Call for testing: ozwdaemon snap

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Hi!

I’ve snapped Open-Zwave Daemon (ozwdaemon) regards to Home Assistant’s move away (?) from it’s built-in Z-wave integration towards the “Z-wave to MQTT” integration - what they call Open-Zwave Beta.

I’m struggling to apply the network key to my device, which is a Aeotec Z Stick Gen5 (not the revised model that supports RPi 4). After a lot of testing ang googling I’ve read that it’s a problem with this stick. Many of my devices require a secure connection, such as my lock :lock: However, I’m not sure if this is the case.

Ozwdaemon says “valid network key”, but it doesn’t work. It will add nodes insecure.

When it’s connected and both the MQTT- and Open-Zwave integration is installed in Home Assistant, the config tab of the stick says “Network key: 0”.

I’m located in the northern region of Norway and getting ahold of a new stick isn’t that easy. I had to order from abroad and it can take days or weeks to arrive.

I’m therefore hoping that some of you have a Z-wave stick and could help out testing this snap.

It’s found in the edge channel.

snap install ozwdaemon --edge

It doesn’t run as a daemon yet, so you can simply run it with ozwdaemon .

See snap get ozwdaemon -d for settings :blush:

PS! I’m aware of the environment variables printing etc upon execution. It will be removed.

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Seems like ozwdaemon is working ok.

The issue was with the implementation (frontend) of Home Assistant, that didn’t take the secure flag into consideration. To add a device you’ll have to use service calls, e.g:

{
    "secure": true,
    "instance_id": <id>
}

See snap get ozwdaemon ozw.instance to find the id.

Snap is now daemonized and you can find more information about the settings (and to test them) with ozwdaemon.exec --help.

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Hi,

I just installed the Beta Snap version and it seems to work okay (so far). This bug you’ve identified with the secure flag not being set, has there been a ticket created against HA for this? I can’t seem to find it here with the frontend tickets?

I wasn’t sure if it got resolved or not?

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Hi,

No I didn’t, based on this reply - I just took it for granted that it was made.

However I saw today that the the 1.0.0v of HA will have some OZW updates. I haven’t had the time to dig into it.

Right now I’m working on a «OZWAdmin» snap, that I actually find nicer and more stable than the offical AppImage that is provided. :smiley: And I’m using it to administrate the OZWDaemon until HA has better support for it. :slight_smile:

EDIT:

There a test (revision 1) of the admin in the edge channel:

snap install ozwadmin --edge
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