it's been a while since I installed the dongle (don't even remember but I think it was a plug in on the board, right?) and have not used Zwave in years, but now my ISY interface says "Zwave dongle not responding"  any suggestions?

Edited April 22, 20223 yr by jkraus

What's your ISY firmware and UI version?

You most likely have the older 300 series dongle which is not compatible with the newer ISY firmware.

Oh I see.  So I need to buy the 500 series?

Or buy a polisy and a 700 series z-wave dongle.

thanks for all your help today.  I am leaning that way.  Just wondering if Zwave is the way to go to replace all my insteon switches (as they fail) as zwave seems to  need repeater and had such good luck with Instenon.  so Perhaps Lutron as you suggested has less issues.  it such a big investment just want to be sure going forward

53 minutes ago, jkraus said:

thanks for all your help today.  I am leaning that way.  Just wondering if Zwave is the way to go to replace all my insteon switches (as they fail) as zwave seems to  need repeater and had such good luck with Instenon.  so Perhaps Lutron as you suggested has less issues.  it such a big investment just want to be sure going forward

If you're adding zwave anyway, you'd be building your mesh network so you don't need repeaters since all hardwired devices repeat the signal. Lutron is great but cost 4-5x the price of a single zwave device (unless you go with caseta), and you still have to build out your network There's no perfect scenario. 

On 4/22/2022 at 9:52 AM, lilyoyo1 said:

If you're adding zwave anyway, you'd be building your mesh network so you don't need repeaters since all hardwired devices repeat the signal. Lutron is great but cost 4-5x the price of a single zwave device (unless you go with caseta), and you still have to build out your network There's no perfect scenario. 

Is not Caseta the same as Lutron, or are there different Lutron versions?

1 minute ago, jkraus said:

Is not Caseta the same as Lutron, or are there different Lutron versions?

Lutrons makes caseta. I'd recommend going to lutrons website. They'll have all the information you're looking for.