Unable to delete devices even after z-wave remove node - getting duplicate device

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I have some z-wave devices that I cannot remove. I have marked them as failed: true in status. I have unpaired them and yet they remain in the devices database. I have an unknown device 5 that is not on the Aeon z-stick, but just persists in HA devices and just shows in z-wave integration as iniitializing. I also have a Wallmote Quad that we gracefully removed from z-wave, but the device stays in the database. It was showing as node 12 and that is not in the z-wave nodes, but persists in the HA devices list. The node was added back and is now node 13 and it just shows as a duplicate in devices.

It would be nice if HA team focused on stability rather than new features for a change. The z-wave interface is flaky and removing nodes is problematic at best. I’ve also tried forcibly removing the device from zwcfg as well. They are not in the z-stick, not in the zwcfg, but still remain in the devices list and no way of deleting them in Lovelace.

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It’s frustrating at best. Any help would really be appreciated to remove devices that don’t exist :frowning:

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If you removed the nodes prior to 0.102 you need to manually delete them from the .storage/core.device_registry file. 0.102 fixes the need to do that.

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Thanks for getting back to me. The Wallmote was removed in 0.102.1 version and didn’t delete from the interface. I’ll check the .storage file.

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I have the same problem. I am running 0.103.0 and remove failed node doesnt work, resulting in

2019-12-14 14:01:00.502 Warning, contrlr, WARNING: Received reply to FUNC_ID_ZW_REMOVE_FAILED_NODE_ID - Node not found

Cleaning out .storage/core.* doesnt help either, since on reboot the device and its entities are re-added into core.*

Whats left?

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I remove them from .storage and the devices and they return. I’m still stuck on this as well

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Did you stop Home Assistant before editing the file?

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Personally, I work on copies, and compare with kdiff3 a few million times before over-writing. In this case though, I think I might have missed the entry for the zwave entitiy itself.

I was filtering on 29-XXXX of unique_id when stripping, and forgot the unique_id of Node-29…

So after the four attempt, it finally seems to be gone.

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I’ll take that back. Now my node 29 is back, and the next one which failed, cant be removed either. I really feel that the device management **** ****.

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I’m experiencing the same issue with a couple Z-Wave devices (Honeywell Thermostat and a Neo Coolcam wall switch).

I had to remove and re-add them a couple of times and now have multiple duplicate entries for each.

I’m not sure if it makes any difference but I’m using the secure join on these devices.

I had to re-add a couple Z-Wave (not plus) devices and those did not duplicate.

I’m running:
HA 0.103.5
Hass.io supervisor 193
HassOS 3.7
Z-Wave: Razpberry 2 configured via configuration.yaml

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Hi all – anyone get any further with this?

I have exactly the same issue… Multiple instances of z-wave devices, even after removing node, removing all entities etc. They no longer show under z-wave at all (nodes gone) but the entityless devices are strewn across HA.

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I had to manually remove per this post:

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What I have tried up until now to delete a dead z-wave device/entity:

  1. grep entire ha config folder for deviceID and entityID
  2. delete the entries found in .storage/core.device_registry and .storage/core.entity_registry
  3. delete home-assistant_v2.db

And still the device is magically there :frowning_face:
I’m currently migrating from Domoticz and I can’t remove the z-wave integration every time there a problem when I have z-wave 30+ devices…

(ha version 0.114.4 running in docker)

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I’m having the same issue - super annoying with dead devices that’s sitting in the “initializing” for ever.

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Anyone know if there is a issue for this over at GitHub? I’m seeing the same thing. I removed a couple of dead nodes and they no longer show in entities, but still show up in Devices under Zwave (in my case OpenZwaveBeta). Using ozw-admin they are definitely gone from qt-openzwave so they are stuck in HA somewhere.

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I have the same issue and even after removing from .storage/core.device_registry the devices still appear

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I have the same issue and think the only way I’m going to be able to resolve this is a clean install. Should I be removing all the Z Wave devices that do work first? Or can I just do a clean Hassio install and re-adopt them after that?

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I’ve got this for a Zigbee device, removed it from the Phoscon app and the entities, but the device itself is still shown in the devices tab… Heeeelp!

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I also have this problem. By adding and removing nodes also duplicate entries appeared.
It would be great if it is possible to remove these ghost devices.

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Have we fiund any solution on this? I have some zwave devices that cant delete them.

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I’ve had these issues also until I migrated to Z-Wave JS to MQTT add on, so much better in removing devices.