Removed Z-Wave Dimmers Still Showing Up

Configuration Z-Wave
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I’ve physically replaced two Z-Wave dimmers with WiFi switches but they are still showing in Home Assistant as responding. Below is the steps I followed.

Home Assistant 0.80.3

  1. Z-Wave config > Remove Node
  2. Double tapped on the dimmer (Evolv LRM-AS) to exclude it. Nothing in zwave logs
  3. Restarted Home Assistant
  4. Repeated steps 1-3 roughly 4 times
  5. Gave up with the proper process
  6. Physically removed the Z-Wave dimmer (it’s laying on my desk)
  7. Ran heal network
  8. Restarted Home Assistant

It’s worth noting that this was removed on Saturday (10/20). I’ve restarted Home Assistant multiple times over the weekend. The dimmers still show up which is very strange to me.

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How can I remove these devices?

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It looks like the device didn’t remove. Did you follow the button pushing process on the device to put it into Removal node then select Remove Node in the control panel?

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Per the instructions I was to double tap on or off 2x within 20ms. I did this in step 2 above.

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Zwave has something odd going on in 80.0 that I think is related to the entity registry but not proven this yet.

I can delete devices and they continue to show up even though the OZW logs report a removal success until I shutdown HA and manually remove the entries from the entity registry as well as the zwcfg*.xml. If I leave them in the zwcfg*.xml they get added on restart to the entity registry; before they are updated as dead by the network discovery; and then they persist.

It seems the entity registry updates on the zwcfg*.xml too early; assuming the cached state is correct; and once in the entity registry it doesn’t prune devices that then don’t come up to a completed state.

It’s really a complete shit-show and unfortunately can’t roll back easily as the update to the new entity registry appears one way…