I am currently running Hassbian on an RPi3, and I have had a tough go getting it set up with Z-wave. But, I am learning My question is should I switch over to Hass.io? I have been watching a lot of BRUH Automation’s videos, and it seems like Hass.io has advantages over Hassbian. This made me think of switching, but I have some questions and concerns about it.
Is it worth the switch?
And if so, can I use the same config file?
Will my Z-wave nodes carry over?
I have my Pi configured with a static IP, so would I have to redo that?
I’m sure a few more will pop up, but if anyone can help with these, that’d be great. Thanks in advance!
Try it with a new SD card, nothing to lose then , just pop the hassbian one back in if you don’t like it or it doesn’t suit. I’m sticking with the AIO install for the moment as I know what’s what with it (more or less anyway and I don’t want another learning curve with docker stuff that I have no clue about).
I’m in the process of doing the opposite. I have a separate SD card set up and I’m looking to go from Hass.io to Hassbian. I have some x10 devices that don’t play well with Hass.io and I have so many zwave devices that the UI has gotten so busy. I was trying to use groups, but it just wasn’t working in Hass.io and the latest release did away with Groups altogether. I want to use floorplan and control my alarm moving forward, and I think I can slowly learn Hassbian and make it do more better than with Hass.io. It was nice however because I was using it to get started. Now after 3 weeks I’m moving on.
I have to say, I was totally expecting it not to work, and I even compensated for this by commenting things out to anticipate this. I don’t think I needed to do this.
I used a separate SD card, so I could roll back without fuss. Also, I’m ok with losing my DB history for migration
In reality, it worked pretty much out of the box.
I backed up my hassbian configs for:
HA (everything in HA dir)
configuration.yaml
all other .yaml configs
zwcfg_*******.xml
samba config
smb.conf
mosquitto config
mosquitto.conf
pwfile (found in same dir as mosquitto.conf)
Then I installed hass.io on a new SD card, didnt bother with wifi (I’ll set that up another time)
Waited for installation to come online and checked IP (Pi has a static IP in my router)
Thank you both for your replies. I am definitely going to go the separate memory card option and try it out. I have just, as of last night, gotten my first automations up and running in Hassbian, and I don’t want to lose those. I think I am going to let Hass.io get a couple of more updates under its belt, and then dive in with a new SD card. Hopefully, I will have the same easy transition as you, plonka2000!