Michel Kohanim

Hello All, This is a major release that upgrades the OS to 14.1p6, includes Initial Matter support, installs HomeKit plumbing, installs eisyui plumbing, and fixes many INSTEON, Z-Wave, Zigbee, and plugin issues. BEFORE YOU START 1. It's imperative that you take a backup of your IoX, Z-Wave, and PG3 settings. 2. This upgrade is upgrading your OS. As such, the unit will reboot in the process and the Admin Console will simply get disconnected (does not close). Please do not turn off the unit till you can get back to the Admin Console. 3. If you have never upgraded your unit, it's best to make sure you have release 13.1 or 13.2 of the OS (https://eisy.local:8443/WEB/sysconfig.txt). If you do not, please do not upgrade. 4. In order to get Matter supported on WiFi, we had to change WiFi settings so that it will now use 802.11a/g which is significantly slower than 802.11ac that you are used to. Although you won't see much impact for command/control, download speeds for local Admin Console will be slower. It's our top priority to get WiFi back to the ac range you are used to. -- Polisy does not support Matter when connected using WiFi. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Backup Z-Wave and then IoX 2. Backup PG3 3. Please ONLY use the Admin Console | Configuration tab | Upgrade Packages button. Do NOT use ssh. 4. Unit will reboot and Admin Console will become unresponsive. Do NOT attempt reboot until you can get back to the Admin Console. Enhancements - Faster boot times. - Power button no longer allows package upgrade. - Homekit service using Matter Bridge. This requires a plugin that will be available next week. - eisyui service. Currently in development. - Matter Initial support for light bulbs and plugin modules: -- WiFi direct. -- WiFi through a Border Router such as Google Nest Hub or Apple HomePod. -- Thread through a Border Router. - Zigbee -- Support Relative Humidity and Temperature Measurement Clusters. -- Support thermostats. - INSTEON -- LED Control for i3 Dial and i3 Paddle. - Programs -- Added 'Unix Date/Time (seconds)' to the set of system values you can assign to a variable. - Admin Console - Log Viewer and Capture for Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and other logs. Fixes - System -- Infrequent crash at iox boot up due to timing. -- SMTP mail removing new lines. - Plugins -- Wemo/Roku support through WiFi. - Z-Wave -- Fixed problem where Z-Wave migration would fail to migrate any Z-Wave devices. - Zigbee -- Fixed problem of nodes not being created for devices with multiple buttons. -- Query Zigbee devices after they are added. - INSTEON -- Fixed problem where some commands were missing from InlineLinc devices. -- Fixed problem where INSTEON would stop responding (usually caused by using I3 Dial). -- i3 Paddle and i3 Keypad buttons default links. - Programs -- Fixed problem where node status changes caused control conditions to run (only affected plugin nodes). -- Show Unix Time status values as Timestamps - Admin Console -- Some characters not displayed correctly in Admin Console. For Developers -- Plugin timestamp support. -- Allow plugins to define their own status names in nodedefs. -- Fill in device type field for Zigbee (so Philips hue can be recognized). -- Added <rpnode> to Zigbee nodes. -- IoX events are now posted to MQTT. -- Fix ISO8601 Timestamps for node property history and events. With kind regards, Michel

Hello everyone, I apologize for any confusion and oversight. To avoid the complications we encountered with two-year renewals for 994, we decided to limit renewals to one year only. With kind regards, Michel

Hello all, You can now subscribe to our Plugin News and get automatically updated when there's a new and/or updated Plugin. With kind regards, Michel

Hello everyone! We're excited to invite developers to collaborate on integrating ESPHome devices using our IoX Plugin Developer for VS Code. Develop directly on eisy and help us improve our extension’s functionality and documentation and get 50% off hardware and the chance to publish your own plugins to the store. This powerful extension simplifies the plugin development process by taking a JSON file that describes your plugin and automatically generating all the necessary files and launch/debug profiles. It then adds your plugin to the local store and installs it on IoX. Your task is simply to complete the required details, run, debug, and then publish. All under your fingertips! Interested? Signup now! With kind regards, Michel

We are working on it. As it say: Developer test only at this time. With kind regards, Michel

@tazman, It's under Settings for Developers. With kind regards, Michel

Hello everyone, As you may have seen in UD Mobile menu, we are now testing Matter inclusion and finally got something relatively stable going in the lab. We will have three phases: 1. Inclusion and control of WiFi based Matter devices (using QR code) 2. Inclusion and control of Matter devices through a Matter Edge router (such as Google Home, Apple HomeKit, etc.) 3. Inclusion and control of Matter devices through the ZMatter board (Zigbee/Thread). Please note that this last option may make your Zigbee routing less reliable. With kind regards, Michel

@EWhite, apologies for the delay. In the logs, nothing showed that the plugins were restarting on their own (that's what the original complaint was about after upgrading to pg3x) so I had to assign to Benoit. He should be able to get back to you shortly. With kind regards, Michel

@mmb, Excellent idea ... With kind regards, Michel

Thank you all for your patience. We already have WiFi based Matter devices working. The commissioning will be done using UD Mobile. For Thread based Matter devices, if you have a border router that provides the key, that's also supported. What we are working on is the dual Thread/Zigbee stack on the chip to allow for eisy to directly integrate with Thread based Matter devices (Eve). At this juncture, it's working but it dramatically decreases the reliability of all other Zigbee devices. We are trying to see whether or not this can be alleviated. With kind regards, Michel

You're welcome to return it. There is no lack of attention to this product. Matter is a behemoth of over 20GB of source code most of which do not apply to our platform. We have gotten Matter over WiFi with BLE commissioning working on a couple of devices and it will be available for testing shortly. With kind regards, Michel

@Kevin, Please submit a ticket. With kind regards, Michel

@efett, Can you please let us know what's not working? Please submit a ticket: https://www.universal-devices.com/my-tickets With kind regards, Michel

Please replace polisy.local with it's ip address. With kind regards, Michel

For Polisy only, Please upgrade to PG3X: https://wiki.universal-devices.com/Polisy:User_Guide#Upgrading_to_PG3x With kind regards, Michel