If everything was working fine for you on the existing installation, I have to ask, why did you move to the new Beta then? Lack of documentation should have been a warning?
As for why?
- the existing integration is using OZW 1.4, which is > 4 years old and hasn’t been maintained upstream for almost 2 years.
- Plenty of issues with 1.4, such as “hacks” to support central scene, hundreds of bugs fixed in 1.6, new features/functionality on the backend, and architectual decisions made in 1.4 days that don’t work so well in this day and age. Spend a few minutes searching the forums for issues with 1.4 would clearly show its “age”
Please remember, this is a community driven integration. As volunteers we only have so much time each day to work on this, and with 3000+ Z-Wave devices on the market, no way we can figure out every single use case, or potential issue people will face by ourselves. Hence the Beta Release.
Its unfortunate you had issues with it, but there is 0 I can do to help you and thus “mature” the new solution (at least on the OpenZWave side) with feedback such as “crippled” my network.
As I pointed out in another thread (So when is OpenZWave (OZW) version 1.6 coming to Home Assistant?) I’d encourage you, if you are up-to it, to contribute in a positive matter to this release, instead of a blanket criticism. Its very discouraging to those that put in hundreds of hours writing and supporting code .