Ubuntu + Z-Wave (Z-Wave.Me – UZB (Gen 5))

Installation
1

Hi!

I am about to move from my old RPi2 o an HP SFF Prodesk i3 machine because performance and SD-card-issues…

Can you pleace advice me…

I have installed:
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Docker
Followed: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/
Went for Docker-compose. And the documentation regarding the “Exposing device”. But I’m not able to add the Z-Wave service in HA… USB location seems to be wrong…

$ ls -1tr /dev/tty*|tail -n 1
gives me:
/dev/tty

This seems to be faulty? or?..

my docker-compose.yml:
version: ‘3’
services:
homeassistant:
container_name: home-assistant
image: homeassistant/home-assistant
volumes:
- /home/sam/homeassistant:/config
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
devices:
- /dev/tty:/dev/tty
restart: always
network_mode: host

When I add a z-wave service I enter: /dev/tty and the secret network key. It succeded!

I restart Home Assistant from the Server Management, and also with docker-compose restart.

If I try to do a Add Node Secure command, I get:
Failed to call service zwave/add_node_secure. Service not found.

It seems that the USB communications is not ok anyways…
Where shall I start to look?

At my old RPi2 i had no docker… and this path:
zwave:
usb_path: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00

But if I use that at this machine i get “Z-Wave validation failed. Is the path to the USB stick correct?”, when I try to add the integration Z-Wave.

Please advice me…! :slight_smile:

2

Start by telling us the truth. you could not have followed your link using docker run and also used docker-compose. They are 2 different commands with different configuration files, etc.

docker run pulls down the officially built Docker image from hub.docker.com.
docker-compose could be used to build your own image.

3

I am in the midst of setting up z-wave, but had issues setting up my RFXcom, and my solution was to add a line in my docker-compose to point to my /dev/serial/by-id/ … you may want to add this to your volumes; as well … see the last line below.

  - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb
  - /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus 
  - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
  - /dev/serial/by-id/:/dev/serial/by-id/
4

Ok, sorry for mixing up docker and docker-compose here… I skip the docker-compose. Removed the docker-container and recreated it with:

docker run --restart always -d --name="homeassistant" -v /home/sam/homeassistant:/config --device=/dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200-if00 -e TZ=Europe/Stockholm --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant

I can access the web UI, and added the integration by the /dev/serial/by-id…, and my “old” key. Restarted, and I got some Z-wave devices showing up in the UI now… :slight_smile:

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5

Try this but dockerize it?

6

I’ll check it out…

Im new to Docker virtualization…
I have checked Portainer as it have a Web UI. docker-compose seems to have nice yml… :slight_smile:
What do you guys reccomend?

7

According to this:

https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb

You should be able to run an official MariaDB image. Be sure to read their instructions. I am not sure how that relates to using Portainer though.