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I have a mixed environment, though gradually moving entirely to ZW Plus. I upgraded to 5.1.0 without a problem and recommend that you do. I actually believe that if the routing of your Zwave PLus device goes through other Plus devices, then you should get the benefit. However, even if one along the "route" is not Plus, then no benefit, but neither a negative. As pointed out above, there is the "Update Neighbors" option (even though that did not work with my battery powered smoke detector).

Following your advise and getting this one.......

That makes a lot of sense. When I bought this smoke detector, I forgot to check whether it is Plus..... and it is not. I did perform several heals before upgrading to 5.2.0, so I can not blame this communication error on the new firmware. Most likely this smoke detector will end up in the big box of tech debris, as it was a gimmick purchase, already having hard wired smoke detectors throughout the home. I like the Pushover messaging use of it.... so who knows.

@bobchapthat seems to be the case indeed.

Some are still on 4.X. And if your 5.0.16 works fine, then there is not much to worry about.

Michel, I was joking as I doubt that a 700 series Zwave USB dongle for $ 19 can be of good quality. However that is what it shows on the Mouser electronics link.

There we go................. A 700 series Zwave stick for $ 19

I just noticed that "Heal Network" disappeared in 5.2.0 . Am I right in assuming that a manual Heal is no longer necessary ?

Chris, I apologize for my ignorance but I am not sure to understand what a button press is and what it is supposed to do.

Having more than 70 Zwave devices, that would be tough for me to do.

Technology evolves and products reach their EOL all the time, and it should not be a huge issue to stay with 5.0.16 until the 500 dongle is available. Most likely 5.1.0 (and now 5.2.0) was designed to take advantage of the 500 capabilities and then, somehow, this resulted in an incompatibility with 300. That is of course regrettable, but part of evolution. The real problem would have been if 5.0.16 had big issues, which it has not. I am slowly replacing my old (non Zwave Plus) devices to take full advantage of Zwave Plus and the 500 dongle, but I know already that soon we will have Zwave 700. The circle of IT life.

Zwave 300.

I am happy to report that (after having issues with 5.1.0 RC2) I successfully installed 5.2.0 RC3, without the numerous phantom nodes that I had with 5.1.

I really doubt because you don't have a 5.0.16 backup. Theoretically (were you to follow my experience) you would go back to 4.7; restore your 4.7 backup and then go to 5.0.16. However, I don't know if going back from 5.X to 4.X has issues. Others may know better.

I did without a problem (I then restored a 5.0.16 backup).

We use voice control several times every day, mostly to open curtains and for Good Night routine (switching off lights).

@larryllix thanks for showing this trick

You mean, we each remember something, so that collectively we know it all ? That goes directly against what my wife tells me, calling me a know-it-all who remembers nothing !

I know that you are more expert than I am, but what is the difference between a dongle and ISY backup ? If my ISY would be damaged by my 4 year old grandson and, for argument sake the dongle survived, would there be a difference in restoring from the dongle or from the computer ?

I have had the 500 dongle for a while, and I am still on 5.0.16, and regularly perform a dongle backup without a problem. In fact the dongle backup is done in about a minute. I may be missing something, but can you not make a backup to your computer, File, Backup ISY ? I backup my ISY to my computer every time I change a device or make a significant change in a program.

I was lucky enough that I was able to restore 5.0.16 after experiencing serious Zwave issues with 5.1.0 . I believe that UDI is working on an update.

Somehow my wife's Latino accent works better with Alexa than with GH. My European accent works fine with both.

We use both Echo and Google Home and each has its pro and cons. I started with GH because my Son gave me one, and I added Echo when I basically got one for free. Now both systems are around the home. I like the Echo Dot with time display, and it also reacts faster to "Open Curtains" than GH, but GH is better at providing information, which is not a surprise with Google behind it.

I had numerous Zwave issues as well with the 5.1.0 upgrade and I was successful with restoring back to 5.1.16 RC. Make sure that you follow each and every step, including clearing Java and using the correct 'start'. I know that UDI is working on addressing my issues and hopefully there will soon be an updated fw.

Can I, with a ISY program, set different colors at different times (with Lifx nodeserver) ?