Hi,
I have a new install on a Pi 3 with a ZStick 5. I installed the Wink support and all my devices show up and life is good there. I just installed a new GE smart receptacle. Now I cant figure out how to get HA to see it. I had the ZStick plugged in during the initial install and was under the impression that the all in one installer would automatically be enabled. At this point, I don’t know if the ZStick is working or not. I restarted HA hoping a new discovery would pick up the receptacle. My hope is to slowly wean off the Wink hubs and be totally on HA. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Not only am I an HA newbie, I’m also a Linux newbie so please be gentle. Thanks in advance.
Z-Wave devices are a bit like bluetooth - you need to pair them. You should be able to go to the Z-Wave section and then select Add Node. Then you can go to z-wave device and put it into discovery mode.
Some Z-Wave devices support security settings so you might need additional configuration work to set the a security key :==> https://home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/
Thanks for responding. That makes perfect sense, but the problem is I don’t have a Z-Wave section. Where yours has Z-Wave mine has Configuration and there is no z-Wave inside of configuration either. I checked configuration.yaml and there is no zwave section. I thought zwave was installed by default. At this point, I don’t know if I need to follow the instructions on installing zwave. If it was already installed will installing it again cause issues?
Z-Wave is not installed by default.
If there is no z-Wave in your of config.yaml, then it isn’t installed.
Add zwave to your config.yaml and specify the usb port per instruction.
How did you install HomeAssistant? Z-Wave is installed by default IF you use the ‘All-in-One’ Installer.
Sorry, I I’m using the Hassbian install.
Did you follow the instructions for seting up Z-Wave?
I too did the Hasspian install. could have sworn it said that zwave was installed by default. I don’t seem to have any ttyUSB devices in /dev. I may try the all in one installer and start over. I have a spare sd card. If that doesn’t go well I may bug you again for help from here.
I didn’t do that one. I have a spare sd card so am going to try it this way. looks like I need to start with a fresh Raspian install then run the installer. I’ll work on that tomorrow. thanks for the feedback. This has been quite daunting but have made steady progress on each iteration.
No need to.
The usb port is found using putty.
ls /dev/ttyACM*
It looks like there is an additional step for Haspian, under the customization section.
https://home-assistant.io/docs/hassbian/customization/
It looks like you can run this command and then add the zwave statements to your config file.
sudo hassbian-config install openzwave-pip
I followed the instructions here:
WOOHOOO!!! I got it to work and added a device!! Thanks so much! I’m hoping you can answer another question now. I added a GE receptacle, but it showed up as a switch named switch. I cant seem to find where the devices are stored in order to edit them. Can you point me in the right direction?
thanks again! I know I have a lot of learning yet to do, but at least I have a working system. Now I can start migrating my Wink devices directly into HA.
I think there are two options. If open-zwave control panel is installed (ozwcp), you can stop HA, then start ozwcp to update things like device names. It may still be classified as a switch, but you can call it Bob if you want 
Option 2 is to edit a file called something like zwcfg… xml and then just restart HA. Search the forums and you should see a better description on how to do this. I’m away from my system for a while, so I can only answer from memory.