In the interest of using the HA implementation used by most people, I’ve decided to move from HA Core to Hassio. From what I can tell, moving Zwave will be the most finnicky part of this process. Does anyone know of documentation for this process? I’ve found a few threads on it, but they all describe having issues that they had to hammer out and manually fix later, I’d of course like it to be a seamless transition.
My plan is this:
-Initialize brand new Hassio install on new machine.
-Move Aeotec Z-Stick from old HA Core machine to new one
-Enable Z-wave component on Hassio
-Shut down Hassio
-replace zwcfg_0xwhatever.xml on Hasssio with the one from Core
-add all zwave entries from Core core.entity_registry to Hassio core.entity_registry
-start Hassio, and cross my fingers?
anyone with experience have thoughts on this? is there other stuff i need to migrate?
I did this exact same thing over a year ago. My biggest concern was the Zwave transition also. Since I was moving to a new machine at the time I was able to load Hassio then copy my my entire config file over and restart. Everything on Zwave worked flawlessly. At the time I didn’t have to make any changes to the *.registry files, it all just worked for me. By copying my entire config file over when I restarted it was like I didn’t miss a beat. I did have the luxury of moving to a new machine so if anything had failed I could have easily fallen back to the old machine and fired it up again. I don’t know if it’s now required to make *registry file updates or if they would update just based on seeing the new hardware.
Now with the google backup feature I have been able to pretty much do the same by using the back up and restore feature as I have since moved to another machine. I run the same Aeotec Zwave stick as well as the Nortel stick for zigbee. Since all files were copied over neither became an issue for me.
If you’re moving to a new machine you can go ahead and try it knowing you can always fall back. If not you’ll probably want to make sure you have a solid backup of your current machine you could revert to if needed. Good luck!
Sorry for resurrecting this thread but I’m trying to do the same thing except not with z-wave involved. Disclaimer: I’m a newbie at HA. I started a few days ago running HA in a venv and I’d now like to move this installation to a fresh VM of hassio. How do I get the .homeassistant files into the VM? If I install the Samba share add-on and them copy the files to /config, won’t that overwrite the settings for the Samba share addon.