Z-wave devices becomes unavailable and available every 5 min

Hi,

I recently upgraded to 2023.10.5 and started experiencing some annoying issues with my z-wave devices.
At a given time, every 5 minutes, all devices were reported unavailable in HA. Then after a second or two back to normal again. This was going on at a constant interval.
This triggered ofcourse a lot of my automations, pushover notifications, emails etc… So I had to disable all that while troubleshooting.

No direct error message in the HA logs that could give me an indication of what was going on.

I actually went so far to buy a new z-wave stick and migrated all my devices (approx 50) to the new stick. Same issue.

I was running HA 2023.10.5, z-wave js ui 9.3.1 z-wave-js 12.2.3 and Aeotec Gen5 usb stick, HA as a VM in Proxmox. My z-wave network has been performing very well, no issues what so ever until this specific version 2023.10.5.

I was never able to figure out what caused it, but upgraded to 2023.11.0 today and no issues so far.

Just an fyi if anyone else is experiencing the same issues.

I did a lot of search, but could not find someone reporting the exact same issues as I experienced.

This is the first time I have experienced issues with z-wave in HA for many years. So I was actually certain it had to be the z-wave stick as it has some years in service.
The outcome was a new z-wave stick, and one in backup :wink:
Screenshot 2023-11-04 at 14.18.34

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You are not alone. There are several issues in GitHub for this, such as: Zwave JS UI unstable on HA core 2023.10.5 · Issue #102637 · home-assistant/core · GitHub
The cause for disturbance is alignment for Z-wave certification of Home Assistant. Some affected users had misbehaving Danfoss thermostats with multiple (phony) setpoints. Others had Aeotec ser 5 sticks and had to perform a firmware upgrade.
It’s hard to see your Z-wave network crashed, but it’s for a good cause. :slightly_smiling_face:

/Fumble

Did you solve the problem completely? I have exact the same problem since some months. Sometimes I think I solved it but it always happens again.