For the second time in a few months a ZWave update as stopped all my Zwave devices working.
I’ve hard rebooted and ensured that Zwave JS and Zwave JS UI are started. In the web ui it see the devices and says it’s connected but all the devices are unavailable.
I rolled back the Zwave update from 17.0 to 16.0 then did a full reboot but still the same .
Can anyone tell me how to rescue this situation as I really don’t want to go around all the devices and reset and readd
Just to add . I ran a rebuild of all nodes and it says it healed 5 nodes but they still show as unavailable. Also after reading i see I can’t have the two Zwave adding running at the same time so I tried uninstall Zwave is but after reboot it re-appeared. So I stopped it and disabled start on boot. So only Zwave JS UI is running but still I don’t have working devices … any ideas please
Sadly I couldn’t fix it so in the end I removed all the Zwave add ons etc did a full power off and restart. Then factory reset all the Zwave devices and re added them back in.
This time I used Zwave JS not the UI ver and I found it more stable and easy to use.
But after several Zwave updates have killed my network I have now decided to ditch Zwave and move solely to Zigbee. So slowly I’ll replace each device and sell the old ones on eBay .
Do you have a lot of z-wave devices? Might be worth doing a little more debugging before buying new hardware.
It’s not that you can’t have more than one instance of z-wave js running. But, you cannot have two instances talking to the same z-wave stick, of course. And likewise, you can’t have multiple “hubs” configured to the same z-wave websocket.
Did you try turning on debugging on the Z-Wave integration page and looking at those logs? It’s a bit tedious, but errors should be easy to spot. Post those errors.
My knowledge of Zwave is quite limited but I think my problem was an understanding of the building blocks that make up a Zwave solution in HA.
I knew you can’t have Zwave is and js ui talking to the same controller but what was unclear and still is that when I installed js ui and then the integration it also installed the jd addon. So I was trying to start everything and get errors in the logs.
Once I removed everything and started again with just js it worked.
The main reason I want to ditch Zwave is this is the second time in as many months that an update bricked my Zwave platform where as Zigbee as been totally reliable.
Everytime an update bricked my Zwave network I had to factory reset 20+ devices and reinstall them , plus change all the automations that used those devices and update every dashboard , scene , floor layouts etc … Hours-no days of work so hence the decision to move away and focus on Zigbee .