Having a vacation house and a rental property over 3 hours ago, I struggled with the reliability of many of my devices - Vera, cable modem, router, Ooma, Ted, Microcell, etc.
We have a fair amount of power and Internet outages that cause decidedly ungrateful hangs. The result was an unending stream of something not quite working right. One device didn't get an IP addy, another one lost connection, Vera in a coma. Was a real drag, and frankly not worth the hassle.
Finally, after experimenting with various software monitoring, lua code, watchdogs, cron job reboots, blah blah, I had an epiphany: every cluster of devices I have are now connected to good ol' analog appliance timers. $10 bucks apiece. Cable modem and router now reboot at 5am every day, and LAN devices at 5:30am. As a side note, I added a whole whose surge suppressor to my AC panel too, as I have dozens of $$ z-wave devices.
I haven't had a significant issue since I hooked up the timers. Was something ironically enjoyable about pressing in a springy switch to set the on/off time...
Sometimes ya just gotta go retro.
.//A.