About 3 months ago, I switched from the Z-Wave integration to the new OZW integration.
My experience is super positive: all devices were detected without issues (some even got more options than before), including and excluding nodes became more intuitive for me, and stability has improved for me.
The only thing that I REALLY miss, is the absence of the last_received attribute that was present in zwave.my_device entities.
In my house I have door/window sensors, which have really poor battery status indication, but they do have a wake_up interval (as per z-wave standard).
This attribute last_received has a timestamp that tells you when the device last woke up.
Checking this attribute on a daily basis (with a script), allowed me to check that the sensors were working fine, or the batteries needed to be replaced.
Implementing this should not be a big issue, since the qt-openzwave GUI does show this property.
In fact, a quick check of the mqtt data shows that it is even exported:
OpenZWave/1/node/18/statistics/ {
...
"lastReceivedTimeStamp": 1600662210,
}
I would love to see the last_received info coming back in the OZW integration 