How do I remove ghost devices?

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I’m sure this is somewhere in the howto or FAQ, but I did not find it…

I have a few nodes that just sits in the UI on my Vera, no devices behind them, not sure why, but they are there. How can I delete these non-existing devices from the user interface?

I guess they are old reconfigured devices, that have a new fresh address.

::slight_smile:

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Have you tried: Wrench > Trash Can?

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:-[

Of course I hadn’t :slight_smile: I guess I must be blind!

Thanks,
Micael

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I can understand how to remove one or two ghost devices at one time. My question is how to remove over 100 devices? I have 1.1350 firmware and a Z-wave version 452 hack in place. Everything was working well until one day I checked my system and had 100 ghost devices in the Device area of the interface. I performed a system backup and everything appeared back to normal. However, the system went into a Configuring Z-wave devices state and afterward the 100+ ghost devices returned. I have repeated the backup procedure several times with several backup files. The result is the same: 100+ ghost devices. In addition to the unwanted ghost devices, my Vera controller no longer seems to work.

Does anyone have an idea what is causing this problem? Does anyone have any idea of how to fix it. My best solution at this time seems to be wait for Vera3 and begin building my Vera system from scratch. At least I have all my modules in place.

Thank you for your help.

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When you tried using a known backup prior to the 100+ zwave device issue, did you also check to have it restore the zwave dongle as well? If you just do a restore of a backup with out restoring the zwave dongle, it will keep loading those 100+ devices as it is most likely in the zwave dongle routing table and vera will scan the dongle after a retore to configure all devices.

  • Garrett
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Please open a trouble ticket with us (MCV support). Enable tech support and send us the access codes to investigate this issue.
Do you have many z-wave devices? (not ghosts) Have you already tried to reset the network and start over ?

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I want to thank Garrett and MCV.silviu for their quick responses to my question. It appears that restoring the system from backup with the restore the z-wave dongle box checked fixed my problem with the ghost devices. I did not check the restore z-wave dongle firmware check box previously because I did not believe that I had a z-wave dongle firmware backup file available. However, the system seemed to have found something. This leads me to another question: When the z-wave dongle firmware restore box is checked, is the dongle firmware really being restored from a backup file or is it merely being rebuilt? If it is merely being rebuilt then MCV Development might want to reconsider the wording that is used with this check box. To me the wording implies that the firmware is being restored from a backup. Since I am running the 3.20 version of the dongle firmware (I used the 2.78 to 3.20 hack), I thought that restoring the dongle firmware might lead to nasty results and a possible system rebuild. Since we are very close to the Vera3 release, I wanted to avoid having to rebuild Vera2. Will Vera3 require a rebuild, of can one use a Vera2 backup to build a Vera3 system?

I have a question for MCV.silviu: What do you mean by “reset the network and start over”? Do you mean reset Vera to its default settings and reinitialize every device that is presently in Vera’s mesh network? If that is what you mean, that is exactly what I was trying to avoid. I have over 30 actual devices on my Vera network and I run numerous LUUP plug-ins. Having to restore everything from scratch would be a major undertaking.

Thank you once again for your help.