cannot include remotec ZRC90

[johndmtcz]

Hi all,
I just bought a REMOTEC ZRC90 Scenemaster (8 buttons), but I don't manage to include it into Domoticz.
I have an AEON USB Zwave stick, with which I included a lot of other Zwave devices (mostly Fibaro switches and dimmers).
When I follow the include sessions (press the L button in the battery compartment and put the USB stick in inclusion mode, it seems to work. The USB stick starts to blink fast to indicate the inclusion, but back in the Raspberry and after a Sudo Reboot action via Putty, no hardware is added in 'Setup>Hardware'. I see that more people use this device so it should be possible to include it, but how?
Hope anybody can help me.

Thanks,
John

[kiddigital]

Include hardware setting is turned on in Domoticz?

Can you see the device in the Z-Wave management UI?

[gizmocuz]

I bought this device quite some time ago and know it's working
Do you use zwavejs-ui with the new MQTT Auto Discovery hardware in Domoticz? If not, I would suggest switching to this

[johndmtcz]

Include hardware setting is turned on in Domoticz?

Can you see the device in the Z-Wave management UI?

Thank you for your help. Yes, Include hardware setting is ON.

Don't know what you mean with the 'Z-Wave management UI', so I clearly miss some knowledge there

[johndmtcz]

I bought this device quite some time ago and know it's working
Do you use zwavejs-ui with the new MQTT Auto Discovery hardware in Domoticz? If not, I would suggest switching to this

Many thanks for your help! I guess you discuss the same Zwave User interface as in the previous answer? Can you indicate how I can switch to that? My knowledge in tweaking around is fairly poor.

[johndmtcz]

I had a pleasant surprise this afternoon! The device still doesn't show in Setup > Hardware, but then I pressed a button on the ZRC90 and it appeared in Setup > Devices.
After that is was easy to couple them to scenes. I gave the eight buttons a name that start with $ so they are not shown in the Switches overview.
Maybe this helps somebody in the future.

Still curious about the MQTT stuff though...

[gizmocuz]

Great it is working again!

I assume you use now the (deprecated soon) OpenZWave hardware for your ZWave devices?
This project is not maintained anymore, these days we have zwavejs-ui

I would use docker-compose (install something like: sudo apt-get install docker-compose)
Then I would create a docker-compose file for MQTT (in a separate folder) and one for zwavejs-ui (in a separate folder)
Firstly, get yourself familiar with docker-compose
Then in Domoticz you disable the OpenZWave hardware, add the new 'MQTT Auto Discovery' hardware and point it to your MQTT instance
In the web interface of zwavejs-ui you configure the MQTT broker as well
And now everything should just work (but a lot better)

The most tricky part is to route your USB device (like /dev/serial/by-id/....) to the docker
If you go to our official docker page, there is a example in our docker-compose file

You can also run Domoticz in a docker (and a lot of other fun stuff as well!)

I have a bad practice that I like, I create all my docker-compose folders in /opt
all my volumes are starting with ./
this will create all needed storage inside these folders, and to backup (or restore or copy to test a new build) you just copy that folder