New to the group here and I just received my Hubitat and trying to figure out how to do all of this. We have about 50 smart bulbs and smart outlets running with our Wink hub and Amazon Echo's scattered throughout the house. All of the bulbs are Sengled Element and then most of the smart outlets are the Gosund mini wifi outlets, all from Amazon. We also have two Emerson thermostats as well and all of these are running through the Wink hub now.
Is it possible to keep our Wink system up and going while I work on trying to get the Hubitat up and all the devices connected or do I have to disconnect all smart devices from the Wink hub in order for them to be discovered correctly by the Hubitat?
You may be able to have both connected and I would just try one device. I don't know about the wifi outlets. Have you checked to see if they were supported?
You can exclude, reset, and remove the devices from Wink one by one and then add them to Hubitat. I've heard that some people have had issues with Wink relinking to excluded devices and / or had difficulty actually removing devices from Wink (I did).
I have not actually but that may be why I'm having a hard time getting them discovered by the new Hubitat. It would stink if not as I have about 10 or so of them scattered around the house.
I just went through the same process about 4 weeks ago. I kept my WInk running. Wink didn't like to exclude, but I forced them and then used the HE to exclude again and then join the HE. In the beginning, you have to have the HE very close to the items so they will join, As you slowly build out your mesh it works so much smoother
There’s no driver for the Wi-Fi outlets that I’m aware of, but you could leave them on Alexa and control them from Hubitat. My suggestion would be to get the bulbs done and go back to that later.
Sengled will work excellent because they do not try to repeat zigbee signals and therefore will not screw up the zigbee mesh for the rest of your devices that you might add later down the line. But because of this too, you are going to need mains powered Zigbee devices to repeat signals. Ignore the fact that you didn’t need them before with mink, and know that you are going to eat them now Unless all 50 of those bulbs are very close to the hub
There is no exclude for Zigbee, so you can just factory reset each bulb one at a time and pair it to Hubitat. Just to make sure that your wink hub and habitat are on different Zigbee channels. They should be at least 2 to 3 channels apart. I’m not sure which channel works best for Sengled, search the forum for that. I think it’s anything below 20 but I’m not sure.
@chrismsales , you can only have the devices connected to one hub at a time generally speaking. The Sengled devices shouldn't be a problem since you could just reset them and join to the HE straight away. I would definitely avoid wifi devices, especially without official support. Here is the link to supported devices List of Compatible Devices - Hubitat Documentation
I just realized you said 50 Sengled bulbs. The hub can only pair 32 zigbee devices without repeaters, so I hope some of those outlets are good zigbee repeaters.
Edit: I had an old link
No. Pair in place. If you cannot pair in place, you need a repeater. If you pair in place, and it works, but fails later, you need a repeater.
If you’re having trouble pairing the Sengled, power cycling 10 times should do the trick. That is a factory reset and it will also put the bulb in pairing mode at the same time. Power cycling only 7 times like their manual says, does not factory reset.
