I’ve been running a very successful Zigbee2mqtt + Node-red combo for some years on HA OS.
I recently attempted to install zwave JS UI +Mqtt, because there’s some zwave devices I want to use.
It appeared to install well, and everything was running fine. I don’t remember if I ever tried to reboot HA, but after a certain update, Zigbee no longer started with this error:
SRSP - SYS - ping after 6000ms
After looking at the troubleshooting section of Zigbee2mqtt, I figured the only difference was either the new update, or the installation of zwave.
I restored to the last backup, prior to the upgrade, but after zwave installation and zigbee still failed to start. I had to restore to an install prior to zwave, which I thankfully still had. It was a very scary moment, because I could have run the HA instance long enough to lose an update prior to install of zwave.
Did I miss something when installing zwave js ui? Is it not recommended to do so? Has anyone run into this issue or is able to run both of these simultaneously without any issues?
edit: I used the following videos as a guide to install zwave js ui & MQTT.
@FriedCheese Are you able to connect to Zwave devices using Node-Red without MQTT though? I thought MQTT was required to use node-red for either zigbee or zwave.
Ah…good point. I don’t use Node-Red for automations so I haven’t tried. I only have it setup to act as an MQTT bridge for my 3D printer. Have you tried setting up Z-Wave JS UI without the MQTT connection to verify the add-on is at least working and not causing problems?