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

submitted 1 year ago by Fenixin@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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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[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it depends on how happy you are with the current setup. I have a bunch of old half finished junk for testing and no longer used entities so I would definitely start from scratch, but your situation may differ. At the very least I'd back up everything and export (including copying the Lovelace/dashboard yaml to a text file) it before starting over.

[–] Fenixin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Same thing is happening to me. I even have some old stuff from Android devices that no longer exist and your comment just reminded me about it. I think I might start from scratch saving what I think is worth.

Thanks