I was on an older Gen 5 stick but on firmware 1.2 (info from zwave integration). Followed the instructions for zwave JS UI migration (here, scenario 2) and all seems to be working fine so far. Small note: After switching the USB device (in my case the same USB port) make sure you select the USB device manually in Zwave UI> Settings>Zwave>Serial port, it does not switch automatically.
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The product page states that it requires 5V@1A, and the HA Greenās power supply is marked as providing 12V@1A - in fact Iām powering mine via a PoE adaptor that provides exactly 12V@1A. Would this not starve the Green of power?
yes that file/page has been there for agesā¦
since I donāt have a windows pc, Ive never touched it and am still on
reason 2 I cancelled my order this morning.
would have been sweet if the migration would have taken care of that updating tooā¦ the Aeotec being one of the major sticks around
So glad we have AI though
Aiiiii
Not having any friends with a Windows PC? Come around here, I do have one that serves only such purposes. Using it twice a year 
Coffee is readyā¦
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Another vote for an ethernet option. All of my home lab stuff is virtualized on top of docker swarm. I canāt expose an usb device on one device and get the HA. I want to be able to connect the device via ethernet and configure its ip to relevant container like I have for zigbee2mqtt
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Iām on an older version of HomeAssistant (2024.1.5 - feel free to scold me but I donāt have the time to deal with breaking changes any more), will this still work as a drop in replacement to my aeotec zwave adapter, or will it need a newer version of HA?
Unchanged since 2024.1? last January? Thatās a LOT of ZWave updates in the core integration and at least two full revs ON ZWaveJSā¦
Without reading a line of code Iām going to bet thatās a no with over 80% certainty knowing a lot of those ZWave updates came after June of last yearā¦ Get ready to to update. Probably time to grab a pot of coffee and take a free Saturday to catch up fix and backup.
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Maybe itās time for ZBT-2
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This is actually cool. Would it work if placed upside down?
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I love the home assistant hardware initiative! Wonāt buy this one as Iām ok with my aeotec stick - but great to have a push for zwave. With the right vendors itās a very reliable framework (my experience since many years) and the zwave integration in home assistant is fist class.
Thatās what they write in the article. Upright or up side down works
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Well, they raised prices again, with a grand total of EUR 17 to be precise:
I do believe the 2,95 shipping was an error though, that is more of a usb dongle kind of fee. But the rest is robbery. Robbshop has the original price but is out of stock.
EDIT: they dropped it a little bit to 69 again, but kept the shipping costs for parcels instead of postal.
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I am waiting for it to be shipped. One reason for me was to separate radio part from host.
I have read some posts below criticizing ser over ip so I will first test with my current aeon then maybe upgrade to the new top Zwave
unbelievableā¦ We should be able to buy directly from Nabu Casa, this form of robbery is just unacceptableā¦
See the difference. It makes me angry, even I was the lucky one.
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Did you get an answer to this? Was wondering the same thing.
Well you paid 59,95 on Wednesdaynight 13-8.
On Friday 15-8(!!) they raised the price to 72,95.
So they were reasonable on Wednesday and smelled money on Thursday/Friday. Too bad they raised it so quickly.
Could not resist to reply with these new prices!
Edit: I see @Edwin_D showed these new prices too. Indeed hashop is not the way to go in this case.
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The Open Home Foundation is currently hiring a UX Designer for a reason. 
For the Dutchies. I ordered via domadoo in France. 59 but a little higher shipping costs. Although fairly lower than HAShop.
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Could we say itās not iDeal but still fine? 
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This new Z-Wave adapter now really makes the minimalistic design of the first-generation Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 (the official Zigbee and Thread radio adapter previously known as Home Assistant SkyConnect) (in perticular the old āUSB stickā form factor platform with the tiny onboard PCB trace antenna on its circuit board) seem very outdated! Indeed, its original form-over-function design was probably a poor choice for a Zigbee Coordinator as that protocol have more inherent obstacles than Z-Wave which makes me wonder if it is not in desperate need of a design update to this new design? 
Though regarding improving the hardware design of the circuit board all type of radio adapters, I am curious if and why it was decided not to add an āRF shieldā covering (e.i. an EMF shielding plate cover for electromagnetic shielding / EMI / RF shielding for faraday caging) on top of the Z-Wave radio chip and its components on the PCB?
I have not recieved mine yet so can not confirm that you did not do so but judging by the pictures it looks like has it has a grouning boarder but no metal cover (which is a small metallic enclosure meant to act as faraday cage around sensative circuits):
Now it might in practice work just fine without this but if you aim for this remaining ābest-in-classā then it should probably also have a small radio frequency shielding box over the Z-Wave chip as conformal shielding to follow best practices when it comes to electromagnetic shielding too? This is basic design when dealing with radios:
- RF Shielding Tames RFI and EMI Emissions | Masach
- Types, Uses, and Benefits of RF Shielding
- pcb - Basics of board level shielding and grounding - Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange
- What is EMI and RFI Shielding? - everything RF
- Everything you Need to Know about Low-Frequency EMI Shielding - RayPCB
If you look at the Silicon Labs radio modules as a best-practise reference hardware then they usually have a metal cover that normally covers MCU radio chip plus its components and really only explose traces to the antenna (+ GPIO pads/pins):
PS: The only reason why the ZGM230S Z-Wave SiP Module Radio Board does not have it is that it is a development board so its not hardware that should be referenced for production.