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No change.

New issue: Z-Wave devices are no longer adding nodes at all. I've tried restarting IoX and the entire Polisy, and when I add devices they fail to create anything anymore. I've tried several, not sure what's going on.

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.

You can run them just fine, but the amount of manual programming is pretty extreme if you want them to share devices. To my knowledge the only way to do this programmatically was using an Insteon TouchLinc when using the HouseLinc software, which would manage multiple controllers as one unified system. UDI could theoretically add a feature to IoX to manage the link table on a 2448A7 as a secondary controller, and it probably wouldn't even be that much work, but they've never indicated a wish to do so, and have indicated the future for UDI is not Insteon. For independent devices where each controller has independent client devices, they see each other's traffic and do collision avoidance, so it works 100% fine. Insteon devices actually support a few hundred endpoints as controllers, with the precise number varying somewhat and available in the spec sheet. A PLM is no different from any other device it pairs to in this regard, it just has a relatively large link database table.

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.

That being said, his comments about issues with his Z-wave network otherwise with routing and the like are probably spot on. A quick survey of what he has going on tells me his network mirrors my experience, where you have to be very careful about what you add and what sort of routing is going on above 30-50 devices or so, especially with very chatty devices. An Insteon or Lutron lighting system would be a better choice for him, and keep z-wave only where necessary.

The issue described doesn't impact WiFi audio streaming, it's specific to the audio streaming protocol used by his wireless remote speakers. I'm also pretty suspicious of the jump to conclusions since Z-Wave is about 7.5 the wavelength of 5 GHz Wi-Fi, they're not even 3rd or 4th harmonics of each other. That is, unless there's something 5 GHz going on that's not well documented.

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

From what I've gathered: Correct No, it also contains ZigBee and Matter support. Z-Wave 700 dongle support will be continued going forward, but not upgraded any more. No need to upgrade if you're not having problems or don't want the new features. More or less, it's much more powerful than Polisy, and the ZMatter is still a separate accessory for it (so if you buy it now for Polisy, you can move it to eISY). There's still more info to come on this though. Not anytime soon. I'm sure eventually it'll be obsoleted, but since UDI moved to an x86 platform you have years of support still. Personally I tend to stay pretty close to the cutting edge, mostly because I really value the upgrades in performance.

My PLM ended up no longer responding after a near lightning strike, so I'm using the USB RF only dongle for now ... I'm hopeful the new PLMs come out soon because the performance is extremely poor compared to the PLM. FWIW, I only had one pre-2016 go dead due to capacitor issues, the other two PLM deaths were both due to lightning. They seem quite susceptible to strikes compared to most other devices, the only other device I had take a dive with a network switch that blew all of its capacitors at once and started leaking electrolyte from the case - the worst case on other devices was a hard reset and a restore.

If you're re-making the injection molds anyway due to wear on the old ones though, you might as well make the simpler relay one as well since it's easier to manufacture with fewer holes. Over the life of the molds I'm sure it saved money.

If you can find them still, Philips Warm Glow work very well. Most Amazon knock-off brands do pretty poorly though.

I believe @midrar is thinking about a more Lutron Diva-like bar. Which ... would just be a modification to the plastic bezel and replacement of the light pipes with a frosted bar. On paper it sounds cool and would be a neat retrofit, but that's a whole new set of plastic molds, and those are gosh darn expensive. I'm certain that the reason the old relay and dimmers shared a front despite the dimmer not having a bar of LEDs is because of the cost involved in those moldings - now, they did eventually change it (and sold retrofit kits as well, which I bought a bunch of), but a new molding as a six figure price tag.

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.

Only if you replace the Klingon food banks!

@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.