Transfer PLEG Configuration from one Vera to another

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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I have my DSC Alarm Panel running on a second Vera (VERA2) from my lights, etc. (VERA1) I’m looking at consolidating them and moving the DSC Panel to VERA1. The DSC has a dedicated PLEG configured to manage the alarm and I’m curious if there is a way to export all the settings from the DSC PLEG on VERA2 to a new DSC PLEG on VERA1 so I don’t have to re-enter everything.

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I just went thru something like that, trying to migrate all my PLEGs from old Vera Lite to new Vera Edge. I didn’t want to have to recreate everything from scratch. Here’s how I did it:

  1. go to source PLEG and click Backup.

  2. Use WinSCP, connect to source Vera, and find the PLEG backup file on the source VERA. Should be in folder cmh-ludl. (will be named something like “PLEG-Alarm-Backup.lua.lzo” for my PLEG device named “PLEG-Alarm”)

  3. Copy to local PC

  4. Connect to destination Vera with WinSCP. copy file to cmh-ludl folder on the destination Vera.

  5. Click Restore button on the PLEG on the destination Vera.

There may be an easier way that Rich could describe, but this did work for me.

Too bad the Vera Edge was a trainwreck and I ended up going back to my Vera Lite.

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[quote=“jhirschhorn, post:2, topic:188380”]I just went thru something like that, trying to migrate all my PLEGs from old Vera Lite to new Vera Edge. I didn’t want to have to recreate everything from scratch. Here’s how I did it:

  1. go to source PLEG and click Backup.

  2. Use WinSCP, connect to source Vera, and find the PLEG backup file on the source VERA. Should be in folder cmh-ludl. (will be named something like “PLEG-Alarm-Backup.lua.lzo” for my PLEG device named “PLEG-Alarm”)

  3. Copy to local PC

  4. Connect to destination Vera with WinSCP. copy file to cmh-ludl folder on the destination Vera.

  5. Click Restore button on the PLEG on the destination Vera.

There may be an easier way that Rich could describe, but this did work for me.

Too bad the Vera Edge was a trainwreck and I ended up going back to my Vera Lite.[/quote]

Thanks. I’m a bit surprised that worked at all given the internal node/device naming etc.

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After doing this you will have to delete all of the Triggers, Device Properties, and Actions and re-create them.
These will all be bound to the wrong device IDs.

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Curious, since for the most part it did work for me. My issues were with the Edge and UI7 related.

Might have something to with the fact I did a “controller shift” to migrate to the new Vera Edge, therefore keeping all the same devices and their IDs?

Is there a proper way to migrate PLEG stuff Richard?

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If you were able to do a Vera Backup/Restore so that you had all of the same Vera Device IDs (NOT the same thing as a ZWave node ID) then things will work.

PLEG does not know or care about Z-Wave node IDs. It does use Vera DeviceIDs.

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[quote=“RichardTSchaefer, post:4, topic:188380”]After doing this you will have to delete all of the Triggers, Device Properties, and Actions and re-create them.
These will all be bound to the wrong device IDs.[/quote]

Unless I misunderstand (entirely possible :slight_smile: ) it should be possible to edit each Trigger/Device Prop and select the new device … assuming of course that all the same relevant devices exist on the "target’ Vera … No?