Failed (?) attempt at laziness

[groston (Gerry Roston)]

I am setting up a new Home Assistant computer and I guessed that I could be lazy by opening File Editor on my existing/working Home Assistant computer (running OS16.2 and core 2025.4.1), copy the full contents of automations.yaml, and then paste this content into automations.yaml on the new computer.

However, when I opened automations.yaml on the existing device, I saw some lines like this:

actions:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: xxxx

No big deal. I figured that the device_id is associated with the device being turned on, so I went to Settings->Devices on the existing computer, clicked on the three dots next to one of my devices and selected Download Diagnostics. However, device_id does not appear!

So, if my laziness idea has any merit, would someone please let me know how to find device_id so that I can make sure that the new computer is referencing the proper device. Thanks.

[WallyR (Wally)]

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Second bullet under the automations section.

[Edwin_D]

Any reason you did not backup restore or copied the entire config folder to migrate the entire setup (including devices) in one go?