[pre-noob] What's the process for migrating from, in my case, Alexa, Smart Life to Home Assistant?

Hello all,

What do I actually do when I finally have a running instance (of containerised HA on a Raspberry Pi)? Delete all the toys from Alexa and Smart Life and start again in Home Assistant?

Is deleting everything the intelligent way to go rather than trying to transition?

My Google-foo is failing I did try to find an answer in Lemmy/Reddit/HA. Apologies if I miss an obvious place.

Thank-you in advance.

sabreW4K3 ,
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al avatar

I went from Smart Life to Home Assistant, so YMMV. But since I had a new coordinator, I just reset my devices and everything paired to the new coordinator. But I would recommend deleting all your old stuff from Smart Life and Alexa first. There's no point in creating potential issues.

deadcatbounce OP ,
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

Thank-you. Question answered.

Sorry to have bothered everyone!

whodatdair ,

Hey, not op but also bring ready to convert my tuya stuff over to home assistant - what is this new coordinator you mention? Something within HA? Any extra info you could share would be appreciated!

sabreW4K3 ,
@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al avatar

Forgive me if I sound like I'm trying to over simplify things.

So your coordinator is the piece of hardware that listens for Zigbee devices. You typically plug your coordinator into your Pi or NUC on an extension cable and coupled with an add-on in Home Assistant or two, it will convert that to Mosquitto which is a Home Assistant readable format.

When you're going through things, just make as many threads as need be and people will offer advice. In the meantime, this video should help

https://youtu.be/sFSqgiOoPMs

whodatdair ,

Ahhh I see - thanks!! 🙏

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