What is the status on z-wave 700 and OpenZWave? Does OpenZWave support 700 series yet? And are there any 700 series USB sticks in the market?
OpenZWave is deprecated and I don’t think supports 700-Series dongles. The preferred and maintained zwave_js does.
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Oops, that’s what I meant. I mixed up the two for a minute there. Do you know of any 700 series USB sticks in market?
Yes, from Aeotech, Zooz, Homeseer, probably others.
I am looking for the Aeotec one but it was unavailable for the moment last time i tried to buy one.
Where are you located? Zooz makes one for North America.
In europe.
Just check now and the availability is planned on july 8th for 55 euros
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To answer the original question, the newer zwavejs integration supports the 700 series with zwavejs2mqtt or the zwavejs addon
I ordered the Z-Stick 7 yesterday and I got a shipping number today for the European dongle.
I just migrated my zwave from SmartThings using the z stick 7 and js 2 mqtt. Works spectacularly!
Interesting that Aeotec has a complete setup guide for using the Z-Stick 7 with HA…
As far as I can see, there is no Backup software available from Aeotec for the Z-Wave Gen 7 stick at the moment.
When I replaced an early Aeotec Gen 5 stick with an Aeotec Gen 5+ stick, I was able to use Aeotec’s backup software to transfer the network between the sticks outside of HA. This meant that replacing the Gen 5 stick with the Gen 5+ stick in HA was seamless, the existing network was carried over, and no rebuild was necessary.
So if I were to replace my current Aeotec Gen 5 stick with a Gen 7 stick in my HA installation, does this mean that I would have to rebuild my existing network from scratch? Or would the Gen 7 stick get the information from HA?
Tip! Checkout Silicon Labs UZB-7 USB Stick (Silabs SLUSB001A/SLUSB7000A) a.k.a. UZB7 controller
As I understand it, only difference is that Aeotec Z-Stick 7 and Z-Pi 7 has RF region optimized antennas