C7 and C8 mesh or HA setup?

[CyberMinion]

Hi,

If I have a C7 already in service, and buy a C8. I know apps/devices can be migrated over. However, is there a way for me to create a mesh or straight-up high-availability setup with the two of them? Or are they incompatible in that regard?

If not, what might my options be for a pair of C-8 units?

Thank you!

[sburke781]

I'm going to need others to confirm this.... But my understanding would be there is not an "easy" or "automated" way to switch between hubs like you might expect in a commercial setting (again I would encourage confirmation of this...), My understanding would be you need to purchase the admin (?) subscription and manually restore to another hub in the case of a "disaster"....

There's so many unknown's there on my part, I almost didn't post.... But if nothing else it may provide some topics to investigate further...

[FriedCheese2006]

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[sburke781]

Even Beta from @thebearmay is good enough for me...

[CyberMinion]

So this is much more of a nightmare than I had hoped. Lovely. I hoped to add some resiliency in case of hardware failure.

Also, I'm dealing with significant performance issues (some or all applications will become completely unresponsive for hours at a time) for no specific reason I can identify. But it sounds like there is no mechanism by which I can seamlessly have a second hub take over when the first goes into a coma, and have them sync with each other afterwards to keep up to date.

I'm also not sure I want to buy a new Hubitat hub, if a C7 hub with only a handful of ongoing (light) processes will regularly lock up for multiple hours, almost every day.

[rlithgow1]

Well you need to track down the "why" of what is happening?

Does it happen at the same time or when doing the same thing?

How does your z-wave mesh look? (Post your z-wave details page in it's entirety)

Do you have the latest z-wave firmware installed? (Separate from the platform updates)

What 3rd party apps do you have installed?

What native apps do you have installed?

Are you seeing anything in the logs?