Zwave Switches - turned ON by "Ghosts"

[rgerrans]

One quick update on my side. I noticed this morning I was getting a ton of ghosts in the system. I noticed I was getting a number of Too many publishes in progress errors with the mqtt binding. So I turned on debug on mqtt and saw that the same state updates were repeating multiple times (some 10-20 times). I had my QOS set to 2, so changed it back to 0 and the repeats stopped.

So not sure if it was OH or my mqtt broker that was messing up the QOS check but will continue to run mqtt in debug and see if this solves my issues with ghosts in the system.

Edit: Even after setting mqtt to QOS=0 I’m still seeing multiple messages sent on state changes. I’ll open a new thread to see about addressing that issue.

[Solved] MQTT publishing duplicate messages

I turned on debug binding for mqtt and it shows that for certain events that the binding is publishing the same message 10-20 times to my mqtt broker. I had originally had QOS=2 but even after changing it to 0 I’m still seeing the occurrence of multiple publish events. I don’t see any errors in my regular openhab logs. Here is the mqtt debug log example: 11-Sep-2017 12:31:10.628 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mqtt.internal.MqttItemBinding ] - Publishing state 0 to home/masterBathroom/masterbat…