Best Zigbee Thermostat in 2020?

Minor update: I was having occasional issues with my Zen's not changing attributes via automation and my units were both on v2.16 of the Zen FW. As there wasnt a way to update them via HE, I bought a 2nd hand SmartThings v2 Hub for $50 AUD and used that to update them.

The process is quite easy and you dont need to break all your automations and dashboards to do it.

  1. Take your Zen off the wall, wake up the screen if it isnt already on.
  2. Press the network button 10 times to remove it from your HE Zigbee network - this is only done on the device, your HE device won't be removed unless you run that process on the HE (so dont).
  3. On your SmartThings app, select add a device and pick the Zen Thermostat
  4. Press the network button 5 times to add it to your SmartThings
  5. follow the instruction HERE to check your Device FW version
  6. pull the batteries out of your Zen for a minute
  7. Wait for up to 10 mins and it should auto-update - you'll know it's doing this as a :warning: symbol will start randomly flashing around the screen. It's done when the display goes back to showing "prefs".
  8. make sure the Zen is responding in the ST app then power down your ST HUB
  9. Press the network button 10 times to remove it from SmartThings
  10. On your Hubitat Hub, go to discover Zigbee new device and start the discovery process
  11. Press the network button 5 times to re-add it to your Hubitat - you'll see it say something along the lines of "found an existing device". This means you succeeded! Congrats!

Hope folk find this helpful. :vulcan_salute: