Same Mobile Device listed twice in SmartThings Advanced

[JKB121]

I have 3 mobile devices being used as presence sensors. (works most of the time). I’m looking through the devices listed in the SmartThings Advanced page and noticed 1 of them is listed twice.

The first instance has no location,
The second instance has it as Home.

They have 2 different device id’s / Same label / Same device name

When clicking on the first instance and scrolling down the page I have an error: Error loading device activities/events: 422 The request is malformed. locationId: is not a valid value.

When clicking on the second instance all looks good. It is showing the attribute and value.

So thinking that the first instance is not needed, I deleted it in the SmartThings Advance page. - - Both instances go away.

Going into that device in SmartThings I discover that “get your location from this phone” is now turned off.

Turning on “get your location from this phone” creates 2 instances of that device in the SmartThings Advanced page.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[jkp]

Two devices when you enable "Get location for this phone"?

Your phone presence sensors (one per Location) have a parent device which is the phone itself. This isn’t in a Location so doesn’t show up in default listings from the API. If you ask to include ‘User Devices’ it will be shown, and it can be accessed directly by ID. It is only visible to you as the owner. Although I came across the devices years ago I only became aware of how to list them when I saw the Advanced Web App doing it.

[JKB121]

Yes… And it is repeatable. Almost like this phone has 2 device id’s. I don’t think that is possible.

[JKB121]

First Instance with error at bottom:

Second Instance that seemingly is working:

[JDRoberts]

@JKB121

Yes… And it is repeatable. Almost like this phone has 2 device id’s. I don’t think that is possible.

Read the thread at the link that @JKP gave you above. It’s not an error, it’s just the way the architecture works now. The device without a location is considered the parent device. The one with the location is the one that can trigger automations.

[JKB121]

@JDRoberts

Read the thread at the link that @JKP gave you above.

That must have been an edit. I didn’t see it before. We’ll call it good! Thanks for the help!!