Around the HomeKit release (hard to pinpoint), I started to notice that a handful of devices were incommunicado in each location. In one they were mostly Z-Wave plus outlets and in the other Zooz switches, dimmers and zone controllers.
In the first, re-adding one device seemed to have healed the network but I am stumped in the other one. I guess that means excluding devices one by one and re adding them, while losing the numerous automations?
Any tip? Anything I can provide to help diagnose?
First thing we like to look at normally is your ZWave Details page to see if there are any ghost devices or incomplete pairings.
Screening the Z-Wave Details table as @thebearmay suggested is a good place to start to identify which device or devices are misbehaving. It may come down to removing some from your mesh, but you can always create a virtual device as placeholder in your rules, before you exclude a device, so you can save the automations and not create more work trying to figure out what rules were using what device that has been removed.
Here is my z-wave status. Device 26 0E 0D 0F 10 13 22 15 fail repair.
0x26, the Zooz ZEN32 controller seems to be totally down.
0E 0D 0F 10 13 22 15 are unknown devices in there and I am not sure are really attached to real devices I have around. I haven't removed any Z-wave devices from the house, I don't think.
Besides the two garage door openers, all of the z-wave devices (mostly Zooz switches) are in 2000 sqft split over two floors.
I tried to create a virtual scene controller and assign my Zooz Z32 automation to it but I don't see a scene controller virtual device.
Everything with the "Discover" button looks like a ghost device to me. Those will wreak havoc on a mesh. The problem is that you need to power off the real device to get them to clear, most likely. Worst case you'll need a z-wave stick to remove them using the PC Controller software.
For example, device 0x13 looks like a ghost (failed pairing) of device 0x14. You can try doing a refresh of 0x13, and then click the "remove" button when it shows up. If either fails, kill power to 0x14 and try again.
Yes, I was able to remove one or two that way but not most. I ordered a Zooz stick to further remove them
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