Upgrades today have caused constant unresponsive warnings, resulting in repetitive driver restarts and z wave interruptions

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Still having issues using Z-Wave JS (ZJS) 1.93. I had to revert to HA 2023.8.x and ZJS 1.87.

I read on one of the GitHub threads that ZJS 1.9 wasn’t supported on HA 2023.8. Either way, ZJS keeps losing connection to the controller.

My Setup:

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Here are my troubleshooting steps:

  1. Restore to HA Core 2023.8.2 – confirm working, leave for 24+ hours
  2. Update ZJS to 1.93 – Controller soft reset attempt fails
  3. Reboot entire server just to make sure there’s nothing that needs to be cleared out
  4. Restore to #1, confirm working.
  5. Update HA Core to 2023.9.3 – Controller soft reset attempt fails (logs attached)
    – Note that HA Core 2023.9.3 Installs ZHA v1.93. I read on one of the GitHub issue threads that ZHA 1.8x isn’t compatible with HA 2023.9.x
  6. Restore to #1, confirm working.
  7. Switch to ZWave UI v2.0.1, disable Soft Reset in UI, still fails (logs attached) :exploding_head:

What started this whole debacle instead of just leaving the restore well enough alone was that I needed to set associations between devices, thanks to a whole slew of new Inovelli dimmers and a plethora of 3-way switches (previous owner was an electrician…) :smile:

What I finally ended up doing is installing ZWave JS UI v1.16.0:
I forked the add-on repo from the official one and set the version I wanted so I could downgrade (v1.16.0). NOW, I can upgrade HA to the latest until this gets fixed for good.

After figuring out how to downgrade, I followed the excellent guide to switch from Z-Wave JS to Z-Wave JS UI by @freshcoast for the rest. The only thing that is different is the add-on identifier in Step 9, which should be the same if you use my repo:

ws://ed7eb4c2-zwavejs2mqtt:3000