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cgarwood / homeassistant-zwave_mqtt

Limited Pre-Release of the new OZW1.6 Z-Wave component. Currently has limited platform support. Check the README for more details.
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Multiple zwave mqtt possible? #48

Closed danjenkins closed 4 years ago

danjenkins commented 4 years ago

Not an issue right now as you're still in the build phase of just getting things working but thought I'd ask the question now considering this is designed to replace zwave in home assistant. Right now you can only have one zwave network in home assistant (I think)

With the move of this outside of HA and HA just seeing this via MQTT, could there be multiples of these running - think a big estate with buildings that aren't next to one another and you can't form a strong mesh of the whole network but you could have 2 -> many networks running separately as strong stable independent networks. With the other zwave to mqtt project you could have multiples of those running because the sensors/devices end up as mqtt sensors/devices. In this one, ultimately they end up on HA as zwave devices (if I understand correctly). Should this be thought about now, would it require any changes to this project, would need changes to HA no doubt? Some might say you'd want multiple HA installs per building in that estate but I'm not sure I agree and this could allow for that flexibility.

Looking forward to this project and not needing to restart my zwave network so many times

Just food for thought.

marcelveldt commented 4 years ago

Hi, this is already supported :-) You can now have multiple instances talking to hass.

Just make sure that each ozwdaemon gets its own instance id and you should be good to go.

danjenkins commented 4 years ago

oh great! Thanks @marcelveldt ! I'll close this :)