# Identify a "ghost" ZigBee device? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** zigbee, devices\ **Created:** [July 21, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431 "2026-07-21T11:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jocke\_Wallen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jocke_wallen/32/76525_2.png) [@Jocke\_Wallen](https://community.homey.app/u/Jocke_Wallen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/1 "2026-07-21T11:58:25Z")
Is there a smart way to identify and/or remove completely a “ghost device” that is only visible on Developer pages? I (think at least) I have gone through all remotes, switches and temp sensors, removed batteries and done few repair attempts but with no luck, the device still remains… It doesn’t harm or disturb but just bl++dy annoying to have a device that can’t be identified. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/6/f60798af1daef2c5122009d723ac40ba983599d4.png) Googling the IEEE adress (a4:c1:38:18:9f:a1:8a:c3) doesn’t give much more that it’s a TUYA-device by Telink Semiconductor. Any advice get rid of this? ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/2 "2026-07-21T12:07:36Z")
Not necessarily a Tuya device. EGLO also uses Telink, it’s just a generic Zigbee module used in many devices ---
**Author:** ![Jocke\_Wallen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jocke_wallen/32/76525_2.png) [@Jocke\_Wallen](https://community.homey.app/u/Jocke_Wallen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/3 "2026-07-21T12:14:23Z")
So not much to go on with then… ☹ The search goes on! ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/4 "2026-07-21T12:26:15Z")
Which brands of Zigbee devices do you have? If you have Aqara, you can ignore those. Aqara uses it’s own 54:ef:44 OUI, with manufacturer “Lumi United Technologies”. Homey Bridges use “Texas Instruments” (00:12:4b), so if you have any in Satellite Mode, you can also ignore those. IKEA uses Silicon Labs, so it also can’t be an IKEA device. If you have Hue devices via Zigbee: those use 00:17:88 or c4:29:96 (Signify), so also can’t be a Hue device. ---
**Author:** ![Jocke\_Wallen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jocke_wallen/32/76525_2.png) [@Jocke\_Wallen](https://community.homey.app/u/Jocke_Wallen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/5 "2026-07-21T12:31:32Z")
Mainly IKEA, few Sonoff, a couple of “noname” remotes. All devices, both mains and battery powered, are correctly identified on Dev Tools. This one seems to be an orphan… ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/6 "2026-07-21T12:31:40Z")
All my INNR devices have an IEEE that start with `a4:c1:38`. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/7 "2026-07-21T12:33:26Z")
It can’t be an IKEA device. So I’d look at the Sonoff and “noname” remotes (probably Tuya, those also use Telink sometimes). Are you missing any of them in Homey? ---
**Author:** ![Jocke\_Wallen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jocke_wallen/32/76525_2.png) [@Jocke\_Wallen](https://community.homey.app/u/Jocke_Wallen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/8 "2026-07-21T12:35:15Z")
No INNR devices AFAIK unless these are re-branded to something else. ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/9 "2026-07-21T12:37:52Z")
> [@smarthomesven](#): > > Aqara uses it’s own 54:ef:44 If I look in my overview then, next to the sequence you mention, Aqara devices also use `00:15:8d:00`, which is also used by KlikAanKlikUit apparently. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/10 "2026-07-21T12:41:10Z")
Oh okay. 00:15:8d seems to be a generic Zigbee module as well. But Aqara doesn’t use Telink at least. ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/11 "2026-07-21T12:46:16Z")
There seems to be some consistency: the non T1 version of Aqara sensors use 00:15:8d, the T1 (Zigbee 3.0) versions use 54:ef:44. The KAKU devices I mentioned are paired as a generic Zigbee device and also use 00:15:8d. Are those IDs assigned by Homey? I thought those were hardware IDs assigned by manufacturers. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/12 "2026-07-21T12:48:40Z")
Those are IDs from the manufacturer. It’s very similar to a MAC address. They even use the same OUIs, so you can copy the first 6 chars of the IEEE address and look it up with a site like [macvendors.com](http://macvendors.com) ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/13 "2026-07-21T12:51:26Z")
Looking at [this topic](https://community.homey.app/t/tuya-zigbee-communication-issues/152331) then `a4:c1:38` is also used by (some) TUYA devices. ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/14 "2026-07-21T12:52:05Z")
Yes, true. Some of my Tuya devices also use Telink. But there are also Tuya with Silicon Labs modules ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_de\_Knegt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/justin_de_knegt/32/114526_2.png) [@Justin\_de\_Knegt](https://community.homey.app/u/Justin_de_Knegt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/15 "2026-07-21T12:57:27Z")
You could try to use the following script via homeyscript: ```auto const devices = await Homey.devices.getDevices(); log (devices) ``` and search for the unknown device, perhaps there is more information for a hint which device it is. (I’m not sure if the Name is Unknown in the output that is why I don’t filter on that in the list of devices) If you can find it in the output, it should be possible to delete it as well via a script. ---
**Author:** ![Hsd1965](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/hsd1965/32/30160_2.png) [@Hsd1965](https://community.homey.app/u/Hsd1965)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/16 "2026-07-21T13:00:38Z")
If you click on the three dots menu, does it not give you the option to remove it? ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/17 "2026-07-21T13:04:23Z")
That’s only for Z-Wave AFAIK. ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/18 "2026-07-21T13:04:42Z")
These are the menu options; no delete. ![IMG_2804](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/f/5fbc7825c101e1d07fed82edd16a85eb1dc2f408.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![smarthomesven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/smarthomesven/32/79712_2.png) [@smarthomesven](https://community.homey.app/u/smarthomesven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/19 "2026-07-21T13:06:15Z")
I only have Interview. Are the others only on Pro 2023 and later? I have Pro2019 ---
**Author:** ![SunBeech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sunbeech/32/111391_2.png) [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431/20 "2026-07-21T13:06:58Z")
> [@Jocke\_Wallen](#): > > Any advice get rid of this? Does a restart of Homey remove the device? I thought Athom implemented (auto) clean-up of unknown devices some time ago in a firmware update. ![IMG_2805](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/5/85f5f2a4f1275820782259e796ade07f29dbf37b.jpeg) Maybe it did not make it to the final version as I see no reference to this change in the release notes of the final version. [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/identify-a-ghost-zigbee-device/157431.md?page=2)