This is the procedure for upgrading from HS2/HSPRO to HS3/HS3PRO
Considerations
HS3 device and event architecture is substantially different from HS2. As such, converting these elements will require some manual intervention. Depending on the size of your system, this process may take several hours. Please plan accordingly. Your HS2 system can be used during the process for as long as you need it. All S2-S3 HomeTrollers will require an Operating System Upgrade prior to installing HS3.
Procedure
Building Devices
As mentioned above, device will need to be created with different levels of manual intervention, based on the technology.
Z-Wave
X10 and Status (Virtual) Device
These devices will need to be created manually.
Building Events
As mentioned above, events will need to be recreated manually using the shell events created by the import utility.
For assistance with your conversion process, please refer to the help file documentation or contact HomeSeer directly.
Considerations
HS3 device and event architecture is substantially different from HS2. As such, converting these elements will require some manual intervention. Depending on the size of your system, this process may take several hours. Please plan accordingly. Your HS2 system can be used during the process for as long as you need it. All S2-S3 HomeTrollers will require an Operating System Upgrade prior to installing HS3.
Procedure
- Back up your entire HS2/HSPRO folder. Copy this to a safe external hard drive or other storage device
- [Recommended]Print or do screen captures of your device (status) page and your events page to create hard copies of your existing configuration.
- Install HS3/HS3PRO onto your PC (download)
- Download the HS3 Import Utility and Install it Only Your PC
- Run HS3Import.exe, follow the prompts to select your HS2 database file (Input database) and your HS3 database file (Output File)
- Click "Convert" button and wait for the conversion to finish
- Run HS3.
Building Devices
As mentioned above, device will need to be created with different levels of manual intervention, based on the technology.
Z-Wave
- Ensure that your Z-Wave interface is connected to your PC
- Navigate to the "Plug-ins" menu, install the "HomeSeer Z-Wave" plug-in and enable it.
- Navigate to the plug-ins menu again, hover over Z-Wave and choose "controller management"
- On the controller mgmt page, add your interface, ensure that the proper COM port selected and enable the interface
- Expand the controller section, access the "actions" menu and select the top option to import devices. Click Start and allow this process to finish
- Devices should now appear on your HS3 Home Page. note: it may be necessary to individually rescan devices if they don't build completely. You'll also need to optimize the network if communication is not 100%.
- Edit each device to rename and assign locations
X10 and Status (Virtual) Device
These devices will need to be created manually.
- For X10 devices, navigate to the Plug-ins>Manage page, select the X10 plug-in, download and enable it. Access the X10 plug-in config page and select the interface used. CM11 and TI103 are the supported interfaces.
- Navigate to the HS3 Home Page, click the green "add device" button and create your device. Choose the appropriate housecode/unitcode.
- For Status Devices, navigate to the HS3 Home page, click the green "add device" button and add your device(s)
Building Events
As mentioned above, events will need to be recreated manually using the shell events created by the import utility.
- Hover over the "View" menu and select "Events" to navigate to the Event page. You should see a listing of event groups based on the event groups your created in HS2. If you never created event groups, you'll still see at least one group named "Default"
- Expand any group to see a listing of the events assigned to that group. Expand any event to begin editing that event.
- Event logic and workflow is significantly different than that of HS2 but should be relatively easy to pick up.
- Events may be easily moved from group to group. Similar events may also be copied to other events.
For assistance with your conversion process, please refer to the help file documentation or contact HomeSeer directly.
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