I had a new (first) Homey that didn’t allow me to perform a restore of a backup that I had made locally. It didn’t allow me to perform a restore to factory settings either. It was extremely difficult with the usb-c wire for making a backup in the first place… it certainly didn’t accept the cable that came with the Homey. In short: it was bricked. So I sent it back.
Ordered a 2nd Homey, hoping that the first one was a one off ‘lemon’.
So when I received the 2nd Homey, the first thing I did was test restore the one backup I had made of the first Homey. That didn’t work very well… all the devices I had at that time were basically non functional. (a few z-wave, one klik-aan, klik-uit… luckily I was just starting and there wasn’t much there.)… but the list of z-wave nodes in the developer tools was almost empty.
First conclusion: this is not a complete restore!
With the experience I had with the first Homey, I felt that testing backup/restore AND reset to factory settings was the most important thing I needed to check extensively. Trusting a lot of Domotica programming to Homey is really only sensible if those basic functionalities can be relied upon.
So I did this:
- reset to factory setting (that worked! So one step forward compared to Homey #1)
- re-add 2 z-wave devices (Eurotronic Radiator Thermostats) + one klik-aan, klik-uit (switch)
- make a backup (again: yes!)
- restore the backup (erm… no.)
Sadly, the conclusion must be: the restore (or backup) functionality doesn’t work AT ALL.
Only the KAKU still worked. All Z-wave nodes were missing in the Developer Tools… and gave ‘invalid Node ID” errors when trying to access them (against better judgement) from Homey where they still lingered as dummies.
I understand from the posts above that this happens with other z-wave technology too so it isn’t just a problem of one z-wave app.
So this is extremely bad news. I have to think in the next few days if I should keep the Homey. Or stick to Homeseer (which is very stable and has been for more than a decade). Which is extremely bad news as the way Homey works and especially the advanced Flow technology is brilliant.
A side complaint is (coming from Homeseer) that Homey doesn’t seem to allow a ‘re-scan’ of a z-wave device. That could have saved some bother… but that is small in comparison to the above.
