Migrating from Vera: A general discussion thread for questions/concerns/sharing of information to assist users with a background in Vera

[csteele]

It's 2018 and Association is still an option because ZWave has good backwards compatibility. However, since ZWave Plus, the old style of Association has been "enhanced/replaced"

Eaton (Cooper) RF9540 Z-Wave Dimmer

That would be a question for @JDRoberts... the fountain of HA knowledge! Because association changed with Z wave plus, I don't think we are going to see anymore secondary controllers like the minimote which can form associations between two other devices. With SmartThings, the preferred method now is to use the Z wave tweaker DTH. You just assign the device temporarily to that DTH, create your associations, then shift back to your every day driver. I don't know if it's possibl…

An all local hub like Hubitat should be able to mimic the functionality of old style association, even on Eaton/Cooper. You're likely to have a pretty non-chatty ZWave network with the older devices and thus the doubling of packets to mimic old association may not be detectable. (Old = packet from trigger to target; Today = packet from trigger to hub and then hub to target.)