In the course of trying to disconnect the wire to the Z-wave antenna on the ZMatter board in my Polisy, the connector on the board broke ☹️ ( was going to do a firmware update).

Predictably, when I powered up the Polisy, all of the z-wave nodes show up but none of them are reachable.

Since the boards are no longer available, any recommendations on next steps? My Polisy is running IoX 6.1.2_14 and is/was running fine up to now.

Thanks!

Maybe cut the push on connector and solder the wire to the board?

The push on connector broke off the board itself (and took a piece of the board with it) so not sure it can re-soldered?

If you can see the circuit trace it goes to.

Can't tell if the trace is intact and the board/traces are so small I'm not sure I can do it since the last time I soldered anything was years ago.

So I'm guessing the best alternative is to just buy one of the new dongles that UD mentioned are now supported. And assuming I do that I saw your comment in another post that I need to run the following: http://<your_IP_address>:8080/rest/zmatter/zwave/deactivateZMatterZWave.

Thanks for your help with this!

That last step shouldn't be necessary. It was only to revert to the original Zooz dongle. The newer IoX versions are supposed to automatically detect the newer dongles.

Got it! So I don't need to do anything to have IoX "uninstall" the previous board? The auto detect will basically install the new dongle over it?

I haven't experienced it myself, but the announcement for support of the new dongles said they were automatically detected.

OK. I ordered the dongle this morning and will update if I experience any issues after I install it. Thanks again!

Update: Removed the Z-matter board (after doing a backup) and then powered down the Polisy. Installed the Aeotec Z-Stick 10 Pro, powered up and then did a restore from the backup. Rebooted.

All of my Z-wave devices are functioning and reporting fine so I can confirm that the automatic detection and install of the dongle worked fine!

Running IoX 6.1.2_15 & eisy-ui 1.4.10_2

Thanks for the update! Nice to see a report of a straight dongle replacement to a different type.