Anyone else giving up on Z-wave?

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Clearly it won’t be overnight but I suspect in the coming months there will be a flood of cheaper zwave devices out there.

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They finally understood are losing massively market share to Wifi/Zigbee?

I hope so, Zwave is far superior because operates in a much better frequency spectrum

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Mine does (“does any happy zwave user require repeater function?”) Old home, retrofit HVAC puts a big duct down the middle that attenuates signal.

If I lose three switches down the hallway, I drop out the edge/leaves they forward for. My neighbors list for each of these key repeaters is fairly long, The protocol seems to be working.

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Did you add your nodes as secure nodes?

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Yes, secure nodes for the door locks, didn’t bother for the lights, so it’s a mix

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I have a zooz zwave stick with the z wave integration. Ive been trying it out for a few days. Ive had only issues. I have the monoprice motion sensor. After numerous attempts to include and exclude it (because I could never get it to do anything ) it now gives me temperature and burglar sensors working, but nothing else. The motion sensor entity doesn’t even appear. At best when there is no motion burglar is 0 and when there is it’s an 8. But I’d really rathe pr the sensors work, especially before I move my innoveli over. How did you get it to work?

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My Hubitat hub died.
I’ve been re-testing the native Z-Wave and the new Open Z-Wave Beta.

I found that the Open Z-Wave Beta is:

  • Slow to respond to commands.

  • The VNC User Interface is workable but a web interface would be preferable.

The Native Z-Wave is:

  • A bit faster to respond to commands.

  • Gives no indication when nodes have been successfully removed or added.

  • Sometimes all of Home Assistant needs to be restarted to see what’s been added/removed, even in the Z-Wave Configuration node list, not just the entities under the integration.

Summary: The native integration is what I’ve moved forward with as it’s faster. This will work for now. If my Hubitat hub started working tomorrow, I’d switch back in a heart beat, at least for Z-Wave.