Soft/hard reset controller?

[Berek]

Under the "Node management" button in the Z-Wave hardware setup screen, what exactly do "soft reset controller" and "hard reset controller" do? I don't want to press them and find out, in case I lose all my configuration settings.

[Eraser]

Found this thread while searching for the same answer. A hard reset is that the controller gets a "factory reset". So all information and nodes on it will be wiped.

But what is a soft reset? Is it just a controller reboot without wiping or.... ?

[Eraser]

I just tested a Soft Reset and my nodes disappeared from the Setup list. After restarting Domoticz they came back. The controller probably didn't wipe them. I still don't know what a soft reset does, but at least we know it doesn't remove nodes.

After that I tried a Hard Reset (which clearly states that nodes will be removed from the controller) and that does indeed remove the nodes. After a Domoticz reboot the Setup only shows the controller itself.

[lost]

I still don't know what a soft reset does, but at least we know it doesn't remove nodes.

I think this will just trigger a z-wave controller restart, this may be useful if the controller does not respond anymore because it's internal firmware is hanged...

In fact, Domoticz only sends this reset if a tunable timeout (default = 60s) is reached. I runned into problems with this default when I only had a few peripherals in control-only mode (no sensors returning measures on a frequent time basis, only some heater control with planings), with very sparse scheduled commands, causing z-wave issues (command timeouts) because of these resets (it takes times to bring all z-wave network topology back, commands sent while doing so were missed).

Had to set this to several hours (> max time between 2 z-wave commands).

[Berek]

Nice to get some answers to my question, even if it took two years

Thanks guys, useful stuff to know.

[mischa]

Did a "soft reset controller" today, after that takes a while for the nodes to reappear in the list. Nodes that were deleted from domoticz reappear as well.
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