Home Assistant with Z-Wave

[Roger M. Jenson]

I dove into the deep end of the Home Assistant pool and all I can do at
this time is treed water.

I installed Home Assistant on a F-210 thin client computer and added a
Zooz ZST10-700 USB Controller. I purchased is a Zooz ZSE44 Temperature /
Humidity sensor to learn new things.

The ZSE44 default reporting interval is 240 minutes. I learned the the
reporting interval range is 1 - 480 minutes. Does anyone know how to
change the ZSE44 reporting interval?

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Roger M. Jenson]

After sending the message to the list I poked around a bit more and
found the Temperature and Humidity reporting interval settings.

Home Assistant > Settings > Z-Wave device configuration > Temperature
Reporting Interval

Home Assistant > Settings > Z-Wave device configuration > Humidity
Reporting Interval

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Roger M. Jenson]

I found where to change the settings but not how to save the settings.

Enough fun for now. I will look at it again tomorrow.

Had Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Roger M. Jenson]

The reporting Interval changed to 5 minutes overnight. It looks like the
change took affect  the next time the sensor checked in.

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Roger M. Jenson]

Reliably finding my way to the Z-Wave device configuration page was a struggle so I documented the way I found it to reference the next time I need to change a setting.

The graph below displays December 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM to December 17, 2023 at 6:00 PM temperature.

It looks like the temperature reporting interval changed December 26, 2023 about 9:30 PM.

I have many more things to learn.

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson

[Tom]

RJ:

 

Do you think Home Assistant  would run ok on a VM?

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[Roger M. Jenson]

The biggest challenge is to pass through USB ports that the radios connect to. Z-Wave & Zigbee, etc.

Have Fun,

Roger M. Jenson

On Dec 18, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Tom <a50m...@gmail.com> wrote:

RJ: 

Do you think Home Assistant  would run ok on a VM?

At 06:20 PM 12/17/2023 -0600, Roger M. Jenson wrote:

Reliably finding my way to the Z-Wave device configuration page was a struggle so I documented the way I found it to reference the next time I need to change a setting.
The graph below displays December 16, 2023 at 12:00 AM to December 17, 2023 at 6:00 PM temperature.

[Ian Weisser]

I have run HA in a container for years. It will readily run in a VM.

My own setup is to plug the Z-wave dongle into an old Pi, centrally
located in the building. Then a wired connection through the wall from
the pi to the server. HA runs in a container on the server.

The remote Pi runs Ubuntu Core (automatic updates, ssh access only) with
the "zwave-js-ui" snap. That's the software that makes the Zwave dongle
discoverable across the LAN by HA. When the SD card in the pi fails,
it's super-easy to rebuild: Stock Ubuntu Core plus one snap. No special
config, no custom settings. Nothing to back up. Nothing else running on
this Pi. Its only purpose is to be a stable base for the Z-wave dongle.

(Just checked that Pi: Uptime 10 days, auto-restarted after updating the
kernel snap. zwave-js-ui snap updated two days ago. I haven't manually
updated anything on this device in almost two years. Totally automatic.
Smooth. Fabulous.)

The server has many containers, one of which runs HA Core. Since it's
not complete HAOS, it doesn't auto-update. The "Zwave-JS" integration
autodetects the Pi's zwave-js-ui, and populates the HA dashboard. The
whole container gets backed up, including all the custom names and
triggers and automations. The container has dhcp, with a MAC address
reservation on the router for a stable IP address so the web interface
works.

Years ago, a lot more config file and YAML tweaking was needed. Very
little now, most can be done through the web interface.

The entire Z-wave network is stored on the USB dongle. zwave-js-ui on
the pi reads the whole Z network off the dongle and passes it to HA. So
even if I lose the HA container and/or the Pi, the new instance of Pi/
zwave-js-ui/HA will retrieve the whole Z network from the dongle again.

Remote control of the USB dongle used to be a pain, but it stabilized a
couple years ago and has been solid ever since.

Ian

If anyone wants, I can demo any of it in January. Let me know what you
want to see,

[Tom]

That's a lot of good solid information Ian, thanks.

 

Question: We did something for Transit year ago using a Pi, and Dale set it up to boot from the SD card, then create RAM drives upon boot. Anything that writes, like temp files and logs, was repointed to the RAM drives. Part of the start-up process would then set the SD card to read/only. Since it was not getting written to, the SD card lasted a lot longer. I wonder about /proc and other filesystems though. I can't remember what he did about those.

 

Is that kind of thing practical for your Z-Wave gateway box and similar "read/mostly" apps?

 

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[Roger M. Jenson]

Hello Ian,

I am very interested in learning more about Home Assistant. I have many
questions that your demonstration may answer.

Having Fun,
Roger M. Jenson