Hello all,
I’ve been fighting with razberry7 pro on top of rpi4B and it just doesn’t work reliably (if at all). I’ve dug around the internet, tried different software on it, verified that firmware is up to date and so on and even fed my logs to LLMs in hopes they could spot something. Currently my z-wave devices are practically useless (gladly I got devices with physical controls too) and based on discussions around I’m not alone.
So, I think it’s time for me to just get something better. Ideal device would be wired over ethernet and have z-wave and zigbee hubs and possibly POE, but I haven’t found any which would also be fully supported by HA.
ZWA-2 should be pretty solid choise, but I’m running HAOS in a virtual machine on my proxmox host and I’d really like to have an option to migrate VM to different hardware as needed but that would require also physically moving the USB plug from one host to another.
What are your experiences, what I should get? I’m in EU, so frequencies need to match, but otherwise I’m pretty open for suggestions and having a rock solid z-wave network is a top priority. If it means using ZWA-2 or some other USB gadget I can work with it, but, again, ideally I’d like to have something wired to the network. Wifi is of course an option, but good old ethernet would be preferred.
Ha! I actually have exactly what you want ,TubeZB has a dual zigbee/zwave PoE network controller.
I had a zigbee only model from a few years ago that I’m currently swapping this one for, and I’ve got no complaints about the product
Well that’s exactly what I asked for. Pretty neat thing at least on quick read up. Unfortunately the customs situation with shipments from USA to Finland (or EU in general) is a mess right now, so I wont dig up my visa card at least immediately. I need to study a bit what’s actually the situation today (and hope that it doesn’t change again after few days).
Ooof, yeah shipping anything in/out of burgerstan is painful right now. But I will say, the owner is a pretty cool dude and he might be willing to let you know where to source the components he uses to build his units. Looks like it’s basically just a PoE rpi, the zigbee and zwave modules, and a daughter board to connect the modules to the rpi, along with a 3d printed case
I assume it’s the usual suspects, as in aliexpress and ebay for the components. Or quality ones from mouser/something. I’m just not in the market for yet another DIY project right now, there’s plenty of unfinished ones around, like adding sensors and IR transmitter to garage for heat pump control and temperature monitoring with esp32.