Zigbee2mqtt migration | standalone to Home Assistant OS

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I have the MQTT broker (Mosquitto) and Zigbee2MQTT running on a different server (Raspbarry pi) than Home Assistant.

I want to run zigbee2MQTT and MQTT broker on the same server (intel NUC) as Home Asisstant

I installed Mosquitto broker and Zigbee2MQTT add-on on home assistant OS.

Now I can transfer my zigbee stick to the server running Home Asisstant OS and re-pair my 40+ zigbee devices.

But according to the FAQ | Zigbee2MQTT

Should I be able to move the “Data” folder to the new environment (my Home Asisstant OS server) and edit the configuration.yaml to the new location.

I now have the “\data” folder locally on the Home Assistant server but I don’t know how to get this data to the correct location within the zigbee2MQTT docker container. And what is the correct location!?

I’ve googled a lot but haven’t found a solution yet.
And a lot has been written on this topic, but I can’t find anything about: from standalone to Home Assistant OS migration. Lots of other combinations i have seen.

Is this possible? or is there no other option than to pair all my (+40) zigbee devices again!

Any help and explanation is appreciated.

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Don‘t use HA OS. Move the Zigbee dongle and the Mosquitto / Z2M containers with their data-directories next to the HA container on the NUC.

You can use docker compose to orchestrate.

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Thank you for your response and advice.

in the current situation zigbee2mqtt and mosquitto do not run in a docker container but as a service in the OS
transferring docker containerner is therefore not an option.

and is it true that if I put a docker container next to HA myself, I will miss the update function that the add-ons within the UI of home assistant do have?

I was hoping there was an option to inject the data from my current install into the new home assistant installed add-on for zigbee2mqtt!

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I‘ve misread your initial post and was thinking that you do not run HA OS currently. But since you do, my advice is not applicable.

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have you found a solution? I am myself looking to run mosquitto and zigbe2mqtt and would love some advice.

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this is an old post but I am looking to do the same thing (migrate from zigbee2mqtt on standalone raspberry PI running on debian over to HAOS) - I really did not want to re-pair all my devices.

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Install the samba add-on. Copy the contents of the data directory to config/zigbee2mqtt

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thanks for the input. that helps, I was probably making it more complicated. do they both have to be on the same zigbee2mqtt rev? the standalone install is at 1.32.1 and the ver in HA is 1.35.3-1. Also looks like there will be a few differences in the z2mqtt configuraiton.yaml file between the standalone install and the HA install. will everything else in the ./data directory be the same?