Newbie, Windows 10 Installation Problem

New to home automation, not a programmer, trying a few Z-Wave sensors for a father/son project. We have the Aeotec Z Stick Gen 5. The goal is to run on a Windows 10 laptop. We installed the Python virtual environment 3.7. After installing HA (I think, how do I confirm the installation was successful?). After typing “hass” at the cmd, appears to hang on “Setting Up switch.wemo”. It will sit for hours (5) w/out progress. Thoughts? Thanks, Tom

You’re going to have a bad time running HA on Windows. If you must stick with Windows on the physical machine, I would suggest running a VM of a proper OS for HA.

Thanks for the quick response flamingm0e. We have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B as well - is that a better place to start than the VM? Thanks, Tom

Yep. Load up hassio or hassbian and you’re good

Ok, so we’ve loaded Hassio on the Raspberry PI 2. The Z Wave device (Aeotec LED bulb) isn’t showing up in Home Assistant after pairing. The Z Wave service is listed in the Dev Tools list. Log file entries below. Seems like it’s not properly communicating with the Gen 5. Any assistance/advice is appreciated. Thanks, Tom

2019-01-17 23:58:16.223 Always, OpenZwave Version 1.4.3322 Starting Up
2019-01-17 23:58:18.117 Info, Setting Up Provided Network Key for Secure Communications
2019-01-17 23:58:18.118 Info, mgr, Added driver for controller /dev/ttyAMA0
2019-01-17 23:58:18.118 Info, Opening controller /dev/ttyAMA0
2019-01-17 23:58:18.118 Info, Trying to open serial port /dev/ttyAMA0 (attempt 1)
2019-01-17 23:58:18.130 Info, Serial port /dev/ttyAMA0 opened (attempt 1)
2019-01-17 23:58:18.133 Detail, contrlr, Queuing (Command) FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_VERSION: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x15, 0xe9
2019-01-17 23:58:18.133 Detail, contrlr, Queuing (Command) FUNC_ID_ZW_MEMORY_GET_ID: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x20, 0xdc
2019-01-17 23:58:18.133 Detail, contrlr, Queuing (Command) FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_CONTROLLER_CAPABILITIES: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x05, 0xf9
2019-01-17 23:58:18.134 Detail, contrlr, Queuing (Command) FUNC_ID_SERIAL_API_GET_CAPABILITIES: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x07, 0xfb
2019-01-17 23:58:18.134 Detail, contrlr, Queuing (Command) FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_SUC_NODE_ID: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x56, 0xaa
2019-01-17 23:58:18.134 Detail,
2019-01-17 23:58:18.134 Info, contrlr, Sending (Command) message (Callback ID=0x00, Expected Reply=0x15) - FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_VERSION: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x15, 0xe9
2019-01-17 23:58:19.135 Error, contrlr, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2019-01-17 23:58:19.135 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2019-01-17 23:58:19.135 Detail, contrlr, Notification: Notification - TimeOut
2019-01-17 23:58:19.136 Detail,
2019-01-17 23:58:19.139 Info, contrlr, Sending (Command) message (Callback ID=0x00, Expected Reply=0x20) - FUNC_ID_ZW_MEMORY_GET_ID: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x20, 0xdc
2019-01-17 23:58:20.139 Error, contrlr, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2019-01-17 23:58:20.140 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2019-01-17 23:58:20.140 Detail, contrlr, Notification: Notification - TimeOut
2019-01-17 23:58:20.144 Detail,
2019-01-17 23:58:20.144 Info, contrlr, Sending (Command) message (Callback ID=0x00, Expected Reply=0x05) - FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_CONTROLLER_CAPABILITIES: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x05, 0xf9
2019-01-17 23:58:21.144 Error, contrlr, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2019-01-17 23:58:21.145 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2019-01-17 23:58:21.145 Detail, contrlr, Notification: Notification - TimeOut
2019-01-17 23:58:21.146 Detail,
2019-01-17 23:58:21.146 Info, contrlr, Sending (Command) message (Callback ID=0x00, Expected Reply=0x07) - FUNC_ID_SERIAL_API_GET_CAPABILITIES: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x07, 0xfb
2019-01-17 23:58:22.147 Error, contrlr, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2019-01-17 23:58:22.150 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2019-01-17 23:58:22.151 Detail, contrlr, Notification: Notification - TimeOut
2019-01-17 23:58:22.151 Detail,
2019-01-17 23:58:22.152 Info, contrlr, Sending (Command) message (Callback ID=0x00, Expected Reply=0x56) - FUNC_ID_ZW_GET_SUC_NODE_ID: 0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x56, 0xaa
2019-01-17 23:58:23.153 Error, contrlr, ERROR: Dropping command, expected response not received after 1 attempt(s)
2019-01-17 23:58:23.153 Detail, contrlr, Removing current message
2019-01-17 23:58:23.153 Detail, contrlr, Notification: Notification - TimeOut