Windows closing mystery

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hello,

I have a problem: a couple of windows (Fakro Z Wave devices) are closing, and I don’t know why!

The activity log says: at 5 am: last seen was changed 3 times, then the window “was closed”, but not what caused the closing.
It seems this happens every day at 5am.

I have looked at

  • the automations connected to the device, but none were triggered at that time
  • the logs, but they only seem to show errors and warnings
  • Node Red, but it doesn’t connect to any windows

Happening at 5am makes me suspicious there’s an automation running somewhere, but I don’t know what. In the Z Wave controller? Can’t see anything…

A thing to do might be to turn on a lower level debugging, but I don’t know how…

Also, should this be in a particular category?

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

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Are there any other z-wave devices being operated at that time? Maybe a rogue association?

3

Is 5am local time co-inciding with midnight UTC? Just asking, in case there is a rogue maintenance task, or NTP time is not happening on your router/network/browser, etc.

4

Thanks for the suggestion - no, no other devices operating at that time that I can see…

5

Good idea, but I’m about +10/11 in Australia…

6

If you go into Z wave, and then devices there is a section for each device that shows their associated automations. Anything in there?

If so you can check each one and trace their last run.

I know this is simple debugging, but that is where I start when one of my automations is not doing what I want.

7

Do you mean something else?

8

Weird. That is my go to. Do you have anything like Adaptive Cover or any other services installed?

9

What’s Adaptive Cover? Interesting!!! :grinning:

10

There are automations on the windows, but none of them ran at that time. :slightly_frowning_face:

I’m thinking about removing them from the network and adding them back in (with new id) as a reset…

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Do you have an app for these windows? Something outside of HA?

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Found it!
Thanks guys for you for your suggestions! Just talking about the problem helped!

Turns out there was an old automation - a turn everything off script meant to run at 2300 and 0500, and in it, it had a close covers in the room - windows are covers. This meant that searching for a window would fail to return this automation…
Who’d have thunk it!