Problem with old IDs and lots of ghost devices.

[nortish]

Hi guys.
I have two different problems.

1. I recently started working with MySensors and have a ethernet gateway connected to my Vera Edge. When I included the first nodes I didn’t really understand how it all worked and I included and removed nodes without thought.
   The problem I now face is that the nodes are removed from Vera, but when I include them again the nodes doesn’t show up, only the sensors. Thats a problem because the battery status is reported on the node.

I figure this problem I caused by the Vera remembering the nodes somehow and therefore doesn’t show the Node_id, since I deleted it.
Anyone understand what I’m talking about and have a solution? =)

2. Ever since I started using my Vera I got a looooot of ghost devices. Pretty much every relay or dimmer I added also created 3-5 ghost devices. Is there a way to get rid of those without resetting the controller?

Thanks in advance for any help and inputs!
/Royson

[pls90]

i believe at the time of the first inclusion mysensor plugin writes an id to the eeprom of your node. there is a very short code you can upload to your arduino to wipe the eeprom (have a look at the mysensors site). After that your node should appear correctly after new inclusion

[akbooer]

@nortish

Pretty much every relay or dimmer I added also created 3-5 ghost devices.

Depends upon which hardware you are using, but, for example, the Fibaro relays will produce one ‘master’ device and two children (one for each switch) and the RGBW controller produces a ‘master’ and one dimmer for each channel (plus, perhaps, one more master.) All part of the the setup.

[nortish]

@pls90

i believe at the time of the first inclusion mysensor plugin writes an id to the eeprom of your node. there is a very short code you can upload to your arduino to wipe the eeprom (have a look at the mysensors site). After that your node should appear correctly after new inclusion

I’ve tried this but that didnt help. Instead the nodes stopped talking to the gateway. New nodes appears just fine and talks with gw as they should.

@akbooer

[quote=“nortish, post:1, topic:196843”]Pretty much every relay or dimmer I added also created 3-5 ghost devices.

Depends upon which hardware you are using, but, for example, the Fibaro relays will produce one ‘master’ device and two children (one for each switch) and the RGBW controller produces a ‘master’ and one dimmer for each channel (plus, perhaps, one more master.) All part of the the setup.[/quote]

That might be the case. But I’m using Qubino flush dimmers and a couple of relays. They created a mess of_generic motion sensors.

[tbully]

@nortish

[quote=“pls90, post:2, topic:196843”]i believe at the time of the first inclusion mysensor plugin writes an id to the eeprom of your node. there is a very short code you can upload to your arduino to wipe the eeprom (have a look at the mysensors site). After that your node should appear correctly after new inclusion

I’ve tried this but that didnt help. Instead the nodes stopped talking to the gateway. New nodes appears just fine and talks with gw as they should.[/quote]

No offense intended but are you sure the EEPROM clear is happening properly? This does sound like what’s going on… I’ve had this happen before.

Subscribing to learn. Good luck!

[nortish]

@tbully

[quote=“nortish, post:4, topic:196843”][quote=“pls90, post:2, topic:196843”]i believe at the time of the first inclusion mysensor plugin writes an id to the eeprom of your node. there is a very short code you can upload to your arduino to wipe the eeprom (have a look at the mysensors site). After that your node should appear correctly after new inclusion

I’ve tried this but that didnt help. Instead the nodes stopped talking to the gateway. New nodes appears just fine and talks with gw as they should.[/quote]

No offense intended but are you sure the EEPROM clear is happening properly? This does sound like what’s going on… I’ve had this happen before.

Subscribing to learn. Good luck![/quote]

I’m running the clear eeprom sketch from MySensors troubleshooting page and it seems to work according to the debug monitor.
Weird thing is that the new nodes I’ve created is included just fine but the MY_NODE_ID seems to be ignored. Not that i need that part as long as the Vera adds the node+sensors ok.