Hello all,
What do I actually do when I finally have a running instance (of containerised HA on a Raspberry Pi)? Delete all the toys from Alexa and Smart Life and start again in Home Assistant?
Is deleting everything the intelligent way to go rather than trying to transition?
My Google-foo is failing I did try to find an answer in Lemmy/Reddit/HA. Apologies if I miss an obvious place.
Thank-you in advance.
I went from Smart Life to Home Assistant, so YMMV. But since I had a new coordinator, I just reset my devices and everything paired to the new coordinator. But I would recommend deleting all your old stuff from Smart Life and Alexa first. There’s no point in creating potential issues.
Hey, not op but also bring ready to convert my tuya stuff over to home assistant - what is this new coordinator you mention? Something within HA? Any extra info you could share would be appreciated!
Forgive me if I sound like I’m trying to over simplify things.
So your coordinator is the piece of hardware that listens for Zigbee devices. You typically plug your coordinator into your Pi or NUC on an extension cable and coupled with an add-on in Home Assistant or two, it will convert that to Mosquitto which is a Home Assistant readable format.
When you’re going through things, just make as many threads as need be and people will offer advice. In the meantime, this video should help
Ahhh I see - thanks!! 🙏
Thank-you. Question answered.
Sorry to have bothered everyone!
Asking questions is always good, don’t worry! Feel free to ask more, heck update the thread and ask questions as you go along if you like.
If you list the devices you want to migrate, I’m sure the community will happily highlight any tips, or which will be the easiest to get you started.
Never apologise for asking questions. This community is a learning resource, the more you ask, the more you learn.
Thank-you ! 😁
FWIW, you can run all the services simultaneously, so that you can gradually move.
It’s what I’m doing. I use echo, home, and HA all at the same time.
Smart Life is just another name for Tuya. I started with a bunch of Tuya devices and actually used Smart Life as my app.
There are Home Assistant addons that support Tuya. I can’t remember because I’m much further down the path now, but it should be as simple as signing in to the addons with your Smart Life credentials. It may be a little harder in that you may have to pair them to another app first, but same principle.
This is assuming of course that you’re talking WiFi devices. If you’re on ZigBee then it may be even easier, pairing your hub to Home Assistant.
Either way, Home Assistant will show you a new way.
[help me out please: add-ons are the Home Assistant thing that you can’t use with Home Assistant in a container? Extensions are the Home Assistant add-on that you can … ?]
Almost everything is WiFi, I can’t remember the thing that isn’t.
I’m really looking forward to Home Assistant; I have to learn to use containers first.
Thank-you most kindly for your imputus. Very well received. 😁
