So before I purchased a C8 pro I spent many hours reading the migration stories here, as well as the instructions. I was ready, a bag full of Zigbee 3.0 repaters, a Z-stick, flux capacitor, sledge hammer and a handfull of Xanax, expecting the worst, but being ready to do whatever it took.
I tried my best. Made sure I had no Z-wave ghosts, did a fresh shutdown, power pull, then also a reboot with DB rebuild. Proceeded to do my cloud migration backup after that, which went fine.
Shut down my C7.
Fired up the C8pro and let it boot fully(waited about 7 minutes) after it auto upgraded to the latest platform(same platform as my C7).
I then assigned the same static IP the C7 was using, rebooted & then restored the cloud migration backup to the C8Pro. Most of my OCD tasks were probably not necessary, but I was a bit paranoid.
Everything went incredibly smooth. I had to wake up a few Zigbee battery devices for them to check in, but everything else slotted right into place, even my Iris V1 devices(I know I can't re-pair those to the C8Pro, if they fall off).
I just have to say, incredible job, Hubitat Team, @mike.maxwell , @gopher.ny , @bcopeland , @bravenel, @bobbyD and the rest of the team whose names I don't know.
Special thanks to the ambassadors, whose dedication to answering 8642 questions helped immensly in my research.
Now where is my C9Ultra?
Happy hubbing.
