Finally ready (I think) to migrate to Polisy from5.0.16C

[jrainey]

Hi all.  Been a long time since I have posted.  I am posting because I believe that I am finally ready to migrate from my ISY994i to my Polisy.

Current state is as follows:

Current:

    -ISY994i @ 5.0.16c ... 300 series Zwave controller, 2413s PLM

       -16 z-wave devices, including 4 Yale door locks

New:

   -Polisy @ 5.6.2 (thanks Michel) ... Zooz 700 S2 dongle, 2413s PLM (new-out of the box)

I have spent quite a few hours going over as many posts and advice I could find concerning this migration. (special thanks to @dbwarner5 for the excellent guide)  I have a number of questions that I expect I can resolve during and/or after migrating, but there is one I would like to clarify a little before I start.

This advice comes from the eisy/polisy user guide:

"Preparing for Migration from ISY-994
On your ISY-994

Make sure the ISY-994 is upgraded to 5.3.4,
If you are migrating your Z-Wave network
You must be using a 500 Series Board in the ISY-994"

My question is this:  Is this correct?  Does the migration process actually require 5.3.4 and a 500 series board to be successful?

Follow up question is what will happen if I try to migrate from v5.0.26C with the 300 series?

Would appreciate any and all advice or hints you may have.

 

Thanks

 

Jack
 

 

 

 

 

[DennisC]

7 hours ago, jrainey said:

Hi all.  Been a long time since I have posted.  I am posting because I believe that I am finally ready to migrate from my ISY994i to my Polisy.

Current state is as follows:

Current:

    -ISY994i @ 5.0.16c ... 300 series Zwave controller, 2413s PLM

       -16 z-wave devices, including 4 Yale door locks

New:

   -Polisy @ 5.6.2 (thanks Michel) ... Zooz 700 S2 dongle, 2413s PLM (new-out of the box)

I have spent quite a few hours going over as many posts and advice I could find concerning this migration. (special thanks to @dbwarner5 for the excellent guide)  I have a number of questions that I expect I can resolve during and/or after migrating, but there is one I would like to clarify a little before I start.

This advice comes from the eisy/polisy user guide:

"Preparing for Migration from ISY-994
On your ISY-994

Make sure the ISY-994 is upgraded to 5.3.4,
If you are migrating your Z-Wave network
You must be using a 500 Series Board in the ISY-994"

My question is this:  Is this correct?  Does the migration process actually require 5.3.4 and a 500 series board to be successful?

Follow up question is what will happen if I try to migrate from v5.0.26C with the 300 series?

Would appreciate any and all advice or hints you may have.

Yes, the migration will only work using firmware 5.3.4 or above and only with the series 500 ZWave board.

Your options are to find a used 500 series board, or start fresh on your Polisy.

You might want to consider upgrading your ZWave dongle to UD's new ZMatter dongle. This way you would be up to date and prepared for ZMatter devices.

[Geddy]

9 hours ago, jrainey said:

My question is this:  Is this correct?  Does the migration process actually require 5.3.4 and a 500 series board to be successful?

In addition to what @DennisC suggests above another option would be removing the 300 series board, upgrade to 5.3.4, then migrate the Insteon devices.

You have 16 Z-Wave devices, not sure how many programs are using them. Would it be a huge task to start the Z-Wave fresh?

Depending on how many Insteon devices and programs you have it might be easier to at least migrate the Insteon portion and start fresh with the Z-Wave on the Polisy. 

I'm not 100% certain if removing the z-wave 300 series board is necessary in this method if you're not going to be using the Z-Wave, but it might cause issues with your existing z-wave. Just don't migrate the z-wave portion since UDI never recommended anything higher than 5.0.16C for the 300 series z-wave.