Hello everyone. Apologies in advance because I am a complete newbie with both Z-wave, zigbee, synology, and docker, and I have been pulling my hair out over trying to get a Nortek Husbzb-1 setup to control z-wave devices on my Synology DS220+. Every guide I read either assumes I am an absolute master of docker (not even close) or have a PhD in networking credentials and I am getting ready to cry trying to figure this out. Also apologies for the novel but I have Aspergers and writing out things like this helps me think.
I have been trying to follow the Home Assistant Docs Here and it seems to suggest the easiest way to get things set up is through Zwavejs2Mqtt.
As I mentioned I am a Docker newb as well but think I have the Zwavejs2Mqtt container installed properly but could be wrong as it is only the second container I have ever set up (the first being Home Assistant itself) and could not find a single good walkthrough online. Everything just gives a huge complicated console command to install and I don’t even know how to access the docker console on my Synology, much less use it properly. I have it at Local Port 32770 and container port 8091.
This was my first big problem as all the documentation made me think I should go to http:\synologyIP:8091 to find the Zwavejs2Mqtt config pages but I actually had to go to http:\synologyIP:32770. I finally got there, and am already completely overwhelmed by the documentation and options here. (Also, that local port changes each time I restart the container making it a nightmare to get back to this settings page, but the container port always remains the same)
1st, I set the “Auth” switch in general settings and it made me log in with the default credentials, but I cannot find anywhere how I can change those credentials and not have the default which anyone can guess.
2nd, here is my current sticking point that I cannot get through. Under the Zwave section in settings, it wants you to input a serial port. I cannot get this to work no matter what I try. It is giving me 4 options (dev/tty/S0 through dev/tty/S3), none of which appear to work, but my Synology only has a single USB port anyway. At first all 4 options gave me the same error that it could not find the drive at all. I then went back to docker and enabled running the container with high privilege and now get a new error message.
Selecting either 0 or 1 gives me “Driver: Failed to initialize the driver: Timeout while waiting for an ACK from the controller”.
Selecting either 2 or 3 gives me “Driver: Error: I/O error setting custom baud rate of 115200”
I have searched everywhere I can think of but have no idea how to determine the correct Serial Port to allow this thing to connect. I have not even tried touching the other settings yet, but I do not use mqtt for anything else, so I am assuming I will be able to check “Disable MQTT Gateway”, and then under the Home Assistant section keep the “WS Server” option checked, but I do not know.
I am not currently putting anything in the Network Key area next to the serial port if that matters, but cannot find anything in any documentation as to when that is required or how to know the correct key either.
I also have a notification stating there is a new zwave-js config file available, but if I try to click Install I get an error message stating z-wave client not connected.
All this before I have even tried setting up the Zwave JS integration on Home Assistant, which I can already see from the forums is where most people have trouble, and I am starting to wonder if this is even possible for a newbie like me without learning advanced programming and/or networking skills that I do not think I am smart enough to ever grasp. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!
