openZwave CP shows switches, but HA does not

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Hello,

my openzwave CP shows the 2 light switches i was able to add, but HA does not show anything related to zwave.

i tried the below int he config file, also took last 2 lines out and tried after restarting…

#Zwave
zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
config_path: /srv/homeassistant/src/open-zwave-control-panel/config

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What’s your Z-Wave controller (eg, is it a Razberry board, or a Gen 5 Aeon stick, or…). Are there any errors about Z-Wave in your logs?

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i have pi3 with hassbian, and gen5 aeon usb stick.

i found the fix in one of the posts updated the config file to:

zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
config_path: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/config

now need to figure out how to have lights show up with the right name and dimmer switch to have default 100% brighness.

thanks,

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For the “right name”, look at the friendly name option.

As for the brightness, sounds like an automation piece. A quick forum search found a few possible threads.

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so with friendly name option, my experience has been very strange…

the GUI reverts to the default names… i have updated them a few times now, but some of the switches revert to the default name from the friendly name…

thoughts?

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So, two words of advice:

  • Leave your config Path as config_path: /srv/homeassistant/src/open-zwave-control-panel/config
  • You can manually edit the name of anything by (1) Using Customize or (2) Shutting down HA and editing the zwcfgXXXX.xml file in /home/homassistant/.homeassistant. If you edit the zwcfgXXXX.xml file, search for name= and location= parameters. The reason why you have to shut down HA, is that HA writes to this file before it shuts down and that will undo your changes.

Another way you can do it, is when you are in the Zwave Control panel, thee is a Name option, which names the nodes and optionally the location. After you are done naming them in ZWCP, click on save, and the zwcfgxxx.xml file that is generated then would need to be copied to /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/ so that HA can pick up on the changes you made in zwcp.

I hope any of this makes sense…

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Thanks a lot. this did the trick.

now what i dont understand is why my echo dot discovers things in multiples…