royal helm
Without over explaining things:
Have I lost my z-wave devices and automations, are they tightly coupled to that stick? OR... can I buy a new stick, plug it in and everything will "just work"?
I've been confused about this topic since I started with HA a couple years ago.
torpid maple
They are stored on the controller. Better have an NVM backup.
royal helm
Controller is the USB Zooz 800, OK. So if I have a backup of that configuration data I can restore it to a replacement Zooz controller?
NVM being non volatile memory? So a backup to a USB drive, NAS, whatever.
One more question: Would the normal HAOS backups have this or do I need to perform a separate backup process to get the Z-wave controller configuration data?
torpid maple
Separate backup AFAIK
There's no automated NVM backup
If you use Z-Wave JS UI add-on and initiate a backup from Z-Wave JS UI, it will save it on the Store directory, which would be included in the add-on backup.
royal helm
Understood, thanks for the help, I appreciate it
royal helm
To confirm, this is the correct area to be creating NVM backups?
Other things I've read indicate that the NVM backup will stream the file to my browser and I need to save it, but this screen shot looks more like a scheduled job.
torpid maple
Not, that's the settings page
Control Panel -> Advanced
ZUI will send the download to your browser and to the Store directory
Note that NVM backups will turn off the Z-Wave radio, so if you schedule it on a cronjob Z-Wave will be offline at that time.
royal helm
I'm sorry for being dense, I don't see an Advanced option on the Control Panel page:
torpid maple
It's in the blue icon at the bottom
royal helm
Yep, thank you! I'm old enough to remember when such UX patterns were called "mystery meat navigation" and they were considered a bad thing. I guess everything really is cyclical 🙂
torpid maple
Yeah, I don't particularly like it either 🤷♂️
royal helm
backup successful - thanks again
royal helm
Yep, I was just checking for that and took a screen shot to share here in case others come across this:
Is the Store a HA concept/location or is that on the Z-wave Controller? I ask because my attempts to web search on this topic has only yielded the HACS store and other marketplace-like features rather than a data store or storage location
balmy lintel
It's local to the addon.
Still a good idea to download it every now and then in case that also gets chewed up by the dog or something
royal helm
Hey, thank you for your work on Z-wave JS! 🙂
Probably I should know this, but "local to the addon" means "the addon installed and running on HAOS"?
I'm running HAOS in virtualbox on my Linux host machine. I understand the addon to be installed in HA so it would be located on my VM hard drive image.
Is that correct?
torpid maple
Right, the add-on is running in your VM so the files are all on its disk