Home Assistant

Changing from Indigo to Home Assistant due to repeated issues with Z-wave
As a test, running HA operating system on a mac mini in virtual box VM
Using Aeon Labs S2 stick - factory reset from the HA UI

Installation

Used homebrew to install VirtualBox brew install --cask virtualbox
Add USB filter in the VM to identify the USB Z-wave stick, in my case ....
Add second USB filter for the RFXTRX transmitter for Somfy blinds

Autostart the VM on OSX startup

ToDo Guide

Network

Give it a static IP

Traefik

Need to add to configuration.yml in home assitant the following:

http:
  use_x_forwarded_for: true
  trusted_proxies:
    - 10.2.0.0/16
    - 127.0.0.1
    - ::1
    - fe80::/64
    - fe00::/64
    - fd00::/64
  ip_ban_enabled: true
  login_attempts_threshold: 5

Accessing host files in VM

there are 3 options, all involve add-ons to be installed from the HA UI
1. VSC addon - I chose this one
2. SSH addon
3. Samba addon

Addons

Name	Comments
Advanced SSH and Web Terminal	need to add an ssh password in configuration to worki and put public key in configuration - username is hassio@IP
Studio Code Server	best way to access the configuration.yml file in the HA host os
Z-Wave JS UI	for the Z-wave USB stick
Home Assistant Google Drive Backup	automated backups to Google Drive

Integrations

Integration	Source	Comments
Doorbird	Official	worked out of box - just needed to add username and password
Sonos	Official	need to specify IP addresses as auto-discovery messy over complex networks
Envisalink	Community	need to edit config.yml
HACS	Community	Installed via ssh script (link below)
SecuritySpy	HACS	painless
RFXCOM	Official	need the node ID and unit number (link below) ie. 071a000000000202
Sensibo	Official	nan
Logitech Harmony	Official	the device controls are found from harmony_xyz.conf in hass config directory

HACS Guide
RFXCOM RFXtrx

Harmony

The device controls are called from the Remote:Send command service and the device ID and Command are found in the harmony_xzy.conf file in the config directory of home assistant.

Doorbird

Make sure the Doorbird device itself has the http call from home assistant in the doorbell schedule so it triggers. The Event type is called doorbird_21cs_doorbird_doorbell

Automations

Complex (more than on parameter/variable in a single action) automations need their Mode changed to queued

Z wave devices

Fibaro dimmers - make pulse length 135 for better low dimming ranges

Adding Scenes

For the Fibaro Zwave dimmer FDG211: 1. Parameter 7 2. Parameter The scene ids are: 22 and 23 Create a trigger as follows:

platform: event
event_type: zwave_js_value_notification
event_data:
  node_id: 14
  value_raw: 22

Minimalist UI

For binary sensor cards set:

ulm_show_last_changed: false

UI Lovelace Minimalist

Resources

Aeotec Z-Stick
Useful YouTube Guide on First Steps