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Moving to new house. Start from scratch or reuse? (sh.itjust.works)
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Hello!

As stated in the title I'm moving to a new house soon(tm) that will change my home assistant instance a lot.

I was wondering what would be better... Start from scratch or adapt what I have? I have some information in HA that I want to preserve but most of it could go away.

Have you any experiences in this situation? Any insights?

Thank for reading!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I blow away and redo my instance once every 6 months or so, because it gets cluttered with entities and settings and things that I'm constantly messing with and adding/removing (especially testing homemade ESP32 devices, I have like 12 ghost entities in there from that right now). It should't take you more than a couple hours even with a large amount of devices.