New to HA and Z-Wave

Just installed HAOS on NUC and bought a 800 Z-Wave USB Stick. I have a bunch of these DW-10 and GB1-345 sensors:

Trying to add them with no success:

Following the programming instructions for each to no avail. Any suggestions here. I could be missing something very basic here.

First. Congratulations and welcome.

Second
ZWave is a meshing network. Great!
Battery operated devices do not repeat in the mesh. (looks at your pile of devices)

The ones installed close by will be fine but more than about 30m and you will need a backbone of hardwired repeating devices. Almost all hardwired devices (switches etc) repeat, so do you have that?

what steps did you follow to activate Zwave on this HAOS machine?

Ahhh… ok no. These are from an old Vivint alarm system - they had to all connect direct to that.

I also don’t plan to have a lot of Wave. The new items I add will probably be Zigbee etc.

As the devices are used already, did you exclude them from the previous installation? If not, they won’t connect.
You need to exclude them.
If not possible, do a factory reset on them.

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According to this, they are not Zwave devices?

Ok - I still have the old panel which I can hopefully access (god I hope I remember the code lol)

This is in there Z-Wave product section.

to me it looks, like the main panel has Zwave, but all the sensors don’t

Yup - I think you are right. Was fooled by 2GIG having these in their Wave section of the website. :man_facepalming: