zWave Broken. Again

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@travellingkiwi

You mean lose all the config for all this devices I’ve performed? Names, Stats, etc.

Anything that is stored in the zwave device will not need to be reconfigured (configuration parameters, associations, etc.). Anything that is saved in the Thing (name, polling intervals, etc.) would need to be reconfigured, if you use something other than the default. I don’t change anything in my 120+ Things and use this to save time…

Rule for deleting and rediscovering Things

OH2 does not currently have a mechanism for updating Thing types. When a binding update includes new or modified Channel definitions, the Thing needs to be manually deleted and recreated in order to use the new/modified Channel. For most bindings, it is not too cumbersome to do this manually. But when you are using the Zwave binding with ~120 devices, this can be a real headache. Here is an example of how I have automated the deletion, rediscovery, and reconfiguration of my Zwave Things. I run t…

I’ve also mentioned in another thread that this rule could be modified to save/restore the old Thing names, but could also restore other configurations too.