I know this is likely not a HA issue but I can’t find an answer anywhere on this.
When I first set up device tracking using my linksys router it found all of my devices correctly including my chromecast audio device. I set all of the devices I didn’t want track as false. so far so good.
Now the strange part is that over the last three or four months I have these phantom devices showing up in my known_devices file with the same device id but with a different numeric suffix appended and a different MAC address.
## this is the first one discovered and is the real chromecast audio device##
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:A3:08
name: chromecast audio
picture:
track: false
vendor: Google, Inc.
## the rest of these were discovered later ##
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_2:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: FC:2D:5E:1C:06:AB
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
vendor: zte corporation
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_3:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 68:54:FD:57:06:AB
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
vendor: Amazon Technologies Inc.
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_4:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:06:AB
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_5:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:20:D3
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_6:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: A0:C9:A0:A3:E0:BF
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
.
.
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ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_18:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:D0:1D
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_19:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:00:C0
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_20:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 54:60:09:F2:B8:B5
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
ca7d0a53d3b4cd9991f8feab9d71864c_21:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 68:54:FD:57:00:A8
name: ca7d0a53-d3b4-cd99-91f8-feab9d71864c
picture:
track: false
As you can see, I’m now up to 21 of these devices.
Now the stranger part is if I go and look at all of the active devices that are showing up in my router management all of those devices show up there with all of the different MAC addresses but they all have the same IP address:
It seems that every few days or a week a new device is created with a new MAC address but it gets the same name and the same IP address.
I don’t get it.
Anyone have any idea where this is coming from?