Sunday, November 3, 2019

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.

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