I have had difficulty getting my components installed properly. Almost all of them have an Device# that is different from the altid#. Which # do I refer to in programming them into scenes? Can I ignore the altid#?
Device ID is a unique number assigned to every, well, device in the mios system. This includes Z-Wave devices and non-z-wave devices, such as a items created by the weather plugin. Altid is, well, an alternate id for the device. The usage of which is meaningful only to the device itself. For z-wave devices this is the z-wave assigned node id for the mios device, which isn’t necessarily the same as the device id assigned by mios.
You will almost always refer to devices in luup or in scenes using their device id, and not altid.