Adding z-wave devices: via HASS or via Controller

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Hi folks

I’ve had a bunch of Aeotec Nano Switches and Dimmers installed recently by a professional electrician.

Because I didn’t have HA setup at that stage, I got the electrician to walk around and pair the modules to the Aeotec Z-Wave stick using the stick and the physical button on the stick.

Now that HASS is up and running I’ve read in the HASS documentation that devices should not be added using the controller but only using HASS/Add Node.

My setup seems to be working ok - all nodes are detected and I only have an issue with the dimmers which may be unrelated. So my question is whether I need to remove the Aeotec modules from HASS and reset/re-add them using the HASS method?

Re-adding would be a major pain and cost as I’d need to get the electrician to remove all switches again and reinstall. Is there any way to confirm if the current pairing method (using physical controller) worked ok?

Any advice appreciated, thanks!

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Since HA was not running, you should be fine. Two big reasons you don’t want to do this in the future. You can not add secure devices like locks that way, and removing the zwave stick from a running system does not make it a happy system, as it typically changes the device id it uses when you plug the zwave stick back in.

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Thanks, that makes sense. What a relief! I really did not want to have to pull out all 40 switches again.