Migration from Polisy/ZWave dongle to Eisy/ZMatter card

[oskrypuch]

Just trying to get all my ducks in a row. Yes, have read through all the wiki materials, more than once for other hardware migrations, this one is a bit more complicated.

This site has a large mature system in place, mainly Insteon, currently running a Polisy with the original ZWave dongle. I started up with ZWave during the time of troubles for Insteon. I have a ZMatter card sitting on the shelf, not in use yet.

The Polisy in question is running 5.4.x and would need a OS update to move to 5.8.x. I have performed this on another Polisy I have, but that was a small install with no ZWave, so simple to do with a flash followed by a simple restore. That is principally why this system is "stuck" at 5.4.x. If I expend some time moving the ZWave stuff over, would prefer to move it to up to date hardware.

As I understand it, the old ZWave dongle does not have an easy backup route, and it seems a bit up in the air if I can just move it physically to the Eisy, and make it all work. And I would prefer to get the ZMatter card in place.

The ZWave part of this is what is holding things up.

Ideally I would like to set up the new Eisy/ZMatter, ensure it all works, and then step-wise switch over, with the ability to go back if I absolutely had to. I understand that I would have to remove/reinstall every ZWave device, I would plan to just move one over and play with the new equipment, as a toe test.

The other huge question, is what you do with the (serial) PLM replace/migrate. I do have extra PLMs available, and I could use one completely independently of the current in use PLM. I have replaced PLMs before, but that is a bit of pain running around refreshing all the wireless modules. I am familiar with the physical connectivity issue, serial/USB/adapters.

I would prefer to restore the Insteon devices and code to the Eisy, and then unplug the old Polisy PLM, and plug it into the Eisy. I understand that should work, following the instructions in the wiki. That would allow be to reverse the steps, and go back to the Polisy if I had to.

Then I would have to one by one bring the ZWave modules in, and of course edit all the code because the module numbers won't match up, etc. Very messy.

That would leave my Polisy/ZWave dongle undisturbed, and if things blew up or didn't work, I could in the short term still move back to keep the system up.

The portal and UD mobile is the other headache. I do have a lot of defined widgets for my Polisy set up, I fear that I will have to go and manually recreate them for the new Eisy once it is in place.

I understand that UD mobile can facilitate ZWave additions, so would want to harness that.

Also have some Polyglot modules. I may have to buy new licenses for these. The most important one is my Tempest WeatherFlow station support.

Thoughts?

Suggestions?

Oh, and one last item. I purchased a couple of Polisys way back, as it turned out just a few months before the Eisy was announced. I do hope there isn't a Eisy II in the works real soon? Would not want to repeat that mis-step.

* Orest

 

Edited November 21 by oskrypuch