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And, having just committed to avoiding new matter devices for a while, I may have to try one next time I happen to be near an Ikea store. I am so fickle.

That would make sense in isolation. Unfortunately for me, this was just the latest example of the weird and unreliable behavior of matter devices. (Even stranger, the next day, this device began working again.) This problem has occurred with all four of my matter devices, across three different brands (Govee, Nanoleaf, and Cync.) This is not a problem I associate as being caused by the EISY, but it is a problem that makes it hard for me to recommend matter to anyone at this point. I have spent far too many hours trying to make matter work for me and I will not be buying any more matter devices until I have some confidence these problems are solved. Thanks for your thoughts, but I believe I have hijacked this thread too much already. If something changes where I think UD can help, I will get back to you.

"Node servers" and "matter" are separate options for control of your devices. If you choose to go with matter, then a node server would not be needed. In my experience, there is some risk with either (node server or matter) approach. For me, matter has been unreliable at best. On the other hand, support for node servers can cease and one might find that a particular device may not be supported or become orphaned if the manufacturer updates the device. I understand also that matter over wifi does not need the dongle but it needs a matter capable hub such as a hub from google, Alexa, apple hub, Aqara, etc... One must first add a matter device to one of these hubs then share it with EISY. I have found the node servers to be reliable options when they support a given device, but that there is a bit of a learning curve to making them work. Based on my experience so far, my recommendation for you would be to use the KASA node server. There is no direct cost to trying it out and, if successful, you will more likely have reliable control over your devices. I have no experience with Tapo devices. For outlets and plugs, I use zwave and Insteon.

I definitely experienced some of this. This has NOT been my experience. Yesterday evening, and not for the first time, a matter (wifi) device added three days ago stopped responding in all hubs (EISY, echo, google). The matter device (Govee, FWIW) remained connected to wifi and I could control it via its native app and its "works with Alexa" integration. Another Govee matter device continued to work (but for how long we will see). No...for me, other matter connection issues are NOT usually related to "dropped wifi networks".

Unfortunately, based on my experience so far, adding matter devices to Alexa/Google/Apple/EISY only to find them losing connection later, then gaining it back, then losing it again, is not uncommon. This happens to me regularly and not just with the EISY. This morning, for example, one of the devices I added yesterday lost connection with Alexa. Sometimes I find that trying to turn on/off the device from one of the hubs will re-establish communication. Sometimes, power cycling the non-responding device can work. I have had some matter devices simply drop wifi connection. Sometimes, nothing works besides deleting the device everywhere, factory resetting the device, then re-adding. Still, it seems as if matter is making progress, if a bit slowly.

Yes, by first adding to Alexa, then sharing to google home, then sharing to EISY. Until recently, this has not worked for me but now does. I have two Govee Devices, a Cync Bulb, and Nanoleaf (over thread). We will see how long things stay connected, but the way things worked this time, I am hopeful that this matter connection will last. There is a bit more history to this than I let on here and if you are interested, send me a PM.

Well, for what it is worth.... There was an update to IoX to version 6.05.something. It claimed to include improved matter support. I assume it is not coincidental that I have now successfully added a couple of matter devices (those relying on wifi). Even now, however, adding the Thread device continues to elude me.

Do you have the zmatter board? My experience with matter so far is not good. I have echo and nest border routers but cannot successfully share several matter devices (all lights) to EISY. I have not tried the Aqara devices. I used zwave for shades, and they work very well for me. In fairness, I have a decent number of zwave devices in the house and this may help with communication, but Zwave would be my recommendation based on my own experience.

I have been experimenting with matter, both wifi and thread. I have an Echo hub and Nest hub (2nd generation) border router. I have several Govee devices that support matter over wifi, a GE Cync bulb that supports matter over wifi, and a Nanoleaf bulb that supports matter over thread. All of these devices are successfully paired with google nest and shared with Alexa, via matter. All can be controlled by Alexa and Next. At this point, the only device that I can share and pair with the EISY is the Cync bulb. I had two Govee devices (Table Lamp and Permanent Outdoor Lights) that I once had paired with the EISY but, without warning or any reason that I could identify, quit working from the EISY and no amount of resets and re-pairing to date has been successful. The Nanoleaf bulb has been intermittent with Alexa and Google, but as of now, seems to be working. I think it once paired with EISY but certainly will not do so now. I don't know if Alexa and Google are updating their matter standards (currently v1.4?) or whether doing so is rendering the EISY incompatible, but matter on the EISY is generally not working for me (or I am doing something wrong) and I have mostly given up hope that the current version of IoX works reliably with matter. I have not tried any Ikea matter devices. I will be interested in hearing whether anyone has any luck with these.

Some times it is best not to sweat the small stuff. 🙂

Don’t know, but I have just come to expect, and accept, it. It seems about every six months we get a bunch of new topics about daylight savings time. This year less so. I guess many of us have come to accept it.

I believe the simplest approach would be to have two programs. The first: if status keypad is unlocked then run second program (if path) else nothing The second program, disabled: if time is from sunset to sunrise then run entry lighting program (then path)

I don't know about the other two, but I have IOLincs and they work fine with the EISY. Regarding the battery devices, I am wondering if the easiest of bad options (once the migration is complete and the "placeholders" exist) would be to factory reset the battery devices, add them to the new EISY, then perform a "replace" action. I must admit that I forgot how I handled my migration of Insteon battery devices (I did not migrate zwave from zooz) but I thought it was nothing more than putting each into linking mode then performing a "write" action from the admin console. Unlike you two, however, I did not have too many.

Unfortunately, I have never tried such a migration (have always use the zwave boards from UDI), so I will be of very-limited assistance. Still, a couple of things come to my fuzzy memory about zwave.... I was not sure that a backup from a zooz dongle could be used to populate a zmatter dongle. (This was just something I thought I saw somewhere. My confidence is not high.) If a zwave device is already linked to a network (zooz dongle, for example), I did not think that device could be then added to another (such as zmatter) without removing it from the original. I wonder if the error messages you are seeing are an indication of this.

Unless your program runs false, it will always show as green. I am not sure that we can conclude anything from this. Instead, I would look at the program summary tab and see when was the last time the program ran. If the time does not match that of the most recent alarm trigger, then it did not see the signal. Given the evidence (log and IOLinc status) suggests that the Polisy IS receiving the IOLinc status, have you checked to see if the program somehow became disabled? Is the program in a folder that somehow because disabled?