I am in the process of setting up home assistant and I am unable to get the VERA plugin to work. I have over 10 years of configuration on my VERA so I can’t just rip it out and replace it with ZWAVE_JS (at least right now). I have a series of customer alexa scrips, influxdb datalogging, and complicated sensor scenes that are too painful to rebuild all at once. My goal is to do it bit by bit on my migrations.
I am running my home assistant in a Docker instance on a RPI. I can login to the VERA on my local network without any issues from a web browser (“the secure my controller” setting is cleared). I’m a docker noob so I’m not sure if there is some port mapping that needs to happen to make it work.
I suspect not since I have several other HTTP based integrations running. Is there a way to see what in the VERA integration code is failing to help debug? Anyone else have any success with this type of config?
I have a Vera Plus, so it is quoted as supported in the documentation. I also tried a standalone version of Home Assistant on a separate RPI4 thinking that maybe something with the containerization is broken. That didn’t work for me either. I am already connecting to that hub from the RPI where I have a python environment that writes to InfluxDB all the energy and state information of the ZWAVE devices.
I’ll need to recheck my code to see if I needed to do any authentication of the access. I saw that the VERA HA plugin requires unchecking the “secure controller” option on the VERA when using the local network and I verified that setting is correct.
There is a VERA plugin to create an UPnP version of devices which some people use, but you need to create the devices manually and I have well over 50 devices so that would be a major pain.
It’s a long time since I migrated my Vera Lite to HA so I’m sure a lot has changed since then. My migration was a gradual process as well due to the complexity of the network.
Is your docker HA container using the host network or are you forwarding ports? If it’s using the host, then you don’t need to worry about port forwarding. I think Vera uses port 3480(?) so that would need to available. If you are not familiar with Docker, then perhaps simplify your setup and put HAOS on your spare Pi4 as a test. This would at least prove that it can work. Also, you could try enabling debug logging on the Vera integration to see if any errors stand out.
Thanks for the quick response. I initially was running in a docker setup while I awaited a second PI. I configured the second PI last night and saw the same issue on that setup.
Since I’m new to the HA world, it isn’t clear to me how to enable debug on an integration that you are trying to load but will dig into that. Any helpful hints here would be appreciated. Not sure if the output would just go to the home assistant log file or somewhere else.
