Community Hass.io Add-ons: Z-Wave to MQTT

Fully configurable Z-Wave to MQTT gateway and control panel.

About

The Z-Wave to MQTT add-on allows you to decouple your Z-Wave network from your Home Assistant instance by leveraging your MQTT broker. It ships with a web-based control panel, allowing you to configure every aspect of your Z-Wave network and how they are published in MQTT.

Some advantages and use-cases for this are:

Your Z-Wave network will keep running between Home Assistant restarts.
You can directly use things like Node-RED with your Z-Wave network, while it is available for Home Assistant at the same time.
Allow ESPHome.io based ESP devices to directly respond or work with your Z-Wave network.

This add-on uses the Zwave2Mqtt software provided by OpenZWave.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.

Search for the "Z-Wave to MQTT" add-on in the Hass.io add-on store and install it.
Start the "Z-Wave to MQTT" add-on.
Check the logs of the "Z-Wave to MQTT" add-on to see if everything went well.
Click the "OPEN WEB UI" button.
Enjoy the add-on!

NOTE: The upstream project has documentation on using the software itself: https://github.com/OpenZWave/Zwave2Mqtt

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

{
  "log_level": "info",
  "ssl": true,
  "certfile": "fullchain.pem",
  "keyfile": "privkey.pem"
}

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!

Option: `log_level`

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
debug: Shows detailed debug information.
info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

Option: `ssl`

Enables/Disables SSL on the control panel. Set it true to enable it, false otherwise.

Option: `certfile`

The certificate file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is default for Hass.io.

Option: `keyfile`

The private key file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is default for Hass.io.

Option: `leave_front_door_open`

Adding this option to the add-on configuration allows you to disable authentication on the add-on by setting it to true and leaving the username and password empty.

Note: We STRONGLY suggest, not to use this, even if this add-on is only exposed to your internal network. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Embedding into Home Assistant

It is possible to embed the Z-Wave to MQTT control panel web interface directly into Home Assistant, allowing you to access it through the Home Assistant frontend.

Home Assistant provides the panel_iframe integration, for these purposes.

Example configuration:

panel_iframe:
  zwave2mqtt:
    title: Z-Wave to MQTT
    icon: mdi:z-wave
    url: http://addres.to.your.hass.io:8091

Known issues and limitations

This add-on is currently unable to support Hass.io Ingress. This is due to technical limitations of the zwave2mqtt control panel web interface.

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality. The format of the log is based on Keep a Changelog.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

The Community Hass.io Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
The Home Assistant Community Forum.
Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

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License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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