OH Newbee here. I’m currently running ZWay on a Pi 3 with Razberry and want to try out (and hopefully migrate to) openHAB. I intend to put the latest openHABian on a fresh SD Card.
Will OH automatically discover up my existing Z-Wave network?
Will OH not destroy my existing Z-Wave network (eg. by resetting the controller)? Having to exlude/reset/re-include devices would be a major PITA since some of them are no longer easily removable
As far as I understand the ZWay binding is only needed when I want to run ZWay and OH at the same time, is this correct?
I’m sorry if I have missed some FAQ where all this is already explained. Pointers appreciated!
I had both a native Openhab (via openhabian) on a RPi3 and a ZWay installation on a separate RPi3 via a Razberry card and a ZWay binding on the Openhab installation to “pull” the ZWay config into Openhab.
Observations:
configuring the zway items using the native interface was a PITA, but it worked once I “got the zen”.
the OH core - zway interface worked reasonably well for several months, until one day it did not.
so far I have been able to salvage the zway-controller-paired devices into my main OH-z-stick controller without undo hassle.
So, on that openhabian RPI you use an USB ZWave controller, correct? What I’m still not really clear on is whether openhab/openhabian natively supports the Razberry module. Do you know about that?
Yes re the openhabian RPi using a USB ZWave controller. I do not personally know if OH2/openhabian natively supports the Razberry module. AFAIR some of the obscure openhabian-config options somewhat imply that, but I do not know personally. The option (35 in my version of openhabian-config) says: “Prepare serial ports for peripherals like Razberry, SCC, Pine64 ZWave, …” but I did not test that.
