Hi All, need a little help if you can? At 03:52 this morning my 5 year Old’s bedroom lights turned on at full brightness and obviously woke her and really scared her. Been in place for a year or so with no issues other than the occasionally unresponsive ZigBee responce.
The HA logs just say “xxxx Bedroom Bulb 1 turned on” nothing in the logs before it, no automations show as run.
Nothing else is linked to this bulb, Philips Hue etc.
The restore mode of the bulb is last state and HA successfully turned off the bulb at her bedtime.
The bulb is an Innr bulb.
Are there any more logs I can check or anyone have any ideas of cause?
I did wonder if the bulb might have gone faulty but it switches on/off fine this morning as it did last night after we’d calmed her down.
My daught loves using the lights via her various buttons and Google (via linked smart things virtual bulb which was only triggered after the bulb turned on to sync the virtual bulb to in) but if I can’t track down why and ensure it doesn’t happen again it’s all coming out.
Your topic title triggers my Spam reflex, but I managed to open your topic nevertheless. You might want to consider a better describing title.
Anyway, what I’ve seen in the past is that lights can toggle as a result of a (maybe spontaneous) reboot or when for example your integration/add-on crashes and restarts. I’d search the logs at the specific time to see if anything strange happened.
Another thing that is sometimes useful is a reboot of your hardware. Not saying it’s related, but in my experience HA can become unstable after for example an upgrade. So not restart HA, but reboot host in the advanced options.
Hi WallyR thanks for the reply, i’d considered that but the restore state would have been off as the last received state was off at bedtime as it’s set to restore, no?
Also not convulsive, I know due to thresholds and voltages etc but there are 2 other Innr bulbs plugged in to the same fitting that didn’t change until they synced to the first bulb.
Hi @Recte, sorry replying in order of emails. Point taken about the title.
Checked the logbook already and nothing but I’ll check the system logs around that time, nothing as an alert. I reboot at least once a week and after most patches
Don’t think so, the state after a power failure is a setting.
I have smart bulbs - with traditional cabling/wall switches - and if I flip the switch (off/on) the light comes on, but more dimmed then normally.
I also don’t think that when there is a power hiccup that this would be visible in the history of the bulb.
Some bulbs have an options to set the restored state after a power failure.
Those that do not have this option will usually have a restore state after a power failure that is 100% brightness, which is considered a safety feature.
So I checked this, while removing the bulbs and smart switch
If power is removed or pulsed the bulbs do honor the last state. I also checked the logs of my UPS and no anomalies in the mains were seen (although they are on different rings).
My guess is a faulty or glitchy bulb but without proof I can’t say it won’t happen again so we’ve gone back to dumb house in that room.
You could use a smart bulb with a dumb switch.
That would preserve the options a smart bulb provides during awake hours and the dB switch would prevent a recurrence of the situation during sleep hours.
