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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ahhh I see - thanks!! 🙏