Does anyone know how to get rid of these types of devices?
The Z-wave PC Controller has identified 4 phantom devices that have been with me for at least the last 2 weeks. These devices are not present in the HE UI, but are present in the Z-Wave PC Controller list. They cannot be "force removed" from HE, because they are just not there in the UI.
This is just not happening. I have tried rebooting, and I still have 4 phantom devices - they've been there for the last 2 weeks! (And, after many zwave repairs).
In Z-Wave PC Controller, I have tried the following approach (first mentioned in another post): NOP, IS Failed, then Remove. I've tried all sorts of combinations, and I can't get rid of them with this tool (Zensys).
Does anyone have a tool that gets rid of "failed" nodes??? (for good).
This has been a sore spot, and has been the subject of many threads. There doesn't seem to be a good, robust, comprehensive approach.
I'm assuming that the PC Controller software got it's list from HE.
Where else could it have gotten that list from? It was a Z-stick right out of the box.
I just did this last week, so it does work. I clicked Is Failed.. which can come back true or false. If it comes back as false (meaning the selected device is not failed,) then a remove does nothing. Effectively Is Failed creates a Fail Table. Then Remove will delete everything in the list. If "Is Failed" doesn't add to the list, then it won't delete.
Click Is Failed a few times til the device goes red.
Maybe this is what you did, but I can't tell from your description.
I just did that in the past minute. I clicked the device, I clicked Is Failed, It came back with a RED device. If I were to click Remove Failed, it would go away.
The reason that I thought that it was a failed node, is because I found 4 node numbers which do not exist in the HE list.
However, it does appear that there is something amiss with my implementation of PC Controller, because, indeed it did fail.
Hello @csteele:
I'm not sure why my attempts didn't work.
I think it was because of an "incomplete" pairing of the AeoTec ZStick.
So, I tried with another ZStick (It's a long story, why I happen to have 2).
Again, time, after time "incomplete" pairing, which causes Zwave Controller operations to fail.
Fortunately, I also happen to have on hand, a Zooz S2 Stick (Another long story...)
No problem with the pairing to Hubitat (even though I did it in exactly the same way...)
Finally, no problem eliminating the "ghost" or "phantom" nodes!
Now, let's see if that makes a difference in the "slowdown" affair...
I have two also but one is permanently assigned to my oldest/first hub. I Join them to my various ZWave networks at least once a month. The Silicon Labs PC Controller software is more consistent than OZWCP, and so I've been using PC Controller every time since noticing that.
