Hello Community,
Just received my Hubitat Elevation today. I Currently have 2 ST hubs up and running. One in my shop, and one in the main house. I want to start the migration process with my shop hub as to not disrupt the main house and learn the system. Any advice from people who have done this?
Any advice is appreciated!
There are a few thread on this if you search the forum, but there's probably no particularly good or bad way to migrate for all situations. Moving your devices will probably be the biggest pain since you'll have to look up the exclusion or reset procedure for all of them. Have the manuals handy (and for Z-Wave devices it's usually easier in the end to properly exclude and not force remove). As you create one mesh, you'll be destroying the other, but people have also advised to let a new Z-Wave mesh "settle" and create it over a few days rather than adding everything at once (may be more applicable if you have a lot of repeaters).
Native Hubitat apps and drivers can do quite a bit, so my advice is to try one of those whenever possible. However, if you have custom ST SmartApps, or DTHs, most would port quite easily (often verbatim for apps and minor changes for DTHs/drivers), and you'll find many popular ones ported by their authors here as well as a wealth of new community apps that were written just for Hubitat. But again, the native capabilities do a lot, and you can trust their code to be written well for their platform and supported. (Example of custom code I'd avoid: WebCoRE generally works, but it's not advised due to lockup problems...but you have Rule Machine as a native app, which you may recall from previous days on ST).
I'm assuming you have two hubs since they're out of range of each other (otherwise on either platform, repeaters could probably save you). One neat thing you can do on Hubitat is use the Hub Link and Link to Hub apps to "sync" devices from one hub to another over the LAN (assuming they're on the same network). One of these also gives you one-way integration from ST devices, neat if you want to start creating automations on Hubitat without moving the associated devices (yet...or I guess ever should you find one not natively supported like Ring). The community Other Hub app and DTHs can also give bidirectional syncing, useful if you have automations on ST you want to use with devices on Hubitat.
If you have any questions, I've found the community (and staff) to be quite helpful, so hopefully you will too!
Robert, you assume correctly. Buildings are far apart. Was having trouble making hops. They are on same LAN. Already adding handlers from github, super easy! I will Check out both apps you suggested.
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