Updated to HA OS 6 z-wave issue AGAIN! Controller status: Driver: Failed to initialize the driver: Timeout while waiting for an ACK from the controller

gazooi · June 22, 2021, 2:49am

Just updated and HA OS 6 and now am getting this message: Controller status: Driver: Failed to initialize the driver: Timeout while waiting for an ACK from the controller. I don’t know what do to now… has anyone had the same issue?

RienduPre · June 22, 2021, 10:19am

Yes same here

honikos · June 22, 2021, 10:36am

For me HA OS 6 it is ok with z-wave. I remember had an equal issue last year. HA OS changed the name of the serial device. Check your configuration. Does supervisor → system → hardware ->/dev/ttyACM0 or → /dev/ttyAMA0 fit your z-wave config in /config/configuration.yaml (or other z-wave controller)? Hope it helps.

gazooi · June 24, 2021, 12:08am

I don’t have a z-wave config in /config/configuaration.yaml… if it has changed… how do i update the config if i don’t have it in my configuration.yaml folder?

Nothing apprars in the ZWave to MQTT after upgrading to HAOS 6.1

honikos · June 24, 2021, 11:00am

You use Z-Wave Js to MQTT:

github.com

hassio-addons/addon-zwavejs2mqtt/blob/366faa850b3a0238317752343e581507618d8841/zwavejs2mqtt/DOCS.md

# Home Assistant Community Add-on: Z-Wave JS to MQTT

The Z-Wave JS to MQTT add-on allows you to decouple your Z-Wave network from
your Home Assistant instance by leveraging your MQTT broker. It ships with
a web-based control panel, allowing you to configure every aspect of your
Z-Wave network and how they are published in MQTT.

Some advantages and use-cases for this are:

- Compatible with the Home Assistant Z-Wave JS integration.
- Your Z-Wave network will keep running between Home Assistant restarts.
- You can directly use things like Node-RED with your Z-Wave network, while
  it is available for Home Assistant at the same time.
- Allow [ESPHome.io][esphome] based ESP devices to directly respond or work
  with your Z-Wave network.
- Pre-configures itself with the Mosquitto add-on when found.

This add-on uses the [Zwavejs2Mqtt][zwavejs2mqtt] software.

## Installation

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Look there how to integrate your Z-Wave dongle.

gazooi · June 24, 2021, 11:17am

thanks but I am looking for a solution, not be to redirected to another resource. Can you help with a solution?

honikos · June 26, 2021, 9:45am

hmmmm… you want me to read the documentation for you

Overview:

Possible solution from the docs (hardware: read posts before):
To do this:

Open the Z-Wave JS to MQTT control panel by clikcing the "OPEN WEB UI" button on the add-on page in the Supervisor.
In the control panel, go to "Settings" in the menu and click on the "Zwave" bar that shows up on the right.
Enter the following information:
    Serial Port (e.g., /dev/serial/by-id/usb-0658_0200_if00)
    Network Key (e.g., 2232666D100F795E5BB17F0A1BB7A146)

Now click the “SAVE” button and navigate to the “Control Panel” in the menu. If you had devices paired already, you should see the showing up slowly.

gazooi · June 27, 2021, 10:07pm

No this does not work. it appears this issue is widespread

horvathgergo · March 21, 2022, 11:03pm

Same happened to me without any OS update (2022.03). I use Z-wave JS to MQTT and Zigbee2MQTT and suddenly all my devices went offline. I checked hardware info and realized that ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 swapped for my dongles. So I changed the config accordingly and it’s working now. Soooo strange for me…

pocket · March 22, 2022, 1:48am

Ugh. I had this happen when I recently updated HAOS. I wasted most of an afternoon chasing it down. It started with my alarm system losing communication. I didn’t put two and two together until I realized my Z-wave devices were also down.