diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1bb77c8..ea14c6d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "endo-core",
-  "version": "18.1.0",
+  "version": "18.2.0",
   "description": "Put some description here",
   "keywords": [],
   "homepage": "https://github.com/octoblu/endo-core",
diff --git a/src/config-generators/status-device-create-config-generator.coffee b/src/config-generators/status-device-create-config-generator.coffee
index 3857304..919adb9 100644
--- a/src/config-generators/status-device-create-config-generator.coffee
+++ b/src/config-generators/status-device-create-config-generator.coffee
@@ -19,7 +19,5 @@ module.exports = ({userDeviceUuid, authorizedUuid}) ->
           {uuid: userDeviceUuid}
           {uuid: authorizedUuid}
         ]
-  errors: []
   status:
-    errors:
-      $ref: '#/errors'
+    errors: []
diff --git a/src/services/messages-service.coffee b/src/services/messages-service.coffee
index e50dc67..73d2d92 100644
--- a/src/services/messages-service.coffee
+++ b/src/services/messages-service.coffee
@@ -43,17 +43,16 @@ class MessagesService
       return callback newError if newError?
       @_updateStatusDeviceWithError {auth, senderUuid, userDeviceUuid, error, respondTo}, callback
 
-  _updateStatusDeviceWithError: ({auth, senderUuid, userDeviceUuid, error, respondTo}, callback) =>
+  _updateStatusDeviceWithError: (options, callback) =>
+    {auth, senderUuid, userDeviceUuid, error, respondTo, alreadyTried} = options
+
     meshblu = new MeshbluHTTP _.defaults auth, @meshbluConfig
     meshblu.device userDeviceUuid, (newError, {statusDevice}={}) =>
       return callback() if newError?
       return callback() unless statusDevice?
       update =
-        $set:
-          'status.errors':
-            $ref: '#/errors'
         $push:
-          errors:
+          'status.errors':
             $each: [
               senderUuid: senderUuid
               date: moment.utc().format()
@@ -63,7 +62,18 @@ class MessagesService
               message: error.message
             ]
             $slice: -99
-      meshblu.updateDangerously statusDevice, update, as: userDeviceUuid, callback
+
+      meshblu.updateDangerously statusDevice, update, as: userDeviceUuid, (error) =>
+        return callback() unless error?
+        return callback error if alreadyTried
+
+        if _.includes error.message, 'must be an array but is of type'
+          meshblu.updateDangerously statusDevice, {$set: 'status.errors': []}, (error) =>
+            return callback error if error?
+            newOptions = _.defaults {alreadyTried: true}, options
+            return @_updateStatusDeviceWithError newOptions, callback
+
+        return callback error
 
   responseSchema: (callback) =>
     @messageHandler.responseSchema callback
diff --git a/test/integration/message-spec.coffee b/test/integration/message-spec.coffee
index abfbbb1..02b8846 100644
--- a/test/integration/message-spec.coffee
+++ b/test/integration/message-spec.coffee
@@ -431,11 +431,8 @@ describe 'messages', ->
               .set 'Authorization', "Basic #{@credentialsDeviceAuth}"
               .set 'x-meshblu-as', 'user-uuid'
               .send
-                $set:
-                  'status.errors':
-                    $ref: '#/errors'
                 $push:
-                  errors:
+                  'status.errors':
                     $each: [
                       code: 500
                       message: 'Something very bad happened'
diff --git a/test/integration/user-devices-spec.coffee b/test/integration/user-devices-spec.coffee
index 9234ee6..a657a89 100644
--- a/test/integration/user-devices-spec.coffee
+++ b/test/integration/user-devices-spec.coffee
@@ -301,10 +301,9 @@ describe 'User Devices Spec', ->
                     {uuid: 'user_device_uuid'}
                     {uuid: 'some-uuid'}
                   ]
-            errors: []
+                              
             status:
-              errors:
-                $ref: '#/errors'
+              errors: []
           .reply 201, uuid: 'status-device-uuid', token: 'status-device-token'
 
         @updateUserStatusDevice = @meshblu