asbril Posted March 8, 2023 Posted March 8, 2023 I received the Yellow Box and successfully restored a backup from my RPi HA setup. However the Universal Devices IoX Integration no longer works. Other than that, HA works well. Did anyone succeed to use the HA Yellow Box with the IoX Integration ?
stevehoyt Posted March 8, 2023 Posted March 8, 2023 @asbril I see you lucked out and got it after all. I am envious. I hope you start a Yellow box migration thread , if you have any. Steve 1
asbril Posted March 8, 2023 Author Posted March 8, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, stevehoyt said: @asbril I see you lucked out and got it after all. I am envious. I hope you start a Yellow box migration thread , if you have any. Steve The process is relatively easy as long as you ignore the instructions 🙃. This is because the instructions describe a process as if you install HA on a RPi for the first time, while in fact HA is pre-installed on the Yellow Box. After connecting power and ethernet cable it takes some time for the HA log in screen to come on. After the login, do a Restore from a previous backup and that should be all. Unfortunately the ISY Integration does not work and I have no idea why. I sent @shbatm a copy of the log and hopefully he can give me some guidance. For the time being I went back to my old setup on a RPi. Edited March 8, 2023 by asbril
asbril Posted March 8, 2023 Author Posted March 8, 2023 1 hour ago, asbril said: The process is relatively easy as long as you ignore the instructions 🙃. This is because the instructions describe a process as if you install HA on a RPi for the first time, while in fact HA is pre-installed on the Yellow Box. After connecting power and ethernet cable it takes some time for the HA log in screen to come on. After the login, do a Restore from a previous backup and that should be all. Unfortunately the ISY Integration does not work and I have no idea why. I sent @shbatm a copy of the log and hopefully he can give me some guidance. For the time being I went back to my old setup on a RPi. @shbatm and @stevehoyt I got Yellow Box to work with IoX Integration. I created a new Backup on my old setup and restored this to the Yellow Box. It works ! 1 1
Mecheng70 Posted March 12, 2023 Posted March 12, 2023 I recommend the Google backup addon. Have used it when my system died. Does full backups.
asbril Posted March 12, 2023 Author Posted March 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Mecheng70 said: I recommend the Google backup addon. Have used it when my system died. Does full backups. Thanks @Mecheng70 I have been using this for quite some time already. Very useful.
stevehoyt Posted March 12, 2023 Posted March 12, 2023 thanks @Mecheng70 just added it. I can see it will make migrating to my HA Yellow simple when it arrives. 1
brians Posted March 13, 2023 Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) From what I understand, this Yellow box is just a prebuilt HA based on a raspberry pi 4 compute module with Zigbee/Thread (future update) board inside. Restoring to it should be no different than any other HA? Edited March 13, 2023 by brians 1
asbril Posted March 13, 2023 Author Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, brians said: From what I understand, this Yellow box is just a prebuilt HA based on a raspberry pi 4 compute module with Zigbee/Thread (future update) board inside. Restoring to it should be no different than any other HA? Theoretically you are right but the restore did not intially work for me and I had to make a new backup. After that, smooth sailing. Though difficult to be sure, my impression is that with the Yellow Box reaction time of eisy based devices is faster, like immediate. Edited March 13, 2023 by asbril
brians Posted March 13, 2023 Posted March 13, 2023 6 hours ago, asbril said: Theoretically you are right but the restore did not intially work for me and I had to make a new backup. After that, smooth sailing. Though difficult to be sure, my impression is that with the Yellow Box reaction time of eisy based devices is faster, like immediate. I am running it on an older Intel NUC and mine is also very fast reaction, however the specs/performance on it exceed that of a Yellow box. Probably your old Pi was the issue... curious what model it was? I haven't decided if I should order the Sky connect USB dongle to get Thread support, or just go with a Yellow box.
asbril Posted March 13, 2023 Author Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, brians said: I am running it on an older Intel NUC and mine is also very fast reaction, however the specs/performance on it exceed that of a Yellow box. Probably your old Pi was the issue... curious what model it was? I haven't decided if I should order the Sky connect USB dongle to get Thread support, or just go with a Yellow box. I was using a RPi 3. I am not that techie and for me getting the front loaded (HA) Yellow Box was the easiest rather than getting another device and load HA myself. Edited March 13, 2023 by asbril
brians Posted March 13, 2023 Posted March 13, 2023 I just looked and the thing is $124 without the rpi compute module, and those are not readily available right now. I decided to order the Sky connect USB instead, I have a few more older NUCs I can use if something happens to this one
xlurkr Posted March 13, 2023 Posted March 13, 2023 3 hours ago, brians said: I just looked and the thing is $124 without the rpi compute module That's the one I got, and now I'm stuck with no reasonable source for the CM4. Dang it. -Tom
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