I setup my new HA Yellow a few days ago. It took me quite some time to get a CM4, but I finally sourced one.
My old setup with Zigbee was rock solid. I have had much less success with HA Yellow.
Steps
- Backed up my old config from a RPi 3B+ and restored it onto my HA Yellow. Both were running the latest OS and HA Core.
- Everything restored fine, but the Zigbee devices were stuggling. I verified the configuration for all the Zigbee devices and found various issues. The motion detector wouldn’t stay connected and it’s in the same room with the HA Yellow. Other devices were slow to respond.
- I took the Conbee II USB radio off my old setup and migrated all the devices to that. Things have worked much better, but there are still things that are lagging. I have a Aqara magnetic sensor on a pantry door that when the door opens it turns on the Aqara light switch. 90% of the time it works fine, but then ~10% it just doesn’t respond. Other devices will be unavailable at random times, and the motion sensor has the same issue as the pantry, 90% of the time it’s fine, but that 10% will drive you crazy. My water detectors when they go unavailable the automation to alert me of water triggers.
Ultimately it seems that I went from an incredibly reliable setup to something I can’t trust. The Zigbee radio built in to HA Yellow seems to be garbage as well.
I think my next step is to remove all the Zigbee devices and automations and start over. But that seems time consuming and I’m not sure it’ll help. I’ve done that for some of the devices and it didn’t do much.