Maybe helpful to dig through the Archive and find solutions or copy helpful articles to new community site.
https://web.archive.org/web/202306051548...vb_forums/

I'd love to find something that I could replace CQC. There simply is nothing that ticks all the boxes. Still the best damn Windows software I use today. Ill add templates and photos as soon as I figure out where to host the images. Thanks for keeping this alive guys!!

CQC4ever

I'm glad to see I found some of my CQC peeps..

Just finished moving from CQC/Smartthings to Home assistant with CQC as the front end.
CQC seems to work just fine including as a secondary controller on the Home Assistant Z-wave network.

My zwave setup:
Home Assistant(Yellow):
Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Plus S2 USB Stick ZST10
 
CQC:
Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5, Z-Wave Plus USB
 
I had to migrate 40+ Z-wave devices including lights, blinds, etc.
So after migration and you will just need to in CQC:

• Do an include/exclude for the CQC Zwave stick to join the HA new Zwave network.
  
• rescan each unit on the zwave driver client interface and also update names with new unit id's
  
• Obviously leave the device names in CQC the same as you will need to rename each device as the device ID’s will change on the new Z-wave network.
  
• I couldn’t get my locks to work after migration on CQC so moved them to the new HA CQC rest Polling Driver in CQC(Schlage  BE469).
  

• Manual set the device type and then do an approve all.
  
• Then change name and do a save.
  

Looks like Home Assistant Rest API works pretty good with CQC and should help those of use that need to add a few unsupported devices to CQC.

As everyone knows there is no other HA system out that compares to the configurability of the GUI interface you get from CQC. So why not just let HomeAssistant poll the device and CQC can lookup state/attributes from HA.

Here is a first cut of a test driver.
Driver install prompts:
1. HomeAssistant Long-lived access token (see below)
2. Polling Interval (default is 5 seconds)
3. HomeAssistant Hub IP address example: 192.168.1.1
4. List of HomeAssistant Entities to be polled (see format below)


  HomeAssistant_0.2.zip (Size: 31.44 KB / Downloads: 3)

Note:

• It polls the local HomeAssistant Hub.
  
• It does one small "state" poll for each device at poll time. (so keep it to a small number of devices not supported by CQC)
  
• Driver creates fields based on HomeAssistant entity names that are specified to poll  at driver configuration.
  
• HA can report locks in strange states(jammed,unkown,etc) in this case the lock will be set to false(unlocked) just like the HA app does.
  
• CQC has a 8 second HTTPost timer and HA seems to have a very rare 40 second timeout(when unplugging z-wave devices, HA seems to pend all post requests for up to 40 seconds until HA sets that status again). I have only seen it on sending commands to locks. guess HA pends on the lock to finish unlocking/locking,etc. In this case driver will increment the $LostConn field in the driver status screen. 
  

• enhance Lights to do color light fields
  
• Add more device types as I only added light, lock, switch, and sensors.(or a more elegant lookup table of some kind)
  
• Sensor should work for any sensors and binary_sensors as they are just text fields.
  

OpenWeatherMap.org released an API (named OneCall) that provides current weather information based on your lat/long along with 8 days of forecast data in JSON format.  It allows 1000 calls per day to the free account that you will have to set up on their website (which is the same API key that the shipped OWM driver used).

This version is V2 Compatible, but there is another version available that uses the fields from the old Weather / Weather Underground / DarkSky drivers.  This version does not have as many additional fields and nor any weather alerts, so unless you are just stuck on the V2 functionality, the other driver would be the recommended one to use.

  OpenWeatherMapJSON V0.92.CQCDrvPack (Size: 14.02 KB / Downloads: 0)
  OWM-JSON V0.92 Documentation.docx (Size: 22.12 KB / Downloads: 0)

OpenWeatherMap.org released an API (named OneCall) that provides current weather information based on your lat/long along with 8 days of forecast data in JSON format.  It allows 1000 calls per day to the free account that you will have to set up on their website (which is the same API key that the shipped OWM driver used).

This version is backward compatible with the old Weather, Weather Underground, and DarkSky driver fields, but their is another version is available that is V2 compatible.  This version has many additional fields and weather alerts, so unless you are just stuck on the V2 functionality, this driver would be the one to use.

  OpenWeatherMapJSON1.0 V0.51.CQCDrvPack (Size: 15.62 KB / Downloads: 0)
  OWM-JSON1.0 V0.51 Documentation.html (Size: 26.76 KB / Downloads: 0)

https://github.com/DeanRoddey/CQC?

License

Both CQC and CIDLib are available under the MIT open source license.

https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Click on below link to download:


  CQCInstSE_6_0_7.zip (Size: 39.45 MB / Downloads: 5)

  CQCInstSE_6_0_1.zip (Size: 39.26 MB / Downloads: 1)

  CQCInstSE_6_0_0.zip (Size: 39.31 MB / Downloads: 2)

I know its not really a driver since it uses MQTT. But hay this really isn't supported by me either .



https://solar-assistant.io/



Overview
This is a very special driver in that it actually allows you to create 'pseudo fields' whose values are

1. Import the attached template into CQC admin screen(File/Tools/Import packages)
2. Start the MQTT Broker in the Solar Assistant device config screen.
3. Install CQC MQTT Driver and name the Moniker:  “SolarAssistant”
4. Edit the Config file as per your inverter setup:
5. Install CQC  LogicSrv driver and add the 3 fields and source fields(to calculate percentages for the real time gauges)
6. Create/Edit MQTT config file for data to be accessed by CQC
“C:\Program Files (x86)\CQC\CQCData\Server\Data\MQTT\SolarAssistant”


  SolarAssistantV1.zip (Size: 816.8 KB / Downloads: 0)


To add 3 fields to the LogicSrv Configuration screen (to hold calculation for gauges)
Of course my Inverter is a 3K invert you should change 3000 to match your inverter so gauges are  correct.(note Since there is no gauge widget had to make images – 10% 20% 30%,etc)

Defined Fields Source Fields Formula
BatteryPowerPercent SolarAssistant.BatteryPower 10 *  %(1) / 3000
GridPowerPercent SolarAssistant.GridPower 10 *  %(1) / 3000
LoadPowerPercent SolarAssistant.LoadPower 10 *  %(1) / 3000

My MQTT  Config file:
(highly recommend downloading and running MQTT Explorer software  to get your fields for config file)
C:\Program Files (x86)\CQC\CQCData\Server\Data\MQTT\SolarAssistant
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
        <!DOCTYPE MQTTCfg PUBLIC "urn:charmedquark.com:CQC-MQTTCfg.DTD" "CQCMQTTCfg.DTD">
        <MQTTCfg Version="1" MQTTPort="1883" MQTTAddr="192.168.2.191">

            <Fields>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/load_power/state" BaseName="LoadPower" Access="R" FldType="Card" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/grid_power/state" BaseName="GridPower" Access="R" FldType="Card" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/grid_voltage/state" BaseName="GridVoltage" Access="R" FldType="Float" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/pv_power/state" BaseName="PvPower" Access="R" FldType="Card" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/total/battery_state_of_charge/state" BaseName="BatteryStateOfCharge" Access="R" FldType="Card" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/total/battery_power/state" BaseName="BatteryPower" Access="R" FldType="Int" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/battery_current/state" BaseName="BatteryCurrent" Access="R" FldType="Float" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/battery_voltage/state" BaseName="BatteryVoltage" Access="R" FldType="Float" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>

                <Generic Topic="solar_assistant/inverter_1/device_mode/state" BaseName="DeviceMode" Access="R" FldType="String" >
                      <PLFmt Type="BinText"/>
                </Generic>
               
            </Fields>

        </MQTTCfg>