Failed to setup fibaro/neo coolcam wall plug

Configuration Z-Wave
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I have bought me a zwave.me usb stick so I can start moving over zwave devices from Homey to HA.
I thought I should be a simple exercise but somewhere I’m missing something

Yesterday I tried 2 configs of HA (Rpi3 and RPi4), inserted to zwave.me stick I’ve bought and added the z-wave integration (through configurations).
But whatever I try I can’t get new nodes show up correctly and they keep on showing as unknown node.
I have not changed anything in configuration.yaml (as /dev/ttyACM0 was entered upon installing the zwave integration)

What I tried to included was a fibaro wall plug (fgwpe/f102 zw5) which worked flawless with Homey and same counts for the power plug Neo Coolcam

What am I missing or doing wrong?

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Show the EXACT name of the zwave integration you are doing. Then show the EXACT hardware path which you can see here:
Supervisor, hardware, three dots, hardware.

Then check if this is correctly in configuration .yaml or the addon config.

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serial:
  - /dev/ttyAMA0
  - /dev/ttyACM0
  - /dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00
input: []
disk:
  - /dev/mmcblk0
  - /dev/mmcblk0p1
  - /dev/mmcblk0p2
  - /dev/mmcblk0p3
  - /dev/mmcblk0p4
  - /dev/mmcblk0p5
  - /dev/mmcblk0p6
  - /dev/mmcblk0p7
  - /dev/mmcblk0p8
gpio:
  - gpiochip0
  - gpiochip504
usb:
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/001
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/002
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/003
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/008
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/007
  - /dev/bus/usb/001/004
audio:
  '0':
    name: bcm2835_alsa - bcm2835 ALSA
    type: ALSA
    devices:
      - chan_id: '0'
        chan_type: digital audio playback
      - chan_id: '1'
        chan_type: digital audio playback
      - chan_id: '2'
        chan_type: digital audio playback

This is the outcome and I have configured the /dev/ttyAMC0 (as mentioned in a lot of posts i have red)

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Thats half the answer :slight_smile:

Try use this as you zwave dongle:
/dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00

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Tried this now and the result is the same

captureHA
captureHA1723×1024 131 KB

captureHA2
captureHA2565×1240 84 KB

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You still havent answered all questions

Show the EXACT name of the zwave integration you are doing

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sorry for being a numb and a newbie, but what do you mean with the exact name? :thinking:

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There are 3 zwave possibilities.

  1. OpenZWave2mqtt
  2. Openzwave (native homeassistant)
  3. OpenZWave (QT aka OpenZWave beta)

For all 3 you need that usb path. Helping will be only possible if you tell what you use.

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I have used Openzwave through Configurations/Integrations --> Zwave (so I think this is the native OpenZwave integration

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I think you are facing this

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I will check this later tonight when I’m at home again.
I was hoping it would be plug and play :frowning:

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As the linked post alludes to, if OpenZWave does not have a database entry for the device, it will report it as “Unknown”. Even so, in most cases the product will function perfectly fine without the database entry. Is there some functionality that you are missing or is not working?

If you need to configure the device, you can manually do so via the zwave.set_config_parameter service call.

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I only see in Configuration/Devices a zwave device named ‘Unknown Node 2’ with entity ID ‘zwave.unknown_node_2’
I don’t see any option to set it up as a device which have sensors or which I can switch.

And both wall plugs are not new, so they should be in a recent database (i guess)… there goes my hope for plug and pray

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There is no switch entity? Updating the database will not help with that.

Do you only have these two nodes? You could stop HA, delete the zwcfg*.xml file and let it be rediscovered. If it isn’t fixed, you could then post the zwcfg*.xml file and the OZW_Log.txt file to see if there are any problems.

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I do have more zwave nodes, but they are all still part om my Homey Zwave network (part of flows which I will not break untill HA and Zwave are working correctly (or when I understand this enough :smirk:)

I started with a Fibaro wall plug and as I could not make it work correctly I also picked a Neo Coolcam wall plug (hoping it was because of the Fibaro), but both wall plugs are showing the same behavior (showing as unknown device). I will start by removing the zwcfg*.xml files and if no luck again I will post the files. This will be tomorrow as my bed is starting to call me :slight_smile:

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Sorry to butt in to this conversation, but I’m new around here (I currently run a Domoticz installation, but I’m exploring the possibilities of HA for ZWave).

If there are three possibilities, which is the preferred option? I would have thought it was number 2 (native HA), but when I set up ZWave from the Add-On store yesterday, I seem to have ended up with number 3 (OpenZwave beta). Being a beta, is this not the preferred option? And if it’s not, where do I find the Native HA add-on for Zwave, if it is not in the Add-on Store? Thank you.

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The future is in the QT one…

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Ok, QT will the be choice for the future, so best is to start with that one.
I will start from scratch and will install OpenZWave through Integrations.
Is there anything else I (we) need to configure, install (a database?) besides the client?

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Install the mqtt addon mosquitto broker before.

Dont forget for QT openzwave you need to:

  1. Install mosquitto addon
  2. Install openzwave addon (including config)
  3. Add integration (openzwave beta)
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Done… I have set up the 3 steps…

When I start the OZWDeamon it returns zwave user alert received: Notification_user_ConfigFileDownloadFailed.

So my guess is if need to have a config file … but where? :thinking: