I’m trying to do a Force Remove on some Ghost Devices. I went to edit the device, clicked Remove. Waited for that to timeout, then clicked the Force Remove button and OK. SmartThings says it was successfully removed, but it is still showing up in both the App and IDE.
Does Force Remove still work?
Yes, however when I do a Z-Wave Network repair the device ID’s still show up as ghost devices.
So I too had two phantom devices. So after reading what was described above I tried it and as you said it no longer works. So I tried a new variation and it worked on both of my phantoms. I had an extra receptacle that I made sure was not in my network by trying to removing it using the app removal process as described above. I than created a new device (called trash) with the type I know that is would used by normal pairing process (for my receptacle) plus of course the phantom network ID. (Now the change. Using the app on my phone I did a “replace” on the trash device. When it asked me for the new device I triggered pairing on my unused receptacle and it replace the phantom to the newly pared working receptacle device. Than using my phone app, I removed the trash device (which was a wor…