ZWA-2 and AEOTEC Home Energy Meter 8 Zwave LR not work

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Hello!

Does anyone use the following combination?

ZWA-2 USB zwawe stick with zwave LR support.
All system and firmware is up to date.
Home Assistant: 2025.11.1
ZWA2 NC-ZWA-9734 Firmware 1.1 SDK: v7.23.1
Zwave JS UI 6.0.0
Aeotec Home Energy Meter 8 ZWA046 FW: v1.7.6 SDK: v7.22.0

I’m in Europe, I set the region to Europe in the zwave-JS Ui.

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I was able to configure the z adapter without any problems, I migrated my existing zwave gen5 network to it.
In the adapter device settings set Europe LR

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I have 1 power meter, new, but I can only adopt it as a regular zwave device. In S2 mode for example. It also says that it is ok.
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I would like to try it in LR mode. I excluded it, and I added it via the zwave js ui interface, from the mobile application with smart start. When adding it, I selected zwave LR as the protocol, but it doesn’t want to work. It seems to add the device, DSK is ok, but it only works in zwave mode.

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I activate it in vain in the Smart Start menu. I tried to deactivate it, but I can’t change the protocol.

Thanks

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I always get only “SmartStart_HomeId_Received”.
I don’t see anything like “SmartStart_LongRange_HomeId_Received”

I always see this in the zwave JS UI trace log:

2025-11-24 08:34:31.753 CNTRLR Received Smart Start inclusion request
2025-11-24 08:34:31.756 CNTRLR NWI Home ID not found in provisioning list, ignoring request…
2025-11-24 08:34:31.773 SERIAL « 0x012100498500001afdda11d2120431005e989f552285598e705a7a87723260736 (35 bytes)
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2025-11-24 08:34:31.780 SERIAL » [ACK] (0x06)
2025-11-24 08:34:31.787 DRIVER « [REQ] [ApplicationUpdateRequest]
type: SmartStart_HomeId_Received
remote node ID: 0
NWI home ID: 0xfdda11d2
basic device class: Routing End Node
generic device class: 49
specific device class: 0
supported CCs:
· Z-Wave Plus Info
· Security
· Security 2
· Transport Service
· Application Status
· Association
· Association Group Information
· Multi Channel Association
· Configuration
· Device Reset Locally
· Firmware Update Meta Data
· Indicator
· Manufacturer Specific
· Meter
· Multi Channel
· Powerlevel
· Supervision
· Version

The DSK is included, and the Zwave inclusion protocol is selected as Zwave Long Range, but the summary interface in front of it only says zwave.

Here I set Z-wave Long Range:

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Here I see only zwave

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If I don’t select Zwave long range for the protocol, but just Zwave, the controller will pick it up just fine as a normal Zwave device.

Why?

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LR Devices send a LR inclusion frame at the first start.
This is the SmartStart_LongRange_HomeId_Received you are missing.
If this frame is not sent by the device, it is not posible to include it in LR mode.
I think Aeotec forgot to activate it.
There is the same issue with shelly 800 series devices.
You can update them to a LR capable SDK, but the devices won’t send the LR inclusion frame.

Best Regards