Missing z-wave control panel

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi, I’m running hass.io 0.63.2 with an Aeotec Gen 5 z stick on a Pi3. Everything I have read says you should see a z-wave control panel under configuration. But I cannot seem to find it, see attached screenshot. My understanding is it should be visible below the scripts selection, but it’s not there

hass_config

I added to the configuration

zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0

the device appears to be there

core-ssh:/# find . -name ‘ttyACM0’
./sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/tty/ttyACM0
./sys/class/tty/ttyACM0

if I unplug it then the device goes away… what am I missing? Thanks, Tom

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2 spaces before usb_path: ?

3

Many thanks for pointing that out, had done a cut & paste for those lines. In the configuration editor it visually looked like there were spaces, but after retyping them and restarting it came up. Whew

4

I’m having the same. How do you get to the “core-ssh” level of ssh (I imagine outside of Home Assistant)? I started off Home Assistant image and would really like to have full Raspberry Pi -level ssh access.

5

This is an add-on for HassIO.

Then you will need to install a different OS. HassOS is not for you if you want full access to the Pi

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I’m coming to the same insight about the platforms, but wanted to try out Hass.io to get a hang of it.

Anyways, I am still stuck, Home Assistant not finding /dev/ttyACM0 and any help on debugging this is appreciated. :slight_smile:

Setup:

  • Hass.io installed from an image, on Raspberry Pi 4 (32-bit)
  • Wired connectivity
  • Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 plugged in, but not recognized

Dev tools > Logs shows this:

hassio-dev-logs error (no ttyACM0)
hassio-dev-logs error (no ttyACM0)2146×1326 285 KB

Checking my config passes (Terminal):
image

Hass.io > System > Hardware does not show a tty that could be the dongle:

image
image804×344 5.46 KB

What else should I check?

My story so far (day 2) is here: https://github.com/akauppi/raspberry-pi-zwave-setup#adding-the-z-stick-gen5

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You’re using a Pi 4 with the Aeotec Z-stick. This has a known issue (which sounds like it’s the Pi’s fault).

I had the same issue and wracked my brain on it for hours before too much googling pointed me to finding out that I needed to plug the z-stick into a USB 2 hub (NOT 3!). It cost me $9 USD and solved all of my issues.

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OK. Could it be because your device is actually: /dev/ttyAMA0 based on your screenshot of what the hassio hardware shows?

Why would you tell it ttyACM0 if it’s actually ttyAMA0?

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As far as I know, /dev/ttyAMA0 is the “Tx, Rx pins for the Raspberry”.

The real thing is that Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 seems to be incompatible with Raspberry Pi 4, on an electrical level. Details are here. The original author’s works because he’s running on RPi 3.