I did a couple of things around devices today. I am trying to reset an Iris motion sensor that is acting up and I added a virtual switch. This bogus device says it was created at 8:41am today which precedes my activity I mentioned by hours.
I’ve noticed that when trying to add a Thing I keep getting a Z-Wave Remote show up as found,. This is in addition to the one that had already been added to my list of devices.
Maybe it belongs to a neighbor and now he’s super frustrated because his brand new remote can’t be added to his system. But I guess it would be a big coincidence with his remote in pairing mode just at the moment you were also trying to add something. I have had ghost devices somehow show up on my system but I just delete and remove them.
A power cycle of the hub cleared things up (on Support’s advice).
I was hoping Support could find the reason for the phantom device showing up but it seems not. However, whatever the cause, after power cycling the hub the app no longer finds a Z-Wave Remote every time I add a new Thing (and we zapped the one already included).