Automatically back up your Zigbee smart device configuration

On a schedule, requests a backup of your Zigbee smart home setup and saves it securely to a remote server.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCRFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Home AssistantMQTTSFTP

The problem it solves

If your smart home hub ever fails, rebuilding every paired device from scratch can take hours or days. Remembering to manually export and save a backup regularly is easy to forget.

Who it fits

A facilities manager or smart-home administrator responsible for keeping a Zigbee-based system running.

How it works

  1. On a set schedule, a backup request is sent to your Zigbee coordinator
  2. The coordinator responds with a backup file of all paired devices
  3. The backup file is stamped with the date
  4. The dated backup is saved to a remote file server automatically
What you get

Smart home backups you never have to remember

Your Zigbee smart home setup gets backed up automatically on schedule and stored safely on a remote server.

What you get

A date-stamped backup file of your Zigbee device pairings stored on a remote server.

What you need

A Home Assistant setup with zigbee2mqtt, an MQTT account, and an SFTP server.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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