Cannot connect Eve Flare to Home Assistant via Thread

[ThronRyzer]

The problem

I'm trying to connect a EVE Flare light to HA using the Homekit via Thread integration.

I've added the device to Apple Home and removed it afterwards. It's then discovered for the HomeKit Integration.

After entering the Homekit Code, I receive the following error: "This accessory is already paired to another device. Please reset the accessory and try again."

Afterwards the device is not discovered anymore.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.11.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

homekit_controller

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

home-assistant_2023-12-05T18-07-45.174Z.log

Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[groveybeans]

Same problem here^

[Jc2k]

Some Eve devices don't actually unpair cleanly. Then iOS pretends they did. When that happens you need to hard reset them before anything can pair them.

There's no magic fix here. If the device isn't in a pairable state it's not in a pairable state. In the cases I've seen it's a firmware issue so will keep happening no matter what you do.

If you have working Bluetooth in HA you can pair it over Bluetooth instead of thread. Then you can import your iOS thread network into HA with the HA iOS app. Then upgrade from Bluetooth to thread through HA as well.

[TriggrHappy]

Some Eve devices don't actually unpair cleanly. Then iOS pretends they did. When that happens you need to hard reset them before anything can pair them.

There's no magic fix here. If the device isn't in a pairable state it's not in a pairable state. In the cases I've seen it's a firmware issue so will keep happening no matter what you do.

If you have working Bluetooth in HA you can pair it over Bluetooth instead of thread. Then you can import your iOS thread network into HA with the HA iOS app. Then upgrade from Bluetooth to thread through HA as well.

Thx, the Bluetooth-workaround worked like a charm after I struggled for weeks with pairing one specific Eve Energy-plug! I used Bluetooth proxy through an ESPHome device.

[gravityrebel]

Some Eve devices don't actually unpair cleanly. Then iOS pretends they did. When that happens you need to hard reset them before anything can pair them.

There's no magic fix here. If the device isn't in a pairable state it's not in a pairable state. In the cases I've seen it's a firmware issue so will keep happening no matter what you do.

If you have working Bluetooth in HA you can pair it over Bluetooth instead of thread. Then you can import your iOS thread network into HA with the HA iOS app. Then upgrade from Bluetooth to thread through HA as well.

At the very least shouldn't these un-handled exceptions become handled ones? I'm having this issue right now and the instructions in the log seem to indicate that we should report the issue:

2024-05-17 14:47:40.821 WARNING (MainThread) [coap-server] An exception that is not an aiocoap Error was raised from a transport; please report this as a bug in aiocoap: TypeError("'NoneType' object does not support item assignment") 2024-05-17 14:47:40.825 ERROR (MainThread) [aiohomekit.utils] Failure running background task: Task-10442

I'm not sure what version of aiocoap HA is using, but Version 0.4.8 seems to have cleaned up a lot of error messages which could help. The logs also make reference to python3.12, but when I go look at the referenced path in /usr/local/lib all I see is python3.11.

In case it is helpful I am uploading my logs as well. home-assistant_2024-05-17T18-52-00.147Z.log