The problems started when I tried to move the database from my SEL to the S6. I performed the following steps:
Digging a little further into this, I found that some devices were working, and others weren't - this suggested to me that the overall setup on the S6 was correct, but something was wrong with the data that was restored.
In every case checked, where a device could no longer be controlled, I find the following message:
Error: Z-Wave device has empty ROOT object, it may have lost its reference to the actual Z-Wave device,
try resetting the Z-Wave database from Z-Wave Config
Went to the Z-Wave Config page, hit the Reset Z-Wave Data button, and then restarted the Z-Wave interface. Logs showed that the nodes were rebuilt, but problem persisted.
What did I do wrong? Removing and re-adding the number of devices that have the error isn't really practical.
I also could not get the HSBuddy plug-in to ever complete initialization on the new S6, but that is probably a topic for that forum.
The problems started when I tried to move the database from my SEL to the S6. I performed the following steps:
- Did a Backup Config on the SEL from the Setup/General page. This completed successfully.
- Did a Backup Config on the S6 from the Setup/General page (brand new clean copy). This completed successfully.
- Installed each plug-in that I use onto the new S6, and disabled all of them.
- Registered the licenses on the plug-ins on the S6.
- Did a Restore Config of the data saved from the SEL, to the S6.
- Changed the config ini to reflect the correct new IP address for the S6, and the correct port (I changed both with the new implementation so that I could keep the SEL online to refer to during the process). I had always left the SEL at port 80, but I wanted to change that for the new S6 for security reasons.
- Disabled all plug-ins on the old SEL.
- Rebooted the S6.
- Enabled all of the plug-ins one by one on the S6, starting with Z-Wave.
Digging a little further into this, I found that some devices were working, and others weren't - this suggested to me that the overall setup on the S6 was correct, but something was wrong with the data that was restored.
In every case checked, where a device could no longer be controlled, I find the following message:
Error: Z-Wave device has empty ROOT object, it may have lost its reference to the actual Z-Wave device,
try resetting the Z-Wave database from Z-Wave Config
Went to the Z-Wave Config page, hit the Reset Z-Wave Data button, and then restarted the Z-Wave interface. Logs showed that the nodes were rebuilt, but problem persisted.
What did I do wrong? Removing and re-adding the number of devices that have the error isn't really practical.
I also could not get the HSBuddy plug-in to ever complete initialization on the new S6, but that is probably a topic for that forum.
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