Accidentally hit zwave soft-reset - how to revert?

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Dear community,
I need some help.

tl;dr: hit zwave soft-reset, can it be undone?

Setup:


aoetec zwave gen 5 stick
a dozen zwave devices

Yesterday some zwave switches were not working as expected (not reacting on input).
I went into home-assistant settings browsing for the zwave log and hit more or less accidentally the soft-reset button without reading the describtion carefully - terribly mistake as I quickly found out.

I already tried to restore a hass.io snapshot from the day before. But it seems like the configuration is stored on the stick itself.

Is there a way to revert this somehow without opening all the walls to physically push the include button on my zwave devices?

And to prevent this is the future - can the zwave config be stored somewhere to be independent from the zwave gateway?

Best Regards,
Brandon

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It doesn’t necessarely mean that you have destroyed the network. It might just hangs. Not just restart Home Assistant but reboot your Home Assistant device and wait a few minutes for the network to come online. If nothing happens after 10 minutes try the Heal Network command and wait.

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Well, classic turn it off and on again situation.
But it helped :grin:
Thanks for the tip.

I shutdown the VM for about 5 Minutes and turned it on again.
Then I could see the zwave-network recovering in the OZW_Log.txt

Before that I didn’t even had buttons in the zwave network management - it was all empty.

All the devices are back as far as I can see. Thanks for the tip I appreciate it.
Case solved, thanks @A320Peter!

To prevent this kind of shock the next time - is it possible to do backups from the controller/gateway? In my case Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5

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On Windows machine you can backup the z-wave config with this: Z-Stick Gen5 Backup Software

After every restore process or unplugging the z-wave stick from the USB you have to restart Home Assistant too.

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Hi Brandon, glad you got this sorted.
Could you please mark the post that helped you get there?
This helps others searching and also those who are contributing
Cheers :beer: