I currently have a Polisy with the Zooz 700 usb dongle. I am considering upgrading to Zmatter. I would love to hear other people's experiences after the upgrade. I'm not looking for information about the upgrade process, this has been extensively covered. I'm looking for people's experiences with before and after. The Zooz 700 dongle versus the Zmatter board. What are the pros and cons of each? Does your zwave network now have better range or better communication? Was it worth the upgrade? Would you do it again? 

The Zmatter dongle also supports Zigbee and Zmatter. If you don't plan on using the additional protocols, and the Zooz 700 is working, then there's probably no reason to replace it. 

21 hours ago, gregkinney said:

I currently have a Polisy with the Zooz 700 usb dongle. I am considering upgrading to Zmatter. I would love to hear other people's experiences after the upgrade. I'm not looking for information about the upgrade process, this has been extensively covered. I'm looking for people's experiences with before and after. The Zooz 700 dongle versus the Zmatter board. What are the pros and cons of each? Does your zwave network now have better range or better communication? Was it worth the upgrade? Would you do it again? 

Zmatter board allows OTA updates of supported devices (newly released) and able to set device associations such as direct association with zwave devices. Most importantly, UDI plans on supported and updating whereas the zooz dongle will not receive compatibility updates to add features 

Edited August 20, 20232 yr by lilyoyo1

3 hours ago, gregkinney said:

I currently have a Polisy with the Zooz 700 usb dongle. I am considering upgrading to Zmatter. I would love to hear other people's experiences after the upgrade. I'm not looking for information about the upgrade process, this has been extensively covered. I'm looking for people's experiences with before and after. The Zooz 700 dongle versus the Zmatter board. What are the pros and cons of each? Does your zwave network now have better range or better communication? Was it worth the upgrade? Would you do it again? 

I upgraded Polisy with the Zmatter internal module and would not do it again. I was using the Zooz 700 USB dongle at the time and so went through the migration process during the time it was initially released. I was unhappy with all the migration issues to the point where I installed Home Assistant with my Zooz dongle and now run all ZWave there. I love Home Assistant and using Polisy only as a Insteon controller interfaced to Home Assistant. I'm not running any Polisy node servers as everything I need is in HA. For the short time I ran ZWave from Polisy with the ZMatter module I didn't notice any increase in range or communication. At this point I'd be satisfied just to have the old ISY 994i back and the money I spent on Polisy and ZMatter.