Aqara FP2 and HA Auto Discovery Issues

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Aqara FP2 Auto discovery Issues

Hi Guys, I hope someone can assist me with this problem. I have been searching for solutions but the only ones I have found do not seem to solve my problem.

I am running HA OS in a Hyper-V VM.

I have an Aqara M2 Hub and have installed the Aqara App in Android.

I do NOT have anything apple on the premises.

I have just acquired an Aqara FP2 Presence sensor.

This is a WIFI device and is on my network by DHCP.

I have confirmed with Fing that both HA and the FP2 are on the same subnet. This was the problem for someone else on here.

My HA has always been reluctant to auto detect new additions. In fact I cannot recall that ever working. But I am old and my memory is not the best :-)

I have added the 'HomeKit Device' integration to HA.

When I added the M2 Hub it did NOT auto detect and I had to use the add '+' in the lower right to force the issue it then asked for the Pairing Key from the bottom of the M2 Hub.

After this was entered all went well and all devices on the Hub were expossed to HA!

SUCCESS!

However, after adding the FP2 to the Aqara App on the Tablet I tried all of the usual things including power cycling the FP2 and a Full reboot of HA. Not just cycling the VM.

HA did NOT auto-detect the FP2.

So I again tried to force the issue by adding '+' in the lower RHC.

This presented me with the dialog add ''???-FP2'

Unfortunately after the most recent REBOOT this dialog has now vanished and I cannot list it correctly here.

When it WAS shown to me I proceeded to add the device and it just HUNG while going through the motions of adding the FP2.

This was the point where I was EXPECTING to be asked for the Pairing Key from the FP2.

I have almost zero experience troubleshooting HA issues so please if you are able to help try to include ALL necessary steps and if I have to check Logs, specify which logs if there are more than one.

Thanks in advance for any help that you can give.