ZWave/ZMatter Questions After Migration to Eisy with ZMatter

[theitprofessor]

So I've migrated to Eisy with Insteon and PG3x now functional.  Now comes the dreaded ZWave migration.  I've decided the best thing to do is to rebuild the ZWave network.  I have ZMatter installed and I've Enabled it via UDM.  Interesting thing is when it rebooted, Insteon and ZWave enablement became unchecked under system configuration after the ZMatter reboot.  After enablement of Insteon and ZWave reboot I could no longer get into the the AC.  The portal showed it online but I couldn't bring up the local AC login screen from the Launcher.  So, I rebooted the Eisy from the portal and then it started working again after a couple mins.

Questions...

1.  Was the unchecking of Insteon and ZWave support after the ZMatter enablement an expected automatic behavior of enabling ZMatter?

2.  Was I supposed to re-enable both of them?

S0/S2

I have Aeotec Range Extender 7's to make the ZWave network more reliable.

3.  When I try to add the the Range Extenders I get prompted with both S2 options enabled and two other options one of them being S0.  Do I need to enable S0 on the Range Extenders If I have "some" S0 devices that will be dependent on the Extenders?  I have a mixer of S0 only and S2 devices on my network.

4.  Third line in the main AC menu under ZWave is Use Secure Inclusion, on or off.  Do I need to leave this on all the time with a mixed network or change it when adding S0 devices?

[Techman]

1. No

2. Yes, and you also need to save the configuration

3. S2 would be between the extender and the eisy. Not sure if the extender would communicate with a S1 or S0 device.  Yopu can give it a try.

4. You can leave it on when adding S0 devices

If you migrated from an ISY994 with an existing 500 Zwave board then both your Insteon and existing Zwave devices would migrate to the eisy assuming you followed the migration procedure.

 

[brians]

Re: #3  Secure devices will still route through non-secure devices/nodes.

You just lose basic association between different security types... but most don't use that anyways since it is a bit more difficult to setup. Basic association was finally supported in ZMatter version of Z-Wave on IoX and makes the devices control each other directly. It is significantly faster vs.central scene method due to  IoX's slower handling of events.