I have confirmed by looking on the backside of the stick that I have the 'AEON Labs Z‐Stick Gen5 USB Controller ZW090' and not the 'AEON Labs Z‐Stick Gen5+ USB Controller ZW090' dongle. S2 enhances Z-Wave Plus, Gen5, and Gen7 with an additional layer of AES 128-bit encryption of wireless signals coupled with pro-security grade UL 1023 compliance. First off yep I'm an idiot, thought I was being smart getting a cheap Aeon-labs USB Zwave (Gen5) stick from amazon USA on sale.
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When attached to a host processor, it becomes a Z-Wave communication device, which exposes the zensys api (serialapi) through integrated USB. 15:47:09.221 INFO ZWAVE: Calling api beginFirmwareUpdate with args: [ Aeotec Z Stick Gen5 is a Z-Wave USB dongle.