Lights Randomly Turn On

[JDRoberts]

I’m sure that’s very frustrating. The first possibility for this kind of behavior is local interference. if you are in North America, the most common devices that interfere with zwave are older audio only baby monitors and some of the older landline phones. Those operate in the same frequency as Z wave.

There is some more modern tech that can also cause interference, including some walkie-talkies and some drones. (Really.)

Any chance one of your neighbors got a drone for Christmas?

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I couple of days ago I posted about all of the sensors in my home suddenly disconnecting. After trouble shooting and repeat testing, I have figured out exactly why. I have 11 ST sensors, 2 ST outlets, Ecobee4, an Ecobee sensor, and 20+ Phillips Hue Lights. Over the course of about 20 minutes, I watched all of my motion sensors go down one by one. Then over the next 5 minutes or so, all of my window and door sensors started going down (They all were verified as working UNTIL the point of showing as disconnected in both ST Classic and ST New app). After that my ST outlets disconnected. At that point, the only things remaining as connected in the Apps were my Hue lights, and my Ecobee4 and Ecobee sensor. I was still able to fully control the Hue lights and my Ecobee equipment. About…