Vera firmware 7.32 beta
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Based on the comments from the more experienced users here I ordered a Hubitat this morning and Amazon had it to my door about 3 hours later. After a few z-wave network resets to try to resolve one switch that just won't configure, I have about 90% of everything migrated over to Hubitat. Vera still has a few SiteSensors (I need to read up on the threads about replicating site sensors on MSR) and some Yeelight bulbs that are on a separate VLAN from the Hubitat. I haven't found a way to connect them manually yet and the Hubitat can't discover them across the VLANs.
I'm still trying to figure out a way to use Google Home to flip a virtual switch in Hubitat to then trigger a http call from MSR. There are a few things I was doing with Vera scenes to achieve a similar effect, but MSR doesn't seem to be able to see Hubitat virtual devices.
I'll probably keep the VeraPlus going for a while with the Yeelights and the SiteSensors while I figure the rest of this out.
Thanks for the advice.
I just ordered my Hubitat, after months of thinking, still trying to bring Vera to life, I got tired of it! I got tired of devices stopping working without any explanation, newer devices with S2 security are super difficult to connect, Zigbee then does not even exist for Vera.
I hope to find a manual for all my devices to remember how to do a factory reset, and add in the new hub.
Well as I'm out of the USA it takes a week to arrive in Panama, so my adventure begins next weekend, and this is dedicated to reading all your tips here. If there are any posts here in this community that you recommend reading, please comment me.
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I just ordered my Hubitat, after months of thinking, still trying to bring Vera to life, I got tired of it! I got tired of devices stopping working without any explanation, newer devices with S2 security are super difficult to connect, Zigbee then does not even exist for Vera.
I hope to find a manual for all my devices to remember how to do a factory reset, and add in the new hub.
Well as I'm out of the USA it takes a week to arrive in Panama, so my adventure begins next weekend, and this is dedicated to reading all your tips here. If there are any posts here in this community that you recommend reading, please comment me.
@wmarcolin If you're going to get really aggressive with the transfer of devices, just put the Vera in exclusion mode and start hitting them, from the furthest edges of your mesh working your way in toward the hub. The exclude will suffice as a factory reset in most cases. If that's too much effort, just do it for the device you can't find docs for.
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@wmarcolin If you're going to get really aggressive with the transfer of devices, just put the Vera in exclusion mode and start hitting them, from the furthest edges of your mesh working your way in toward the hub. The exclude will suffice as a factory reset in most cases. If that's too much effort, just do it for the device you can't find docs for.
@toggledbits thanks for the information, I think I will make a change in two weeks for about 130 devices. Adding a device in Hubitat, is automatically recognized in MSR, correct? Or do I have to do some specific procedure?
I can operate with Vera and Hubitat simultaneously, so I will change the MSR rules progressively as well, will operate with both hubs until the conversion is complete.
I see that in the MSR config/reactor.yaml file it is also very simple, just copy a URL.
Ok let's see, the adventure starts in a week
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Not to go too off-topic here, but are you guys telling me that I could (in theory) buy a Hubitat and pair all of my Philips Hue bulbs directly with that controller instead of having to keep the Hue bridge in my lineup? I'm always looking for garbage to get rid of!
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When you add the device to Hubs, @wmarcolin, you'll add it into Maker API app. Bounce MSR using
Restart Reactor
underTools
in MSR. When it reconnects it will see the new devices from Hubs as long as you have that integration configured inreactor.yaml
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@wmarcolin , @gwp1 describes the correct procedure. The key is that Hubitat's Maker API doesn't automatically publish new devices, so when you add devices, you have to remember to go into Maker API and tell it to publish them, so that Reactor can then see them. As I get more familiar with Hubitat's developer environment, I may look into doing a custom API for Reactor to avoid that, but at the moment, I regard it as a minor annoyance one quickly adapts to.
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@wmarcolin , @gwp1 describes the correct procedure. The key is that Hubitat's Maker API doesn't automatically publish new devices, so when you add devices, you have to remember to go into Maker API and tell it to publish them, so that Reactor can then see them. As I get more familiar with Hubitat's developer environment, I may look into doing a custom API for Reactor to avoid that, but at the moment, I regard it as a minor annoyance one quickly adapts to.
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Not to go too off-topic here, but are you guys telling me that I could (in theory) buy a Hubitat and pair all of my Philips Hue bulbs directly with that controller instead of having to keep the Hue bridge in my lineup? I'm always looking for garbage to get rid of!
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Did the upgrade to beta 4 and so far so good, everything seems to work ok. Decoupling also in use. Btw, after fw upgrade, is it necessary to disable nightly heal again, although I had it disabled?
luup.attr_set("EnableNightlyHeal",0,0)
Eventually, and especially if Vera fails, I'm also going to migrate to Hubitat (Elevation).
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I do it in startup Lua, so I don't forget. It also makes it easy to go in and change it when I want it back on (my feeble memory doesn't have to remember the precise spelling of the setting).