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Thanks everyone for your comments on my question. I'll give the ZooZ product a try, especially now understand where they are coming from (plus the fact that they have different colour paddles helps the debate with the head decorator in our home).

Hi Orest Thanks for your reply. There might be a “gazillion Z-Wave producers” but I see only a few that produce dimmers and of those, only two of those are mainstream electrical suppliers that are very likely to be around in 5 years. If one of the top three producers of electrical hardware decides to exit the Z-Wave community, I’d like to know about it. Hopefully I’m wrong, but as I noted early, I was burned by SmartLabs and once burned, twice shy. Aeotec is a product I’ve used now for about 5 years and seems reliable. Unfortunately their Dimmer Switch is only compatible with small list of dimmable LED bulbs. It also seems to be available only in white, which in our home is a non-starter. Still I like that they are on Gen7 Zooz is interesting but I can’t seem to find any corporate information, not even a legal company name. Does anyone have any info on who they are and where they are based? And anyone have any multi-year experience using their products? Also they seem to only support white faceplates. Anyone know if this is the case? Thanks

Hi I tried a number of reboots, both from the console and by power cycling, all without any success. My upgrade to 5.0.16C was back in 2020 so that isn't the issue. That said, I did move the ISY994 to another part of the house as its old location was being renovated. I expected to have to heal the Z-Wave but I can't even talk to the dongle. Like you said, the board could be going bad but I'll try reseating it incase the travel across the house was hard on it. If that doesn't work, I guess I better order the new 500 series board.

I'm getting the following error message on the Admin Console: "Z-Wave dongle not responding". I can't seem to find any reference to this message on the portal. FYI, it is an old 300 series and I am running 5.0.16C - still need to get a new 500 series dongle. Any suggestions?

Hi I’ve recently noticed that Leviton Z-wave products seem to becoming hard to purchase. For example, AArtech, one of the best home automotive distributors in Canada, is no longer stocking their products. And the Leviton website seems to be promoting their Wifi solution over Z-Wave. Maybe I’m just being paranoid after the Insteon/smartLabs disaster, but after starting to migrate our home from Insteon to Z-Wave last year after my last PLM fried, I’d hate to think I’ve backed the wrong horse a second time. Am I worrying unnecessarily? And if not, is there a quality Z-Wave dimmer anyone would recommend? The GE product was really flakey when I tried it. Thanks for any suggestions.