HomeSeer

Or maybe you like context-aware menus to guide you through IF-THIS-OR-THAT-THEN-DO-A-AND-B that HomeSeer uses.

I’ve been using HomeSeer for many years and really prefer it.

I use Homeseer and have cloned my zwave radio. I have regular backups of my HS controller and the zwave to a NAS. My laptop is set up so I just have to plug in the clone, refresh the HS config and the zwave radio from backups and *boop* I'm back in business.

That was baked into homeseer not sure if home assistant/others are quite so flexible.

Several vendors (HomeSeer, UDI, HomeAssistant) offer a Z-Wave Log which can display the low-level zwave messages in near real-time, with the device ID.

I'm a Homeseer+z-wave person. HS has been around for 20+ years, runs on windows & Linux, PC and Pi. ... I've run it for around a decade and it just works, month after month, year after year.

Prebuilt controllers from HomeSeer, Hubitat, UDI, or HomeAssistant will absolutely work offline. ... I like HS because it is rock solid, worked out of the box, I have root access to the hardware so I can add other software if I want, and it meets my "able to make backups and shift to other hardware" requirement.

I like Homeseer. Its got a no-code UI that uses cascading context menus to produce IF..AND..AND..OR...AND..AND ...THEN ...AND..AND ... logic. Aside from naming events, entering, email addresses and email bodies, there's no typing required.

Homeseer, hubitat, homeassistant are good starting points.