I buy everything mainly from Aartech as they are one of the only resellers that come up on Insteon's page and they are great, but when I asked them where I buy the $100 Z-Wave module, they said that UDI hasn't certified it yet or something and therefore they can't sell it and have no ETA.  The other US resellers don't have options to ship to Canada and Smarthome is like $40 for shipping which is obviously way overpriced.  Not in any rush to get it but do I have any options if and when I do need it?

I buy everything mainly from Aartech as they are one of the only resellers that come up on Insteon's page and they are great, but when I asked them where I buy the $100 Z-Wave module, they said that UDI hasn't certified it yet or something and therefore they can't sell it and have no ETA.  The other US resellers don't have options to ship to Canada and Smarthome is like $40 for shipping which is obviously way overpriced.  Not in any rush to get it but do I have any options if and when I do need it?

 

First I am a little confused as I read you returned the ISY Series Controller last week?? Regardless, you can purchase the Z-Wave module directly from UDI. There is no need for a middle man and there is no other company that sells the upgrade kit at the current time.

I did return it then bought it again 2 days later after I realized I might as well just do this all right.  Not sure how to buy from UDI directly, when you check out it says Country and the drop down only has United States.

Just send them an email via sales and they will get you hooked up. Glad you stuck it out with the ISY Series Controller. You will have lots of flexibility with both hardware platforms.

 

I am personally going to sit this Beta out until most of the bugs are sorted out.

 

Also, waiting for v5.0 which will allow two way communications to two ISY controllers which will allow me to have both energy management and Insteon / Z-Wave.

 

 

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Edited September 25, 201411 yr by Teken

Great yeah I'm not in any rush to get Z-Wave was just wondering for future.   At first I thought I really don't need the ISY, since I can use the Lutron motion switches no problem and away we go.  I also realized right as I was sending it back that it was control vs status that was hanging me up, but I was tired of it by then.  I learned quickly the Lutron won't work everywhere, since my bathroom ensuite I don't want it coming on at night, and in my guest bathroom the light switch is outside in the hall so no go there either.  I was also going to buy HomeSeer since I really like it but once in awhile I'd get weird results with the Insteon plugin so I figure just get the device that works the absolute best with it. 

 

I think part of it too was while buying gear my Visa declined, so I assumed I somehow maxed it out and that's when I started regretting buying everything.  Turns out it was just some random error and I wasn't anywhere near my limit but in my mind I kept thinking I guess that I had spent so much really just as a nice have vs need.  So we're all good now, motion programs work as expected.