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Thanks for the explanation. You addressed the one thing I was worried about. I worry no longer. -Tom

100% agree. I love the cloud benefits, but I need to be able to configure and control everything when my broadband is down. Not all nodeservers, of course, but all Insteon and Z-Wave. -Tom

@FerventGeek It looks like the UDI ZMatter enclosure is out of stock at the moment, too. After @Guy Lavoie responded in his original post (linked above) about the part # of the enclosure he used, I found that it is available in the US from Digikey. Part # is HM209-ND, and I paid $7.68 for it two weeks ago. Shipping is not free, but I was ordering a bunch of other stuff so I got one of these anyway. I have a Polisy with internal ZMatter now but when I upgrade to Eisy I'll have choices about how to mount the board. I like the idea of not snapping off the unused part and being able to use the cable of my choosing. -Tom

@Guy Lavoie Can you add a link or part # for the enclosure? Seems like a perfect fit. Thanks. -Tom

The only thing that I'm jealous of Eisy owners over is the ability to connect an HDMI monitor and run a gui on FreeBSD. That would be kind of cool, but tbh it would not make it work better as an automation controller than my Polisy does. Or maybe if I were a plugin developer, doing it all on one device - with a gui - would be a step up. But I don't have the chops - yet. Now that I'm retired, though, who knows? -Tom

I just replaced a failed KPL. It took me about 10 minutes total. The KPL controlled a load and also was programmed to control a Z-Wave dimmer, a Z-Wave relay that controls an exhaust fan, and another (Insteon) relay in another room that controls another exhaust fan. The latter two are timed via programs and variables. After I shut off the breaker, removed the old KPL, wired in the new one, and turned the breaker back on, the last step was to right-click on the failed KPL, and choose "Replace with", followed by choosing the new KPL I had just added. This took less than two minutes, required no intervention on my part, and flawlessly updated all the settings, links, and programs. Priceless. -Tom

I hope everyone will start adding information regarding the mobile app platform being used with these reports. Unless I misunderstand @Guy Lavoie's posts, it currently works (for some things WiFI, anyway) with the Android UD app, but not with the iOS one. -Tom

The device was added without security this time, as I stated above. I have two other devices: an outlet about one foot away, and a door lock about 15 feet away but on a lower floor. FWIW, this topology has not changed since before I did the "migrate to ZMatter" described above which, as a reminder, did not actually involve any change of dongle. All three of these devices, and the Polisy with the ZMatter dongle, have been in the same places all the time. The only thing I've done is to exclude all devices, migrate to ZMatter, accept the recent upgrade to 5.9.1, and reinclude. -Tom

While waiting for support to respond, I thought I'd try to exclude/include a few more times. The last time, I tried something different: I chose to unselect the security proposal (I think it was "S2 unauthorized" or something like that), and that appeared to make it work. Mostly. I now have a node called "ZY 007.1 On-Off Power Switch" that I can turn on and off, and have its status correctly reflected in the AC when actuated or queried in the AC. However, actuations at the actual switch do not change the status displayed in the AC, unless manually queried in the AC. @RRalston, is that the way yours behaves? Seems to me both switches used to update their status when manually actuated, but I wouldn't swear to that. -Tom

Could you describe your past and current Z-Wave controller(s)? I had a Polisy with the Zooz dongle and upgraded to the ZMatter (internal) when it came out. I didn't have the backup option in the AC until I recently pushed the "migrate to ZMatter" button. -Tom

Catching up on this thread, I realize that I never finished my story. My second unit's upgrade, which was the one in service and which had therefore been kept up to date (5.8.4 13.2) went 100% smoothly. I didn't have to anything beyond pushing the upgrade packages button in the AC and waiting about 10-20 minutes. -Tom

Seems like a lot of people on this board copy them to a folder instead. I've never done that myself. -Tom

Every time I've bought a Zooz device I've checked its price on Amazon. It has always been higher on Amazon, with the difference being even greater than the shipping The Smartest House charges by a bit. The only downside to buying direct is that it's hard to fully opt out of their annoying emails - but that's true of most companies, in my experience. -Tom

Thanks @dwengrovitz. I think it's ticket time, since you also have On/Off/Query controls for the relay part of the switch, like I had before, and @RRalston has. That's really all I need right now: control/status for the relay. I hope UDI can help me get whatever hardware and firmware revision I have to work again. Fortunately, I still have the Zooz 700 series dongle around here somewhere in case I have to do an OTA update, but I'm hoping that won't be necessary. -Tom

Thanks @RRalston. To be clear, you didn't have to do any advanced configuration after adding to get both controllable nodes to show up, did you? -Tom