So… with the needed upgrade to the latest Python version, I’m considering doing a big bang and upgrading my Jesse to Stretch on this particular Pi as well. My plan is to get a new sd card (saving the old as a backup, for which I also have an image backup on hard drive).
Burn stretch to the new card, and then install a fresh hass in a virtual environment, as I have today. Then copy over all of my configuration files. Sounds deceptively simple as I write it.
A couple questions for those of you who are smarter and wiser than I…
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I have a lot of zwave sensors that were autodiscovered. They have crazy auto-assigned names. Will they keep their crazy names that I am using in my config files, or will they end up being renamed as they are rediscovered?
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Should I bring up HASS and let it autodiscover and show that it is working before I reapply my old config files? Or should I apply my old config files before I ever run HASS the first time? [I’ll make sure my old sd card HASS version and new sd card HASS version are exactly the same.]
Any other thoughts on pitfalls to look out for, will be appreciated.
Should I construct an altar to the Raspberry Pi and HASS gods before I begin? ;->