Interview process on restart of software

[chrish987]

Can somebody explain a little about the restart process (i.e. restart zwave software). I have a number of (battery) devices that still have a status of 'RestartFromCache' (in zwave-js2mqtt GUI but I assume this comes from zwave-js?) despite having woken up and sent some values.

For example node 17 (an Aoetec Multisensor 6) is showing as RestartFromCache, despite having just seen below in the logs.

2021-02-06 01:08:12.657 INFO ZWAVE: Writing 1200 to 23-132-0-wakeUpInterval
2021-02-06 01:10:34.570 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: metadata updated: 49-0-Air temperature
2021-02-06 01:10:34.576 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 49-0-Air temperature 15.4 => 15.8
2021-02-06 01:10:34.851 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: metadata updated: 49-0-Humidity
2021-02-06 01:10:34.855 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 49-0-Humidity 79 => 77
2021-02-06 01:10:43.649 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: metadata updated: 49-0-Illuminance
2021-02-06 01:10:43.653 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 49-0-Illuminance 258 => 456
2021-02-06 01:10:43.909 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: metadata updated: 49-0-Ultraviolet
2021-02-06 01:10:43.915 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 49-0-Ultraviolet 0 => 0
2021-02-06 01:10:46.156 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17 is now awake
2021-02-06 01:10:49.851 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 128-0-level 100 => 100
2021-02-06 01:10:49.854 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 128-0-isLow false => false
2021-02-06 01:11:01.819 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 128-0-level 100 => 100
2021-02-06 01:11:01.822 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17: value updated: 128-0-isLow false => false
2021-02-06 01:11:09.585 INFO ZWAVE: Node 17 is now asleep

[AlCalzone]

First of all, sending values does not mean the device is awake. That is a common misconception.

Second, we currently refresh all values after a restart. There is a discussion ongoing to not do that, but for now this is how it works. For battery devices that can take a while and until all values are queried, they are in the RestartFromCache stage.

[chrish987]

I believe these devices do wakeup when they transmit the temp/humidity/lux values - which happens once per hour. I have seen the devices still with a RefreshFromCache value even after 2-3 update settings. Does the log above not indicate that the device DID wakeup?

I think the device does NOT wakeup when sending a NOTIFICATION message, like a PIR event.

[AlCalzone]

Can't say anything specific without a log from zwave-js (not zwavejs2mqtt)