All,
I think I need a fresh install. For all these years I left the ISY unattended as all was working. Then sometimes I spend a day or two to get everything back up to speed. But the last years I did not work on it as I manged everything out of Home Assistant. Dont get me wrong - it still runs but it becomes extremely difficult to manage.
Today I wanted to upgrade (I run 4.8.0 from June 2020) and it did not allow me to do so, Then I noticed I cant save and change programs anymore w/o getting a socket Timeout Error. So there is something not right.
In addition, I set up the ISY back in 2014 and had no real understanding what I was doing. So naming conventions and structure is not well done in there. Over the years I fixed this with HA but this did not address this at the root. With the bad setup I even included the ELK in ISY which then transferred through into HA that required me to hide a lot of stuff in HA.
In summary, its a mess and I rather start fresh. I have some time off over Thanksgiving and try to plan that time to perform this major overhaul.
1) I plan to do a factory reset and complete fresh install of ISY. Whats the best way?
2) Then I want to bring on every sensor/switch/etc with a new naming convention.
3) I will not include the ELK in ISY.
4) I will reestablish the main automation in ISY (this never failed me and I only have four or five that I would leave on this level).
5) Then I will clean up HA and re-establish everything in there.
Any thoughts or recommendations for me?
I think I need a fresh install. For all these years I left the ISY unattended as all was working. Then sometimes I spend a day or two to get everything back up to speed. But the last years I did not work on it as I manged everything out of Home Assistant. Dont get me wrong - it still runs but it becomes extremely difficult to manage.
Today I wanted to upgrade (I run 4.8.0 from June 2020) and it did not allow me to do so, Then I noticed I cant save and change programs anymore w/o getting a socket Timeout Error. So there is something not right.
In addition, I set up the ISY back in 2014 and had no real understanding what I was doing. So naming conventions and structure is not well done in there. Over the years I fixed this with HA but this did not address this at the root. With the bad setup I even included the ELK in ISY which then transferred through into HA that required me to hide a lot of stuff in HA.
In summary, its a mess and I rather start fresh. I have some time off over Thanksgiving and try to plan that time to perform this major overhaul.
1) I plan to do a factory reset and complete fresh install of ISY. Whats the best way?
2) Then I want to bring on every sensor/switch/etc with a new naming convention.
3) I will not include the ELK in ISY.
4) I will reestablish the main automation in ISY (this never failed me and I only have four or five that I would leave on this level).
5) Then I will clean up HA and re-establish everything in there.
Any thoughts or recommendations for me?
