Hello Lemmings.
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while; basically, I want to move my zwave node away from my main HomeAssistant system.
I’ll try to be brief; my current config is a single mini/micro system (Dell, I believe), Core i5, 8G RAM and an SSD, it’s a ton of power for HA and massive overkill, I know. The problem is that the system is located in a remote room of the house, so the signal isn’t exactly the best and I have some nodes that are linked through 2-3 other devices; I’d like to move the USB Z-stick to a more central location, and I don’t think a USB extension is going to cut it. I have ethernet wire which is far more viable to get a connection across to the HA computer. I don’t want to move the HA computer away from where it is, since there’s backup power where it is; so my idea would be to use something like a Raspberry Pi (now that availability seems to be improving), connected by Ethernet using PoE (for power availability from the UPS). Provided I can get a Raspberry Pi, and all the related and required parts together, which should be fairly trivial; how would I connect the zwave dongle on the Raspberry Pi to the computer running homeassistant?
I haven’t considered this before due to the pi being so difficult to get since I put together the homeassistant system. Ideally, I would want several of these systems placed at key points around the house so that I wouldn’t need any of the zwave nodes to relay communications, but that’s future plans more than anything - I would need to source several zwave dongles and get them all on raspberry pi’s and get them working together… So going about it towards that end would be a bonus; but at least I want to do some research on it and figure out if I can even relocate the dongle at all first. Any infromation to that end is appreciated.
I’m currently using ZWaveJS UI.
I’m using zwavejs ui, which, AFAIK, is the “new name” for zwave2mqtt.
I’ve been using it since I started. what I don’t know is how to get it communicating. It will all be on the same subnet, ethernet connected. Any tips/tricks/guides?