I'm finally going to migrate my C5 to my new C8 Pro. Looking at my zwave details on my C5, i see this. I believe I have a number of Ghosts with no In or Out, right? The thing is, some of those devices work fine. Like, I know Master Closet and Landscape Front Yard Lights works just fine. What does that mean, if anything, particularly for the planned migration to the C8 Pro? I'm also able to be convinced to just start from scratch on the C8 Pro if needed (given the problems migration appears to cause... and i will be adding 10+ Inovelli mmwave switches in the next few weeks anyway)
I would focus more on the entry that has no device associated to it (75).
Someone else can probably confirm if no in or out is an issue for the others.
Yeah, I'm working through removing those two no-name entries now, with a z-wave stick. hopefully that's right..
This guide says that working nodes are never ghosts, so relying on that. Hoping this mirgration goes well....
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Hmm. Using a z-wave stick, but the ghost nodes (75 and 46) don't show up....
what do i do with that?
If you do a migration, then change the Zwave to the new JS version, the ghosts are much easier to remove.
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So are you saying to proceed with the migration, ghosts and all, and then remove them on the C8 Pro with the new JS version?
I'm also toying with the prospect of just migrating zigbee and LAN/apps, but not zwave. If i were to do that, what would that do to migrated apps that use non-migrated devices? Would there be empty devices in everything that i could use the Swap Apps to easily swap old devices for newly added (non-migrated) devices on the C8?
I would. If it doesn't work, you still have your original hub as it was.
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I totally agree with @Slate. You can restore the full backup, see if you can get it working, and if not, start again without z-Wave and re-pair the devices… That will take a while though…
If you go that way, you might be able to pair the devices back in the originals.
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This is what I'd probably try (as @Slate was suggesting). Z-WaveJS is much better at removing ghosts from the Z-Wave Details page using the hub's built in tools than ZipGateway. You're safe as noted, as you have your original hub safely unchanged while you give it a try on the new one.
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