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I use it and it does work. In my case I have six Z-Way systems; five with Z-Wave devices and the sixth that combines all of the devices and this is what Home Assistant polls. You do not need a dedicated system, I just went this route. For simplistic reasons I will just detail how it works with two s...

You can run Z-Way as an add-on in Home Assistant. That is what I do. So Z-Way just feeds into Home Assistant via the integration. For me, when the 900 series is released is when I will need to revisit the setup. You never know, by then the new employer PoltoS has might have some offering. From the f...

Yes, you should always have a backup.

Z-Way will continue to work, you won't have the remote access via the app though. In my case, this is not important as Z-Way is just feeding into Home Assistant. I have remote access to Home Assistant via Cloudflare using the Home Assistant app. Z-Way is stable and runs as a docker on Home Assistant...

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Will there be new Razberry board based upon the Trident hardware?

I was not able to do a restore from standalone Z-Way to the Add-On version. If you're not using any rules and such or care about the rules, the devices will be rediscovered as the controller still knows of them. The issue I ran into, after a restore the controller was no longer visible even though i...

Make sure the Razberry board has the latest firmware updates. My spare is at the current firmware level.

My preferred route of things....have backups and have spare Razberry cards. I do not have have secondary controllers at all in my network as there is no need for them. If a system fails, I have a spare ready to go with a Razberry board already in it. I do run Z-Way as a add-on to HA and can restore ...

In addition, @PoltoS could disable public access to github Z-Wave.me repositories. As for alternatives, I've experimented with a few different options and found Home Assistant to be the best alternative for my needs, followed by OpenHAB. Both of these options are much more resource intensive than Z...

I'm guessing the downward spiral accelerated a few months ago when the 700-series chipsets used by Z-Wave.Me were deprecated by Silicon Labs for their 800-series chipsets. If Z-Wave.Me was a healthy company, I think they would have introduced 800-series based products. Time will tell. There was a 6...