After a major hassle got z-way running on my ubuntu 16 VM with a USB pasthough UZB1 stick including license and connected to Vera...
I see:
I also see:
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But how do I update that?
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Hey guys ... I've started creating a Docker container for Z-Way.
I was previously using the Razberry2 but found it a bit slow on my Raspberry Pi 3. I could upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 4 but since I already run a dedicated Linux server and many Docker containers I thought it might make more sense to run Z-Way on there.
GitHub: https://github.com/sofakng/docker-zway
DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/sofakng/zway
This container is based on other containers that are no longer updated: (ruimarinho/docker-z-way) and (EugenMayer/docker-image-zway)
I'd love to hear feedback and any improvements that might be needed.
One thing I want to add immediately is to separate the configuration files from the Docker volume but it looks like Z-Way has several user configuration files/directories?
$ZWAY_DIR/config/Configuration.xml $ZWAY_DIR/config/Rules.xml $ZWAY_DIR/config/maps $ZWAY_DIR/config/zddx $ZWAY_DIR/automation/user_syscommands $ZWAY_DIR/automation/storage $ZWAY_DIR/automation/userModules $ZWAY_DIR/htdocs/smarthome/user $ZWAY_DIR/config.xml
Not 100% sure this is the best place, but this seems to be the sticking point.
Background: My NotVera system has been working perfectly now for some years. USB Z wave stick in an old Intel NUC.
The NUC has a bare metal install of Debian buster, and on that we have:
Z-wave Smart Home
OpenLuup
AltUI
MSR
Mosquito server
Home Automation Bridge.
I also have a bare metal Raspian install of Home Assistant running on a Pi
Due to my Buffalo Linkstation doing some odd stuff (like suddenly disconnecting, while maintaining everything was fine) I bit the bullet and bought a Synology DS224+
Now, given the age of my NUC I'm thinking that I should probably start thinking about how to replace / safeguard it. Pretty happy that I can make an image of the existing disk and drop it onto a virtual machine in the Synology, or re-install / restore or do some other things (not decided what yet) but I get stuck on the USB dongle.
Can I connect that to a VM on the NAS, or do I need another solution?
TIA
C
I have a Razberry v2 with firmware v5.04, and Bootloader v8aaa with CRC 35498 (I did manage to upgrade to this version using the "ZMESerialUpdater" tool ). I want to upgrade the firmware to v5.27, which Z-Wave.me Support say is the newest version that my hardware can handle without bricking it. Firmware v5.27 introduces the Analytics tab, according to Poltos, which is what I want.
I have been studying the firmware map (https://service.z-wave.me/expertui/uzb-stats/versions-graph.html?with_hidden) which I sort-of understand. I have also got the "ZMESerialUpdater" tool to do the update, and could use it if I knew which binaries to use.
My question is, what firmware update route do I use to get from v5.04 to v5.27? What exactly are the URLs of the binaries (as in "UPD_FIRMWARE_Razberry500_from_05_04_to_05_07.bin")?
Somewhat confused!
ScotsDon
Hi all, I hope someone could drive me in the right direction.
I was setting up a new zware environment using a UZB stick I bought about 2 yeasr ago and never used.
This stick was using firmware 5.27 that sounded to me a bit old.
So I looked on the process of upgrading the device and I downloaded the ZMESerialUpdater, the I went on the z-wave.me site and look for the firmware and I found (on this awfull map) the firmware UPD_FIRMWARE_UZB_STATIC_2ch_ZME_05_1b_04000001_ZME_05_24_04000001.bin (that AFAIK should upgrade from version 5.27 to 5.36).
I run the update and it never finished....
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After 2 hours waiting for nothing, I finally CTRL-C and removed and reinserted the USB stick that is not recognized anymore.
I really think I won a nice peace of plastic usb shaped, but in case someone has an idea, I would be pleased to read your coment.
Regards
The expertUI of Z-way has a very interesting menu called analytics which I have not seen on any other controller.
My engineering curiosity and OCD tendency to want to optimize everything lead me to dig into it to see if I could get things working even better... even though nothing seem to be broken since my move from the UI firmware to z-way. So the background noise menu was of particular interest.
So here it is: This was my first shot of the starting block on the left side of this graph and you can see that at around 21:00 I did something to reduce the noise. My zwave.me uzb is connected to the vera through a usb extension cable and a usb hub but initially the vera and usb hub were sitting only a 6-7 inches (20cm) away from the uzb. Keep in mind the scale on both channels. What I did was to move the vera away from the uzb stick, to about 80cm but the big step was for me to use some metal leftover amazon gift card boxes I had from christmas and covered the usb hub with them. The step back up was me moving these macgyver shields around.
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Next step is still goofing around with the shields to see if I could optimize further and while I initially made it worse, you can see that it got a little better later on. That USB hub is quite noisy.
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After sometime, I just thought that the whole thing is just too sensitive any movement around that area could potentially cause problems. So I decided to remove the hub connected to the vera which really was just allowing to extroot the vera. Since I am no longer using the vera as a vera but only as a remote serial bridge, which doesn't write anything on its drive, I took it out. Again look closely at the scales. It did take the noise down another notch.
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Now the stick is still sitting 14inch away from a UPS with a bunch of wall warts connected to it, powering a variety of devices like a hue 2 hub. I had the idea of replacing just the wall wart (AC-DC power supply) for the vera with a POE splitter. Since channel 2 is already hovering around the detection limit, I am only showing channel 1 here
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This last step alone enable me to flip this other statistics menu:
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It not only significantly decreased the CRC error rate but also made the foreign network impact greater that the CRC error bar negating the success on reception for the first time. When I took a zniffer to look into what these CRC error frames were, I discovered that they were all from my neighbor's network which is distant and have obviously poor signal strength. (Yes I can see his HomeId from the zniffer). The fact that I see less error means that my controller's range is greater. It is now able to recognize frames which are from my neighbor's instead of saying they are corrupted... Also The back off frames number decreased indicating less wasted/repeated frames on the network.
I have installed my UZB1 stick on my RP4 and want to megrate my device form my Vera to z-way. Now I want to use my Roller shutter 2 in z-way.mev as a scene controller. This is activated by 2x / 3x clicks on the switch. This works perfectly with vera (verabridge) in openluup and reactor using variable LastSceneID and LastScenetime.
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Fibaro documentation:
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When using z-way.me and z-way bridge it works differently. In reactor I see the variable below. I don't know how to use it. Maybe someone else can help me.
Lagging a little here but I just upgraded my z-way-server version and couldn't find much information on their website or even forum.
What is interesting for the ubuntu/debian version is that it is now released as a .deb package making upgrades much easier. I just downloaded the package and ran:
dpkg -i z-way-*.deband nothing else. The previous versions required some manual work since it was just a bunch of files for us to overwrite our installations.
From the release note, there could be interesting things for some folks here. It is a pretty long list compared to the previous incremental release.
For all systems backup is a vital part of the long-term usability.
I thought that I describe my set up with Z-way so far. Hopefully others can fill in with their backup thoughts as well. I am sure that there are much more streamlined ways of doing this and hope to learn from you all.
I run Z-way on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a daughter RaZberry card. In order to reduce the risk of getting corrupt SD cards I have it running off an SSD. So far this works very well. Setting it up was really easy just reading a standard Raspbian image onto the SSD. The only minor obstacle was that I had to test a few old 2.5" enclosures to find one that the Pi liked.
The Pi is then also powered via an UPS, hopefully this will avoid problems in the event of power outages.
In order to backup Z-way I have so far done manual backups from the regular Smarthome backup & restore function creating .zab files and from the Expert UI creating .zbk files. As far as I have understood the .zab files which are bigger contain more information than the .zbk files. The strategy so far has been to make backup files after each inclusion/exclusion. Also before updating Z-way. I have yet to test restoring from these files.
From Smarthome it is also possible to set up cloud backup. I have not yet set up this as I need to decide that it is safe enough to do so. On the other hand I had this set up on my two Veras.
It would have been nice to be able to schedule a local backup of Z-way instead of having to put them in the cloud, perhaps from OpenLuup via the Z-way bridge?
In addition to the built in backup function I try to do complete image copies of the SD cards on my Pi's with Win32DiskImager. When I moved to an SSD the image file grew to the size of the SSD since it is a raw copy including all the empty space. Image files of 160GB are not practical to handle so I found a good instruction on how to shrink the .img file with Gparted in Linux: https://steemit.com/raspberrypi/@wizzle/shrink-raspberry-pi-images-using-windows-virtualbox-running-raspberry-pi-desktop
By shrinking the .img file with Gparted it is now a more reasonable 4GB. These file are stored on my NAS for safekeeping. The strategy here so far is to make a new image file before updating Z-way and to use these in combination with more frequent Z-way backups.
I have tested restoring a Gparted shrinked .img file to the SSD when my Z-way for some strange reason became unreachable through the regular UI but remained reachable through the Expert UI. Always good to test the restore function and to see that it works. 🙂
The downside of the .img strategy is that I need to power-off the Pi for a while when making the backup. However if the Z-way backup files work then the complete .img backup need not be done so very often.
//ArcherS
Have found these videos very informative as a zway(ve) novice ....
Have a number of TKB plug switches (TZ68) that are not reporting to the controller. Believe they should be associated to Z-Way in Group 1 but am not able to get the devices to report groups in the interview/call for NIF process and so there are no associations possible. Thermosat is telling them to come on/off (hurrah!) but they don't report their on/off status in the gui.
In Associations tab: Can not configure associations: groups were not reported by the device. Do interview.
Night and day difference for me. I think I was getting a lot of interference in my media closet. Devices were very slow to respond and sometimes not at all. Switched to UZB and used a USB extender to place it a good 5 ft from the location of my pi. Now things are fast and reliable.
(Solved - presume pijuice hat was upset battery wasn't connected. Took out the plastic protector and UZB now showing. Next - upgrade UZB firmware)
Have I missed something? UZB not showing up in Zway ...
Downloaded Raspberry Pi Imager and used to set up os (Buster) on an 8gb SD
https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/
Then installed Zway from Terminal
wget -q -O - https://storage.z-wave.me/RaspbianInstall | sudo bash
Plugged in UZB
Changed port to /dev/ttyACM0 in menu/apps/ZWave network access in basic UI
This arrived today - hope it has enough juice for the uzb.
https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pijuice-hat-a-portable-power-platform-for-every-raspberry-pi
Shame the cases are sold out everywhere.
Just upgraded to 3.1.0 and am happy to report that it has not impacted the z-way bridge for openLuup.
I am now seeing the SDK version for firmware 5.39
Hi guys,
Does anyone know if the UZB supports Long Range already? I can't find which chip is in there.
Probably @rafale77 will jump on this question first 😉
I'm using the new model of GE/Jasco switch (they replaced the dead one I got) and the new model is having also S2 security and send instant status update BUT,
And probably @rafale77 will say yes, is it possible that interference can do that I'm missing some instant update status ?
Often, I'm having the wrong status in the zwave.me web interface...and even clicking the icon, the status didn't changed to right one.
I also try to do some "On/Off" using the web interface, and the device itself physically, toggle without a problem, but the web interface is still no correct.
I'm trying to monitor the indicator command class of a 5 button scene controller in Z-Way so openluup can properly create and track it.
seems like Z-Way COMMAND_CLASS_INDICATOR (0x87 or 135) are not being monitored by the ZWave module as I couldn't find anything for this command class in (/z-way-server-path/automation/modules/ZWave/index.js)
When a Get or Set Indicator command class request is sent to the controller. ZSniffer picks up the request and response just fine although this packets are not being monitored by the zwave module
Example:
the answer looks like:
[2020-04-24 19:59:36.261] [I] [zway] Waiting for job reply: Indicator Get [2020-04-24 19:59:36.281] [D] [zway] RECEIVED: ( 01 0B 00 04 00 02 03 87 03 01 B6 00 C2 ) [2020-04-24 19:59:36.281] [D] [zway] SENT ACKI’d like to store the Indicator response “RECEIVED” correctly. I believe by modifying the index.js of the zwave module could do the trick and once the module start tracking the indicator command class values as a metric then openluup's z-way plugin would properly track any changes as well.
I'm wondering if anyone around here could share any thoughts or comments that could make it easier...
Posting here, as the z-wave.me forum seems desolated..
I have two multisensor 6 sensors, and one of them is not sending motion sensor updates?
Looking at the configuration, they are both registered as battery sensors for som reason, even if they are USB powered. They respond quickly to parameter changes, except for parameter 100 and 110, that will not update.
Any clues? How do i convince the controller that they are USB powered?
Z-way several questions
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So I installed z-way and I have a bunch of questions. I also sent an email to z-way@zwave.me but might receive an answer here quicker
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MQTT. I cant get MQTT to work. I need integration for homeassistant! What can I do?
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I have ordered a UZB1 via amazon including license. It is not yet connected to my z-way server. When I want to go to settings I get below, is this normal? Installing the remote app does not solve this.
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Setting the time zone in the standard interface says it is save but it is not. What is wrong there?
Also going to the expert screen does not save it:
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- Can’t help with that one as I don’t use this. Hopefully you will get an answer through emails.
- Remote access only works on the rPi as it relies on little program not available for other distros. It is completely unimportant unless you want their support team to dial into your z-way-server instance.
- You don’t need to worry about time. It is already controlled by the ubuntu OS. This is a leftover from “embedded image installations” like on a pi. You can ignore this.
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These all 3 are stressing my OCD.
So for question 1. What's left is: How can I get Z-way zwave devices integrated in home assistant?
I now have a few options for z-wave on home assistant and all 4 have their downsides... as far as I have seen z-way it must be the most promising one but for the fact I have never seen it in action
These are my z-wave options now.
- Vera
- zwave2mqtt but this is old... (see: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-zwave2mqtt/issues/54 and https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-z-wave-to-mqtt/115899/148?
- z-way
- QT-zwave2mqtt - but this is more vague than all 3 above but also seems promising as I read is is the succesor of zwave2mqtt and both ahve openzwave 1.6 (see https://community.home-assistant.io/t/choosing-a-bridge-openzwave-qt-openzwave-vs-openzwave-zwave2mqtt/179002/1)
Thus... questions, options, questions...
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My personal opinion:
Only z-way and QT-zwave would be of consideration. QT is still major WIP. Looks promising but who knows...
Z-way is pretty mature on the other hand and is with HomeSeer the only choice at the moment.As for the plugin installation problem, makes sure you installed openSSH. Have you tried installing any other plugin?
There was a problem with the curl version initially which may or may not have been resolved. ubuntu 18 introduced curl4 which z-way was not supporting. You may need to force install curl3. I don't seem to be having this problem but I upgraded from ubuntu 16. Try making sure that openssl is installed first and see if it works. -
So received an answer from z-way:
It seems the "ubuntu" and thus UZB (dongle) way is not the preferred one reading the answers. Sergei is pointing me toward a PI solution but I do not really prefer that.Below his answers and my response.
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Me:MQTT. I cant get MQTT to work. I need integration for homeassistant. What can I do?
Z-way: This looks like libcurl problem on your Ubuntu. What is your system?
Me: 2. Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-99-generic x86_64) as a virtual machine in ESX.
I prefer running in VM for several reasons, portability, ability to consistantly backup (entire machines) and to avoid “additional” hardware and network issues.B.
Me: How to auto start?
Z-way: You can add in /etc/rc.local: (cd <YOURFOLDER>; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./libs ./z-way-server)
This is dirty, but works. We plan to make a clean debian package soon.
Me: I followed: https://smarthome.community/topic/108/auto-start-z-way-server works now.C.
Me: 4. I have ordered a UZB1 via amazon including license. It is not yet connected to my z-way server. When I want to go to settings I get a message ERROR - Remote Access is not ebabled. Is this normal? Installing the remote app does not solve this.
Z-way: Remote access is not working on Ubuntu. We think to change this in next releases too.
Me: I think I don’t need RA. Can I disable the error message?D.
Me: Setting the time zone in the standard interface says it is save but it is not. What is wrong there?
Z-way: Same - this can be done on Ubuntu using standard UI, so it is not working via Z-Way. This feature is also for Raspberry Pi.
Me: I have changed the time on the ubuntu server to correct time-zone, this solves the wrong time displaying in Z-way.What is left now as a real problem for me is "A"... I do not really understand what Sergei is meaning with "libcurl" problem and have asked him. But maybe someone on this forum is able to help out?
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For A, did you try what I suggested on my previous post? It is an operating system compatibility problem and has nothing to do with what machine you are running. Libcurl is a standard linux library which got updated to v4 on most distributions. You would have the same problem on the rPi if you try installing in raspbian buster... lots of people reported it. You can try downgrading libcurl on your installation.
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root@z-way-server:~# # install libcurl3 root@z-way-server:~# # this will temporarely overwrite/remove libcurl4 root@z-way-server:~# apt-get -y install libcurl3 cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.5.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl3.so.4.5.0 # reinstall libcurl4 - libcurl3 will be overwritten but copied file will be still there apt-get -y install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libcurl3 is already the newest version (7.58.0-2ubuntu2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. root@z-way-server:~# root@z-way-server:~# # Making a copy of libcurl.so.4.5.0 and rename it to libcurl3.so.4.5.0 root@z-way-server:~# cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.5.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl3.so.4.5.0 root@z-way-server:~# root@z-way-server:~# # reinstall libcurl4 - libcurl3 will be overwritten but copied file will be still there root@z-way-server:~# apt-get -y install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: libcurl4-doc libidn11-dev libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev librtmp-dev libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev The following packages will be REMOVED: libcurl3 The following NEW packages will be installed: libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 509 kB of archives. After this operation, 1397 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libcurl4 amd64 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8 [214 kB] Get:2 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libcurl4-openssl-dev amd64 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8 [294 kB] Fetched 509 kB in 0s (1097 kB/s) (Reading database ... 68576 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libcurl3:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libcurl4:amd64. (Reading database ... 68569 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libcurl4_7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcurl4:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8) ... Selecting previously unselected package libcurl4-openssl-dev:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libcurl4-openssl-dev_7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcurl4-openssl-dev:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8) ... Setting up libcurl4:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8) ... Setting up libcurl4-openssl-dev:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... -
This is the process for ubuntu 18+ on a x86 machine:
sudo systemctl stop z-way-server sudo apt-get -y install libcurl3 sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.3 sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev sudo systemctl start z-way-server
