Z-Wave Battery Devices not working - stuck in REQ_INF

I am using OpenHab since “ages” including numerous Z-Wave devices, battery and powered devices.
OpenHab runs on a Raspi 4B, using a AEOTEC GEN5+ stick, OpenHab version v3.4.1

All my Z-Wave battery devices are not working since month (I didn’t had time to follow up on that). Now, I am willing to allocate some effort to repair that.

I understand the general issue with Z-Wave battery device.
I restarted OpenHab now several times, brought one of my battery device, close to the controller and woke it up several times.

I would have expected that I at least see some message in the Z-Wave log (set to debug) about message exchange. But all what I get is that the controller moved it to REQ_INF:

In one of my restart attempts I also saw:

2023-01-24 11:57:56.446 [DEBUG] [g.zwave.internal.ZWaveConfigProvider] - No bridgeUID found in getConfigDescription thing:zwave:serial_zstick:1e289b8b85

2023-01-24 11:58:37.126 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update received
2023-01-24 11:58:37.129 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored group_5 to [] (EmptyList)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.129 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored group_4 to [] (EmptyList)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.129 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored group_1 to [controller] (ArrayList)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.129 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored group_3 to [] (EmptyList)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.129 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored group_2 to [] (EmptyList)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.130 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored wakeup_node to 1 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.130 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_16_2 to 0 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.130 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_18_1 to 15 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.130 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_12_1 to 0 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.130 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_14_2 to 255 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_64_2 to 0 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_87_2 to 28 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_20_1 to 20 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_40_2 to 200 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_86_2 to 18 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.131 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_62_2 to 900 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_42_2 to 3600 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_60_2 to 10 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_83_2 to 1000 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_82_2 to 100 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_81_1 to 50 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.132 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored config_80_1 to 10 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.133 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update ignored wakeup_interval to 7200 (BigDecimal)
2023-01-24 11:58:37.133 [DEBUG] [ding.zwave.handler.ZWaveThingHandler] - NODE 15: Configuration update set action_heal to true (Boolean)

Any ideas and help is highly appreciated. I am really stuck and have no glue what I can do.

Hard to say with limited Debug. One thing might be stop restarting as that doesn’t help anything. With each restart all battery devices are going to reach the request_nif stage. Also IIRC in that stage you will not be able to update the configuration. Also don’t try Heal as that will not work in the Req_Nif stage either.
It could be a communication issue. Try pressing the wake button (per the manual wake direction), close to the controller say 20 minutes or more after a restart while having the binding in debug mode. If no message, there is no communication. Try new batteries. Pay no attention to the battery percentage, if the device is not working that is likely a stale number.

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Resolved the issue by excluding and including my battery devices and removing dead nodes following the description here

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