Z-wave OH 2.4 Release nodes not communicating or unknown

[BigCol]

Hey all, last weekend up upgraded to 2.4 Release version from 2.3.

a week later i still have 3 devices showing as ‘unknown’ in Habmin, and 1 showing as ‘node not communicating with controller’

Unknown devices are node numbers 23, 25, 26, with the not communicating node 24. coincidence that the 4 nodes are sequential?

[BigCol]

my openhab.log is here https://www.dropbox.com/s/silsopp8epvxt1v/openhab.log?dl=0

if anyone could take a look please

thanks
colin

[sihui]

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I have now merged the development version of the ZWave binding into master, so it will be available in the 2.4 snapshot version. If you are using the ZWave binding, please read this post as the binding contains some breaking changes so you will need to manually update your configuration. Firstly though - the major enhancements (there are tons more smaller updates) -: Security has been added using the S0 security class. This should allow all devices supporting security to be included into the…

[BigCol]

The upgrade path i took was to install a fresh version of 2.4, not an actual upgrade of code - apologies for not making that clear. this evening i have removed and readded all z-wave things - now i have another couple of additional unknown nodes.

[sihui]

@BigCol

Unknown devices are node numbers 23, 25, 26, with the not communicating node 24

What I am seeing is:

2019-01-26 10:25:24.129 [WARN ] [ve.internal.protocol.ZWaveController] - NODE 23: Restore from config: Error. Data invalid, ignoring config.

Means openHAB cannot read your zwave xml files anymore.

This could be a bad storage medium. It’s only a warning but I would try to find out why. It could also be a permission issue.

Next thing i see: while setting a parameter you get huge timeouts for node 24. Node too far away from the controller?

Node 25 and node 26 do not exist at all in your log, maybe some ghost nodes from failed inclusion attempts?

[BigCol]

Does the zwave binding not recreate the XML files if there is a problem with them? Maybe I should remove the node 23 and delete the XML file? Nodes 23 & 24 are next to each other in the shed at the bottom of the garden and have been for a coupe of years now

[sihui]

@BigCol

Does the zwave binding not recreate the XML files if there is a problem with them?

The xml files are recreated is something changes. For example during a nightly heal.

@BigCol

Maybe I should remove the node 23 and delete the XML file?

If you are talking about excluding and reincluding: no, this is normally not necessary and should be the very last step.
I first would do a soft reset of the controller: shutdown your openHAB server, disconnect power (or remove the controller physically), reconnect power, start openHAB.
Next step would be to reiniaialize the device in question (you need to switch to advanced settings in HABmin). This also recreates the xml files.
If those are battery devices, wake them up manually, this may have to be done several times.