Thus far it is fast and stable for me, however it should be noted that it does kill all legacy ZWave pages and options in both the ZWave configuration as well as under devices.
Strangely, options that seem frowned upon (E.g. "Optimize Full") are found all over the place (despite Rich constantly advising against it's use) while most of the useful zwave tasks (previously located under the device itself) have now moved to a dedicated option under the zwave plug-in menu (decreasing their utility).
This means if I'm trying to test connection and optimize a single device it is now a more difficult task.
Previously:
I would love if they provided a built in "Swap Loc1 / Loc2 Values" tool, since even they can't remember to support their own features.
The new "Device Information" is a welcome update to the slow and large "Node Information" from previous iterations.
All said, mostly good. But expect changes.
Strangely, options that seem frowned upon (E.g. "Optimize Full") are found all over the place (despite Rich constantly advising against it's use) while most of the useful zwave tasks (previously located under the device itself) have now moved to a dedicated option under the zwave plug-in menu (decreasing their utility).
This means if I'm trying to test connection and optimize a single device it is now a more difficult task.
Previously:
- Search for device
- Click Device
- Click ZWave Tab
- Click "Manage Zwave" (I forget the text on the button)
- Click on ZWave task you need.
- To perform another task, you simply touch another button (one action)
- Click Plugins
- Click ZWave
- Click "Device Diagnostics"
- Find device in drop down list
- All new ZWave Plugin dialogs seem to ignore the "Display Location 1 First" setting. Which means this is horribly out of order for some of us.
- This is a chore for those of us with lots of devices.
- Click Continue
- Select your task
- Click Continue
- Click Start
- To perform a second task, click "Run Another Function" and then perform all these steps again.
- Clicking "Run another function" resets all dialogs and you must find the device in the lists again.
I would love if they provided a built in "Swap Loc1 / Loc2 Values" tool, since even they can't remember to support their own features.
The new "Device Information" is a welcome update to the slow and large "Node Information" from previous iterations.
All said, mostly good. But expect changes.
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