Moving to Intel Nuc from Raspberry

[Jordindc]

Hi all,

After more than a year using domoticz on a Raspberry 3B+, with Razzberry as Z-wave controller, running Stretch, and due to how critical this service has become to my home, I've decided to move to a more stable and reliable platform as Intel Nuc. so the idea is to install Debian Buster on my new Intel Nuc8i3BEK 16Gb/500GbSSD as host OS and Proxmox as virtualizer environtment where a VM running Raspbian buster will be my domoticz server.

In my current RPi based system I have, as said, Razzberry as Zwave controller and Rfxtrx433XL as RF controller. As per my new Z-wave controller in Intel Nuc server will be the Aeotec Gen5 USB stick, my main concern is how to transfer my 100+ z-wave devices from the previous system to the new one (maybe using "receive config from other controller" hardware option?). And if it is possible, how will I deal with the rest of non Z-wave devices I have in current domoticz.db? If there is a comprehensive and detailed how-to procedure will be really welcome.

Probably, I will find more issues in my migration process, but I'd like to have clear this point at first.

Thank you very much in advance.

[ben53252642]

I've run my environment on Proxmox for about 5 years now, I think its a great setup.

To answer your questions:

1) Proxmox is not just the virtualization environment, it is the operating system you want to install (which is based on Debian Buster).

Download it here: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads/it ... -installer

Once you have Proxmox setup and your virtual OS (Debian Buster) setup as a VM (container is not acceptable):

2) RE your Z-Wave situation, I think your going to have to start from scratch.

You can do a controller transfer but many devices will not work because the new controller won't have conducted an interview with those devices which means it won't know how to fully control them. I have done this myself before moving from an Aeotec Gen 5 to a Z-WAVE.ME UZB1 and was not happy with the results with devices like motion sensors not fully working etc... I ended up re-pairing everything on a fresh network.

[alanlsmith]

I moved from a Raspberry Pi to a NUC a couple of years ago. From memory I think that with the 433mHz devices it was as simple as backing up the Domoticz database & plugging the Rfxtrx into the NUC, installing Domoticz then restoring the backup.

I run Domoticz in Ubuntu. Out of interest, what are the benefits of using a virtualisation setup/