Basics - recommendation for environment and set up

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Old ZWave integration:
pro’s

  • stable
  • well integrated into HA

con’s

  • only supports version 1.4 of OpenZwave. Newer ZWave Plus devices may not be supported out of the box.
  • Restarting HA forces restart of ZWave network

QT OpenZwave (beta) + Mosquitto
pro’s

  • uses version 1.6 of OpenZwave
  • touted as the future by the HA project team
  • the developer apparently works on both the QT OpenZWave (beta) project and the OpenZwave project itself
  • runs in a separate Docker instance so the ZWave network runs independently of HA itself.

con’s

  • It’s a beta; lots of unfinished bits, particularly in the UI integration with HA.
  • the ZWave admin tool is crude, but it works.

There are also other ZWave projects, e.g.

For the moment, I’ve gone with the QT OpenZWave (Beta) addon. It works for me.