Howdy,

Starting my path from the ISY to the EISY and step 1 is to updating my ISYs (there are like 12 of them around) from the 300 series to 500 series Zwave dongle.  I cannot seem to find any instructions on it.  Most are already on 5.0.16C, so the "pain" of the 4.x -> 5.x migration has been resolved a while back.

Is there a page that covers the process that I'm just not using the right search terms to find?

From what I can see, I THINK the process looks like:
1 ) Upgrade to most recent 5.0.16C on ISY (if not already there)
2 ) Zwave -> Backup -> Full Backup
3 ) Backup ISY
4 ) Power down and replace 300 series with 500 series
5 ) Zwave -> Advanced -> Factory Reset (just in case)
6 ) ZWave -> Advanced -> Upgrade Firmware (just in case) 
7 ) Disable Battery Updates
8 ) ZWave -> Restore 
9) Power cycle/reboot ISY
10) Wake up each battery zwave device and Zwave-> Synchronize
11) Review programs for any "broken"/changed ZWave ID numbers

I'd appreciate any pointers on steps missed, best practice type things, etc

Thanks!

Gerry
 

Edited March 31, 20232 yr by gduprey

19 hours ago, gduprey said:

Howdy,

Starting my path from the ISY to the EISY and step 1 is to updating my ISYs (there are like 12 of them around) from the 300 series to 500 series Zwave dongle.  I cannot seem to find any instructions on it.  Most are already on 5.0.16C, so the "pain" of the 4.x -> 5.x migration has been resolved a while back.

Is there a page that covers the process that I'm just not using the right search terms to find?

From what I can see, I THINK the process looks like:
1 ) Upgrade to most recent 5.0.16C on ISY (if not already there)
2 ) Zwave -> Backup -> Full Backup
3 ) Backup ISY
4 ) Power down and replace 300 series with 500 series
5 ) Zwave -> Advanced -> Factory Reset (just in case)
6 ) ZWave -> Advanced -> Upgrade Firmware (just in case) 
7 ) Disable Battery Updates
8 ) ZWave -> Restore 
9) Power cycle/reboot ISY
10) Wake up each battery zwave device and Zwave-> Synchronize
11) Review programs for any "broken"/changed ZWave ID numbers

I'd appreciate any pointers on steps missed, best practice type things, etc

Thanks!

Gerry
 

The instructions are at the bottom of the page here:

https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=Z-Wave:_Ordering/Assembly_Instructions

 

 

Thanks - just needed to scroll down further and all is there.  Figured it had to be somewhere

Gerry

On 3/31/2023 at 11:24 AM, gduprey said:

Howdy,

Starting my path from the ISY to the EISY and step 1 is to updating my ISYs (there are like 12 of them around) from the 300 series to 500 series Zwave dongle.

Any reason you wouldn't use a 700 series z-wave dongle?  Fyi the 800 series dongles will be coming soon.  Hubitat already launched their C8 with really amazing range and zwave zigbee and zmatter.

Howdy,

This is for the ISY994i, so limited to the specific ZWave dongles that UDI provide - not USB.  

Once I get to the eISY, I already have the Matter/ZWave/Zigbee dongle and looking forward to that.

VBut before I can, I have to migrate from the older 300 dongle to the 500 dongle in order to be able to migrate that to the eISY and it's dongle.  

Gerry

53 minutes ago, gduprey said:

Howdy,

This is for the ISY994i, so limited to the specific ZWave dongles that UDI provide - not USB.  

Once I get to the eISY, I already have the Matter/ZWave/Zigbee dongle and looking forward to that.

VBut before I can, I have to migrate from the older 300 dongle to the 500 dongle in order to be able to migrate that to the eISY and it's dongle.  

Gerry

Got it.