i have 5 Jeelink/Lacrosse sensors around here which are working nice and smooth in general. They are linked to a generic Jeelink 868 MHz stick with the lacrosse integration of HA.
But after a few days, all of them stop working suddenly without any notice. There is no fixed time to reproduce, it stops somewhere between 2 and 15 days.
When i restart the system/adapter or doing any updates, they are working immediately fine again. I had a look in the error logs, there is no error. Its also not a dying sensor and/or batteries, since all sensor went down at the same time.
I also replaced the Jeelink Adapter Stick. No luck.
Is there any “hidden” power safe mode for such sticks, since they are connected via USB?
Do you have at least 1 meter extension between the server and the stick to prevent interference.
If you are plugged into a Pi based device sometimes there is a bare minimum of power available for the USB and a separately powered USB hub might help if that’s the case.
What server hardware is the stick plugged into?
Raspberry Pi 5
Do you have at least 1 meter extension between the server and the stick to prevent interference.
Yes, i have a 1.5m USB-Extension cable and the stick itself is placed also at least 4m away from any other sending/receiving device
If you are plugged into a Pi based device sometimes there is a bare minimum of power available for the USB and a separately powered USB hub might help if that’s the case.
Honestly, I don’t know how to tackle this circumstance. I already have the original 27w usb-c power adapter which hopefully will feed all the devices properly … but yes, there are all 4 USB slots used, like zigbee, 868 mhz for thermostat etc. but like mentioned, they all are connected to extensions and at least 2-3m away from each other
I observed the behaviour some times again, but I am still not able to fix the issue. What i noticed is, that whenever Homeassistant stops getting values, the Jeelink device is still visible via lsusb command but the dongles LEDs do not blink anymore (TX/RX LEDs not blinking which would clearly indicate receiving data). Only one LED in the middle of these is static red. But this static red LED is also on when operating normal, i think its a general power indicator LED.
The dongle seems like “frozen” or unrepsonsive after a while and even if i replug the dongle, it starts blinking again but i am afraid, homeasssistant cannot catch up the device again without a reboot of the service/HA.
I recently replaced the cable with another one, see if this makes any difference.
