I’ve been anxiously waiting for the new Z-wave JS integration to become worthy of production use. Within the Home Assistant add-on store it is still considered to be “experimental”. I know folks are using it, and my question isn’t whether it can be used, I’m asking when its status will change to be “stable”.
I haven’t seen much development on it in the last several releases. I thought there was a lot of energy behind this new integration which I consider foundational.
There’s been a ton of development in each release. I’ve been using in production since initial release as well as many others. There’s just no simple migration path and some devices might not be supported.
You are mixing up the Integration and the Addon, they are two separate things. I can’t personally say why the addon is still marked as experimental, probably just an oversight. You might want to submit an issue. The addon will have much less development activity because all it does is provide the driver functionality. It is in fact updated frequently though, soon after whenever node-zwave-js has an update. The integration does not have any experimental label.
As @petro has said, there is frequent development currently, both the integration and addon are updated continuously. The integration has had significant updates in each HA release, check the release notes in fact. If you want to track what’s still missing, you can follow the roadmap issue. At this point, mostly what’s still missing is UI functionality, and that gap can be covered by using the zwavejs2mqtt addon instead.
Thank you. I wasn’t aware of the difference between the add-on and the integration.
Still, I have watched the release notes for the last couple of months and there hasn’t been many references for the z-wave JS. That’s what I was basing my comment on.
I wish the integration pages had release notes\dates specific to the integration so we could see at a quick glance the dev activity for a specific integration.
They usually do, just major changes are the only changes that have their own section. Usually these changes are in other noteworthy changes section.