I’ve been using HA for about a year with no real issues and this is my first time posting.
Recently I’m having some issues with zwave network. I’ve read up on possible issues and I can’t place it. I’m at a loss and would be grateful for some advice before resorting to excluding all the devices and factory resetting the zstick.
I think there is some mismatch between the zstick config and HA/ozw. I’d like to be able to solve this without starting back and re-building the zwave network node by node. Dreading this idea with less than 20 devices, can’t imagine how people with 50-100 devices would deal with this.
My setup: Home assistant 0.93.1 running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Aeotec zstick Gen 5.
Background on the issue:
I had 6 zwave device functioning on the network for a long time. I tried adding a few additional devices one at a time, got an Aeotec working then added a Popp radiator valve. The valve was not recognised and came up as an unknown device. I tried removing from the network without success, then a factory reset of the valve device and removing the node in HA Zwave Management. I rolled back HA to a previous backup. The bulb was no longer part of the network but the unknown node remained and cannot be removed.
I now cannot add any new devices. The zstick happily includes the new devices but they do not show up in HA zwave Management.
More details on the Nodes currently:
There is 1 unknown node in the zwave Management menu (Node 14).
The HA error log shows 2 unknown nodes not responding (Node 14 & Node 15): ‘Z-Wave entity Unknown Node 15 Level (node_id: 15) not ready after 30 seconds, continuing anyway
**9:08 PM components/zwave/init.py (WARNING)*’
The zwcg.xml shows:
Nodes 1-8: full details of the working nodes.
Nodes 12, 13, 14: a couple of basic details like ‘type’ but no device name or anything I can identify with.
Nodes 9, 10, 11: no entries at all, though I think these were previously unknown nodes when I’ve tried adding devices since the issue began.
Node 6: disappeared somewhere along the way a while ago, I understand this is not uncommon.
Many thanks in advance for any advice!