Feature: Generate Provisioning Entries

[billmoseley]

I did a download of my provisioning entries and it seems like most (or all?) the provisioning data can be pulled out of the .jsonl, nodes.json, and/or device files.

Would it be possible to be able to create the provisioning list from existing node data? Curious if that would be useful.

I can see two uses. Mostly, when the QR isn't easily accessible.

1. Today I wanted to change a switch to Long Range, but it is installed inside the wall so QR isn't easy to get to to re-include it. (In this case I just looked up the DSK in the jsonl file.)

2. As a secondary back up. If a controller failed and NVM can't be restored could reset devices & power cycle and use the provisioning data to include them. Node IDs would be different, but HA entity names should match, right? I have quite a few switches inside walls, and like above, would be a pain to open all those back up again if I didn't have the dsk available.

[robertsLando]

@billmoseley From provisioning entries table you can export/import all provisioning entries

[billmoseley]

The idea is to create the provisioning entires from data in other files if the provisioning data does not exist.

I moved from zwave-js to zwave-js-ui and my provisioning table is empty.

Sorry, I did say that I downloaded/exported provisioning data, but that was just to look at what data is included.

[robertsLando]

I don't know the format of other files, anyway I suggest to try to add a new node to provisioning entries table then export it and try to fix the export you have to make it match the one from zui side and import it

[billmoseley]

Today I finally had a few minutes to look at this. It was pretty easy.

I used the Dump feature (nodes_dump.json), the provisioningEntries.json export, and <homeId>.jsonl file and a short Perl script that merged the provisioningEntries.json with the nodes_dump.json data to create a new provisioning json file of all my nodes.

I then imported that and now I have SmartStart data for all my nodes. The new ones I added now show the associated (included) node ID, so apparently ZUI looks that up via the DSK.

It's not very difficult, and maybe a rare need (do most people have all their nodes in the Provisioning list?), so value of such a feature is limited.

By the way, does anything in ZUI enable the "Active" toggle on the provisioning list? I ask because some toggles were enabled after importing the provisioning data. I thought the "Active" toggle was just to say if a given provisioning entry should be used during inclusion.

Thanks,

[robertsLando]

If you want them to be disabled by default you should set property status to 1 (it's an enum)

export declare enum ProvisioningEntryStatus {
    Active = 0,
    Inactive = 1
}