Migrating to New Setup

There are some cases when you may want to move your HomeKit devices to a new Node-RED instance while not changing your Home App pairings. This could be when you are migrating to a new computer, flashing a new SD card for your pi, or restoring from a backup. While not guaranteed, this process should allow migration without needing to remove your bridge or stand alone devices from the Home app.

How to do it!

Moving to a new server is fairly simple, and only takes a few of steps,

1. Install Node-RED on your new server
2. Shut down Node-RED on the old server
3. Changed to the .node-red directory on the new server and run npm install node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged (and any other node modules you use in your flows)
4. Copy over homekit-persist from the .node-red directory on the old server to the .node-red directory on the new server
5. Copy over flows_<old machine's hostname>.json from the .node-red directory on the old server to the .node-red directory on the new server
6. Rename the flows_<old machine's hostname>.json to flows.json on the new server.
7. Edit the settings.js file on the new server, and uncomment the line `flowFile: 'flows.json'
8. (Re)Start Node-RED on your new server.