QNAP NAS ERROR CODE: 4

You would, could and should assume that a device created, assembled and soled by one manufacturer, think Tesla, Mac, KONE-elevators etc would be a piece of cake to update with latest firmware, if it's even have to be done manually 2021. 

But for the QNAP NAS Model TS-231P2 it turned out to be a tiny bit of challenge since at some point in time or to be more exact the 20190918 they had a small bug released in the first 4.4 build the 4.4.1.1064 build, but the day after they released a fix for it being the 4.3 version:

4.3.6.1070 build 20190919    2019-09-19

Unfortunately for me that was not clearly mentioned that the only firmware upgrade I could do was to the  4.3.6.1070 build and not any of the newer builds and there were a lot of them since I had patched last time!

After I had got the 4.3.6.1070 successfully installed I could go with the latest Firmware available. 

So there it was... Done for the moment!

Seems like they now support automatic patching and re-boot which I suggest you enable (can I turn of the sound somewhere that it makes when it boot? Please let me know in the comments)

NEXA PLUG-IN, ON/OFF Zwave AN-180

A basic plug-in module supporting z-wave plus standard. Easy to include to vera and very good build quality.

Aeotec LED Bulb 6

AEOTEC LED Bulb 6 was easy to add to vera. Just go to include devices and then turn on the light. 

You can select the dimmer strength etc after it has been included. 

The lights reacts slower than expected and seem to have a delay up to 10s before they react on the command sent. This make them not so use-full in connection with e.g a magnetic door contact. 

The light itself is comparable with other LED's I have.

Hank Scene Controller SKU: HKZW-SCN04

Hank Scene Controller a.k.a Szenschalter 1

SKU: HKZW-SCN04 Technisat

hmm.. not sure what I bought but the description said Remote Control with 4 buttons. The manual is in germany, but the site I bought it from had a link with better instructions:

http://manuals-backend.z-wave.info/make.php?lang=en&sku=HKZW-SCN04&cert=ZC10-16095219

Twist lock of the back side and the battery compartment was visible, the battery and a USB cable is include.

The included battery is of type LIR2450 3.6 volt and should apparently be rechargeable lithium ion and charge itself via the usb cable.  

Inclusion is of the old-style, press a button super fast many times and then it did pop-up in my Vera and see and behold it's very simple to assign already created scenes to it. It seems like only scenes can be controlled and not individual devices via the gateway, but write a comment if I'm wrong on that point.

2000 devices running 10 years on coin cell battery

When the team in Z-wave alliance takes the leap from home automation to IoT it seems pretty interesting. Like the news that the new long range devices can run 10 year on a coin cell battery.
Support for 200 devices with 4x the range.

Go have a look at the specs and do comment bellow if this is what you will enlighten your Christmas with.

 https://z-wavealliance.org/z-wave-alliance-announces-new-z-wave-long-range-specification/

 

Fibaro Smart Implant

https://www.fibaro.com/en/products/smart-implant/

Fibaro will release the Fibaro Smart Implant. What a name! All friends of cyber-anything must love such a name as Smart Implant!
What it basicly does is take your normally stupid device and turn it into something you can connect to your zwave gateway and controll from e.g. remote, with your voice or via a schedule.

Slow Samsung S8 Oreo. Solved!

Updated, since I found the issue.

Suddenly my Samsung S8 Android Oreo become un-responsive and very slow. 

Screen button was tactile but power button did not work, unless presses for very long time.. 

When it decided to unlock the screen it sometime paused or froze using the apps and browsing.

I installed a CPU monitor (Tinycore) and noticed that the cores 5,6,7,8 never got above 741Mhz. 

First I tried to start the phone in fail safe mode and it did help! So then we can rule out the phones own hardware. So the suggestion was to uninstall the app causing this. How can you find that out without a working CPU monitor / app in Oreo. Impossible, unless rooted.

I uninstalled a lot of apps to no help.

I wiped the cache partion and immediately after I wiped the cache partitions the second half of the cores could use all their power.

I did it twice, but it has not completely solved the issue.Just that when the phone gets slow it has more CPU capacity to not go totally slow.

Wipe cache partition

1. Turn off the device.
2. Press and hold the Volume Up key and the Bixby key, then press and hold the Power key.
3. When the Android logo displays, release all keys ('Installing system update' will show for about 30 - 60 seconds before showing the Android system recovery menu options).
4. Press the Volume down key several times to highlight “wipe cache partition.”
5. Press the Power key to select.
6. Press the Volume down key to highlight “yes” and press the Power key to select.
7. When the wipe cache partition is complete, “Reboot system now” is highlighted.
8. Press the Power key to restart the device.

Solution

Then I got to think that maybe it's the SD card. I checked the My Files -> and there it said SD card Not inserted.
So something has happened with the SD card (possible Max write cycles) so I opened the sim card / memory card holder and removed the SD card and since then it has been working perfectly again.

Plugging the SD card into my computer still shows the content on it so it might have been just bad contact also in this case.