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OK, I got it working. As a last resort, I used a stock razberry image and it worked, so the problem lay with the raspbmc image. It turned out that raspbmc starts a getty on ttyAMA0 using a conf file in /etc/init (rather than using inittab). I missed that until I grep'd the whole of /etc for ttyAMA0....

I've tried talking to it with minicom and still no joy. I reckon the board is broken so I'm sending it back.

Thanks for all the pointers.

Just realised that I posted this in the wrong forum. Perhaps a mod could move it to the Razberry forum, please.

I've cycled the power. The LEDs on the adapter flickered a few times.

No change in the status messages though. Do I have a duff board? Is ttyAMA0 the correct tty device?

Like I said, it's obscured. From that photo you can, correctly, infer that it's probably on the leftmost four, but you can't see for sure.

It's not a big thing, but for a newbie it could be a show-stopper.

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Like I said, the Quick Start Guide says nothing about how to install the board. All it has is a partially obscured picture.

Incidentally, I notice that if I try to run the old expert UI I get a status message saying the server has not completed startup yet. Also, the new Epert UI just has a banner saying "error handling data from server"

Any idea why I'm getting all the errors then? e.g from the log [2014-12-15 13:26:44.972] [D] [zway] Opened device: /dev/ttyAMA0 [2014-12-15 13:26:44.974] [D] [zway] Worker thread successfully created [2014-12-15 13:26:44.979] [D] [zway] Worker thread entry point [2014-12-15 13:26:44.987] [I] [zway] ...

Thanks When I go into Preferences, in Automation I see a reference to z-wave binding. This is enabled, along with cron. Opening it shows it using /dev/ttyAMA0 with the internal name zway and module ID: ZWave. In Modules/Peripherals I see five modules, including ZWave but I'm not sure what that means...

I've decided to move over to using a Razberry Pi to run my HA rather than use Indigo on a Mac. The latter runs the home at the moment and is brilliant, but the MacMini uses a lot of power. I've followed the Quick Start guide to install z-way-server on one of my Pis that also runs raspbmc and connect...