HA doesn't see ZWA-2 connected to Waveshare

I have a ZWA-2 and the Waveshare ESP 32 POE.

They were working just fine, then the ZWA-2 went unresponsive.

I couldn't get it respond, no matter what I tried, so I figured the ESP board was dead.

I flashed a new ESP board with the portable zwave, and the zwa-2 still would not respond.

I reflashed the zwa-2 and ran diagnostics on it, all showed good.

Still unresponsive.

So I removed everthing, the zwa-2, zwave JS, and the ESPhome device.

HA immediately saw the Waveshare ESP and I added it. But HA will not detect/see the zwa-2 connected to the Waveshare.

What's going on?