Finally, after about a year, I tookt he plunge and upgraded to UI7 (had gone back and forth a few times, but this time decided to stay). This time, I figured it’s been a year and after so many updates, it should be fairly stable. What a mistake!! I’ve been using it for 2 and a half months now and it is just beyond awful. It doesn’t even feel like a beta program. It’s more like alpha. I have about 50 devices (maybe more) and there isn’t a day when at least 10% of these devices haven’t fallen off the network and it doesn’t say “can’t detect device” for them. The interface is absolutely horrible. The scenes don’t run reliably. It doesn’t send notifications properly. It’s clunky & slow. I can’t get some plugins to work with it. My mobile app (Home Wave) never connects reliably. It’s just a piece of junk. A lot of it, I can live with, but this issue w it, constantly saying “can’t detect device” is driving me nuts. Every device stops working for a day or two and then magically starts working again, but then some other devices stop working. Is anyone else having this issue and is there a solution?? With UI5, I had turned off the nightly automatic network configuration and every once in a while, would manually run the network heal and things were running almost perfectly, but I don’t see those options with UI7 anymore. Supposedly they’ve upgraded the Zwave firmware to be smarter, but this things is dumber than a brick. Can I still downgrade to UI5 and downgrade this new firmware too or am I stuck w this stupid thing? I can’t possibly be the only person having these issues. How are you guys dealing w it? Do u know how to turn off whatever it’s doing every day to make some devices say “can’t detect device”? Any help to make this thing more reliable is greatly appreciated.
About the same time Microsoft ends the beta program for Windows 10. 
The beta for Win 7 and Win 8.x ended last July when MS released Win10…
You clearly have z-wave mesh and range issues with both ui5 and ui7. Signs of that are running manual heals, turning of automatic heals, dropping devices. Changing UI is not a real solution to this problem
Z-wave firmware was put out by the chip manufacture not vera.
I have 3 houses with vera only the bigger house has some of the issues you talk about. The smaller houses the network is strong and I never have this issue. External antenna and more devices has helped with the bigger house. I don’t have plugin issues, homewave issues or slower then ui5 issues.
If UI5 was nearly perfect for you, it makes sense to upgrade back to it. I downgraded to UI7 from UI5 and hated it. It last a couple days before I upgraded back to UI5. UI5 might be older but it works much better for me. I call that an upgrade.
It is just SO frustrating that every month they fix a hundred (some times more) different issues and it still sucks. A product that needs that many critical, major, and minor fixes every month, should be called “Beta” by the manufacturer to save its production customers a lot of hassle.
BOFH, I run the IT department of a company with well over a thousand Windows 10 computers deployed around the world. I can assure you that it’s nothing like UI7. If it was, I’d be fired and the company would be shut down.
Integlikewhoa, I don’t think I have a zwave mesh issue. It is a big house, but it is covered end to end with zwave devices. There aren’t too plugs and switches left that are not zwave. I had turned off heal on UI5 and very occasionally (maybe once every 6 months) would run a manual heal. Mostly as a preventative method. The main reason why I had turned it off was because it seemed like every time it ran, it would kill some of my scenes. I have some scenes that need to run around the clock and the heal would stop those.
Would downgrading to UI5 downgrade the ZWave firmware too, or am I stuck with that?