Today I wanted to talk to you about the importance of backup for the automations, scenes and so on we have at Home and how to do them both in HomeKit, through the House application and third party applications, and in Home Assistant.
You know that to me I really like to mess up., I spend my life testing devices, changing automations, creating shortcuts to make some automation a little more advanced, just like I do with Controller for HomeKit for the whole part is of advanced notifications, as we have already commented on some occasion.
Sometimes I’m not happy with the automations from HomeKit and then I migrate them to Home Assistant because you know I spend my life like this a little up and down, with one foot on each side between Home Assistant and HomeKit. And, obviously, Not all these tests go well at first. I’d like to, but on many occasions I leave the system a little unstable or I take care of something that was working well and then I find it hard to replicate and stuff like that.
For example, with the tests of Matter and Thread… you don’t know the mess I’ve had over the last few weeks with that, I sometimes took off the ZigBee skewer, I left only SkyConnect in Only-Thread mode, that is, without supporting ZigBee and Thread, just to see that I recognized all the devices connected by Thread, then to flash the SkyConnect and then I put it in a multi-protocol mode to have only this dongle recognizing the Zige and Thread devices, or I removed Zige2QTT and left only… I I think I tried all the documented combinations on the SkyConnect page and the forums and a lot of more combinations that I’ve gone making up on the go.,
But until I get to the configuration I have right now, that I already told you the other day, that I have the two devices, that of Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 for all the ZigBee and SkyConnect devices for all that are Thread devices and to make the border-router of Matter and so on.
Well, until we get to that, the truth is there’s been a lot of trouble, a lot of trouble… that if the devices don’t connect me now, that if they connect but don’t communicate… a lot of shit and a lot of trouble and the truth is, It is very quiet to know that after each test he simply had to reclick the Sonoff ZigBee dongle as before receiving the SkyConnect, restore backup and, after a reboot, he had it all working out again.
Security Copy from HomeKit
Unfortunately these backups don’t work as well in HomeKit and Home Assistant. For starters, from the House app you can’t back up. Apple tells you it’s all synchronized on iCloud, that if your phone gets damaged or you change it and so on, because you’re gonna have all the automations there, devices and yes, it’s great, But that doesn’t mean there’s a backup, but the information is synchronized between the devices., which I think is fantastic, but if you delete an automation, you don’t have anywhere you can go to restore it, that is, it doesn’t stay in the reci
Clever that iCloud thing, it goes to shit everywhere if you delete it, just like if you delete any device from the home application, both on the Mac and on the iPad, and on the phone, where you do it, you delete a device and you’ve loaded it everywhere because it’s synchronized.
However, with third-party applications such as Control for HomeKit, which I have already told you on some occasion, you can make some backup, the truth is that it was very interesting and good, I know that Controller for HomeKit costs money and I know that a few months ago I was talking to you about the other one, Home + v5, which also cost you money and that it was supposed to be the panacea, by the way, for those you bought at your time Home + v5, you can also make backup from this app, but it’s true that I’m giving you a little more of this application to the best, because I’m going to tell you all about that.
The point is, the most common is to have removed an automation by error For example, I don’t know, we’ve done some testing and then we haven’t been able to go back or we’ve done that, some unintentionally fucked-up, we’ve eliminated a scene, an automation and we have to do it again from the beginning. From Controller for HomeKit you can restore not only those automations, but for example scenes or rooms, devices, etc. It is true that HomeKit, the standard, does not allow a backup of the devices, that is, when you do it from Controller for HomeKit what you are actually saving are all the settings
, name of devices, et cetera, but not the device itself, so that if you remove it from Home, for example, well, we would have to go back to the device, imagine the typical little button to get it back to match, we give it to the little button itself, and once it is rematched within the home application or the Controller for HomeKit, because then we can already restore the backup and we are re-restored the name we had, all the associated automations, the rooms, etc.
The truth is, that’s cool. You have the option to back up both in local, that is, it keeps them in a folder inside the mobile phone or Mac or from where we are doing it, or in iCloud, which is especially good for making backup restorations of other devices, as it is interesting that it is in iCloud. And there’s also one thing that’s very cool and it’s that allows a migration from home to another AppliID. I mean, imagine for example that we sold the house with all the devices inside and all, there are things you can take under your arm, but there are other things you already have, because a sensor that you have
gas installed on the wall or I know, the Shelly behind the plugs, for the normal that if you sell the house, because you leave it. What about it? So the new owner would have to relink all those devices to his home, recreate automations, a carajal. So you, for all those devices you leave in the house that you’re selling, you can migrate home to your AppliID and that gets pretty easy from the Controller for HomeKit. You have a guide-donkeys that’s telling you how the steps are, first you have to add the other Apple ID inside the house, then you give her permission, create a backup, restore, a little mess, one
s how many steps, but the truth is that it’s quite simple and good, in the end to the new owner because you save him a lot of steps and creation of automations and that he’s calling you because something doesn’t end up working.
And from Home Assistant?
From Home Assistant because it is just as simple, that is, surely all you have Home Assistant will have installed the complement, which is one of the most famous, which is the Home Assistant Google Drive Backup that makes you back up, then, on Google Drive. It’s a big deal because you can also tell him, for example, how many you want me to store on Google Drive and in local, you can say for example 3 and 3, so when you’re going to make a fourth backup scheduled at the time you’ve told him, because he does the old one and he always gets 3, he’s not taking you there. But the most important advantage he has over the copi
HomeKit’s backup, which we discussed a moment ago, is that it’s a comprehensive backup, to put it in some way, it’s almost like a snapshot of the system. So I, for example, at the NUC, whether I was cracking with the operating system below, it’s a kind of reduced Linux, or if I was then that, eliminating automations and so on, I can restore my backup and what it does is a backup and a complete restoration, that is, it leaves you the system as it was right when you did that backup, even with the same login that was. So, well, it can be a little bit of a problem when you look for something and see there the
dates that there’s a gap of a lot of days because you’ve restored a backup.
The truth is that it makes a lot of that backup because if for example, because what I was telling you before, that I was there tearing up with the devices and there was some problem, some shit or similar, because I just put the devices on the USB that were previously, I restored backup, you reboot the device and it’s all just as it was when you did that backup and it’s super comfortable, that is, you don’t have to do absolutely anything, or restore or match devices, nothing, it’s practically automatic.
In Home Assistant you don’t have to confuse this backup with the backup that Home Assistant does, which they integrated several months ago and if you go there to settings, system, because you see a section that is called backup and for example, when we update the operating system or when we update some plugin, because it gives the option of making a backup and these are the backup, they stay here. Sometimes I have seen some friend who had here chorrosotocientasthousand back-up because he was using the Google Drive that I was telling you earlier and not knowing that the system was making on his side also copies
security. Well, we do there a little housekeeping, cleaning, and we remove a few because this system cannot be disabled, that is, the only thing we can do when there is a new complement, if you give us the option to create a backup before updating the complement, well, remove that check because as we have the other backup, we don’t need the backup of the system.
But I already tell you that they can be complementary, there may be people who are interested in this and don’t want to have Google because, I don’t know, because they don’t have Google account or because they don’t want to get anything up to the Google account because they have it down or because, well, or because they just want to have the backups in local made by Home Assistant, because well, it doesn’t even need to be installed the other complement and that they pull this backup that’s equal to functional.
Well, you see, it is possible to create backup in the settings of the devices, automations, groups of devices and so on in order to be a little more calm, but if you’re HomeKit users don’t think it’s all in iCloud because then we can take some disgust if we delete some automation or some scene, because you see it’s not easy to restore.
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