New Hub. Recommendations?

[chowder007]

Hey everyone. I finally got my new Hub in the mail today. As some may remember from previous post my old one died.

My plan is to set it up and see what it picks up. At which point I will start the Long process of going through and resetting and readding items one by one.

Any recommendations before I add the new Hub? Should/how do I remove the old one? Should I do that first before starting with the new one? Any help is appreciated.

[sidjohn1]

Best recommendation I know of:

Being sent a replacement hub, how do I migrate?

@R2D2 OK, here you go! First: I left my old v2 hub alone. I removed nothing and deleted nothing. It was up and running until the very end. I added the new v2 hub as a new location via the phone app using the Welcome Code that came with it. Now I have 2 v2 hubs on my home network. I took screen shots of every smartapp installed on the old hub, as well as capturing the device and Room list into a spreadsheet to do a before/after compare when I was all done. So far so good. Next: After letting the new hub sit for a couple days and monitoring the Event Log, I moved it to it’s final location. Moved the old hub to another room with a network port. On the old hub, I removed every single device from every single SmartApp - SHM, Smart Lighting, Rule Machinne, etc, etc., and then I uninstal…

[chowder007]

Thanks sir. Unfortunately my old hub won’t even power on. So I’m looking at hard referring each device them adding it to the new Hub looks like not a lot to do other than hoping the new Hub up and get going.