After the latest homeassistant update my Zwave network is not working anymore, don’t know if it was just a coincidence or something in the update…
I have an Aeon Labs Z-Stick Gen 5 USB controller connected to the RPi 4, with two Aeon Labs range extenders 6 and a number of battery powered PIR and door/window sensors.
I am using the official Zwave JS working in pair with ZwaveJs2MQTT in control panel mode only. When I first switched from OpenZwave it was one of the recommended configuration as it was using the best from both.
The problem started when the first extender was pronounced dead and after some struggling with it I decided to remove it, factory reset and pair it again with the controller, which kinda worked. In the same time, my NodeRed automation for switching on the lights when motion was detected also stopped working. As it happened before (always after the ZWave JS update) and after a while it would start working again, I wasn’t paying much attention to it, but this time it didn’t come back.
Checking the range extender which has the sensors as neighbors it lost completely the manufacturer info, product and product code info.
So I tried to re-interview but without success. It seems to me that the extender is working and communicating with the sensors, ie the led blinks when the door is opened closed and also when the PIR sensors are triggered, but that’s it.
On the network map the extender shows it’s neighbors but the controller is not listed. I have only two zwave devices that show as connected to the controller, one door sensor and the newly readded extender. The rest are not connected to anything.
Is this some kind of misconfiguration from my side?
I did try to interview from the ZWaveJS and from the control panel of ZwaveJS2MQTT.
It is a little confusing configuration for me, as the ZwaveJS addon is not started but it is showing in the integrations.
Should I reset the extender as I did with the first one or…?
Please help.
Igor