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rain kindle Mar 1, 2023, 6:45 AM

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Sound like IPv6 is not working properly or not enable on your HA. For the Sky Connect you should remove the OTBR add-on and go to Settings -> System -> Hardware and configure it there

drifting flower Mar 1, 2023, 7:03 AM

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So there are 2 sources of information

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Zeroconf/mdns, which is how we learn about the border routers

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And the thread “store”

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The thread store houses your thread secrets

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You can only have a “My network” if you have at least one set of thread credentials in your thread store

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So if there was nothing in that top section, even though we can see your home assistant border router, HA hasn’t been able to import its secrets

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Alternatively, it could have imported some credentials from the OTBR, but then if OTBR is reconfigured manually HA would be out of sync and looking for the old network.

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I can’t tell which state you are in without seeing a screenshot

meager wedge Mar 1, 2023, 6:35 PM

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https://share.icloud.com/photos/021cHZTHk0cAlasrDFeqVWRoQ This is how it looks when I removed the plug-in and did the setup of Sky Connect in settings.

drifting flower Mar 1, 2023, 7:00 PM

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You need to remove the multi protocol add-on and integrations (especially OTBR) and then delete thread.datasets from config/.storage. Then restart HA. Then do the SkyConnect setup again.

meager wedge Mar 1, 2023, 8:47 PM

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Thanks, that helped. Don’t know what to expect to be changed yet, but now it looks correct with home-assistant border router under My network.

drifting flower Mar 1, 2023, 8:53 PM

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Eventually that should let the Android and iOS apps sync the credentials for the OTBR to your phone, which can use them to provision matter devices. The Android changes are in the companion app beta.

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Dunno bout iOS

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More exciting, if you have Bluetooth in your HA box then we can provision Eve, Nanoleaf, Wemo, Airversa and maybe others onto HomeKit over Thread using the SkyConnect.

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For that it’s enough to be on 2023.3, any compatible homekit devices have a provision button on their device page.

meager wedge Mar 1, 2023, 9:33 PM

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cool, will try that, thanks again!

opal kiln Mar 2, 2023, 11:30 AM

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drifting flower More exciting, if you have Bluetooth in your HA box then we can provision Eve, N...

How? I just tried adding a Nanoleaf bulb and nothing happens. Doesn’t get detected via Bluetooth or thread

drifting flower Mar 2, 2023, 11:30 AM

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Is it already paired to iOS? Does your HA have working Bluetooth?

opal kiln Mar 2, 2023, 9:01 PM

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I reset the bulb to try to pair it to HA. I have a Broadcom adapter plugged into my HA box and it’s configured and running though i have no idea what to do with it after that.

drifting flower Mar 2, 2023, 9:35 PM

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You say you tried to pair it but I don’t know what buttons you pressed and what you did or didn’t see. There’s so many variables in this, so please be specific.

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