@azevenhuizen wrote:
I have been stuggling for quite some time now to get ha setup and ready with zwave.
I am switching from Fibaro since my old hc2 died, so I have only zwave devices here (appr 60psc), of which most are Fibaro. I use an Rpi B and Aeotec dongle, with usb connected ssd drive (no sd card installed). Installed it with latest image.But regaring those zwave devices:
- I notice including is not always as smooth as it should be. Many times I have to add devices twice, to be able to get all entities available. Remove/Include. And I even had to remove a device manually from the register files twice, before I could add it again.
- Also I noticed that patientce is key. Very often it just takes very long for devices to show up. Under entities they show up much quicker, which is a bit confusing to me.
- Many time changes do not reflect and I have to reboot the pi or sometimes only the ha server.
- Booting (and especially shutdown) takes ages. This is very annoying during the configuration of these devices, since I have to reboot quit often.
- Since I have been adding more and more devices, it now starts loosing some of them after a reboot. I have then to remove and re-add them (again).
- While adding more and more devices, the (re)boot times go up very quickly. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes for zwave to be ready.
- Then they get all weird names and renaming each entitity one-by-one is really a burdon. Later I noticed that for some device you can do a batch rename from the devices tab, but this does not apply always.
- Some light show up as switches and I have to make templates to basicly create copies?
So in short the questions,
- Is HA really capable of running a full house of zwave powered devices. I think it all runs a bit messy
- Is it the RPi that is holding things down. (I did notice it runs much quicker I switched to the ssd, but now booting becomes slow again).
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