Best Approach when moving homes

[MNTheatreGuy]

I have an Eisy and multiple Z-Wave, Zigbee and Insteon devices, many(not all) of which I took with me to the new house. 

What is the best approach to the new house? Should I factory reset the eisy and start all over from scratch? I have quite a few programs I would have to rewrite, although admittedly not too many (maybe 20-30), so it wouldn't be the END of the world.  My concerns is the network topology will be quite different for their physical locations and I am concerned zWave will not perform.. 

I suspect I haven't added enough detail but I would love some direction from the group

 

thanks in advance. 

 

[Guy Lavoie]

Well, contrary to most of us, now you have the privilege of starting afresh with a technology you are alreay familiar with! Depending on the complexity of your programs, especially if there is a lot of if/then logic, you might find that adapting them to a different home might be difficult.  If you do intend to reuse or adapt programs, I'd try leaving the original programs intact, install the devices in the same locations as much as possible, and then work with copies of the original programs, not deleting anything until you're happy with the adaptations.

 

For mesh network devices like zwave and zigbee, you also now have a golden opportunity to create the network from scratch, establishing where you want repeaters, etc, using your experience gained from your first home.

[Geddy]

1 hour ago, MNTheatreGuy said:

I have quite a few programs I would have to rewrite

Before you do anything if you can get into IoX copy the programs to a text file (right click on the root program directory and COPY folder to notepad. Then paste that into a TEXT editor.) This way at least you have the programs as they are now and you won't have to rebuild them from "memory". 

You might want to plug in the PLM and connect it to the eisy so it would boot normally and not in safe mode when it doesn't find the PLM. (I'm actually not even sure if the eisy does that any more. I know the ISY994 admin console would be in a "safe mode" status if the PLM wasn't connected...I just assume IoX still does that.)

As @Guy Lavoie said to install the devices - doesn't matter where they are you can rename later if needed - but at least the eisy will "find"/communicated with all the (Insteon) devices. The others might need a little finessing to find the right mesh locations for best communications.