HomeKit Z-Wave Disable Auto Start Problem

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’ve been running HA for a few months now but I’ve very new to all this (please be kind).
(This is my first post and hope I’ve put it in the right place)

I’ve had my device showing up in HomeKit with no problems until last week.

I’d updated to Release 0.88.2 and after that my devices were not responding in HomeKit.

I use the Z-Wave Disable Auto Start as outlined in the HomeKit Component page and have tracked down that if I put auto_start: true the all my device show back up in HomeKit apart from my Z-Wave ones because they need the delay to set up before HomeKit can see them.

I’ve updated to Release 0.89 and I’m still having the same issue.

Can anyone help me with this problem.

Any other information needed to help just ask but you may need to explain how I get you that information.

(Running Hass.io on Pi 3 Plus)

Thanks
John

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If you’re using Node-RED, add something like this:

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Where the Wave Network Ready node is an events:all node on Event Type zwave.network_ready and the Start HomeKit is a call service node with the homekit domain and the service as start.

If you aren’t using Node-RED, add an automation:

- alias: Z-Wave Network Ready
	trigger:
	- event_data: {}
		event_type: zwave.network_ready
		platform: event
	condition: []
	action:
	- service: homekit.start

I hope that helps!

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Thanks sgrubby.

I’ve tried both off your suggestions but both didn’t work.

The Automation was giving me errors.

But the most interesting one was the Node Red Flow as I was able to use debug nodes to see what was going on.

It looks like HA is not outputting zwave.network_ready because when I fire the event manually everything works.

Anyone got any ides why zwave.network_ready is not being outputted when Z-Wave is full running?

:confused:

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Hi John,

Are you sure that all your Z-Wave nodes are working? In the Z-Wave configuration, do all the nodes say “Complete”? Or maybe CacheLoad for battery operated devices like remotes?

What does your Z-Wave controller entity look like? Does it say “is_ready”?

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From my limited understanding of both HA & Z-Wave everything is running as it should.

Both my Z-Wave Controller and my one Z-Wave device are showing as ready.