Migration from HomeSeer3 to Home Assistant

Installation
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Hi folks - I am on Homeseer3 with a large installation of about 5 years. Would love to migrate off it as I’ve heard HA is more modern and feels like it is going to clearly surpass HS3 (and even HS4). That said, from a bunch of Google searches I haven’t found anything recent on someone doing the migration. Here are the unique-ish aspects of my installation - would really, really appreciate if someone could confirm that I’ll be in good shape on HA.

  1. 1004 total HomeSeer devices
  2. I have 96 HomeSeer switches in my house (most are HD-200 dimmers, some HS-200 switches, and a few new HX-300 dimmers). I use double tap and triple tap events in HomeSeer; will those work in HA?
  3. I have three z-wave controllers - one usb smartstick+ and two HomeSeer Z-NET+ ethernet z wave controllers (for locations the mesh network can’t reach). What’s the best way to migrate? Can I bulk move the z-wave configs over? Or will I need to remove all 96 switches from the network manually and then re add to HA?
  4. Plugins I use with HomeSeer are: Sonos, UltraM1G3 for my Elk M1 alarm system, myQ for my garage door, BlueIris. Do these have comparable integrations in HA?
  5. Any YouTube video links on HA’s eventing system? My friend showed me NodeRed graphs, but it looks more complicated than HS3’s eventing system which is generally a WYSIWYG IF THEN interface. I don’t mind a bit of complexity, but with so many devices, will HA be decently managable?
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  1. Sonos, ELK-M1, MyQ, and lots of people use BlueIris with HA

  2. YouTube videos date fast. If you like UIs then use Node Red, otherwise use the native automations. The number of devices/entities are largely immaterial here.

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Hello Larry,

For its time, Homeseer was terrific! However, as you pointed out, it really stopped being at the forefront of home automation. I migrated from HA2 to Home Assistant a few years ago and haven’t looked back.

I found that the best way to migrate over all my devices and events, and scripts were to start over from scratch basically. Clean slate approach. HS plugins don’t convert over, so all your scripts will need to be rewritten to incorporate HACS or HA integrations anyway. I found that I had a lot of scripts and stuff that I no longer used anyway, so it reduced the amount of code bloat that piles up over time.

I think you’ll find that HA is a great system and very well supported by the community and Home Assistant Core Team.

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How is the stability vs homeseer?

I’m also looking at moving over…

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My HA install has been stable, except for when I’ve broken it myself, for many years now - since I started using it at the end of 2016.

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I have around 25 zwave devices, the rest is Lutron.

Is the smart stick plus compatible with HA?

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That’s a USB Z-Wave stick, it should work fine.

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Would the process be excluding everything then including it all under home assistant?

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I assume so, but it’s worth joining the Discord server and asking in the Z-Wave channel.

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It was pretty easy after all.

Just plugged it in and it starting pulling all the devices in.