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Meh, I have som Z-wave switches in the house (some in-wall rockers, some wall-wart smart plugs) and the experience has been mixed. Flaky switches (GE-branded), flaky firmware (SmartThings hub), etc.

I'll be happy when/if Thread becomes the norm and I can just run everything through Apple HomeKit. Though for some reason, I still don't see a Thread in-wall dimmer available, which seems crazy to me.

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I've had really good luck with the Leviton Z-Wave switches & dimmers. Haven't had a single problem with them in about 3 years of use.

Ha! All my GE switches have been replaced with Leviton now. So far, so good. I think I've had to hard reset and repair one of them in 3 years, so not too bad.

But some days I'm tempted to swap them all for Lutron Caseta. That just gets a bit pricey (both to swap, and then to expand).

Same experience here. Every once in a while a switch will go offline and I have to toggle it to get it to rejoin the network.

These switches are all GE (Jasco) units. My Inovelli switches are rock solid, as well as my Kwikset deadbolt.

I should probably replace the GEs with Inovellis...

All my older Z-wave switches are Jascos, and while they've been solid for a while now on the Z-Wave part, the relays have been failing over time. One day you turn it on, and instead of staying on, it starts to cycle on-off, on-off, on-off, on-off indefinitely.

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