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hardware replacement upgrade (lemmy.world)
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I have been running HA on a Pi3b for a few years. It's been a bit flakey the last few months so I'm looking to upgrade to a Pi5. After the replacement I expect to add more items and maybe phase out the Insteon for more Z-Wave.

I plan to "start from scratch". I use an Insteon hub for most switches and 2 garage doors, some Z-Wave switches, a few generic lamp plugs, 2 cheap Matter bulbs, and Alexa for my wife. Maybe 20 devices or so. The only automations are 2 sunset items and one that links a Z-Wave switch to a insteon switchlink. What will be my major pain points for rebuilding?

Or is there a straightforward method to migrate directly?

What kind of problem will this be for my Nabu Casa subscription? Alexa integration?

Or do I try to build first, then decomm the old one? Won't that cause a conflict?

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[–] CondorWonder@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This. If you have any sort of set up - just do a backup and restore. All the configuration, automations, etc. will come across exactly as it was, including your subscription set up.

I’ve migrated from a Pi to a mini pc so it works between different platforms too - there I had to reinstall add ons but it was still generally an easy migration.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 3 months ago

Can confirm, went from a pi4 to a pi5 with nvme drive, backup from the old host and restore to the new host. You will need to download the backup to your computer first.