New to Home Assistant and Z-wave

I am relatively new to Home Assistant. I have setup a Raspberry Pi running Hassbian and have it configured with 20 or more Insteon devices. I am now trying to get my toe in the water with Z-Wave and my environment has successfully recognized the Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 and a single ZWP WS-100 In-Wall Switch.

I just tried adding an Aeotec MultiSensor 6 and things got interesting. Instead of recognizing the device with a Ready status, an “Unknown Node 3” name appeared with an “Initializing (Probe)” status.

Upon checking around, I saw a reference to having to change the MS6 command options to “Binary Sensor Report” via the Open Z-Wave Control Panel. So, I tried to find and access this panel but can’t seem to find it. I found instructions for hass.io but not Hassbian.

In a nutshell, I am asking if there is one or more articles that help a Hassbian-based HA get properly setup with Z-Wave and the perhaps a do’s/don’ts for various Z-Wave devices.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Erik

it should be in the same location hass.io vs hassbian.

My top tip for dealing with the Z-stick and HA - many issues are solved by re-starting HA and giving the whole system time to settle down.

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I have rebooted the environment several times. Also, the locations attempted to locate the OZWCP were:

srv/homeassistant/src/open-zwave-control-panel/
homeassitant/src/open-zwave-control-panel/
homeassistant/open-zwave-control-panel/

From what I can tell via PuTTY and via File Explorer, I only have the following directories beneath Home Assistant: .cloud, .insteon_local_cache, .storage, deps, themes and tts.

You should find the zwave config directly in the home assistant interface. Your directions appear to be very old, when home assistant relied on open z-wave for configuration of the z-wave network. Now it’s handled through the user interface -> Configuration, and at the bottom of the page is Z-Wave.

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Thank you both for your feedback. I found the Z-Wave Control Panel under the Configuration option. I also decided to perform a factory reset on the MultiSensor 6 just in case I did something wrong. Now, the device shows up as “Aeotec ZW100 MultiSensor 6” with a “Ready” status. I guess this puts me back on the right track.

Do either of you know if it is still necessary to change the command options for this device over to “Binary Sensor Report”? Looking at a 2016 Bruh Automation YouTube video, Ben performed this step via the ozwcp web interface. I don’t know if that information is dated and it is no longer needed or still needed and done via the Configuration | Z-Wave interface.

Thank you again,
Erik

Most of Bens stuff at this point is outdated. I did have to change the reporting type on my multi-sensor. I have a gen - 5 though. The whole sensor will still be mostly sensors except the motion will be a binary_sensor when it comes through to hass.