Ok! So I have just tried switching to indexedinputs and tested, no change, the phantom inputs are there in beta mode but not in the classic view. Needless to say switching back to master hasn’t changed anything either.
HOWEVER!
What I have just discovered is that it seems to be that the new “beta” page uses an input “group” method or reference that the older view / version doesn’t use.
I have added 8 test devices (actual devices, not emoncms input “devices” from the device module) today and wanted to clear them off after testing, so I used the input/clean api and now I have 8 more phantom inputs, the actual inputs (each input id) has been deleted, but the input group remains, since the group is empty, that is why it doesn’t expand and collapse, there is nothing to expand.
But where does this input grouping exist? somewhere that only the new input page accesses and uses it I guess?
Okay, answering my own question here now, I found it, it’s stored as a device in the device table (duh!), so we now need to manually delete each device, deleting all the individual inputs is no longer enough to get rid of the “input” aka “device” aka “node”, well that’s a bit of an eye opener!
[edit] - and with hindsight this was possibly better discussed in the Using the new emoncms device module integration thread, I’ve added a link back here.