Why Migrate to Z-way from vera and how?
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Move Reactors =
Install Reactor from AltMarketplace
Backup Reactors on Vera
Restore Reactors on OpenLuup
Edit Reactors on OpenLuup with regard to device numbers
Delete Reactors on Vera
?Move plugins = Just install them all from Alt Market place?
Cheers!
C
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This all sounds about right for those which are on the alt market place. Technically though the files should have been transferred over from from the download verafiles action so all you have to do is to create the devices to get the plugins appear and then copy over the parameters for these plugins from the vera.
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Your point 5 here:
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Go into the vera UI and go under Settings/Z-wave settings/Options Tab and change the port field to "/dev/ttyACM0" and let the luup engine reload. This will wipe out all the zwave devices from your vera configuration (Another wonderful feature of the luup reload...) and switch you to the uzb as your zwave chip.
</quote>Can I assume the NVM of the Vera dongle is not impacted? And if you change the port back everything will be restored? Just wondering what my roll back / fix forward options might be.
Cheers
C
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@rafale77 said in Why Migrate to Z-way from vera and how?:
The vera dongle is indeed unimpacted. If is just swaps what dongle the luup engine's communicates with.
OK, that's cool. Need to try and find some time this week. Been too busy this weekend working on the new kwoon for those into that kind of thing
C
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Hi guys,
Do I need a Zway license for this?
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To use z-way-server for anything more than upgrading the uzb firmware, yes.
If you use a razberry instead, no but you can't transfer over the vera's zwave network with a razberry alone.
What you can do, which is what @DesT has done if I remember correctly, is to follow this procedure to transfer your vera network to a uzb, back it up on z-way and restore it on a razberry. -
yes because you will need to use the z-way software to be the zwave network manager layer.
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Yes, it will basically the vera. add/remove device, report battery etc... openLuup communicates with z-way, not with the uzb directly.
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Ah ok, now it's clear! Thnx
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Can I just say "do it"
I cannot believe how much better OpenLuup / z-way is than Vera. OK it's a learning curve. But it's rock solid. Fast and so much better in every way
C
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@rafale77 said in Why Migrate to Z-way from vera and how?:
You can make the reactor device IDs the same by manipulating them the same way you would on a vera (it is an attribute). What will be different will be the device IDs of the zwave devices.... When moving to openLuup, the zwave devices will be come bridged and will have an added “prefix” of 10 sending them in the 10000+ range.
You could alternatively try to add z-way as a secondary controller first which would make the same zwave device show up twice on openLuup: one through the vera path and the other through the z-way path.
I have openLuup connected via VeraBridge to 3 x veras. The vera that has just gone to orange light hell has its devices in the 30000 range on openLuup. If I have any success copying vera on to uzb is it possible to keep those device numbers via Z-way Bridge in openLuup? My Reactors are all on openLuup already so would be mighty useful.
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Hmmm. Vera allocates device numbers sequentially, and VeraBridge simply adds an offset. The ZWay bridge, however, uses the ZWave node number, and offsets from that. So it’s going to be a bit difficult.
Ideas anyone?
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It's a tough nut to crack... There is no easy solution. This is what motivated @DesT to resolve devices by their names but moving to Zway still means you will have to name all the devices on Z-way... not too different from renumbering your devices on openLuup except maybe for it to be more intuitive yet at the same time more typo prone...
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@rafale77 said in Why Migrate to Z-way from vera and how?:
not too different from renumbering your devices on openLuup except maybe for it to be more intuitive
Couldn’t be easier to rename your devices in openLuup, using the console’s Device Table page. Simply type the new name into the boxes...
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Ahhh yes the console makes it much easier. The challenge though is to go back and rewrite all the scenes and index devices according to their names instead of device ids.
I just did something in the same idea and was really missing a search/replace for the lua code content of my scenes. I used luaview which was very helpful in reading the code but it is missing the search/replace. Would be a nice feature to add to luaview. @toggledbits.
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Not sure where to run Zway bridge from - the openLuup system doing all the logic (where the current verabridges are) or on the new rpi replacing vera? Both? Perhaps I won't need openLuup on the vera replacment if it doesn't do any logic?
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I've run ZWay perfectly happily on an RPi (actually, a Razberry) with the ZWay bridge running on a separate openLuup machine. Equally, I've run them on the same machine. In fact, you can do both simulatneously (ie. with openLuup and ZWay plugin on both machines) if you like!
