Adding a Z-Wave device caused Ratgdo to disconnect

Weird one…I have a Ratgdo through ESPHome and its worked great.

Last week, I got a Z-wave USB controller and added to HA via the Z-Wave integration. No issues. I got a Zooz Z-Wave switch yesterday and installed it. Added to HA integration successfully.

The moment I did that, my Ratgdo became unavailable. I deleted the ESPHome integration and then re-added it. The Ratgdo and all its entities are available for a few minutes and then goes offline again with the log error of:

Can't connect to ESPHome API for ratgdov25i-0af96a @ 192.168.107.6: Error connecting to [AddrInfo(family=<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, type=<SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, proto=6, sockaddr=IPv4Sockaddr(address='192.168.107.6', port=6053))]: [Errno 113] Connect call failed ('192.168.107.6', 6053) (SocketAPIError)

Any idea why this is suddenly happening? I’m at a loss. Should I just reflash it (at work atm)?

Correlation does not equal causation.

ZWave and esphome operate in complete different technology that does not typically affect each other. Esp32 the ratgdo is ip networking. ZWave is an entirely different animal. So that’s not likely the cause you’re looking for.

Because of the way ha is architected you could have smacked something with the config but that would have probably looked a lot worse in this case your esphome config seems to be ok it knows wheres the device should be.

Id start at the network and start troubleshooting availability of the device there. All things are name resolution problems until proven otherwise (can ha see the device, can the device see HA etc.)

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I get that. Seemed impossible that Z-Wave caused the issue but it happened literally seconds after adding the new device & the Ratgdo has worked for months with no issue.

The Ratgdo is available on my Network. It has a static IP. I checked my TP-Link SDN logs and the device’s uptime is fine. It hasn’t lost connection since I last reset my system a few weeks ago.

Also, anytime i delete the ESPHome integration, HA almost immediately re-adds it as an available integration in my “Devices and Integrations” page. When I re-add it, it connects and works, but then becomes unavailable a few minutes later.

I’ll reflash it when I get home and maybe that’ll do it. It’s just a pain to get down lol