Are there any professional Ghost Busters out there? I am thinking of someone who for a fee I could send a backup of my system with a list of the Ghost Nodes and they could load my backup on a Hubitat and delete those nodes from my system and send me a Ghost free system which I could reload.
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Zwave or Zigbee?
list of Zwave commands
[http://IP/hub/zwave/failedNodeCheck ](http://IP/hub/zwave/failedNodeCheck) [http://IP/hub/zwaveInfo ](http://IP/hub/zwaveInfo) http://IP/hub/zwaveInfo?statusMessage= http://IP/hub/zwaveLearn [http://IP/hub/zwaveLogs ](http://IP/hub/zwaveLogs)Especially the node cleanup might help here
http://IP/hub/zwave/nodeCleanup
http://IP/hub/zwaveNodeDetail
http://IP/hub/zwaveNodeDetailGet
http://IP/hub/zwave/nodeReinitialize
http://IP/hub/zwave/nodeRemove
http://IP/hub/zwaveNodeRepair
Or…. CAUTION
Force Delete Rogue Devices, that give a 404 Error
(The below is in regard to Ring devices)
Gopher speak-->>"I've added a special URL to deal with them, though. As long as you know the device id (it's a part of the URL that produces the 404), you can delete a device directly. Just replace 12345 in the URL below with that id, and it will be gone". Use caution - it will not ask for a confirmation.
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Z-Wave. I have no Zigbee nodes
Well if the commands listed above, especially the node cleanup command didnt work for you, this might help
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The post above is not applicable to the C-7, only previous models. Nowadays, the "ghost" should be removable from the Settings > Z-Wave Details page using the "Remove" button (refresh once or twice if this button does not appear). If that fails,"Logs" (regular hub logs, not Z-Wave logs) should show a message from "Hub" or "sys:1" with some information as to why.
Just saying, a search across the forum and/or the net might be a first aid.
Providing advise is usually “dancing in the dark” without knowing circumstances, hardware being used, device types user etc.
@RebFiedler the ghosts are in the physical radio database not the hubitat database. You would need to send the whole unit to someone not just a backup file.
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So maybe I confused or probably I am confused so what happens when I copy a backup of my present system to a new Hubitat.
Why wouldn’t that leave the Ghosts on the old system and solve my problem?
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Unless you have hub protect then the z-wave radio does not get backed up. Even if you do have hub protect, the entire radio database including the ghost(s) get backed up as well. And Hub protect only backs the z-wave database up to the cloud.
On a regular backup (the nightly local or one you create locally) z-wave is not backed up, only zigbee and the hubitat database. The actual zigbee radio is NOT backed up either. You have to re pair all zigbee devices but they will slot back into their old places when you do that. (Sadly z-wave will not)
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I have Hub Protect and I don’t have Zigbee devices. So if i establish a new Hubitat from a backup is it complete except for the ghosts?
No as I said, the ghosts get backed up as well. So even if you back up to the cloud with hub protect, then reset the radio and then restore from cloud the ghost will still be there. What you could do is create a virtual driver of all your z-wave devices (name them the same thing but add -virtual to the name) then use swap device app to swap those in to your existing rules. Reset the z-wave radio then re pair all your z-wave devices then run device swap again to put the re paired devices back into the rules. Also if you know which device created the ghost, you could potentially exclude that one, power it down, then try to remove the ghost. But as I said, I know you have a mac and paralells vm software and a demo copy of windows are both free. You could install those and just use the stick you have to remove them.
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If I was a King I would chop off your head because you keep telling me what I don’t want to hear.
So I guess I will have take your advice and go the Z-Stick way.
But tell me this. In Israel I have an Indigo system with obviously a Aeotec USB stick.
Can I copy that stick into a Hubitat E?
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If you 're wanting to import devices, no way to get the radio database to sync up with the HE database, so unfortunately no.
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So I got Parallels and Windows 11 up and running. Downloaded SimplicityStudio-5 witch is a Disc Image File. But when I tried to mount it got a message "sorry there is a problem mounting this file.
You need the windows version, the disk img file is for mac...
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Oh and when working with the list, do not confuse the hex number with dec... 
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There are different versions. Version 4 has an exe file. Still have not succeeded in getting utility. Will try again tonight.
But I am thinking of completely changing direction. Thinking of removing several rooms from my Hubitat and moving them to my other controller.
That is exactly what I used. But I got the Img file. Maybe because of Parallels?
According to that link, they provide an iso file for windows installation. Iso is a type of image file that needs to be mounted like a cd-rom or hard drive.
The Mac installer is a dmg file, which is the type of image file that macOS typically uses to install a new app.
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