I’ve got whatever their first one is. Its worked great, my only gripe is their cloud service requires google login. But it served its job which was to give me remote KVM when I was learning how to setup reliable RDP.

Its now attached to a box I use as a relays at a friends who has fiber. That box has a startup warning that I could never quite get to go away that requires one hit literally any key to finish boot. So I paid $70 for that…

Figured it out! It was as simple as making sure the security keys were generated. I thought I had but they failed to take in ZwaveJS. So for posterity:

• Check the battery mode
• If it looks like data is flowing the way it should, but you’re missing entities associated with the device: thats a security feature. Either no keys or other security issues will keep the device from exposing the entities you want.

Big thanks to @besmtt@lemmy.world and @tburkhol@lemmy.world . I learned a ton more because of your input. Oh also matter is no working as is ESPectre across a dozen or so ESP32-C3s I had. So all in all we got some major upgrades done today!

Great suggestions but it wound up being even more simple and even more stupid: Security keys. Writing a top level note for anyone after right now.

Re: Icon: Understood, but still grateful for the clarity! Unraid working proper again, I didn’t realize how much there was to Ipv6… another day. Have to take care of some things but succesfully back to baseline. I’ll try repovisioning this evening and see what happens! (I’ll post here for posterity)

Unfortunately this is my first and currently only z-wave device; I’ll snag some “fool proof” ones for exactly what you’re saying.

This is a solid lead and I suspect you’re right! Although some stuff that doesn’t add up:

• The device isn’t showing the under “wifi” signal icon
• The device is in “battery mode”, but regarding the procedure to change power mode: It was running on battery during original inclusion, and in fact has never been hooked to AC.

I think you’ve gotten me on the right track, but I gave myself another wrinkle. I’m also trying to get matter working for the first time, and in the process of troubleshooting a provisioning, I put my unraid server (with HA) to communicate via IP6 only. It now is no longer online and also inaccessible via a directly connected monitor… So I need to solve that before I can do anything else with Z-wave…

Happy Sunday…

Honestly I learned linux because I needed to turn some pumps on and off…

Made some arduino based controllers, but those were a pain to figure out how to access remotely, so raspberry pi it was, but eventually I needed more horsepower, so debian it was, then ESP-32s were popularized and now I’ve come full circle with a fleet of ESP-32s reporting to a debian server… eventually I’ll get around to understanding some of the hardware interface in the OS a bit more.

All of it by just kind of bumping into problems

Well shit… There goes my weekend…