I took the manual migration path twice.. I have 4 Hubitat Hubs interconnected, each managing a specific physical area of my home. Two of them were C-5's and I determined that I would not do an automated migration. Instead, I took a normal backup of a C-5 to my PC and then shut off the C-5.
I then unboxed the C-8, wired it and powered it up. Then I registered it and went right to Settings: Backup & Restore and restored the backup I had just made. This moved everything over (Apps, drivers, configs of LAN devices, and so on) except the Z-Radio config.
I started with Zigbee because they just drop into place. Start the Hub and the device into Include and bippity-bop it's done. Repeat til done.
The next part is the big variable... I determined how many ZWave devices I had. I know that the first device I Join will use Node 6. I had <26 devices so I went into the Device Info page for all devices that had a DNI less than 32 and altered DNI to have a Z in front. The whole purpose is of course to not step on the old DNI with new devices. Two devices with the same DNI will be a knot that is not easy to untangle. While I'm on the Device Info page, I edit the device label to also be different. I added ' old' to mine. This has to be done for every ZWave device.
Now I went through the ZWave devices and Excluded each, followed by an Include. I do this with everything now.. Exclude first to just get confirmation that the radio is working/reachable. You can't create ghosts with an Exclude. Plus the migration requires an Exclude, so two-birds-one-stone. Then I Include the device, naming it the same and once done, I goto Settings: Swap Apps Device and because I had edited every device label with ' old' it was easy to see which device goes in the left side and which goes into the right. Once the swap is done, I'd remove the ' old' device. Because the DNI was altered on the first few, I had to force delete them, but once I got past node 32 removing the old device was just a few seconds.
That's it.
It's actually easy, although tedious. 25 of anything repeated gets boring quickly. Then, with all that success under my belt, I went and bought a 2nd C-8 and did the entire thing over again for the other C-5. Faster, because my mind and fingers had the steps down.
