Google Home Secure PIN not being prompted on garage covers

Third party integrations
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Hi All,

I have 2 garage doors set up as covers in HA, and a Nabucasa trial in progress with Google Home integrated. The 2 doors show up in Google Home and I can open and close them reliably by telling Google to do so, but I never get prompted for a PIN.

I’ve set a 4 digit PIN in the integration settings for Nabucasa, but for some reason it just doesnt work. I saw in previous threads that the “device_type” for the cover can make a difference, so changed this to “garage” from the default but that didnt make any difference either (I did restart and resync too). I havent tried the “door” type yet, but didnt think I should have to in order for it to work.

What are some other things I could try? Since it works without PIN prompt, I havent seen any errors in logs but then again dont know specifically where I should be looking either.

Would appreciate any help.
Cheers.

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After you changed the device type, did you sync Google Home ?
“Hey google, sync my devices”

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yep, the icon in Google Home changed and it shows up as device type ‘garage’ now, but the behaviour didnt change.

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interestingly, Google Assistant has started randomly requesting the PIN prompt. Probably about 60% of the time it will ask for the PIN, and the other 40% it will just open it without asking for a PIN.

Yesterday evening for the first time it asked for the PIN, then the next morning it opened without, and that next night it prompted for the PIN again… very inconsistent