Ok, I've been struggling with some Z-Wave Issues for the last week. Hoping someone might have some suggestions in addition to the 1000 things I've already tried...
Tagging @bobbyD @gopher.ny also...
So I've upgraded to latest platform versions as soon as they come out and recently migrated from C7's to C8's...
Everything was pretty decent, except I noticed a lot more routing and slowness on the C8 with my Z-Wave devices... I figured it just needed time to settle in...
About a week or so ago, I had some power failure issues. That led to several of my older GE/Jasco outlets and switches to fail... There are threads on all that and in fact I've actually had them replace many of the previous failures, but I still have many in that same year and time frame that seem to be failing the older they get... I digress...
Anyway, when they fail, as you may know, there is no way to remove them from the network. You have to do a force remove as the radio dies with the device...
I forced removed 3-4 of them and was able to remove the ghosts left in their wake... However, I there is one persistent one that will not remove. It shows a route in the details page, but I can assure you it is physically removed and sitting on a shelf in the garage...
I let the system sit for a few days as I was out of town, did many many complete shutdowns with power pulled and also tried reverting hub versions back to 2.3.4...
Here are some more details... I have a Zooz 700 Stick that I have used for ghosts in the past. NO MATTER what I do, I cannot get the stick to add to the hub... Even after tracking down the latest version of PC Controller and updated the firmware on the stick itself...
Then I tried killing the power to several rooms and nodes that the one ghost claims to be routing through... Of course, that didn't work and blew out another GE switch upon flipping the power back on.
Since then, I have not been able to add any Z-Wave devices... I get network busy messages, etc. And again, I have powered down the hub and pulled the plug, even after all this... Still no dice.
My network is slow and I can only assume it is because of the now two ghosts I can't remove.
Any thoughts on anything else to try?
As it stands right now, I can't remove the ghosts and can't add any z-wave devices including replacement switches I have on hand for the failures and of course, my stick...