Thinking of ordering this, is it plug and play?  I currently have the zwave zooz USB dongle on my polisy, do I just substitute this device?

 

Thanks

Normally yes.

https://wiki.universal-devices.com/Eisy:User_Guide

Scroll down to zwave

any reviews on it's range?  I curently have the Zooz USB (I think 700) and it only works a few rooms away

Any difference in range would probably be very minor. Zwave really depends on it's mesh network topology to get signals to devices that often aren't even in the same room.

I only get coverage a room or two away, how many (subjective question for sure) devices are needed to form a good mesh?

Edited December 23, 2024Dec 23 by jkraus

That's not an easy question to answer. It varies with how many walls you have what they're made of, etc. Ideally, any given devices would be able to "see" at least two other repeating devices, allowing the alternate paths to set up based on signal strength. That's what mesh is all about: getting redundancy through multiple alternate paths, instead of manually determining and configuring a signal path.

On 12/15/2024 at 5:29 PM, jkraus said:

Thinking of ordering this, is it plug and play?  I currently have the zwave zooz USB dongle on my polisy, do I just substitute this device?

 

Thanks

Yes and No.

The card is easy to get running, but there is no way to backup/restore your Z-Wave definitions from the Zooz dongle. You will have to remove/redefine the Z-Wave devices. Then, all the Z-Wave tags will not match, etc. So a lot of manual fiddling.

I am wrestling with this issue right now.

Definitely not plug and play, from an older Z-Wave setup.

* Orest

Edited December 24, 2024Dec 24 by oskrypuch