I’ve been happy with my setup for two years, I’ve got 15 devices, ikea light bulbs, ikea switches and motion sensors, it all works perfectly until last month or two.
Motion sensors start to change the status to “clear” which triggers the lights off while I’m still moving in the kitchen and bathroom.
Quite often now lags happen between motion sensor switching on the lights or the switch turning lights on or off - it always used to be instant.
My setup is not the newest as I’ve got RaspberryPi with CC2531 but I’ve been running old software all that time so that’s not the case, I’ve only updated everyone now hoping it will fix my issues but that didn’t help…
I know probably you will say I need to check logs but did anyone experience this?
I don’t use my setup for anything else like Plex Server or FTP etc…
That’s some examples errors I found when I was using ikea switch to turn the lights on.
Is it best to have HA on Windows instead using different dongle like SkyConnect?
Update: Thanks to @sidewalker@thesidewalkends.io for pointing me in the right direction. Somehow I never considered interference to be an issue. Recently I bought a Google Wi-Fi mesh system (pack of three) and I didn’t realise it could have caused interference with zigbee… I changed the channel from the default 11 to 25 and the whole setup is working perfectly again! I also moved the RPi closer to most of the smart devices and I’ve put the USB coordinator on an extension cable but I’m 99% sure the channel 11 was the main issue.
I’ve had janky things start happening when my Pi started to run out of resources. For me it was my daemon.log on the Pi getting full of messages from HA. Once I deleted the log (there was a bunch that were saved old logs there too) my Pi worked good again and all the delays i was experiencing with my lights went away.
What I did was found a Linux command to find the biggest files on my system after working out that I had no memory, then using that list to track down the files taking up all my space.
Hope that helps
@Lifebandit666 @iMike
Is the maximum log size of Home Assistant not configurable? To me, that would be a hard bug.
Maybe, could be something to look into. I don’t have a “regular” install though, I’m running Supervised in Docker somehow, maybe that has something to do with it.