Not all Z-Wave devices show up correct on new install

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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I lost me SD card and had to set up an existing Z-Wave network from scratch. I had backups of all of the configuration files and most of my devices showed up with the same information as before and all I had to do was name them correctly and add the required connections between Things and Items. All of that went perfect but I noticed a few missing Things and when I tried doing a search they all showed up with all the missing nodes, but they all show up as Unknown Devices. I’ve done everything I can think of to make them come back correct, but nothing has worked. I’m using the most current daily snapshot on a RPi 3 running Buster installed from the most recent openhabian image. I’d like to avoid erasing the Aeotec Gen 5 dongle as it would probably rediscover everything in a different order and I’d have to go on an expedition to figure out what everything is again. I was hoping to find some way to fix this sort of forgetting and re-adopting the 8 messed up devices.

Thanks, Ira

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Are the unknown devices battery powered? If so, you need to wake them up, sometimes repeatedly, until the binding gets enough information from them to recognize what they are.

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Thank you. It seems after getting them all back that they were all battery operated or unplugged. I’ve all but one back on-line and that’s a small cordless switch that’s currently lost. Somehow I figured the information about the device would have been stored in the dongle, but I guess it just keeps IDs and node numbers as they all came back with the same node numbers so restoring only a few files and a bit of work connecting things to items and it just worked.

Ira