I am in the process of switching away from an HA->MQTT->SmartThings->ZWave setup because it has gotten unreliable lately. Instead, I want to have my ZWave devices paired directly to a Z-stick controlled by HA. I have an Aeon Z-stick (v2 I believe), and have Hass.io on a RPi3. My switches are primarily Linear WD500z-1 (which I would NOT recommend, but that’s another story). I’ve been running them on SmartThings for 4 years, and for around 1 year through MQTT to HA.
I began by excluding devices from SmartThings and adding them to the Z-stick’s network, 1 by 1, by using the Menu->Configuration->Z-Wave page in HA. All went well for awhile.
However, I’ve done about a dozen switches, and there are two of them that HA/OZW/my Z-stick will simply NOT detect. I put it in add mode, and for these two switches in particular…absolutely nothing happens (I have the OZW_log.txt file live-tailing, so I can see what’s happening). Here are the facts:
- It is not a range issue – they are literally inches from other devices I have successfully paired, in the same switch box
- They can still pair succesfully with SmartThings, but they will not pair to the Z-stick After I excluded them from ST, and then couldn’t include them to HA, I tried re-adding them to ST…it worked fine.
- I have tried using SmartThings general exclusion mode – each time, it successfully reports that has excluded the offending device.
- When I slick Add Node in HA, I see in the logs:
2017-11-18 16:02:24.627 Detail,
2017-11-18 16:02:24.627 Info, contrlr, FUNC_ID_ZW_ADD_NODE_TO_NETWORK:
2017-11-18 16:02:24.628 Info, contrlr, ADD_NODE_STATUS_LEARN_READY
2017-11-18 16:02:24.628 Detail, Node001, Expected callbackId was received
2017-11-18 16:02:24.629 Detail, Node001, Expected reply was received
2017-11-18 16:02:24.629 Detail, Node001, Message transaction complete
2017-11-18 16:02:24.629 Detail,
2017-11-18 16:02:24.629 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2017-11-18 16:02:24.630 Detail, Notification: ControllerCommand - Waiting
And then it just sits there, endlessly, no matter how many times I try to double-tap the device’s rocker, turn it on and off, and do any other myriad of things. (Double-tapping is typically how you include these.)
Any ideas?