Huge list of uknown (by me) devices

[dannybloe]

Hi folks,

I am using Domoticz for a while now and I have many z-wave devices around the house (mostly dimmers). Today I was looking at the unused device list in Domoticz and what I didn't paid much attention to earlier is that there is a huge list of them. Really a huge list. Unused that is. I know that my dimmers (Fibaro and a couple of Qubino) have energy reporting features and I haven't used those yet but I was certain that I 'activated' every device. At least, I added all the switches/dimmers and I can control them nicely. But what are those other devices that are there sitting around waiting to be included? Some of them have weird logs like only on-events. I added all usage/electricity ones and many of them are red in the lists so I guess those are old and I guess some of them are indeed energy usages of the dimmers (totals and current perhaps). But I wonder what the rest is.

So I'm curious about some tips on how to start figuring out what is what. Some heuristics perhaps.

[ThinkPad]

In your signature i see you have quite a lot Z-Wave devices (19 if i counted correctly?).
From what i've seen with my Z-Wave devices, every Z-Wave product has at least 3-4 subdevices, and those multisensors even more (5-6). So yes, it is not weird that you get this much devices.
What you could do is filter on Z-Wave (by typing 'Razberry' in the search box top right), and then sort on the last seen column, so the oldest is on top. And then delete every device that hasn't been seen for more than, let's say, a week?

[dannybloe]

Indeed, that is what I was thinking too.

But shouldn't there be a way to group devices per hardware object? Like show me all devices that are coming from dimmerX or switchY or multi-sensorZ? Is that data somewhere available because with it it is almost a triviality to add them, name them and (e)valuate them.

[ThinkPad]

You can 'group' them by node by typing the first characters in the search box. If you type 0000A you will see that it will only show the subdevices of the device that has the ID 0000Axx
But i agree that a better overview would be nice. Some sort of tree structure like this: http://saptechnical.com/Tutorials/ALV/A ... emo.h1.jpg (i have no idea what is on the screenshot, but the tree-like structure would be handy).

[dannybloe]

Maybe the device index is a clue... I guess that subdevices will typically have adjacent index numbers.

[dannybloe]

So I tried that by filtering for 0000C. Would that indeed mean that all devices listed here belong to the same physical device (a Fibaro dimmer 2 in this case).