I started out with Home Assistant with Hassio and my experience has been really frustrating. A friend of mine has been using Home Assistant for a long time, but he is not using Hassio. He is encouraging me to ditch it, but I have almost 30 z-wave devices that I really don’t want to configure from scratch. Everything with those devices is working fine, but I want to start doing some more interesting automations that can’t be handled with the automations YAML.
I have been trying without success to get AppDaemon running for quite some time. I was able to add the vkorn hassio-addons add-on repository and install the AppDaemon add-on, but I haven’t had success getting it set up correctly. I can’t uninstall it because Hassio just kicks me back a page when I click “Uninstall” on the AppDaemon configuration page. I would like to try the AppDaemon2 add-on in the hassio-addons repository, but Hassio won’t let me add it.
When I add it to the list of add-on repositories and click “Save”, it just gets cleared out and only the vkorn repo remains, whether I leave that one there or remove it from the list. I don’t see anything helpful in the supervisor logs.
I haven’t seen anyone else complaining about Hassio add-ons, so I wonder if I just have something set up incorrectly.
What am I missing? Is Hassio great and my experience is unusual? Any ideas?
If you want to move to another method of home assistant, just copy all the contents of your config directory to the new install and remove hassio: from your config… everything will work like it does now.
@flamingm0e Is that really all it would take? My friend is under the impression that all of my z-wave devices would need to be renamed again; he said they would go back to their original generic names. Is that not the case?
Just make sure that you get the file named something like “zwcfg_0xca115759.xml” when you backup. Thats the file containing the zwave-configurations. It’s also advisable to always keep a backup of that file, since zwave sometimes can act up and drop all configuration.