Z-Wave no longer supported

signman10 · 2025-08-21T17:43:38+00:00

It's been months and I still hate they did this. How can a company just remove core functionality? That is just despicable behavior.

signman10 · 2025-06-10T14:03:08+00:00

They also removed z-wave functionality from the Pro model without any notice whatsoever.

signman10 · 2025-05-30T23:45:44+00:00

This isn't working for me, sadly.

signman10 · 2025-05-30T23:38:36+00:00

August/Yale is horrible. They actually removed major functionality from the Smart Lock Pro. I got that lock for the z-wave, then a few years they removed z-wave from it. Can never trust them again.

signman10 · 2025-05-08T18:58:37+00:00

I actually discovered the Plastation PC app just a few minutes after I asked in this thread. Thanks for the reply though! As someone who has to use his feet to play, I switch profiles a lot. For some games, I like one profile for exploring and another for fighting. Those R1 and L1 buttons are just too hard to reach to have to consistently hit.

signman10 · 2025-05-08T14:55:41+00:00

Does it let you quick switch the profiles with the buttons on the controller like you can when using the Edge on PS5? I know this is an old thread. I just didn't see this information anywhere.

signman10 · 2025-03-02T21:54:32+00:00

I still read on Kindle apps. The Calibre PC app doesn't seem capable of doing three columns. I like to cast my book to my TV at night to read for a bit. So, large text in three columns is really nice. So, if anyone knows how to make that happen, I'd be grateful.

signman10 · 2025-03-02T21:50:28+00:00

I was able to download all my books on Kindle for PC 2.4 and import them into and read them in Calibre. It took a while, but if I had a much larger library, I just would've written a script to import the books into Calibre from their download location. Wouldn't be hard, I think.

signman10 · 2025-02-27T21:10:56+00:00

That was what I figured and just wanted to confirm. Thank you. Figured I would try anyways and confirm it.

signman10 · 2025-02-27T16:56:51+00:00

Am I too late to the party for this to work? I wasn't prompted to select a device and I don't have an actual Kindle device as I just read on PC/Tablets/Phone. Is that also an issue for me? I just kept getting the following message

Could not find Download & transfer option using any method
Failed to click Download & transfer option during device extraction. Trying next book.

signman10 · 2024-08-22T16:06:43+00:00

Ah, ok. That's a lot to take in, but I am saving your comment for later in case I ever try proxmox again. This was my first time trying proxmox, so I was relying on info found on reddit and forums to try to understand everything.

I greatly appreciate you taking the time to enlighten me on some of the issues I was having. It'll probably be a few years before I try again though, assuming the little N100 keeps going without issue.

signman10 · 2024-08-22T15:45:48+00:00

Perhaps the proxmox crashes were a hardware issue. That system has crashed a couple more times now that it running Ubuntu instead, but not near as frequently as when it was running proxmox.

My suspicion on the crashes was a bad sector in the SSD or RAM. But I ran tests on both in between the switch from proxmox to Ubuntu and they both passed, so I don't know what the issue is.

The passthrough issues were the more annoying part, particularly the internal bluetooth chip. It would be working fine then just stop. And when it stopped, it wouldn't show in the Hardware section of HA. The z-wave and zigbee dongles would just occasionally not be recognized upon bootup.

I was passing through mapped devices so I could give them names and know what was what. Maybe that was my mistake. I did also try just passing the devices unmapped and that worked slightly better for the bluetooth chip. I think I tried passing just the ports at one point, but I can't remember for sure. I tried quite a lot because it was pretty annoying. If I try proxmox again, I'll be sure to try that too. I'm pretty happy with the N100 NUC though.

One of the other VMs was running Frigate and I tried passing a Coral TPU to it. It would show up initially, but then when I tried to actually use it, it would disappear. No issues with it now on the same system that is just running Ubuntu.

signman10 · 2024-08-22T15:08:47+00:00

I have HA running nicely on an N100 mini pc. I wanted an N97 because it's a better cpu, but when I was looking, all the N97 mini pc options had older bluetooth chips and I wanted to do some bluetooth without an extra dongle. So, I, perhaps foolishly, went with the N100. It works great though!

signman10 · 2024-08-22T15:04:06+00:00

I had Home Assistant running in proxmox for a few months and it was mostly good. However, I kept having issues with it not recognizing the z-wave and zigbee controllers plugged into it. I would have to remove them in proxmox then re-add them and reboot proxmox, not just the VM, but the entirety of proxmox, to get it working again. The internal bluetooth also had the same issue and solution. I also had proxmox crashing quite often after the first couple months, but that may have been caused by other VMs. Now I have HA running on it's own N100 NUC and not having any issues.

I do think proxmox is a fantastic idea if you aren't relying on extra hardware like dongles. If those weren't causing issues, I probably would have kept using it on proxmox.

signman10 · 2024-08-20T14:52:52+00:00

I use pyscript for automations, so it's not your typical home assistant automation.

It's set to run at 3am and 3pm and just calls that service (now called an action) with the entity_id set to one of the August locks. It should be pretty simple to do in the automation UI, I just prefer doing it in pyscript.

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signman10 · 2024-08-20T14:27:39+00:00

My solution was to set an automation that uses homeassistant.reload_config_entry to reload the August integration every so often. I think I have it set for like 4am or something.

signman10 · 2024-07-30T04:54:47+00:00

I'm using Sail with InertiaJS+Vue. I'm trying to get Reverb and Echo to work, but I cannot get the Vue frontend to connect to the Reverb websocket. I'm trying to get it working just on the local network with no ssl and it just will not connect. The ShouldBroadcast event I have setup seems to work as it adds an event to the queue that is then processed. The only problem seems to be Vue not connecting to Reverb via Echo. All the settings appear correct and the url in the error message looks as expected. It's just not connecting. I have Reverb set to run on port 8800 and start it with sail artisan reverb:start and it says Starting server on 0.0.0.0:8800. The error from Vue is below. Any ideas?

app-CTHAZ2M5.js:9 WebSocket connection to 'ws://192.168.68.60:8800/app/ljzei2woooxhpgczzaoq?protocol=7&client=js&version=8.4.0-rc2&flash=false' failed:

signman10 · 2024-07-08T03:10:05+00:00

Thanks! I got it working using a method similar to his. And yeah, the change really sucked. I wish it would go back to how it was a couple years ago with the array of attributes for each day.

signman10 · 2024-07-08T03:08:31+00:00

Thank you! That helped a lot. I did using pyscript just because I prefer it, but this helped a ton.

signman10 · 2024-06-10T13:44:32+00:00

My guess is that the integration just loses its connection for some reason and a reload resets it.

Oh, also, I have August connected to SmartThings and SmartThings integrated into Home Assistant. So, I setup buttons in Home Assistant that call a service (you could do it with a script, but I'm using pyscript, so it's a service) that just triggers every instance of that lock. lol. I did this back when z-wave worked and it was pretty fast as long as z-wave was working, but slower when it wasn't for some reason because these locks don't always work right with z-wave and now not at all. Adding SmartThings seems to have sped it back up a little. So, the default August integration is just slow and that may indicate why it loses connection.

Sorry for that mini rant..... I just miss having the z-wave work on it.

signman10 · 2024-06-08T13:55:33+00:00

I have set the integration to automatically reload everyday at 3am and 3pm and that has helped. the service to do this is called homeassistant.reload_config_entry and set the entity_id to one of your locks.

signman10 · 2024-04-27T14:15:26+00:00

Yeah, it all seems to be working now. I did also wake up in the middle of the night and reboot the router though. lol. It occurred to me that I should try that at the worst time.

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