Hubitat Migration Complete! Long Live Hubitat!

It took the better part of two days and excluding and including more times than I can count, but I've successfully* moved over all of my 70 devices to Hubitat.  Yep, that's an asterisk next to successfully, because in the process I seem to have lost two Zigbee devices and my water sensors don't appear to be supported (and no driver to be found).  The remaining devices were relatively easy to move despite my slow start... see previous post.

The two devices that I was surprised were supported were my ZRTSI Interface for my motorized blinds, made by Somfy and my Hampton Bay Universal Ceiling Fan Control (that uses Z-Wave).

The ZRTSI was a bit of a challenge to get unregistered from Wink, but I was able to successfully exclude all of virtual nodes and the base node and included them on Hubitat.  The VNODES show up as Generic Z-Wave Shades, but I can use them as a switch.  So On == Open and Off == Close.  As others have noted, there's no "My" setting which would allow you to stop the blinds somewhere between open and closed. As a bonus though I don't have to go through IFTTT to open and close the blinds using a Robot trigger on Wink.  I can just call it from Hubitat or issue a "Turn on Blinds" to Alexa to open them up.  

The Fan Control device was enabled using the "King of Fans" driver on Hubitat.  I can address each of the functions directly and again I can call it directly from Alexa. Before this also required IFTTT and the trigger command through Alexa to set the fan to a particular speed since Wink was unable to directly address non-switches/buttons through Alexa.  

The devices that didn't work were a couple of CREE Zigbee Bulbs that I can't get to factory reset.  When removing my other bulbs from Wink they would blink indicating they had been reset and I could discover them again on Hubitat.  I have two though that won't reset no matter how many times I go through the 2-sec on 2-sec off x 4 process.  And my water senosrs are the Aeotec ones that worked with Wink, and are discovered by Hubitat, but will only report the battery remaining and not the presence of water even if I change the device type.  **I found another procedure for CREE that was 1 sec on, 2 sec off x 4 that worked!

All in all, I'm happy with the new platform and the new flexibility it provides.  Now that the same functionality I had before is migrated, I'm going to start investigating the new features that I have available now since Hubitat is significantly more flexible and programmable than was available with Wink.

Thanks Wink for providing the platform which really got me into home automation.  I don't think they'll survive the year, but here's hoping I'm wrong.

Re-homing GE/Jasco Z-Wave Switches and Dimmers

The move to a new hub has not started as smoothly as I would have liked.  I'd thought (mistakingly) that a big company like GE would have its stuff together and the process of unregistering and reregistering their device would be easy and straightforward.  If you're scouring the web looking for a reset procedure for the GE 127221 or 12724, here's what I did, though you may want to omit several of these steps:


1. Unregister the "light" from Wink by clicking "Remove this Light" from the edit menu in the Lights panel.
2 Use the "factory reset" procedure I found while also scouring the web.  Pull the air-gap tab, replace the air-gap tab, and press up ten times on the toggle.  Try the other reset procedure I found (toggle up three times followed by down three times) just for good measure.
3. Attempt to discover the "new" switch on Hubitat using Z-Wave Inclusion Mode and toggling the light on.
4. Congratulate yourself after the Hubitat shows the following and assuming the switch will soon be usable on the new platform.

5. Wait an excruciatingly long time for it to initialize.

5. Try exclusion / inclusion several more times only to reenter the "Initializing" loop.

6. Switch browsers. Rediscover.  Keep waiting.

7. Read forum posts and keep waiting.

8. Contact Jasco customer service and discover that community support is only available for Hubitat.

9. Learn there is no way to factory reset the Jasco 127221 and 127224 switches and that general exclusion is the only way to have it forget its previous associations.  Really?  So you can safely skip step 2 if you're still following my procedure... sorry.

10. Upgrade Hubitat from 2.6.112 to 2.6.113

11. Repeat Step 3

I don't know if it was the software update, several reboots, repairing Z-Wave on the hub or Saturn's alignment with Ceres, but after that steps 1 and 3 seem to be working for all of my switches.