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I'm hopeful. For those it's not impactful but just a bit annoying.

Count me as another having issues with the Aeotec Range Extender 7's not showing as a node. Perhaps because there's nothing really to control, they do appear to route and everything correctly at least, but it would be better if they showed as a node. They're also some of the few devices that failed to come back after the automated transfer, which caused a number of downlevel devices that needed interviews because there was no viable route.

It's not changed in 5.5.0, and probably won't change if at all. IoX = "ISY on Anything", it's a change from IoP = "ISY on Polisy" to accommodate the eisy | home box they've started selling. ISY is still in the name

My experience: I had updated my Polisy earlier today, so I was as up to date as I likely could be. Clicked the Upgrade Packages button, then waited an hour. ioX never came back up and checking in top showed no activity on pkg or anything else related. Gave Polisy a soft reboot (sudo reboot), after about 5 minutes IoX came up, but after another hour Polyglot3 hadn't started. Clicked the Upgrade Packages button again, within 2 minutes Polyglot was up and running. I haven't switched to the new ZMatter board and have both it and Zooz installed, but am still working on the Zooz for the moment until there's some more migration experience for me to read up on. Once it got up and running, it runs basically like 5.4.5.

Works fine with Polisy so I'm going with yes. Do note that it's much slower and less capable than a dual band PLM, but for smaller networks it works very well.

It honestly looks a ton like a NUC 11 Essential, right down to the price point. It looks like UDI only put in a small markup (or got a good deal on trays of 1k units): https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/217669/intel-nuc-11-essential-kit-nuc11atkc4/specifications.html The N5105 has an extremely long support tail, since its target markets include embedded, IoT, and routers. Long term prospects are much better than Polisy, not the least of which is because it has enough CPU power and RAM to go forward with. For the curious, the Atlas Canyon CPUs are basically one of the quad E-Core bundles lifted out of Alder Lake (12th Gen), with an 11th Gen dual channel memory controller, and modern Intel GPU onboard. Unlike the AMD chip that runs Polisy where it was a modestly updated older design, this Intel chip is really cutting edge.

I interpreted this comment about upgrading the firmware on the Z-Wave devices themselves, which is definitely a pain for both Polisy and ISY994. Though, in my experience, at least with the old ISY Z-Wave 500 board, a firmware update would cause a decent size Z-Wave network to positively crawl (1 minute or so delays to commands) for an hour or two after startup while the ISY queried the whole Insteon and Z-Wave networks. Not so much on Polisy though.

I'd say the biggest things that the polisy gives you are much better performance, the ability to use USB PLMs and the like which expands the pool of available PLMs, and much better Z-wave support once the new daughter board (Zmatter? MatterZ? Whatever it's called) including firmware updates. You can use the Polyglot on Polisy in addition to your ISY, but there's no benefit to keeping the 994 around once you migrate to IoP/IoX. My 994 got shipped to my mother's place after her hub went offline, and before that it was sitting on a shelf for months.

I have a tool just for attaching those connectors, it's the same used when replacing a laptop WLAN or WWAN card.

It definitely is a router firmware bug of some description. The Polisy adheres strictly to the DHCP and DNS protocol, which can cause issues with some buggy DHCP and DNS implementations. Is the Polisy pingable via IP and just not findable? In which case, it's an issue with the DNS not working properly. If not, it's an issue with DHCP not issuing an IP and Polisy being strict doesn't retry for a while.

@Michel Kohanimhas given us most of this info if you go back in his posts. eisy is a more powerful version of Polisy with some other updates, the ZMatter board will work in both Polisy and eisy with an adapter that will be available with the eisy, and you'll be able to transplant the board between the two when you choose to upgrade. My personal take on this is that I'll upgrade my Polisy for now, and upgrade to eisy when convenient to me. As for the lack of Matter devices, currently that is correct, but not for long. There are a number of manufacturers that have release devices that will work with Matter via a firmware update (including the entire Ikea TRADFRI lineup) but November seems to be the launch date for everybody.

Those are standard SMA antennas, you can easily get some 50 ohm sma extension cables.

I did as well. Boo, have to wait until November! I'm impatient and want my intermittent Z-Wave issues fixed!

Both CR and LF and supported in the GSM-7 character set; however, the paragraph mark that's inserted by just hitting Enter to feed to the next line is not. First thing I'd try is to ensure you're using the CR character by typing the message with Shift+Enter for each new line. Another possibility is that you're sending to an SMS gateway that strips formatting - I know Verizon in the US actually has two distinct gateways, one for SMS and one for MMS, that handle pure text messages differently.

I agree, it's not a good idea, just one that is technically possible. People also use male-to-male extension cords for Christmas lights ... just don't do it in the house next door to me. As long as you have constant power to the receptacle you can put it in the same box as the outlet, then there's no need for the 3 wire cable, just a few inches of pigtail. If your home uses some of the non-standard outlet shapes, it's a great trick to Insteon or Z-Wave enable them, and is also what many of our friends overseas do in order to get smart outlets.

A pair of diagonal cutters fixes that post haste - you can run each socket on a different input no problem.

You can enclose it to make it outdoor rated. Another option would be one of the Z-Wave or Insteon micro dimmer modules - though this runs into the, "You're dimming a receptacle and that's not at all to code," problem, so remember to rip it out if you ever sell the house.

You can just get the Aeotec door sensor and put an arbitrary long sensor on it. The new Aeotec leak sensor and door sensor are the same device, one just has a water sensor soldered on where the other had screw terminals.

Exactly, the voltmeter you're using needs a power source to send the update. There are any number of devices that can be battery or or UPS powered but can detect voltage presence external to their own power source, but this isn't one of them. Side note: Those nifty Z-Wave replacements for IOLincs (ZEN17 comes to mind) can do this, as they can be externally powered and detect a 12-24V signal, such as your doorbell transformer provides - though lacking that any old 12-24V wall wart with the connector cut off would work.

Except what's powering the switch to send that?

How would this work, exactly? Once the Smart Switch 7 looses power, it won't report anything, so if it's before the UPS then you'll just get no report at all from it (which could be done with almost any device, not just a smart switch 7). If it's behind the UPS, it'll just be reporting the line voltage out of the UPS. The only effective way I've found of reporting on an outage is to use a Ping Node server to poll a device that only has A/C power. Or simply to query the UPS itself if it supports such reporting - better ones do.

This also has less obvious but more important uses than that - if you have an Elk alarm system or similar critical device that you've linked to the Polisy, the built-in switch means that you do not rely on the rest of your network being up at all for that integration to work properly. Depending on how robust your network is, that may be pretty important!

Are you on WiFi? The AC is very sensitive to even a momentary connection drop, I had to disable all of my NIC's power saving to keep it from disconnecting periodically - but since then, well, I launched it 2 days ago and it's still open and connected.

As the end of June is upon us, any news on this? I don't actually expect to have it in my hands for a few months, but I'm ready to whip out the credit card and upgrade my original Geek Batch Polisy.

Citation needed? But if so that's very cool for my future lighting.