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| The device type in the collector should always take precedence over smartctl info results. |
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| Exactly. That's the reason why I removed that line, as it overwrote the collector's device type with the smartctl info results. |
thomashilzendegen force-pushed the fix/device-type-override branch from 61641d2 to 76e4de8 Compare 
thomashilzendegen force-pushed the fix/device-type-override branch from 76e4de8 to 4bf4b5f Compare Starosdev added a commit to Starosdev/scrutiny that referenced this pull request Nov 30, 2025
Prevents device type from being overwritten during SMART info collection. This preserves user-configured device types for drives that require specific type settings (e.g., USB bridges, RAID controllers). Origin: AnalogJ#803 Original author: @thomashilzendegen
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This should fix #608 as it was overriding a configured device type from the
collector.yamlwith the (in my case wrong) results from thesmartctl --infocommand (device.typeJSON element).