I have a large property with multiple buildings that I want to cover with zwave lights/switches etc. I have tried doing this with repeaters strategically placed, but the result is unreliable.
Homeseer has exactly what I’m looking for, but I assume it wont work in HASS.
Ive also seen people mention the http://razberry.z-wave.me/ but I have been unable to figure out how this actually works or if it would do what I’m looking for.
I am trying very hard to avoid having 3 or 4 HASS instances and using the event stream to link them together, mainly because I don’t understand how it works.
Does anyone know of a zwave to ethernet bridge that i can use with HASS to extend the zwave signal?
There’s two problems with what you’re trying to do:
Home Assistant supports a single Z-Wave controller
OpenZWave (the underlying library) only supports USB (or serial) connected controllers
Unfortunately your only options are to either address the mesh configuration and get it reliable, or set up each building as it’s own mesh, and link them all with MQTT Statestream.
I have a similar but simpler issue. My Z-Wave network is too far from my home assistant controller and the network is unreliable. If I use MQTT statestream, does that mean that I need to setup a 2nd HA with the Zwave controller that talks via MQTT to my main HA? I have seen zwave mqtt bridges (https://github.com/adpeace/zwave-mqtt-bridge) as well, however that looks like unidirectional, not bidirectional, do I see this correctly?
I had a similar problem, very old large house with very thick walls, one zwave network did not cut it and too add to the problem I also run home assistant out of a cabinet in my garage.
My solution was to have raspberry pi’s with zwave usb controllers placed where I need them in my house and then on each rapsberry pi I run openzwave and use node-red to create a two way zwave-mqtt bridge. Home assistant sees all zwave device as mqtt devices.
I have also followed the same approach with deconz and zigbee.
Very clever and exactly what I would like to do between our house and the barn (600 ft and no power points between them). In particular I am unclear about how to get the z-wave commands mirrored into node red. Are any of your node-red flows or automation.yaml available as an example to help lower my learning curve? Even a screenshot of the flow would be a help.
I second this. Have a chicken coop 300 ft from the house and the z wave network is really unreliable at that distance. Would LOVE a write-up on how to get this done.
Per the docs you set an environment variable for the container:
OZW_INSTANCE - Multiple Z-Wave networks can run concurrently by starting an individual container for each network. To distinguish the networks, set this enviroment variable to a unique value for each container instance. This affects the base topic that is published to the MQTT broker - OpenZWave/<OZW_INSTANCE>/# . Defaults to 1 .
I use an old VeraPlus from before I moved to HA and use the HA integration to access all devices. For me the main reason was that my HA is in the basement, and I needed a more strategically placed zwave/zigbee adapter for coverage. It works but may be too expensive unless you have a spare VeraPlus controller available.
The reason I am looking at this thread is that I would like to expand my zwave network beyond the house and the reliability is very poor so something like a bridge or extender would be great.
I just got reminded of this issue reading an article about a device called “SLZB-06 – A Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support”. I decided for zwave 10 years ago due to the dedicated frequency band but maybe it is time to move to something else? Zigbee? Wifi? LoRa?
I’m late to the post here, but think people may still be interested in this topic–
I am also interested in bridging Z-Wave connectivity between buildings, with steel roof/siding (i.e. Faraday cage). I had it running for awhile with Aeotec Z-Wave range extenders (on line-of-sight window in each building). But not completely reliable connection.
I do have Ethernet connectivity between, so am now exploring possibility of using HomeSeer Z-NET G3 as a bridge. Hoping to get non-HomeSeer devices showing up for HA integrations.
There is a solution based on a raspberry or whatever box capable of running linux, where you can share the USB port over ethernet like explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKVrt0_iTzI
