So I finally migrated my Homey Pro 2023 to my new Homey Pro 2026 Special Edition.
I have a little over 70 Zigbee devices. Half of which are routers and half are end devices (battery powered, many of which are Aqara devices). I was able to reconnect all of them after performing a Zigbee reset (actually several in order to get Homey to use the desired Zigbee channel). It took me around 8 hours though.
Some things to keep in mind that can result in a lot of extra time:
- I have several SONOFF ZBMINI and ZBMINIL2 switches in my walls (behind the light switch or power socket). The ZBMINIL2 switches allow you to put the device into pairing mode by switching the attached physical light switch on/of several times. Which is great. However the older ZBMINI apparently does not have such an option. So I had to remove the wall outlets/switches in order to access the pairing button on those SONOFF switches;
- I have several Aqara curtain drivers. After repairing those devices, the calibration of the curtain driver is lost. Re-calibration can take quite some time.
- Most devices have additional options that you can set on the device’s ‘Advanced Settings’ tab. Like temperature and humidity offsets, whether or not a device should trigger zone activity, the min/max power consumption of the attached device, etc. All those settings are lost/set to default values on repair. So you’ll have to reconfigure them. Which also means it is a good idea to record those settings somewhere as backup…
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