Migration Vera to HA > how to send sensor data from Vera to HA?

[sammy2]

@CatmanV2 said in Migrating from Vera Plus to Home Assistant (or other?):

with Mosquitto,

Hmm..

Should I be doing this instead??

[CatmanV2]

Well not necessarily! I didn't want multiple hosts but HA does Alexa voice way better than Vera plug in did, then Owntracks needs Mosquitto and blows iPhone geofencing into the weeds. I solve my problems my way.
Off hand I can't think of anything else that uses Mosquitto, but I know it's there. HA is pretty damned powerful, I now have Deebot and Tuya devices in there, but I still use MSR on OpenLuup for all my reactions.

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[CatmanV2]

There's plenty of ways to do it better, I'm sure. I have a Synology NAS so I could run Docker, but jut didn't.....

And I should as my NUC is old. <chews fingernails>

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[sammy2]

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[sammy2]

@CatmanV2 said in Migrating from Vera Plus to Home Assistant (or other?):

There's plenty of ways to do it better, I'm sure. I have a Synology NAS so I could run Docker, but jut didn't.....

And I should as my NUC is old. <chews fingernails>

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This is a 5010U i3 NUC and the MoBo has an 8/12/2015 build date according the CPUID or Belarc Advisor:

Processor a
2.10 gigahertz Intel Core i3-5010U
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
3072 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Hyper-threaded (4 total)
Main Circuit Board b
Board: Intel Corporation NUC5i3RYB H41000-503
Serial Number: GERY53900Q75
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: Intel Corporation RYBDWi35.86A.0350.2015.0812.1722 08/12/2015

It's been in a box for going on 5 years now. I think I just got it for the heck of it when I got it and haven't really used it too much except to do some testing with Emby Beta a while back. I'm going to remove everything I don't need from it and dedicate it to HA.

[CatmanV2]

Well it's looking good so far!

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[sammy2]

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Might do this for the Series 800 dongle. Thoughts?

[CatmanV2]

Never used it, sorry!

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[sammy2]

NM. Found the add in on the git via a link from here.

[alongoldfiz]

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[alongoldfiz]

Hello all

I have Vera with Fibaro 232 and philio pan04 zwave, very old system.
I want to replace the Vera to Home Assistant . I understand that I need Zwave Stick hardware for the HA, I saw that there is different series stick like 500,600,700,800 how can I know what series will be good for my old Fibaro Switches ? the new series (800) can manage the old one (500)? many thanks

[sammy2]

Get the 800 Long Range from Zooz. It's backwards compatible.

What hardware are you going to use to run HAOS?

[sammy2]

Don't know where to post this really so I'll post it here.

I am running HAos in a Virtual Machine using Oracle Virtual Box Manager.

Occasionally, Virtual Box or HA hangs up whereupon I have to manually restart from the Windows on the NUC. I'd like to set it up to have a watchdog to Close out the HA, and then restart it when this happens automatically.

I'd also like to keep all my Z-Wave devices connected. One of my locks will become non-responsive and show up as a dead node even though I've put two powered devices between it and the Controller. A lot of times a route rebuild does not fix it and neither will a device interview. Is there a script to have this happen on

[Black Cat]

@CatmanV2 Hey CatmanV2, long time and all that. I've started to poke around in HA mainly because I need to plan a backup for my 2 Vera boxes. Found I can use them as radios (+1 for HA) and can finally pull both systems together without busting up walls and so on. So, I'm planning to do something but not sure what?
My ears pricked up with your Deebot addition. I'm unable to find Deebot in HA so I'm not sure if your reference to Deebot is the Vacuum cleaner or something else?
Can you expand on what you mean?

[CatmanV2]

Hi chap. Sorry been away on hols.
I do have Deebots in my HASS set up for my old robovacs (Annaclean Skywalker and Obi-Wan Cleanobi, since you asked. You didn't ask? Oh dear, how sad)

Not currently functioning, but I've only just realised so will try and look tomorrow.

Try searching for Ecovacs.

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[CatmanV2]

OK I had to do some fixing over the weekend, so still not got to this, but apparently the Ecovacs plug in is no longer maintained and there's a migration to something called Deebot Universe

DeebotUniverse

Collection of Open Source projects and documentation related to Deebot devices from Ecovacs - but we are in no way affiliated with ECOVACS Robotics (ECOVACS) - DeebotUniverse

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[CatmanV2]

OK the actual change is that it's no longer in the HACS repository, but native in HA above 2024.2.0
Simply go to Settings > Devices and Services > Add Integration and search for 'Evovacs'
Add user name and password

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[Black Cat]

Mate, you are a legend......

[CatmanV2]

Never a problem

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[CatmanV2]

Just to note I installed it, set it up in about 2 minutes and it seems to work perfectly

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