I have updated both my HomeAssistant installations with OS 17.2 this morning. After rebooting, they both show: “Driver: failed to open the serial port. error: no such file or directory, cannot open /dev/serial/by-id/…” in the ZWave JS UI App. No hardware changes. I do not even see the USB port in System–Hardware-All Hardware. I rebooted both systems, and nothing fixes it. Any idea why this is happening?
Even Zigbee is impacted. It says: “Unknown command.” in the Control Panel, and Zigbee devices do not work. It’s like all USB connected dongles are impacted, running on a RPi4. This has worked well for years, on both devices. The issues has to be related to the OS 17.2 update I did; this issue appeared on two different installations, right after the 17.2 update.
I reverted to 17.1 and it’s all auto-magically back to normal. I recommend you be careful with 17.2 running dongles on RPi4; something is wrong with the 17.2 update.
Sometimes after an OS update, I have to shutdown the server, power off, wait a minute or so and then restart. Always fixes Zwave and Zigbee connectivity problems.