Make a Z-wave to WiFi bridge with esphome stream server and Zooz ZAC93 GPIO

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[Baudneo]
Yes, Sorry should have stated that. I have a Zooz Zac93LR connected exactly like the instructions above. Tx-Rx reversed. 3.3vdc. I have even programmed a second ESP32-WROOM-32 with the same results.
I can see the router has issued an Ip address and can ping it. But the device does not show up in Z-Wave-JS.

[peterxian] I did add the wifi lines above, saved and installed. Installation when well without errors.

Getting this error when opening Z-Wave-JS:
Driver: Failed to open the serial port: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.123.190:6638 (ZW0100)

Note: I had to generate to 6 security keys in Z-Wave-JS. Should they show up from the device is it correct to generate them?

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Are the ips on the same lan? No inter-vlan traffic or anything special about your network? This seems to me to be a network error.

I’m guessing from the IP that there is some VLAN stuff, check your firewall logs for reject/deny to your esp IP. If using pfsense or opnsense, make sure your logging is turned on in your firewall rules.

IIRC, it is correct to generate keys, if you dont, zwave js will at some point.

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Thanks for all the replies. I have been able to get this connected but for short periods then it disconnects. I decided to program Tasmota32 on it and all went well. It is detected quickly, assigned the same ip address of course. I can remove power and repower with not issues. Rock solid. So the device and my network (ubiquiti-unifi) does not seem to be the issue. Something I am doing with the .Yaml I assume or other setup I am doing wrong.
The .yaml verifies without errors. But not sure how much is really verified except formatting.

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Clean the build files for that device in esphome dash and try again is all I can think of, it’s been rock solid for me using an esp32-c3 super mini.

If youve changed frameworks from arduino to esp-idf, you will want to flash using cable to rule out any other issues.

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Thanks. I have done that several time on both of these ESP32 Wroom-32. So I don’t have the ESP32-C3 mini but just ordered some. I have just programmed an ESP32-S3-Wroom-1. I am not getting the WIFI issues so have a solid connection now. But still have the " Not connecting to z-wave driver" issue.
Getting MQTT data and this is an error reported for the z-wave driver…
ERROR:
{“data”:[{“message”:“Failed to initialize the driver: ZWaveError: Timeout while waiting for an ACK from the controller (ZW0200)\n at Driver.sendMessage (/opt/node_modules/zwave-js/src/lib/driver/Driver.ts:5907:23)\n at ZWaveController.queryCapabilities (/opt/node_modules/zwave-js/src/lib/controller/Controller.ts:1144:37)\n at Driver.initializeControllerAndNodes (/opt/node_modules/zwave-js/src/lib/driver/Driver.ts:1537:46)\n at Immediate. (/opt/node_modules/zwave-js/src/lib/driver/Driver.ts:1338:16) (ZW0100)”,“code”:100}]}

Don’t see what I am doing wrong so may have a bad Zooz jak93 board.

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I haven’t tried this, but I would hook the zooz UART up to a usb to TTL converter and open a serial terminal like minicom or Picocom on your computer and see if it sends any data on boot.

So

Computer ↔ USB to TTL ↔ zooz zac93