Is migrating from a failing HC2 to Yubii Home Pro/HC3 worth it in 2026?

[doc_poo 0]

Hi All,

 

My Fibaro HC2 which I have had since 2016 seems to be really on its last legs. At least a couple of times a year recently, it freezes, I have to reset it and then it has major trouble starting up again. I eventually get it to boot into recovery (after turning it on quite a number of times), then from the recovery screen, I can restart it, and it will boot normally (for some reasons I always need to do this, it will never just restart normally - all the LED lights boot normally in sequence, then turn out and nothing happens). Anyway, every time I do this, I breathe a massive sigh of relief.

 

My HC2 has something like 120 devices, and a number of scenes. I have been holding off migrating to the HC3 (now I understand the Yubii Home Pro), but given the issues I am having with HC2 I think it is time to bite the bullet to migrate to something before my HC2 never starts-up again. Given the number of devices (especially that most are behind walls/power switches), it is obviously much better for me to migrate to the HC3/Yubii Home Pro to save me having to reinclude every device. However, I would like to know what people think of the HC3/Yubii Home Pro in 2026? Are there any other alternatives that I should look into (and if so, is there a way of migrating all my devices??).

 

Ideally, I would love it if people come on and say the HC3/Yubii Home Pro is now awesome and I shouldn't have any concerns!

 

Also, my HC2 is on firmware 4.590. I have been holding off upgrading to anything else as I fear if I do, it's never going to restart. Should backups created from 4.590 be compatible with HC3? Is there any benefit to upgrading firmware first, then backing-up before migrating?

 

Thanks so much!

[Sankotronic 2,370]

Hi @doc_poo,

 

First thing you should do is upgrade your HC2 to 4.630 which is most stable firmware ever published for HC2. 

 

Regarding freezes I'm in similar situation. After 10 years of HC2 controlling my house, lately it does not freeze, but actually "HC server" or ""FibaroServices" stop running which in turn makes my HC2 unreachable by app or browser and it doesn't do the automation. Next time when this happens you can try to check status from the browser with link: http://[HC2_IP_address]/services/system/servicesStatus.php.

 

In my case, I usually turn it off with Power button. Then I pull out power supply plug and press Power button to empty all remaining power. After that I plug power back and HC2 turns on and start booting and this was until now 100% successful.

 

BTW - my HC2 have 114 z-wave devices included and 49 VDs and scenes always running with 100 more running when needed (running my UHAS for HC2).  

 

Regarding migration from HC2 to HC3 I have no doubt. I already have two HC3, one for developing Yubi UHAS and another one that will be used for migration from HC2.

Note that migration will only transfer z-wave devices to new HC3. For HC2 virtual devices and scenes you will have to either write new ones on HC3 or find similar solutions on internet. That is why I'm now porting (rewriting) my UHAS for HC2 to Yubii UHAS that will work on HC3 or Yubi Pro.

 

Last question regarding upgrading HC2 to latest firmware before migration to HC3 is for Nice is new Fibaro support, but I guess it is highly recommended.

 

 

[doc_poo 0]

Apologies for the delay, but thought I'd say thanks for the reply Sankotronic! I've updated the HC2 and will see how stable it is as I've no real reason to upgrade to the HC3/Yubii Pro apart from fear that the HC2 is going to fail soon. But I guess as long as the back-up is in the cloud, then I shouldn't have an issue migrating my devices to the new device if and when it does fail.