(Problem) Migration Z-Wave NW from Vera to UZB1 dongle
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7.29 should work.
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Tried 7.29, reset to factory, restore backup config w/zwave. All came up good, failed on dongle.restore (luup) phase. Tried doing a touch "dongle.restore.go" and reboot even.. no go.
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This is really very strange. And I suppose the file you created is still there? There must be something else going on. It seems like your luup engine is not even trying to do the dongle restore.
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Yup... file still there.
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Last resort is to downgrade the Uzb stick as well but this is rather bizarre. Something must be blocking. I just can't figure out what.
I just realized I have been seeing your posts on the QNAP forum.
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To which version of UZB are you thinking? And yes I have been on the QNAP forums for many years
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just one prior. 5.35 or 5.36 I believe?
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At this point it isn't worth the headache and time to potentially solve this. The "all" access token which used to work on v3.06 to be able to access via the gui the firmware downgrade option doesn't work anymore. I initially thought it was related to upgrading to v3.10 of SmartHome so I rolled back, but still it didn't work. Looks like they shut that one down.
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I think I figured out part of my problem... in looking closer at the controller information in SmartHome app, it looks like I got an EU version instead of a US version of the dongle so it was on the wrong frequencies. I am sending it back to Amazon and re-ordered the chip off of your recommended eBay seller.
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hmm interesting and weird... You know you can recode the dongle to US frequency right? I am just not sure if the embedded antenna was calibrated properly for it. The difference is in the number of channels and how they are optimized for their specific frequencies. The US use only two channels while 3 are used in other regions.
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I was having issues where using OZWD I would try and add a node (inclusion) and it wouldn't register the device even if was almost on top of it.. so that eventually led me there.
I looked on the sticker on the dongle which claims it is the US version (ZMEUUZB1).
In Z-way app, it shows EU and only options that appear to be for the ZMEEUZB version (EU) dongle for changing frequency.
I tried changing frequency via shell script to US, which says it does, but Z-way still showed EU even after that.
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I received the new USB dongle from e-bay seller. Shows US frequency in Zwave SW (5.27 release) and connected into OZWD in Home Assistant fine. Was able to successfully pair a Fibaro Dongle with it (which I couldn't get anything to pair with old dongle). So I think we have a winner
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Congrats! Cheers.
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My wild guess is that there is a problem with the SDK version between the vera and the uzb. When I did this, my uzb was running version 6.81.05, the same version I was running on the vera, so I had no problems at all. The latest uzb firmware runs on 6.82.01. The vera also officially only supported 6.81.01 so I was already being very adventurous.
My advice would be to check what SDK your vera is running and then downgrade your uzb to a firmware version supporting this same SDK so that the zwave serial API program on the vera doesn't need to do an SDK translation. There are so many people who did this, including on the HA forum that if it isn't working anymore, probably something changed on the vera which I am not aware of. -
I might try the whole thing again. I just did a restore because at some point after I thought that none of it worked all my devices names were reset and all sitting in 'No Room'. Of course this was after I had switched the port back to the default Vera device. So something was happening maybe just at a snail's pace? Also how do I check the Vera's SDK version?
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No go on the second attempt. So what are my other options if I don’t want to exclude/include everything?
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Sorry for not responding sooner, I was busy with work today. The SDK version of the vera should be shown in the advanced page under the z-wave submenu. You should see something like 6.1 or 6.01. which is the version of the serial API corresponding to 6.71. The point is to downgrade the firmware of the uzb to a version old enough that the vera can support. Not much more you can do on the vera.
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Just to update: I decided to bite the bullet and just manually move everything over from Vera to Z-way. Still a couple of outstanding devices to transition. It went mostly smooth. I have a couple of devices that aren't responding as they did with the Vera network. Shouldn't be an issue of coverage.
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@rafale77 said in (Problem) Migration Z-Wave NW from Vera to UZB1 dongle:
wow... so it did recognize the UZB just fine and can read the network ID from it. It is purely about triggering the recovery from your backup to the Uzb dongle then. I am a bit surprised that it didn't work.
So the "/etc/cmh/dongle.restore" file never got replaced?... I wonder if the script has changed. Unfortunately I wiped my vera from anything mios so I can't test with this firmware. The nuclear option would be to edit the user-data.json from a backup and recover from it.... You are sure you have all your dongle files in the etc/cmh folder right?extract from my own old posting:
Just for documentation purpose, I also found how to restore only the onboard zwave dongle:
-move your desired dongle file (example: “dongle.6.1.dump.0”) to /etc/cmh,
-rename it “dongle.restore”,
-run Stop_cmh.sh
-run Start_cmh.sh
-run RebootRunning into the same issue with dongle.restore not getting replaced. Version shows 6.2 in Zwave settings on vera and firmware is 1.7.599 (V7.0.8 June 2015). Would you recommend renaming the dongle file and trying the above or trying a different vera firmware?
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