Home Assistant

Z-Wave Support

Z-Wave support is currently broken as we’re unable to compile Python Open Z-Wave.

Z-Wave support for Home Assistant is very new. We have started now by integrating only the sensors.

Support for Z-Wave can be added by plugging a Z-Wave USB stick into your computer.

To allow Home Assistant to talk to your Z-Wave USB stick you will have to compile Python Open Z-Wave yourself. We have made it easy and added a script that will do just that for you: script/build_python_openzwave.

Please make sure you have the correct dependencies installed:

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apt-get install cython3 libudev-dev python-sphinx python3-setuptools
pip3 install cython

As an alternative, the Home Assistant docker image has support for Z-Wave built-in.

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# Example configuration.yaml entry
zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/ttyUSB0

Configuration variables:

  • usb_path (Required): The port where your device is connected to your Home Assistant host.
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ls /dev/ttyUSB*