Lost a bunch of Config with Zwave and Hassbian

codypet2002 · February 21, 2018, 6:17pm

I’m having to redo my Hassbian because of the move to Python3.5 so I’m doing it on a separate SD card. Everything was able to migrate except the Zwave. All my friendly names are gone, and only some of my motion detectors are being seen on Hassbian. I copied over my Zwave configuration file so some of the names are right, some of them are wrong. The automations don’t recognize any of the Zwave devices and when I use OZW to rename the device, no names get changed. Any thoughts? I’m running Hassbian 0.63.3 on a Rpi3. Obviously when I use the same configs on the old SD card running Hassbian 0.63.2, it works just fine.

flamingm0e · February 21, 2018, 6:24pm

That is probably why it’s not working. Use the zwave page in Home Assistant to manage your ZWave devices…

keithh666 · February 21, 2018, 6:25pm

I think you need entity_registry.yaml as well as the zw*.xml files, tho’ I’m not sure when the registry file was started That’s provided you use the internal zwave config.

flamingm0e · February 21, 2018, 6:28pm

keithh666 · February 21, 2018, 6:46pm

Hmmm thanks don’t know how I managed to miss that

Tinkerer · February 21, 2018, 7:03pm

Updates to the docs to mention that you need to use the entity registry are with the devs for sign off. I’ve just nudged them, hopefully we’ll get some movement soon.

codypet2002 · February 21, 2018, 10:14pm

There appears to be two places to change the name. OZW and under customization. Which are you referring to? I’ll check the registry files tonight.

Tinkerer · February 21, 2018, 10:16pm

The entity registry is the one that (now) changes the entity_id.

Using Rename Node or OZW changes the entity name, which is different and only impacts the default friendly name, and the attributes that refer to the old and new entity IDs.

flamingm0e · February 21, 2018, 10:17pm

I am referring to the control panel…

The release notes on the entity registry don’t really make sense to me. Is there somewhere I can read information about the registry? I don’t understand what it does or why we have it. All my devices still work?

Tinkerer · February 21, 2018, 10:20pm

Sadly, no documentation as yet, and the PR for the Z-Wave documentation update is stuck with the devs for approval.

This issue tracks some of the challenge. Basically it would appear that renaming the entity ID value is now handled entirely by the entity registry. The entity registry is only mentioned in the blog post - there’s nothing in the docs.

flamingm0e · February 21, 2018, 10:25pm

Wow. This is a bigger mess than I thought.

How did something like this make it through without a breaking change notification?

codypet2002 · February 22, 2018, 1:11am

Hmmm that’s what I was mistakenly referring to as OZW. For whatever reasons those don’t save. Worse yet, trying to copy the entity registry gives me a “I do not have permission to copy this file” warning.

Tinkerer · February 22, 2018, 6:44pm

Good question - possibly because the entity registry is officially still a work in progress, which is the same reason that the docs for it are missing.

flamingm0e · February 22, 2018, 7:02pm

If that is the case, it should NOT have become the ‘default’ or broken the old way when it was released.

Tinkerer · February 23, 2018, 7:11am

Agreed - I’d suggest you chip in your perspective on the issue and hopefully the devs will listen

codypet2002 · February 24, 2018, 3:51am

So somehow suddenly I can change names but none of my battery operated zwave devices seem to get detected. When I put them in the groups that they used to be in, the switches lose the ability to be toggled on from Hassbian. Any reason for that? The lights still can toggle on. If I disable groups the switches will toggle on.

Tinkerer · February 24, 2018, 8:02am

You’ve looked in the dev-states menu for your entities?