Honeywell T6 Pro Zwave Help!

Devices
5

Yes

  1. Buy a €99 Home Assistant Green

or (more effort & more power, less (or more) silver coins)

  1. Install VirtualBox/VMware/Hyper-V/KVM on a (old) pc / laptop, or a thin client like Intel NUC or HP Elite;
    1a. Download, unzip and just start a HA virtual machine image:
    1aA. For Windows OS:
    https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/windows/
    1aB. For linux OS:
    https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux

Or a €0 way, as added by @RonnyW :

  1. When you own a NAS with Docker support, you can run HA as docker container

Next

  1. Buy a supported zwave stick, like, a €60 Aeotec Gen5+ ***
  2. Plug the zwave dongle in a USB port. If you use a virtual HA machine, make sure the ‘real’ USB port is forwarded to the VM
  3. Install the HA zwavejsui addon
    https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zwave_js/
  4. Pair all Honeywell T6 to HA using zwavejsui

Homey

  1. Install Home Assistant Community app
  2. Add the T6 devices as Thermostat via the HA Comm. app.

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***) for EU use: why no Gen 7?
Aeotec Z-Stick 7 USB stick (ZWA010): the EU version is not recommended due to RF performance issues

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