Trying to add second Hubitat controller [Solved]
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Converting from Vera Plus to Hubitat at two different locations. The two sites are interconnected via a router-to-router VPN. I currently have a Hubitat C7 running at Site One and a Vera Plus at Site Two. The MSR Raspberry Pi is co-located with the Vera Plus at Site Two. I "activated" a Hubitat C8 (ethernet connected) at Site Two including the installation of Hub Information Driver and its associated device. I also installed a single zwave outlet module (GE ZW4202). I restarted MSR. The C8 and its associated devices appear on both the Entities page and the MSR Dashboard, but the C8 reports as down on the MSR Status page and the GE outlet does not respond when "clicked". I am not sure where to look to try to find the source of the problem and will greatly appreciate any suggestions.
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Forgot to add that I also installed the Maker API and "published" the devices.
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Converting from Vera Plus to Hubitat at two different locations. The two sites are interconnected via a router-to-router VPN. I currently have a Hubitat C7 running at Site One and a Vera Plus at Site Two. The MSR Raspberry Pi is co-located with the Vera Plus at Site Two. I "activated" a Hubitat C8 (ethernet connected) at Site Two including the installation of Hub Information Driver and its associated device. I also installed a single zwave outlet module (GE ZW4202). I restarted MSR. The C8 and its associated devices appear on both the Entities page and the MSR Dashboard, but the C8 reports as down on the MSR Status page and the GE outlet does not respond when "clicked". I am not sure where to look to try to find the source of the problem and will greatly appreciate any suggestions.
@toggledbits - Does MSR currently support the Hubitat C8 controller or was I premature in my purchase? I have reviewed my configuration multiple times, even deleting and rebuilding it and I still encounter the scenario described above.
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HI, I swapped my C7 with a C8. Transferred the configuration using backup/restore and using the same IP address. It still works with Reactor as before. It makes sense as both hubs are the same except the Zwave and zigbee radios. So your issue must have a different cause then hub model.
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Thanks for the information. After your reply, I took a chance and downed my C7 by disabling it in reactor.yaml. I restarted MSR and my C8 was suddenly up and online. I verified that I can control my single (so far) zwave outlet. I then edited reactor.yaml to re-enable my C8 and restarted MSR one more time. Now both the C7 and C8 are up and online. Not knowing the MSR code I do not know where the problem might be, but there seems to be an issue with bringing up two (different version) Hubitats at the same time. Perhaps @toggledbits can explain it. I am just glad to have them both working so that I can continue my journey away from Vera's. One down and one to go. Thanks again.
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You haven't shown your work (e.g. configuration for the two hubs), so I have no comment at this time, other than to suggest reading the posting guidelines for this category (pinned post).
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Thanks for the information. After your reply, I took a chance and downed my C7 by disabling it in reactor.yaml. I restarted MSR and my C8 was suddenly up and online. I verified that I can control my single (so far) zwave outlet. I then edited reactor.yaml to re-enable my C8 and restarted MSR one more time. Now both the C7 and C8 are up and online. Not knowing the MSR code I do not know where the problem might be, but there seems to be an issue with bringing up two (different version) Hubitats at the same time. Perhaps @toggledbits can explain it. I am just glad to have them both working so that I can continue my journey away from Vera's. One down and one to go. Thanks again.
@retireditguy you're asking @toggledbits to tell you how long your piece of string is without showing him the string.
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@retireditguy did you resolve your issue? If so, please update the title with
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