Building new network, adding devices is taking forever

[Matt-PMCT]

I decided to rebuild my whole Z-Wave network, using a new stick (Zooz 700 series) and a new instance of zwavejs2mqtt. 95% of the nodes I add fail their interviews. I've been looking through the logs and I keep seeing a message before the failures that says "transmit status: Fail".

To get any of the nodes to complete I usually have to re-interview them at least once, maybe twice. It takes forever to add the nodes. I'm just trying to see if there is anything I'm doing wrong or that I should be looking at for the reason for these failures and for each node to take so long to get setup.

Portion of log example below:

2021-05-02T17:32:55.907Z CNTRLR   [Node 025] did not respond after 1/3 attempts. Scheduling next try in 500 ms.
2021-05-02T17:32:56.409Z DRIVER » [Node 025] [REQ] [SendDataBridge]
                                  │ source node id:   1
                                  │ transmit options: 0x25
                                  │ route:            0, 0, 0, 0
                                  │ callback id:      46
                                  └─[ConfigurationCCPropertiesGet]
                                      parameter #: 4
2021-05-02T17:32:56.415Z DRIVER « [RES] [SendDataBridge]
                                    was sent: true
2021-05-02T17:32:56.421Z DRIVER « [REQ] [SendDataBridge]
                                    callback id:     46
                                    transmit status: Fail
2021-05-02T17:32:56.421Z CNTRLR   [Node 025] did not respond after 2/3 attempts. Scheduling next try in 500 ms.
2021-05-02T17:32:56.922Z DRIVER » [Node 025] [REQ] [SendDataBridge]
                                  │ source node id:   1
                                  │ transmit options: 0x25
                                  │ route:            0, 0, 0, 0
                                  │ callback id:      46
                                  └─[ConfigurationCCPropertiesGet]
                                      parameter #: 4
2021-05-02T17:32:56.929Z DRIVER « [RES] [SendDataBridge]
                                    was sent: true
2021-05-02T17:32:56.934Z DRIVER « [REQ] [SendDataBridge]
                                    callback id:     46
                                    transmit status: Fail
2021-05-02T17:32:56.935Z CNTRLR   [Node 025] Interview attempt 1/5 failed, retrying in 5000 ms...

Full Log File:
zwavejs_1.zip

[AlCalzone]

That seems like your stick is unable to send messages most of the time. While it doesn't tell us why that is, usually power-cycling the stick can help.

That means shut down, pull the stick, put it back, start again.

[Matt-PMCT]

Thanks, that definitely helped. Next 5 nodes were added very very quickly. Really appreciate your project and help!