C7 to C8 Pro Migration Woes: Lost Z-Wave Devices, Cloud Restore Failure, and Misidentified Devices

The hub relies on the relationship between the Z-wave table, and the database. When you include a Z-wave device, it gets assigned a number.

You started from scratch (essentially) with Z-wave, and now the new number that is being assigned to a device in the Z-wave radio is associated with the old Z-wave device number.

In other words, this is what you had originally (generically speaking).

  • Living room light [Z-wave node = 1] [database node = 1]
  • Kitchen light [Z-wave node = 2] [database node = 2]
  • Bedroom light [Z-wave node = 3] [database node = 3]
  • Dining room light [Z-wave node = 4] [database node = 4]

And so on.

But what you have done by randomly pairing devices in a different order, or by not changing the DNI is this:

  • Living room light [Z-wave node = 1] [database node = 4]
  • Kitchen light [Z-wave node = 2] [database node = 3]
  • Bedroom light [Z-wave node = 3] [database node = 1]
  • Dining room light [Z-wave node = 4] [database node = 2]

Or something like that.

To prevent this, you have to break the association between the old device and the new one by changing the DNI.

Steps are as follows. I copied the relevant part of this post.

EDIT I am not sure you can fix this at this point, you might have to re-migrate and do this procedure to start fresh, so to speak.

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