Remove a device from the Zigbee network

Use this action to remove a device from your Zigbee network by its IEEE address. You can find the IEEE address on the device’s page in Home Assistant. This is useful when you want to remove a device from an automation or a script, rather than through the UI.

Only users with administrator rights can run this action.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To remove a device from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. Search for and select Remove.
6. Set IEEE to the IEEE address of the device you want to remove.
7. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as zha.remove. A basic example looks like this:

action: zha.remove
data:
  ieee: "00:0d:6f:00:05:7d:2d:34"

Options in YAML

Good to know

• Removing a device is not reversible. To use the device again, you need to pair it back to the network.

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Permit devices to join the Zigbee network: Opens the ZHA Zigbee network so new devices can join.