I currently have 4 hubs active and I purchased a 5th as a backup. One of my hubs only runs rules, and has cloud based devices so no Zigbee or Z-wave. I have the radios turned off.
So to test my 5th hub I backed up and shut down my rules hub. I originally had my router setup to set a fixed IP for the hub, but before backing up I set the fixed IP in the hub settings. I removed the fixed IP setup from my router. My thinking was that with a backup of the old hub when the new hub is restored from that backup it steps right in and takes over on the same IP. Most every thing worked. I had to open the Amazon Alexa skill and hit done before the Alexa devices would respond. I also had to click though the setup on Hubconnect and insert the security key back on the ST side but that was pretty easy to do.
This lead to a couple of issues that I am not sure how to resolve. They are as follows and I wondered if anyone has solutions for them.
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I now show two hubs on my mobile app list with the same name. I can select the one connected and everything still seems to work, but is there a way to disable a hub based on MAC or something else.
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All my apps seemed to start back up and run except for Hubigraphs, it looks like the backup did not include the long term storage files created by Hubigraphs. I always assumed that a backup backed up everything but apparently not. So is this expected and do I need to start backing those files up separately? My home energy graphs keep daily energy usage back for a month and my monthly has usage back for a year. Other graphs I could let it rebuild. Although it generated a bunch of errors in my logs and sent the Error monitor app into a frenzy of push notifications.
