Strictly what you are asking for is not possible. Yes, you can have horizontal and/vertical stack card, sidebar cards, etc. But you will end up with 1 dashboard and 1 tab. And in that tab you will have to use lovelace element and custom elements (like you found). Be carefull! If the custom element is not maintained (there are a lot not!) a next update of homeassistant it may not work anymore rendering you with an emtpy or scrumbled dahsboard (had that a few times)...

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The left menu can be filled with dashboards (lovelace dashboards). I would ot do it this way but if you prefer... I have 1 dashboard with tabs (pages).

@toggledbits why not answer my question? Do I need msr? What's in it (extra) for me?

Can you please first answer my question? It's pretty much work what you ask.

Question: I know reactor by name. Do I need it? I have 80 zwavjes devices and a fully loaded homeassistant (+20 integrations)

@crille did no know you specifically needed modbus tcp. But that natively in homeassistant

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I use zwavejs in homeassistant with 80 devices. but I only know reactor by name... do I need it?

@perh said in Considering changing to HA - but what installation method?:

Domoticz (used for zigbee integration) have been bothering me so much that i've been looking at HomeAssistant to replace it. Now that Z-way is moving in with an integration, its even more tempting..

But i don't like the idea of having it as an OS that I can't use for other things, and running the HASS Core in a docker seems to be somewhat reduced in terms of addons?

I realize that HASSOS is using docker for integrations or addons, but can I still use docker compose to set up my own dockers (i.e z-way, influx, grafana) there as well?

I guess i'm getting old, change is difficult!

Z-way with an integration? Where did you find that?

It depends... use docker as host or a hypervisor such as proxmox or esxi. On top of which you can also run an os with docker. I use both... esxi with homeassistant os (which usedls docker under the hood) because of backup options qith synology active backup for business - snapshot backup). And another with proxmox with vms and lxc container with docker inside that (easy to restart and not to run docker on proxmoxx directly). It all runs very wel for years. I would advise if not very knowledgeable with docker to run homeassistant os in a vm on a hypervisor.

I must says, having homeassistant solely with 80 devices in zwavejs connected to an aeotec gen5+ has been rocksolid for very long! I even started with the former openzwave (beta) integration in homeassistant and had to rename all entities 1 time after migrating. Since then rocksolid and combined with node red a pleasure to automate...

@toggledbits I believe this is only true when devices are paired to the stick directly. However this is strongly discouraged due to the problems you describe. Pairing via homeassistant integration (zwavejs - connected to either the native zwavjs addon or zwavejs2mqtt addon) will not scrumble the entity ids. It is on the roadmap to backup the zwave configuration of the stick natively via zwavejs/homeassistant. Now for an aeotec stick this can only be done via the windows software.

Hi @ll, last days I migrated my last zwave device from Vera to zwave js in homeassistant. Out of 150 devices 1 did not go well initially but reinterviewing did it directly. Most work was to find the ex and inclusion procedure, 3 times, click, clack, whatever. I must admit that Vera is Lighting fast!!!!! With only 3 devices left, those were my under the floor switches I had to do last.

Now I am totally gone from Vera, altui, luup, etc. There's nothing more left for me on this forum. And since it was one of my "routine sites" reading I will save a few minutes a day skipping it.

I thank you all for all the kind help, warm words and laughter about the ezlo flop :-).

I hooe you all will be safe and healthy and whish you all the best!

I will stay on the homeassistant forum.

Goodbye!

Nevermind, I started the exclude include journey... almost gone from Vera... I must admit, I'm going to miss her. I whish including was as fast and stable as excluding

Yes, I am aware. But there are around 50 devices in zwavejs already...

Hi all! I am almost relieved from Vera . Around 65 decices to go. Of which some are on very hard places (under floor etc.). Is there any way to easily get the vera devices on the zwave network without repairing them per piece?

I think I knowthe answer, but I am asking

Hi, simple starter question. As I am fully gone to homeassistant for eveything expect a legacy part of my zwave network devices in Vera. I have currently openzwave and vera and an empty (not turned on) zwavejs network. I knwo I can "migrate" openzwave "simply" to zwavejs by just using the aeotec gen5plus zwave stick to that. With the hassle of changing all device entity names I then have zwavejs and vera run separate. Nevertheless, I would like to end up with my vera devices in zwavjes... long story short, what would be the best way to move all my vera devices to zwavjs?

@vezinpi Have you ran the container and the portainer addon in privileged mode? I have had not trouble in data persistance...

In hassos you can install an addon "portainer" and with the needed "settings" you can run your own dockers very easily besides the other containers (of which homeassistant is one).

@catmanv2 hence I have a separate vlan/sybnet for "tunneling" and outbound session things (mostly IOT). And specific ports forwarded to a nas (compared to a vpc but locally managed)