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# Attention – Z-Wave is going to break on FreeNAS!

Well sort of… If you are using a USB Z-Wave stick, with USB pass through to the Home Assistant plugin/jail please be aware of these upcoming changes! This will directly affect us - Bitter / Sweet

There is currently no plan to deprecate the existing Z-Wave integration. But the hope is that the new integration, in the future, will offer a simpler, more stable and more feature-rich experience than the current Z-Wave integration.

The Future of Z-Wave in HA - QT-OpenZWave

Hi all, In the state of the union 2019 presentation there was a brief update on the path to Open Z-Wave 1.6. Short mention of it can be found here. [Home Assistant - State of the Union 2019] This sounds like a great path forward. There will be a separation between Home Assistant and Z-Wave meaning that restarting HA will not result in a restart of the Z-Wave network. My initial guess is this will be in a separate docker container like a Hassio addon. It will then by connected t…

I am open to the possibility of creating a separate FreeNAS plugin for ozwdaemon (aka qt-openzwave) in the future, but as of now, it seems far out reach to accomplish this myself.

I’m not sure the exact HA version when the current Z-Wave integration will be replaced but I suggested you begin to prepare now. If you want to use the new OpenZ-Wave Beta, you will need to move your USB Z-Wave to a secondary device that is able to run docker.

I’m using raspbian-lite on a RPI 3 B+ with docker, to run ozwdaemon. I’m powering the PI with POE, so basically, it has just become a simple Z-Wave hub that can be placed in a better location for my Z-Wave network, away from my FreeNAS server in the basement.

Of course, I took some notes – If you’re like me and have never used docker, I’ll have a little “Quick Start” you can follow to set up a PI for running ozwdaemon.