[BUG]: 8 - 10 plug out of 25 detected in discovery phase

[joostwestra]

Describe the bug.

Only a portion of the plugs are detected. Looking at the logs it appears to be a timing and logic issue.

What appears to be happening is that on first discovery the plug do not al reply on time (probably that total timeout is too short).

A retry does not happen "to speed up discovery"

And then because the types are not yet known they are automatically assumed to be battery operated devices (which they are not).

The result later is that they are never picked up.

(the same network does work with OpenHab)

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2023.2.5

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

none

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

How did you install plugwise-beta?

HACS

What kind of Plugwise device is having issues?

USB: Stick

What firmware version is your Plugwise product at?

2011-05-13 09:17:07

Logging

No response

Diagnostics information

When trying to reproproduce It appears I even get a timing problem with added the circle+:

home-assistant_plugwise_2023-02-17T09-19-46.296Z.log

Additional information

I did a number of complete integration reinstalls:

First try: 10 Plugs
second try: 8 plugs
3 : no circle +
4 : no circle +
5 : no circle +

I am quite comfortable modifying python code and constant if you can give me a pointer on the dependencies.

[joostwestra]

Now 9 plug are detected by getting many warnings and error's

[bouwew]

@joostwestra which version of Plugwise-beta do you have installed?

[joostwestra]

Thanks for looking into this.
I am using 0.34.5
To me it appears that most issues already originate in the pyhton-plugwise part.
Mainly the stick.py code,

[bouwew]

Please update to v0.34.6b2 (becomes visible via Redownload - enable Show beta-versions in HACS).
See plugwise/python-plugwise#271 for the changes between v0.34.5 and v0.34.6b2

Yes, the magic happens in the backend python-plugwise - stick.py. But there are a large numbers of connected files.
@brefra is the main contributor to the code that adds support for the Stick.

[joostwestra]

I have updated to v0.34.6b2:
So far the discovery phase is not going much better:

Will update if I manage to get it connected to the circle+

[joostwestra]

Eventually again ended up with 8 plugs connected (with version v0.34.6b2:)
The debug logs grow very fast. So here the is a smaller debug log.
home-assistant_plugwise_2023-02-20T10-28-49.911Z.log

I also have a bigger debug log. But that one is already 350Mb.

[brefra]

@joostwestra Thanks for the log !
It revealed a bug which randomly stops the communication for up to a minute. I've release a test version v0.34.8b0 that contains the reference to the backend fix.
Be aware it requires the latest HA version (2023.3) which is scheduled to be released tomorrow so it won't show in HACS yet.

[joostwestra]

Thanks @brefra for looking into this. The logs are definitely looking cleaner with v0.34.8b0

However so far it appears that still too many timeouts are hit in the discovery phase.
And so far only 9 devices detected.

Will keep trying a combination of keeping it running and reloading to see if it will pick up more.|

I attached some logs:

[home-assistant_plugwise_2023-03-02T08
home-assistant_plugwise_2023-03-02T08-47-59.105Z.log
-36-01.226Z.log](https://github.com/plugwise/plugwise-beta/files/10869357/home-assistant_plugwise_2023-03-02T08-36-01.226Z.log)

[joostwestra]

After some more testing it again appears to get stuck between 8-10 plugs with versions.
Maybe my setup has more "hops" between the stick and the plug and more plug than most setups.

[bouwew]

@joostwestra after every restart of HA the Stick must rediscover/reconnect to all the devices in the network.
I would advise to let the system run for several hours and then check how many Circles/Plugs in total it has found.

[joostwestra]

Current stuck at 11 plugs after waiting for much over 24 hours.

[joostwestra]

Is there anything more I should do myself to help? Fork repo and play with variables myself? Show that the same setup works with other libraries?

[joostwestra]

Problem persists with release
v0.34.8 Bugfixes for Stick, P1 legacy

I also do not really see any additional stick related fixes verses xv0.34.8b0

Any recommendations on to further actions?

[joostwestra]

update @brefra:
Even though the setup was working fine with OpenHab. I went back to the windows application and cleaned up met deployment, mainly removing devices that are not directly available. And now devices that are available are detected correctly it appears.
So this setup is somehow more sensitive to deployment with plugs that are not available (anymore).

[joostwestra]

Did a new deployment today.
Again many of the powered up plugs were not detected.
FIX:
Go to plugwise source and make sure ALL! the plugs are available in the Source Application. If you powered up en need less plug make sure you remove them form the network.
Now remove and reinstall the integration an all plugs are detected.

[dirixmjm]

@joostwestra although I don't expect the problem to be solved, could you please try with beta-version 0.40.5a1 and report back?
To avoid a huge logfile, please set loglevel to info (that should enable sufficient data to get started).

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    custom_components.plugwise_usb: info
    plugwise_usb: info

[joostwestra]

@dirixmjm Good to see you are picking this up. It might take while for me to test this, because I am currently using the system with a smaller deployment and less "hops" that work more stable.

[dirixmjm]

@joostwestra version v0.40.5 has just been released. Please update and test.
If the problem cannot be reproduced any longer I think it is best we close the issue report for now, and you can open a new one in the future if you find more issues.