I recently tried adding a Danfoss thermostat to my HA instance. For some reason, I didn’t notice that the device was added successfully so during the inclusion process or immediately after I seem to have tried including the device once more.
As a result, I now have 2 entries for the same device: one is sleeping and working accordingly, and the other one is Initializing (CacheLoad) for over a week now.
Is there any way to remove the duplicate device (the one in Initializing state)? I though HA would mark it as dead, but it’s been a week now and nothing happened.
That will only work if the device is marked is_failed: true - but at that point it will work.
Removing it from zwcfg*.xmlmight remove it from HA - but only if it’s not actually included on the controller. If it isn’t, then it’ll return automatically since the controller believes it should be there.
That’s because the controller still thinks it’s included.
It won’t, because they’re not the same as far as the controller is concerned.
You’ve got two options - one is to hide it until it’s marked as failed, the other is to remove all the Z-Wave devices from your controller, then factory reset the controller.
Thanks Tinkerer. Unfortunately the option to factory reset the controller, although good, would be a nightmare as I have over 60 devices included in the network. So I guess what remains is to hide it for now and check in a couple of days / weeks if it was marked as dead.