My Home Assistant instance relies on an old 500 series Z-Wave controller, and I wanted to upgrade to an 800 series stick. I used this video on YouTube, but the speaker went very fast so I transcribed it manually below. I am posting here for others to benefit from.
Mount both (Source = 500, Target = new)
- Click gear and choose device to connect to
- Click network management on both
- Backup source stick:
- Home
- NVM Backup
- Folder icon
- Backup
- Migrate:
- Source: Choose shift
- Target: “Select learn mode” and then NWI
- Source: Okay
- Source: Input PIN from the target
- Source: Reset
- Target: Choose controller 1 (Red X next to it) – Click “is failed”: 1:49
- Target: Click previous controller then “Remove failed”
- Target: Choose #5 PC controller, click “Set as SIS”
- Backup target stick:
- Home
- NVM Backup
- Folder icon
- Backup
- Migrate back: (2:23)
- Target: Choose shift
- Source: “Select learn mode” and then NWI
- Target: Okay
- Target: Input PIN from the source
- Target: Reset
- Source: Choose controller 5 (Red X next to it) – Click “is failed”
- Source: Click previous controller then “Remove failed”
- Source: Choose #6 PC controller, click “Set as SIS”
- Source: Click “Add Virtual” until you get node 232 (2:54)
- Source: Click “Remove Virtual” to remove all nodes EXCEPT 232
- Migrate:
- Source: Choose shift
- Target: “Select learn mode” and then NWI
- Source: Okay
- Source: Input PIN from the target
- Source: Reset
- Target: Choose controller 6 – Click “is failed”
- Target: Click previous controller then “Remove failed”
- Target: Choose #1 PC controller, click “Set as SIS”
- Target: Choose node 232 – Click “is failed”
- Target “Remove failed” – click failed node