https://ezlo.shop/products/smart-home-controller acts like it will sell me a Vera Plus (it says “In stock”), but the checkout flow is full of dark patterns like what looks like a radio button for a genuine choice between “Ezlo SMART enabled” or not, turns into a whiny “you don’t like puppies, do you” sort of a screen telling me I’m making the wrong choice but if I REALLY “don’t want this device to be smart”, it then links me to Amazon which says they don’t have stock and don’t know if they ever will. Meanwhile, if I allow it to add the “Ezlo SMART enabled” and try to check out, it says “Let’s quickly ship your Ezlo Smart Device before we get to the rest of your order” and tries to set up an order for that alone. At this point I feel like it’s probably a trick, and after buying a PlugHub and subscription I don’t want, it’s just going to send me to Amazon for the out of stock notification anyway.
I’m not here to ask about 3rd party sources (which don’t seem to exist anyway); just to say that Ezlo’s first-party stores seem pretty confused on this issue.
I bought a Vera Plus as a back up on eBay about 3 months ago. The owner had never opened the box so still wrapped in plastic. Opened it and tested it, works fine.
Have to add that when I moved from a Vera to a Vera Plus in 2020, Ezlo support was great in helping me get it done. They signed on and just did it. One day I will probably switch over to an newer Ezlo product, well, if they make a way to move a zwave network from one machine to another easily…
Take the plunge and move to Ezlo Plus. Still has a few warts but at least it is actively being developed with frequent code updates. The Ezlogic.mios.com is a great way to manage the controller and build meshbots (formerly known as scenes).
I don’t see too many functionality gaps over Vera. The more powerful meshbot creation eliminates a lot of LUA code I used to have in Vera.