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No Update Neighbors is the same as what used to be Heal Network in previous version of ISY, excelt that it is now individual for each Zwave device. Synchronize is synchronizing the Administratve Console with the Zwave dongle.

I would definitely use that method. In theory, with Zwave 500 and 700, the mesh network automatically selects the best route for each device, but I suggest to do 'Update Neighbors' for newly added devices. That should help when adding devices further away from the dongle. Sometimes, however, the inclusion does not work because tne new device is too far from the dongle. I built a "portable" switchbox with a plug and I temporarily connect the new switch to that box close to the dongle for inclusion. Then I move the switch to its intended location. Over time the mesh network will (should) automatically select the best route for all devices.

I now have been using UD Mobile for several days on two of my Windows 11 computers and I am very impressed. The Bluestack solution works perfectly and I even found a way to add UD Mobile to my taskbar. UD Mobile is very flexible. I added folders and scenes to the UD Mobile's favorites tab and I can do everything (*), and more than what I used to do on Home Asssitant (as a front for ISY). I have devices on both ISY and I-on-P, and they can all be used in UD Mobile. I wil give it a bit more time, but I don't think that I will need Home Assistant anymore. I also added the same UD Mobile solution to an older Windows 10 computer, but there the performance is not as good. As an aside, after moving some of my Zwave devices, programs and nodeservers, from ISY to I-on-P, I have noticed a serious improvement of my setup. It is faster and the Administrative Console opens properly 99% of the time, compared to before when often I had to try 4 or 5 times before the AC would open. My only small issue now is that I have a Homeseer dimmer switch in our master bedroom that I set up so that the sentinels show green or red to let me know if lights are on in the different rooms. Because two rooms are now on I-on-P, these two rooms no longer show. Something to work on. In short, bravo to UD and Javi. (*) I work a lot on my computers and prefer to use the pc to turn on lights, music programs etc rather than using my phone. I have both Alexa and Google Home, but voice commands are not always accurate (my European accent ???? ?).

I have done some reading on this and found out that Zwave Associations do indeed exist, but I am not sure whether the issue is ISY or the actual devices, depending on the manufacturers. ISY is Zwave certified (5.3 or 5.3.3 ?) and therefore I have some doubt that it would be an ISY issue.

I don't know if this is of any help, but I use the Harmony Hub nodeserver to switch the TV ON as part of a wake-up program. It selects the channel and the volume. Very useful.

@Javi This is absolutely amazing ! I installed it on one of my pc's and it does everything I was looking for. The initial setup took some 15 minutes and I actually used the Google App Store instead of the Amazon Store, but same results. I added Bluestack to my windows taskbar, and then I need to wait a minute to get to UD Mobile. Maybe one day I can get directly to UD Mobile, but right now I am a happy camper. Thanks Javi for the amazing App and your help. BTW This morning Michel , once again, helped out of a major disaster with my setup. My whole Zwave network had crashed and nothing I could think of worked. Michel identified that one of my devices was creating havoc and by power cycling a switch that seemed to be the culprit, my whole system came back..... and Michel relieved me of my frustration. I am more and more getting on @lilyoyo1's side that Zwave has serious issues, but I have invested a lot in my setup. However once there is a new Lutron nodeserver, tested and working, I will gradually move to RA3.

Nice Javi, I will test that tomorrow

I know what you meant and it would be nice. I spend a lot more time on my pc's than on my Iphone and I use mostly use Home Assistant for controlling (not programming) my setup, because it is a lot more user friendly than the Administrative Console. However on my phone I use UD Mobile. While HA is usually very nice (*) I'd rather not use a 3rd party App and also the need to use a separate RPi. That is why I so much want UD Mobile to work on my computers. (*) Since Friday I have serious problems with the UD Integration on Home Assistant. Any help would be appreciated.

And what about UD Mobile for PC browser ????? That is my personal favorite priority

Wow, this is long and complex. On the one hand if the Nodeserver does not exist in PG 3 it can not be installed in I-o-P, but I also read that PG can be pointed to I-o-P. However, my migration will take a long time. I have some 80 Zwave devices and I have Minimotes (controlling curtains) that are not easy to access. I am trying to migrate these if & when there is a Zwave migration tool. What also complicates my situation is that so many devices are in programs to work together, that I can not migrate one wirhout the other. AND I extensively use Holidays Google nodeserver which does not (yet) exist in PG3. So I can not migrate the devices that are used with this nideserver. The good news is that it seems (time will tell...) that my ISY is working more smoothly, now that I have migrated 2 rooms and a few nodeservers. For a while now I have had many 'memory full' issues on my ISY, skipping programs as a result. Running ISY and I-o-P alongside oneanother (until migration has been completed) is a bit of a hasle, but maybe it improves the performance of my setup in the meantime. As aside, one of the rooms that I migrated is my office where I have the ISY, Polisy etc, and this resulted in a mesh issue of the ISY, with more distant devices having communication issues. I think that I resolved this by individually doing the 'Update Neighbors'. My biggest issue is now that I need help with getting my Home Assistant to work again.... Help Needed

Where would I make that change ? In Polisy, inthe Administrative Console ????

I finally started to move some Zwave devices from ISY to I-o-P and it is a time consuming task, especially having to rewrite my related programs. It is actually a complex situation, as many devices are connected in programs. For instance, I have a Homeseer dimmer switch in my master bedroom that is programmed so that the sentinels show if lights are ON in specific rooms. Now that I moved the Zwave devices in 2 rooms to I-o_P, they no longer show the status on the Homeseer switch sentinels. I would like to move some nodeservers to I-o-P, but two of my favorite niodeservers (Holidays Google and AVRemote) are not on PG3 yet. Is there a way to us PG2 nodeservers on I-o-P ?

Thanks. It appears to exist somewhere in the Zwave 'world' but pretty much hidden ?

By now, after all these years together on this forum, you know that I am not technically very smart. I agreed with @upstatemike that the website is confusing. Apparently Vesternet is Europe based and not very active in the US. What I am trying to find out / understand is something that @Michel Kohanim had also told me, which is that (theoretically) Zwave has direct association between devices, which is something that previously I considered to be a special advantage of Insteon over Zwave. Direct Association would speed up Scenes and could be a big thing for me, but even though I have several recently purchased Scene capable switches, I do not see where I can find the Association. I will however keep searching the internet....

I found this website and I am trying to understand more : https://www.vesternet.com/en-us/pages/z-wave-groups-scenes-associations

Does anyone have Association as pull-down option with Zwave Scene-capable switches ?

Yes, all my Scene capable switches only have Default/Command/Ignore

I am fully Zwave, as I switched from Insteon in 2014. The main reason was issues with the PLM. I have learned from others in this forum that most likely Insteon has (had ?) advantages over Zwave, but I just did not like the PLM and the dependence on a sole manufacturer. Learning from everything I am reading in this forum, you should consider going from Insteon to Lutron, with some Zwave as Lutron has a limited variety of devcies. With my +/- 80 Zwave devices I have an excellent mesh network and I do not use repeaters which, in my mind, make no sense. They cost the same as a plug-in device and all non-battery Zwave devices repeat signals. The plug-in devices serve double purpose, repeat and can be used for a lamp etc. My preferred Zwave brands are GE/Jasco, Homeseer and Zooz. Whenever possible buy Zwave series 700 devices or at the very least Zwave Plus-Series 500.

I deleted the Kasa NS from PG2 and installed same on PG3, but it will not populate the 4 Kasa devices that I have. In fact, even after trying restart, it keeps showing 'disconnected'. I tried twice without success and reverted to PG2.

only Default, Command and Ignore

Does anyone have an idea on this ? Apparently there is a difference between Zwave Plus (or 700 series) switches with Scene capability and Zwave switches with Native Zwave Scene. I have recent Zwave Plus and 700 series switches, but none seem to have the "native Zwave Scene" capability. I either do something wrong or I need to know which Zwave switches have "native Zwave Scene" capability ? Anyone ????

Weird.... I installed 4 PG3 nodeservers (Harmony Hub, Notification, NOAA, MYQ, and they all work and show in the PG3 Dashboard. When I go to the Nodeserver store, they still show as uninstalled ("Install"). If I click on Install, then I am prompted to select a (different) slot. My guess is that they should show as installed.

In most cases, this is not required but when inclusion does not work, then exclusion is likely the solution.

This is interesting Michel, I just checked several of my most recent Zwave Plus and 7 switches, and none of these have either Scene or Association in the dropbox, only Command etc. I wonder which brand switches are native Zwave scene compatible.

Now I use Scene to switch these ON and a Program to switch OFF, but I'd like to understand to do ON & OFF with Scene