I have another thread complaining about the recent SmartThings Policy with PATs. I wanted to start a new thread where we can discuss migrating over to HA. Here is my first impressions.
So I gave up waiting and frankly I don’t have much faith in SmartThings to remain stable (short term and changing their policies again) so going all-in on Home Assistant. If you didn’t delete your PAT there is a solution above.
I have MANY (40+) zwave switches and dreaded moving them over. I bought a Zooz 800 LR USB radio and followed this video and thread. It’s a little in the weeds and I’m “techy” but not a programmer but could follow along with the logic of the Zwave network. I would recommend watching the video 2-3x before starting. I think my devices are all working. If you plan on doing this I would recommend updating the firmware first, as and then downloading the software from silicon labs. I used these instructions:
I thought I should share as many of you are probably thinking the same, thanks to @cornellrwilliams for putting the video together.
Then I used JS UI and the configuration that I used was this video:
Up next are my Zigbee devices which Ive read other users that were very easy to move.