I've started to Migrate my C4 to my new C7. Before starting I carefully read bravenel's instructions in post #1. But before I started any of the steps I rewrote his steps in a form I prefer. There should be NO difference between what Bruce wrote and the steps below. I prefer short bullets rather that long descriptive sentences. Its been a long time but Ikea directions would drive me crazy, thank god for the exploded view.
The goal here is to join a device to the C7 hub, then change the matching device that was downloaded with the C4 database to have this new DNI. By doing so your automations will now use the new physical device you just paired. BTY, the C4 I mention could be a C5.
Clearly the Hub automations do not use the DNI to know which devices are to be automated.
Below, deviceA is any Z-Wave device you are moving. Could be "Front Foyer" which might be a ZEN27 dimmer etc.
BTW the C4 I mention could be a C5
I used _Remove instead of A Remove because the leading underline puts that device at the top.
Steps are as follows:
- Download the C4 backup to the C7
- C7: change all the database downloaded Z-Wave device’s DNI to "xDIN"
- Exclude the deviceA from the Z-Wave network. Use either S2, C7 Hub or Minimote.
- “Factory Reset” deviceA per mfg instructions.
- Join deviceA to the new hub. When it joins, give it the label "_Remove", and save the device.
- C7: change the now joined deviceA DNI to "aDNI" Note: this DNI without the “a” will be used in step 7
- C7: Open the deviceA that was downloaded from the C4 database (step 1). Change its xDNI to DNI from step 6.
- C7: Remove deviceA labeled "_Remove". Will have to “Force Remove” because it physically no longer exists.
- You’ve now transferred the radio assigned DNI for deviceA to the database imported deviceA. The database imported deviceA is assigned to the database imported Rules & Automations
I've had good luck with those I've already transferred. Probably the most time I've spent so far is collecting the exclude, reset and include directions for each device.
