Super, that doesn’t sound too bad at all, if that is the case.
Is there then a further process for making use of the onboard hardware and decommissioning all the hubs I have about the place? I think this is one of the main reasons I looked at the Yellow, but not sure
I don’t know, I don’t have my yellow yet.
In the releaseparty of (I think) August, they were talkaing about replacing zigbee addresses and channels.
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And maybe some trail on error.
if you have wifi devices, in your router modify the address so your new yellow gets the old ip and devices should connect automaticcaly
Looks like all the approvals are through now on the PoE version. Hopefully now there is not too much in the way :).
I heard the Aeotec Z Pi 7 will drop straight in for ZWave and that the ZWaveMe Razberry 7 will likely work as a direct drop in on the small header on the Yellow.
Does anyone know of any other Rasberry Pi ZWave modules that would be compatible?
@HugosDad
The only thing to watch if you do transfer from one device to another (ie Pi 3 to Yellow) is to make sure your Zigbee (if you use it) network is backed up using the new backup process and restore that to the new HA instance.
ZWave should move across if you use the same ZWave stick, if you use Zwave devices.
WiFi and Bluetooth devices should migrate with the standard HA Backup.
You should have absolutely no issues then. Full backup, then restore the backup.
If you are not already using it, there is a nice add-on that uses Google Drive to store backups in the cloud. This makes it even easier as you can just directly drop your backup onto the new instance.
Not my addon, but I have used it for several years.
@jerrm
Hue is NOT WiFi, but if Hue globes are in the Hue Bridge and Hue Integration and not stand alone Zigbee, then they will migrate with a standard backup.
Please do not confuse people. Home Assistant 100% does NOT treat Hue as WiFi, it is its own integration via a Wired connection. It may be using network, but it is not WiFi.
Integrations for various devices do not equal WiFi unless they are specifically WiFi devices. Hue is a wired HUB using its own API and ZigBee Mesh.
Edit: I repeated myself a few times. Still, gets the point across
@jerrm
Yes, it will move with a standard backup.
If @HugosDad wants to migrate away from the Hue Bridge later to Zigbee on the Yellow, it will be unpair from the Bridge and then manually pair everything to the Yellow via ZHA (or whatever flavour of Zigbee Hub) and then make sure the entities match the automations already in use.
When/if you start to experiment with Yellow’s zigbee, know that you can have both ZHA or zigbee2mqtt and Hue running at the same time. It doesn’t have to be all one or the other.
Move a few devices over to HA, compare with Hue, and keep what you like.