Struggling with Zwave recently

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Hiya,

I am struggling with ZWave recently. I would appreciate some advice if you guys/gals dont mind…

I was very (VERY) happy using my Gen 7 (700) AEOTEC stick on my HASS 2024.5.5 and Zwave JS0.4.4.
I know it was a few months dated, but it was really good (may it rest in peace!)

I had to upgrade to the latest version and then my problems started… everything seems very sluuuuuuugish and also random. sometimes it work well for several hours, then a few sensors (basically motion sensors) stop to update for a day, and then resume as normal.

I have not changed or added anything on the system (I had to upgrade to use ONECTA app via HACS) but this is nowhere near my Zwave setup. so I guess i change it… but that was it…

I do have a old gen5 stick from Aeotec laying around, which i could possible connect and port everything to the old gen5 stick, but i am not sure it will actually solve the problem. I dont remember (but can check if relevant) the firmware for the Gen7 stick, but i am pretty sure I am using the version which is recommended to be the better one (and as I said, it was working flawlessly until i upgrade HA).

So, I think my fundamental question would be:

Does anyone know a dedicated HUB I could use to replace the stick altogether and then could use to connect to HASS?

Should i go back to the Gen5 stick and if I do that, anyway i can save the config? Or should i reconnect everything from scratch?

thanks for any adivce / suggestions!

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Have you tried the rebuild routes / reinterview node options?

I had some issues after an upgrade and the reinterview node fixed my issues.

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HI,

thanks for the reply.
i tried to rebuild the routes, seems to have improved it slightly.

I will keep monitoring for the upcoming days.

thanks again!

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so…

the rebuild route didnt work well in the end…
any ideas? any easy way to downgrade my Gen7 to a new (old) Gen5 controller without having to re-write/re-code all my automations?

any external HUB suggestion I could use to completely take Zwave control AWAY from HASS and just expose them via integration (while letting the dedicated HW to control the devices?)

cheers!

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So,

i think i found the solution.
while i dont believe HASS is a bad product, the new Zwave JS server broke something with the encrypted processes. some of the messages are not decoding and then they are being discarded. this is (aparently to me) totally random, hence it sometimes work, sometimes it doesnt.

I will make 2 tests to ensure it is fixed. I bough a new Zwave controller and will integrate with ZWAVE.ME so i can keep the encryption in some devices, and for a few others, i will remove the encryption and will use them “plain”.

I will post the results here in a few days, but please let me know if someone have a better idea.

again, it was woking on an older version (core zwave 0.4.4) but since the version 0.7.2 it never worked properly, inclusive of 0.9.0.