Raspberrymatic: HmIP-RFUSB not found after firmware update on RPii5

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Hello community,

I don’t know what drove me, but I thought it is time to do a firmware update (sudo rpi-update) on my RPi5. :innocent:
All good, except that now all the Homematic devices are no longer connected. Reason seems to be that the RF adapter module is not initialized anymore:

Identifying Homematic RF-Hardware: HmRF: n/a, HmIP: n/a, OK
Updating Homematic RF-Hardware: HMIP-RFUSB: =>4.4.18, ERROR ( != 4.4.18)

Consequently no RF adapter in Raspberrymatic. Apparently the pi’s firmware update has messed up something in the raspberrymatic docker setup. Sadly, I have no clue how to fix this. Rerunning automatic and/or manual installation as per the Jens Maus Github either throw errors or is not changing anything.

Any hints how to cure this?

Thx Johannes

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Hello Johannes,

I think that is where you have to ask or look.
Not a lot that Home Assistant can help with here.

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Sure, I just thought that somebody might have had the same issue before.

Anyway, I now managed to kill my RPi completely. It is booting, but doesn’t display its GUI anymore when connecting to it. Looks that I will need to start all over again.

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I had the same issue once with Debmatic, which is similar to RaspberryMatic.
I had to run a reconfigure of the pvccu, I think.
Here is the thread.

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Deleted - opened a new thread

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tom_I has a mishap and corrected it when it was pointed out to him.
Could you do the reconfigure mentioned in the end of my link?

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Hi Wally,
I tried to follow the instructions However, somehow I must have damaged my system, because it didn’t boot anymore at some point.

Meanwhile I have done a complete new setup, this time with HA running in a VM on my RPi5, and restored my configuration from a backup. The RFUSB is now loaded by Raspberrymatic, but not used yet. No communication with devices. It is certainly a setup issue, as the IP of the CCU is still the old one.

If I understand the architecture correctly, Raspberrymatic runs as a separate server in a container. I am not sure if the HA backup also saves this container, probably not.

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I am pretty sure it backup addons too.
Try opening the CCU webpage to see more.

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It certainly does, all other add-ons are there and operational. The problem appears to be a wrong server ip for the CCU. The settings still show the address of the old setup. The main difference now is that HA runs as HAOS in a VM.

I’ll be on the road today and will look into it tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, after three days of non-functioning, Raspberrymatic appears to have repaired itself. This morning, after an unrelated update of another app, all devices were suddenly communicating again and display signal strengths. All that was left to doy was to redefine the hub in the configuration to activate the entities in HA.

Not that I would understand what happened. I certainly restarted a couple of times in the last days. Anyway, I am glad that it is working again.

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I got the same error message on a Home Assistant Yellow Appliance after the last OS Upgrade.

Anyone having the same challenge?

Updating Homematic RF-Hardware: HMIP-RFUSB: =>4.4.18, ERROR ( != 4.4.18)

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There is a fix for those running Home Assistant Yellow: ha os update --version 16.2.dev20250814

Big thank you to the contributors!

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