Migrated from Homeseer to HA

Just recently took the plunge to migrate my system from Homeseer to HA. I had looked at HA a few times over the years but it always seemed to confusing to learn. This time was completely different because I had the help of Chatgpt. It helped me migrate my z-wave controllers over to HA. I had two setup with Homeseer. One Zooz zwave stick and Z-net. The Z-net had been causing problems and Homeseer couldn't help me with it. So, I decided to give HA another try. As Chatgpt guided me in the move, I learned along the way. I learned how to setup the devices in HA and how to create automations. This would have taken me so long to figure out on my own. I am going to tackle dashboards next. Once I was fully on HA, I realized that Z-net was failing. So Chatgpt helped me move all my devices off of my Z-net and on to my Zooz stick. It did it in a way as to create a really stable z-wave mesh. So believing that I needed two z-wave controllers to run my z-wave devices, to running everything on the one Zooz z-wave controller. Everything is running great! And I am loving HA so far. I think that the HA of today is a lot more user friendly as well. Just thought I would let anybody know that it is possible and you don't even need to exclude your devices and re-include. You just move the NVM of the contoller. HA finds everything.

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