You only need to mount the HP’s eMMC locally on your computer, which can be done with Raspberry Pi tools, no jailbreaking required.
Well, I migrated from Homey Pro 2023 to HSHS, but I did it little bit differently. Instead of buying Homey Bridge I chose Home Assistant to serve as Homey’s antenna.
HSHS (LXC) and HA (VM) run on Proxmox. HA handles all the devices requiring an antenna (Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and Bluethoot"). Homey handles Wifi and Cloud and works as a brain of the system, handling all the complicated automations and calculations. (I did leave some simple automations to HA, like press button - lights turn on.)
The work of transferring all the devices was taunting, but definitely worth it. The quality of antennas: SMLIGHT SLZB-MRW10U (P10+Z-Wave) and SMLIGHT SLZB-06Mg24U (EFR32MG24) that both work via Poe is amazing. Pairing the devices was sooo smooth compared to Homey Pro and the possibilities to tweak the network is byond anything.
Anyone here who has the same setup?
Yes!
That would be my dream setup! - All the work, however, to pair 200+ devices with HA and then fix all the flows in Homey gives me the creeps…
How did you get all devices from HA into Homey?
Like I said a taunting task, but I took it as an opportunity to make things better. I made a proper plan, tried to take into account all the mistakes that I made with the earlier system and got rid of some of the devices I didn’t really need and replaced some crucial devices like Melcloud and switched it to ESP Home module.
But its manual labor for the most part; I unpaired every device and paired them to HA again and used Home Assistan Community app to bring those entities to Homey that I need in my automations. HA picks up much more information from some of the devices than Homey.
Keeping the mass of raw data in HA, the Homey is light and fast for the complex automations.
I ordered a SMHUB Nano MG24 (unfortunately, it hasn’t been delivered yet)
Home assistant community app
Rewritten over 900 flows manually
You can fix affected flows quite easy by using this magnificent script below:
(It even takes arrays of “old and new” device names)
This is really a great setup. I’m doing the same now. I have added an old Z-Wave stick and an RFCom device to my Proxmox host, where HA is running. I’m moving devices one by one to HA and then re-adding them to my Homey Pro '23. Once this process is completed, I will restore the complete setup to my Homey SHS.
I only use Z-Wave, KaKu, Wi-Fi, API, MQTT, and Matter/Thread devices. So I think I only need to find a solution or way to connect the Matter devices through HA. I only have two or three of them, I think — mostly door/window sensors.
