NorthQ 9021 - No longer working as expected

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NorthQ 9021 - No longer working as expected

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Hello all,

Not sure this is the correct place to post this in, if it isn't, please move my thread to the appropriate forum.

Long story short, I've been running a virtual domoticz server with an AEON lab zstick (first gen) on an Ubuntu machine for over a year. I've had a few issues here and there, but it has been very stable other than that.

One of the 1st devices I purchase was a NortQ optical power meter. While it wasn't a real time meter, it would still give me consumption once an hour in domoticz with the device it created. The only config option I used to have for it was like #20000 that was set to 0 (I think it defined wether the meter was in real-time mode or in sleep-mode).

Anyway, it was acting up recently so I decided it was time to update Domoticz to the latest version that was available to me, 3.5744.

I excluded my NorthQ meter and added it back in. The good news: there's a ton more configuration available. The bad news: it doesn't report hourly consumption anymore and I can't figure out why.

My electricity meter says that 1 impulse = 2Wh. So in the 1st configuration option, when it says "How many pulses are counted per 10 kWh" that would be 5000. I've tried to fiddle around with the settings but that's pretty much the only option I would need to change. My z-wave network is definitely seeing the meter, but the device only got updated once, yesterday @ 23:19pm, when I excluded/reincluded it. Since then, nothing.

I have also noticed that when I go in the z-wave configuration panel, under "information" for the northq, the time was 22:15 (yesterday), I've pressed the refresh button and it set the correct time (13:12pm as I'm writting this). The device got updated immediately after. I feel like this might be the source of the problem...

Am I missing something? The meter is plugged in the wall socket so not running on batteries... :?:
1x NorthQ 9022 power meter
1x Aeonlabs z-wave USB stick
1x Ubuntu/Domoticz VM (ESX)
h311m4n
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Joined: Saturday 09 May 2015 9:20
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Domoticz version: 2.24
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Re: NorthQ 9021 - No longer working as expected

Post by h311m4n »

Ok, there's clearly an issue either with Domoticz or OZW because thee device isn't automatically queried even though it's wakup interval is 900.

When I manually refresh the device in the OZW control panel, the wattage consumption gets calculated/updated. But if I check out the device under utilities, it shows, for instance, 0Wh at 11pm, then 476'000Wh (?...) at 12am and finally 0Wh at 1am. Then nothing. I did a refresh in the OZW panel earlier today (something like 8:30am) and I'm getting 0Wh again for 9am.
1x NorthQ 9022 power meter
1x Aeonlabs z-wave USB stick
1x Ubuntu/Domoticz VM (ESX)
h311m4n
Posts: 5
Joined: Saturday 09 May 2015 9:20
Target OS: Linux
Domoticz version: 2.24
Location: Switzerland
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Re: NorthQ 9021 - No longer working as expected

Post by h311m4n »

Nevermind, enabled polling on the device and data is flowing in. Strange because I didn't have to enable it before.
1x NorthQ 9022 power meter
1x Aeonlabs z-wave USB stick
1x Ubuntu/Domoticz VM (ESX)
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