Backup and Migrate Your Home Assistant Zigbee Network!

Having backups of your Home Assistant Zigbee network is something that is really important but not many of us, myself included, actually do. In this video I will show you how you can take a backup of your entire Zigbee network, in case disaster ever strikes, and how you can actually use that to migrate to a completely different Zigbee Router - all without re-pairing a single device! This works for both Home Assistant ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT.

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[makeitworktech]

You simultaneously instilled fear in me (I've never really thought of this problem haha) and then provided a solution. Well done!

[RedferneProductions]

Big thanks! I had this CC2652R in the drawer wanting to replace my old Silicon Labs dongle. This procedure worked flawlessly.

[FrankGraffagnino]

Really really great video. And the more we educate people on how to use Zigbee and other local control protocols, the more we can shift people away from cloud controlled devices. Great job!

[philsson]

Would it be possible to do something similar to migrate from deconz to zha? I'd love a tutorial for this if possible at all.

[arevee]

Homeassistant can now do this. I just migrated to a new radio today without any problems. Well, no problems except the Z-Wave didn't migrate. Which is fine because I don't use that.

[flufftronix]

Actually have one of those newfangled Sonoff dongles getting here in the mail tomorrow, and was really not looking forward to potentially re-pairing everything.. great timing!

[Moneymallenclosure]

Video was just awesome..
I got to learn lots things.
Thanks improving me..
Keep on making great videos like I will surely watch & will share with my friends.

[JankyLV]

Thanks for all your helpful videos! Keep them coming!

[DIYGUYIL]

The MCM - In the bin T-Shirt got me, awesome shirt!

[dpn]

I do have a backup plan and I had to use it recently and it worked like magic :)

[urbatecte]

Hi Lewis thanks a lot.
Just to share, as I'm on HomeAssitant OS I had to first enter Home Assistant container in order to get the first 'ls' commands provide the expected output.
Many, many thanks :-)

[eitelify]

Really like your videos/tutorials - simple and easy to follow :) Would be nice to see a video on installing and setting up SSH. I find there's a real lack of how-to on setting up SSH and accessing the docker containers for HA.

[Joseph-kokl]

Would like to see this when one is using Z2M! :)

[dreamvisionary]

Handy guide. Hopefully someone will figure out how to make this an add-on so we don't have to SSH in.

[RustyShackelford_]

Bless your Scottish heart. This is exactly what I need to do

[MortenVindingSvendse]

seems a little point less for Zigbee2mqtt since it is already doing a backup every night.

also it looks like it also automatically uses it, according to my tests by switching a ZZH! out with a Sonoff stick.

I only had to change the /dev/serial/by-id/ point in the configuration.

[wizzd]

Good guide and love your content. But this guide is deprecated as migration is now supported natively, you should probably say this in the description so people (like myself) don't waste time trying to do something which is now very easy in HA 😀

[Dane-ish]

Hi there, great video! What made you decide to go with ZHA over Zigbee2MQTT?

[rbbulletproof]

Thank you very much for this video! I was searching how to make a backup of configuration and restore from it in case of disaster and this seems like exactly something i would need! Once again thank you, this video will save my a** one day! :)

[ML]

man, stop reading my getting rid of my deconz congee stick since some device are not working properly
was looking for new dongle 🙂
but I can't use a backup or similar - time for zigbee2mqtt
awesome video as always 🤓