Most Z-wave Light Switched Dead All of A Sudden

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Well, this is strange… Most of my z-wave switches are showing dead after an HA reboot with no errors in the log other than “Z-Wave not ready after 300 seconds, continuing anyway” although when I look at my HUSBZB-1 USB Hub in HA it shows it working

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but I have 13 dead switches, all looking like this

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I’ve let it sit for an hour and no change… Running HA 103.4 in Docker for bout 4 days working fine till now.

Any thoughts on what could be going?

Thanks!

Update:
This is one of the nodes in the z-wave log:

2019-12-26 19:56:20.303 Detail, Node032,   Received: 0x01, 0x04, 0x01, 0x13, 0x01, 0xe8
2019-12-26 19:56:20.303 Detail, Node032,   ZW_SEND_DATA delivered to Z-Wave stack
2019-12-26 19:56:25.160 Detail, Node032,   Received: 0x01, 0x05, 0x00, 0x13, 0x87, 0x01, 0x6f
2019-12-26 19:56:25.160 Detail, Node032,   ZW_SEND_DATA Request with callback ID 0x87 received (expected 0x87)
2019-12-26 19:56:25.161 Info, Node032, WARNING: ZW_SEND_DATA failed. No ACK received - device may be asleep.
2019-12-26 19:56:25.161 Warning, Node032, WARNING: Device is not a sleeping node.
2019-12-26 19:56:25.161 Error, Node032, ERROR: node presumed dead
2019-12-26 19:56:25.161 Detail, Node001,   Expected callbackId was received
2019-12-26 19:56:25.161 Detail, Node032, Notification: Notification - Node Dead
2019-12-26 19:56:26.846 Detail, Node032,   Received: 0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x20, 0x03, 0x25, 0x03, 0x00, 0xf7```
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The node is dead, does the switch react if you toggle it manually?
You could try flipping your breaker off then on again to “reboot” the switch as well.

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All of the switches work fine when pressed manually. I excluded one and re-added it and it was fine, then I rebooted HA and it came up dead again. I’ve rebooted HA several times now and all but 2 are showing as read, the 2 are still showing dead. This is the oddest thing I’ve seen.

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How are you running Home Assistant? Docker? HassOS? Venv install?
If venv, are you using Ubuntu?

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Running Home Assistant on Docker, the host is Ubuntu. Have been running this way now for about a year with no issues. Upgraded to 0.103.4 5 days ago and had no issues until yesterday, reverted back to 0.103 same problem. No new equipment or software added and HA is the only thing running on system.

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Do you have modem manager removed?

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No never needed to remove it… I’ll give it a try.

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Just as a reference for the advice:

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That didn’t work, when the system rebooted I now have different items showing up as dead while before the reboot they were showing up as ready.

I’m starting to think its the stick, I have an extra one but uncertain on how to backup the current one and upload it to the new stick

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Not sure how to do that myself, never needed to. :frowning:

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Well… I figured how to back it up and install it on to my backup stick but the problem continues…

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Are you on 103.x?

Try rolling back to 102.x as something fishy is in 103 with respect to zwave.

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Just pulled 0.102.3 restarted and… not much of a difference. Still showing dead nodes, less of them started with I believe 13, this reboot has 5 dead ones showing.

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This is just crazy, rebooted again and now I show only 2 dead, what can be going on?? The nodes that were showing dead before are working just fine after this reboot.

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Never mind, lost more overnight…

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Going to go with a range issue here.

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Must be but I cannot figure it out, this had me laughing :rofl: I now have zero dead with no changes!!
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several of nodes that were showing up are very close to hub, in fact one of them is 3 feet away, while the hub was finding the ones that on the opposite of the house, just so odd. Right now I can see that the hub is connected to the 3 furthest ones.

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Radio signals bounce and get absorbed by walls, floors, furniture, etc.

How do you have your zwave stick connected?
Are you using a Pi or a computer/server?

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Its on a stand-alone Ubuntu server using a HUSBZB-1 USB stick, it has been in the same location for about a year now.