Pi's are no longer worth it , far too expensive for what you get. Best to go with a mini PC like others have said, massively more powerful and about the same power usage.
You can just create a backup and restore it on the new host. Pretty simple. It'll basically be like you just kept running your old host.
Excellent. Thank you a lot.
One thing you will probably have to deal with though: if you have USB devices assigned by their address, you will just need to go in and set them to whatever the new address is on the new host. Should be pretty simple.
Ooo. My Z-Wave dongle is USB. Good to know. Thanks.
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