Simplest way to move all zwave devices from smart things to c8

[possum]

I have about 60 zwave devices on smart things. The rest of the devices are either wifi or Philips Hue (zigbee).

My question is: it seems the only way to do this is unpair each zwave device from smart things and then pair each device with c8. Is there no way to do it in bulk or I just have to suck it up. These are standard devices (leviton, aeotech, gocontrol, etc).

My principal goal here is get the things into homekit which i was doing with homebridge but smarthings broke that so now it want it out of my house.

Thanks.

[tivomaniac]

Sadly suck it up is the answer.

[bobbyD]

@possum

seems the only way to do this is unpair each zwave device from smart things and then pair each device with c8.

Luckily for you, it will be the last time you need to exclude and include every device. The next time it's just a matter of restoring a cloud backup and you'd be up and running a new Hubitat Elevation hub in a matter of minutes. Do check out this post before you dive in:

Are you new to home automation or Hubitat or coming from a different platform such as SmartThings, Vera, or Wink? This may help!

Just throwing this out there. It may or may not be a help and I'm sure many others will contribute to this thread. Here are a few things to start you off. Z-wave Devices: 1: You do not need Wink/ST/Vera etc. to exclude your existing z-wave devices. Hubitat can do the exclusion for you. (Make sure you turn off your old hub first!) In most cases this is sufficient before pairing. Sometimes though you may need to factory reset the device. Non Plus z-wave devices may have to be included/excluded …

[possum]

Thanks Bobby. I got the C8. The product is great. The flexibility reminds of the way it was before Samsung ruined Smart Things. I can even use groovy! I have started the process of moving everything and it is going well.