Z-Wave 500 board compatibility with Fortrezz MIMO2+ Module

[theitprofessor]

Anyone know of anything I should be concerned with by joining a Fortrezz MIMO2+ module (Z-Wave Plus) to my Z-Wave network controlled by my ISY994i with the 500 Series board installed running firmware 5.3.1?  I want to connect the Fortrezz to a Greenfield Automatic Security Value to turn off my water at the main should my sensors detect a water leak.  I'd rather use an Insteon I/O Linc but that's a dead product along with a dead company.  So sad.  Moving onto Z-Wave.

[asbril]

14 minutes ago, theitprofessor said:

Anyone know of anything I should be concerned with by joining a Fortrezz MIMO2+ module (Z-Wave Plus) to my Z-Wave network controlled by my ISY994i with the 500 Series board installed running firmware 5.3.1?  I want to connect the Fortrezz to a Greenfield Automatic Security Value to turn off my water at the main should my sensors detect a water leak.  I'd rather use an Insteon I/O Linc but that's a dead product along with a dead company.  So sad.  Moving onto Z-Wave.

I have 2 Mimo-Lites connected to my Zwave (500) network

[mmb]

2 hours ago, theitprofessor said:

...that's a dead product along with a dead company.

I happened to be talking to Insteon support today and he indicated they have a shipment of wall switches and receptacles in port waiting for transport.

Plug-in modules are impacted by the chip shortage and there is no information regarding shipments in the near future.

I'm looking into an ISY ZWave module along with a plug-in dimmer for my brother.

Edited December 7, 2021 by mmb

[theitprofessor]

An update on this in case anyone is interested.  The Fortrezz MIMO2+ doesn't work.  It won't join the network.  Why?  I think it's because the Fortrezz MIMO2+ is multichannel and the UDI Z-Wave 500 board doesn't support multichannel.  Anyone have a good Z-Wave 500 "I/O Linc" "type" product I can use for this application?  I realize I could use a Mimo-Lite like Asbril but that's a Z-Wave 300 product and I've made the decision that any new Z-Wave product purchases must be Z-Wave 500 minimum. 

[Techman]

In theory any Z-wave certified device should work with the ISY 500 series Z-wave. 

[lilyoyo1]

4 hours ago, theitprofessor said:

An update on this in case anyone is interested.  The Fortrezz MIMO2+ doesn't work.  It won't join the network.  Why?  I think it's because the Fortrezz MIMO2+ is multichannel and the UDI Z-Wave 500 board doesn't support multichannel.  Anyone have a good Z-Wave 500 "I/O Linc" "type" product I can use for this application?  I realize I could use a Mimo-Lite like Asbril but that's a Z-Wave 300 product and I've made the decision that any new Z-Wave product purchases must be Z-Wave 500 minimum. 

You are incorrect. The 500 board on the latest firmwares does support multi channel devices. It has for a few years now.

Most likely, the device either requires custom coding in order to work or parameter changes.

With that said, it should join regardless. What process did you use to get it to join

Edited December 18, 2021 by lilyoyo1

[theitprofessor]

OK great it supports multichannel.  I caught something in my skimmed reading and I went back to find it and turns out it was old and out of date, so you are correct.  The fact is it still won't join the network.  I'm very familiar working with Z-Wave as I have about 30 Z-Wave devices.  I'm also familiar with the little tricks one must do sometimes like needing to put a Schlage Z-Wave device with-in inches of the controller to get it to join.  The MIMO has a very simple process.  You put the controller in listening mode and press the one and only button on the device once.  I've tried everything to get it to join.  Reset the device to factory default a several times, sync'd all devices before trying to add.  There's not much more I can do.  When the controller is in listening mode it does not discover a new device to add so it never gets an object added to the console.  So here's more. After failing with the MIMO2+ so many times I thought I would go try it with the MIMO-Lite since I got one for free with my valve.  It has the exact same process for joining the the network as the MIMO2+.  The MIMO-Lite joined the network immediately and all the objects showed up in the console.  The only thing I can think of at this point is maybe the MIMO2+ is defective, so I returned it.

[KCrater]

I, too, am having difficulties getting a MIMO2+ successfully connected.  I have an ISY944i running 5.3.4 with a 500 series Z-Wave interface.  The MIMO2+ will join, but only two entries appear in the device listing:  "ZW 011 Multilevel Sensor" and "ZW 011 Binary Switch".  I'm not having success programmatically reading a value from the (only) sensor input - I can manually trigger a query from the admin console and the value updates, but attempting to read the value in an If statement in a program does not appear to be successful. 

I've tried setting the MIMO parameter 3 (loading a value of 127) to send when change of trigger occurs, but although a progress bar appears when I apply a contact closure to the MIMO input (crossing the input threshold), my program does not sense the new value and execute.  Again, if I click on the "Query" button for the device on the admin console, the new value does appear there.

Oh, and the second input and output are nowhere to be found.  Is there some magic that can make this work?

[KCrater]

Further information... here is the program I'm trying to run.  When I change state on the MIMO input, the admin console puts up a progress bar showing that it's busy, but the program does not run.   However, if I manually click on the Query button on the device page for "ZW 011 Multilevel Sensor", then the new value is recognized and the program runs.

Ken

 

If
        'ZW 011 Multilevel Sensor' General Purpose < 200
 
Then
        Set 'Z Front Room' On
        Wait  30 seconds
 
Else
        Set 'Z Front Room' Off
        Wait  30 seconds