I am using Z-Wave JS and I have had a couple of entities become unavailable. When looking in the entity list, I find a duplicate of the entity that has an _2 suffix.
I experienced this just after my transition to JS, but after a while those _2 entities disappeared. A few months of trouble free operation has passed, but two entities came down with this same malady.
Any idea why this is happening?
They (the ZWaveJS team) likely updated the config for that particular ZWave device and Home Assistant interpreted it as a unique component. Happened to me a few times. Not much you can do except remove the unavailable device and rename the new ones to get rid of the “_2”
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This keeps happening to me all the time as well, for whatever reason, but your advise to remove the unavailable and rename the new ones did the trick - hadn’t figured that out so far (or didn’t dare to go for it), but solved it right away. Thanks @gregg098 !