I’m trying to setup ZWaveToMQTT and seem to be having an issue with Mosquito(I think). I can see my devices in ZWaveToMQTT. I have the MQTT integration setup under Configuration --> Integrations.
If I go into the MQTT integration, click “configure”, enter “#” into “Listening to” and click “Start Listening” I see a bunch of JSON fly by when I move the motion sensor, so messages appear to be flowing from ZWaveToMQTT to Mosquito, however I am not seeing any new devices or entities listed under Configuration in Home Assistant. What do i need to do to get the zwave devices to register there? As far as I can tell I have my MQTT broker and gateway configured correctly, and the devices are showing up in ZWaveToMQTT, what am I missing to get the sensors to show up in Home Assistant?
nevermind, restarted the services a few times and now I’m seeing it under devices and entities. Apparently I just need to be patient and reboot. Anyone know what I can do to force the devices/entities to show up quicker in the future?
I believe Home Assistant starts processing stuff when the Z-Wave status is “driverAllNodesQueried” or “driverAllNodeQueriedSomeDead”
You can check this by for example using MQTT-Explorer to read topic OpenZWave/1/status
I’m not sure how the ZWave2MQTT addon handles this specifically, but I guess it’s worth a try
My Z-Wave network takes about 25 minutes to start (30 nodes approx), so give it time
There have been reports of the Aeotec stick not working on the Raspberry Pi 4.
The devices will show up, report into HA a couple times and then go dead. I’m running a pi4 so I’m assuming this is the issue others have been facing. Ordered a different zwave stick and will try that. Should have done my homework before buying the stick. On the plus side though I have a much better handle on zwave and mqtt after a few days of trying to get this working.
Tried that with a hub I had laying around, didn’t work, though the hub may be “too smart” for the work around.
Either way, I’d prefer not to have extra cables hanging off the PI if I don’t need them. For the price of the new stick, minus what I’ll sell the aeotec for on Craiglist at a loss, plus the cost savings of not buying another USB hub, I figure it cost me at most an extra $15, maybe less, to buy a different stick, which I can live with.
