Moving ZWave dongle to new RasPi / new HA | Home Assistant | Page 1

lethal crescent May 13, 2025, 4:27 PM

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I am rebuilding my HA instance because it's got a whole bunch of dead integrations and was running on an old RasPi 3. I have copied the ZWave Keys from my old ZWaveJS integration, and plugged the dongle into my newer RasPi 4. It lights up as it did on the old one, however when I go to add the ZWaveJS addon and go to enter the keys, it says "not all fields are filled out correctly" even if I fill every one of them out. It also has "USB device path" but does not appear to actually have an associated field or dropdown to pick. I've tried rebooting the Pi completely and no dice.

full nexus May 13, 2025, 4:43 PM

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Aeotec Gen5 stick? Needs a USB hub.

lethal crescent May 13, 2025, 4:58 PM

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It never had one before, why now?

full nexus May 13, 2025, 4:58 PM

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Known issue, since uh 2019

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https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/z-wave/controllers/#aeotec-z-stick

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"old RasPi 3" -> "newer RasPi 4"

lethal crescent May 13, 2025, 5:00 PM

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Weird. I guess i'll just move back to the old instance for now then until I can get a hub. Thanks.

full nexus May 13, 2025, 5:05 PM

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You could always run ZUI on the Pi3 via Docker/binary and keep it separate from HA. Does require extra management vs. add-ons.

lethal crescent May 13, 2025, 5:09 PM

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With how frustrating ZWave is already, I would sooner gouge my eyes with some forceps but thanks for the suggestion 🤣

full nexus May 13, 2025, 5:09 PM

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Ok, not that difficult in comparison but whatever works.

#Moving ZWave dongle to new RasPi / new HA