Hubitat C5 Hub Freezes every 24-48 hours

[aaiyar]

I had multiple stranded z-wave devices that brought my hub to a crawl within a day. I removed them using the process described by @MFornander here:

Tip: Removing invisible nodes and updating device firmware

I'm on a quest to figure out what wrong with my Z-Wave mesh and ended up finding some dead nodes and updating some old device firmware before going full Zniffer. So... some quick notes below on how to find dead z-wave devices and updating device firmware without removing them from Hubitat. Just jotting down my steps while waiting for my device firmware to update since other people may be interested. The steps below allow you to remove devices that are part of the Z-Wave mesh but not visible t…

Edit: I should add - this process made my hubitat stable again.