All my z-wave devices are now suddenly "Unknown node"'s

Configuration Z-Wave
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I have a few z-wave devices configured on HASSIO, with human readable names (I used the rename action on the z-wave control panel).

Today all my devices suddenly began to be presented as “unknown node”'s.

I would like to avoid having to go through the exclusion / inclusion all over again… so does anyone have a clue how this could have happened? And what is the solution for it?

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Do you have a backup of your zwcfg_xxxx.xml file? Backup the file in there now and then try stopping Home Assistant, replacing the file, and restarting if you do.

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You should also be able to shut HA down, and edit the node names in the entity registry file.

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Hi,
I have the same issue here.

I don’t know if it’s in the roadmap but it could be fine to improve the stability and the user experience for Zwave :slight_smile:

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The Z-Wave component is handled by OpenZWave, and stability of that is sadly outside of Home Assistant’s control :frowning:

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Thank you for your answer.

I used Jeedom Home Automation system before, also based on open zwave and I didn’t have issue like “Unknow node” or Name of devices that disappear.

So I think that issue is not in OpenZwave

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Is it possible to see logfile of openzwave in live in ssh ?

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tail -F OZW_Log.txt

You’ll find that file in the same directory as the configuration file

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Thank you, it will be easier to see if command are sent and received when I’ll do inclusion or exclusion

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I did not have an up to date backup of my openzwave config file.
Anyway, in the end I decided to go through the painstakingly process of excluding and including all the devices again, rename them on the registry file and backing up the complete config folder.