Upgrading from Rev C-5?

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The C-5 actually has advantages:

  • for some reason, power metering devices don’t work on a C-7. :man_shrugging:

  • C-5 doesn’t have the struggle pairing Z-Wave that C-7 has

Advantages of C-7:

  • can do S2 security pairing (C-5 can only do S0), which uses 1/3 the packets as compared to S0;

  • supports the Device Firmware App for OTA Z-Wave firmware updates (C-5 has to use the no longer supported community driver);

  • C-7 can run Tony Fleisher’s (@tony.fleisher’s) excellent Z-Wave Mesh Details app, C-5 can’t.

I have one C-5 and two C-7 (one is a backup for my production C-7).

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