I am using Meross devices. They are the homekit version but I’ve started adding them to the Meross app as non homekit devices. Once added in the meross app I they show up in home assistant as homekit devices. Every once and a while a switch will loose connection and I’ll find it blinking which means it is ready for configuration. I’d love to solve that problem but what I’m posting about is when I add the switch back in the Meross app why would it still not be recognized in home assistant? I have to delete and add it again which wipes out all of my automations and configuration. Is there something I can do differently so that the device is recognized as the same device as before and picks up where it left off?
I have several Meross devices which I use in HA using the HomeKit Device integration. It is rare that I would lose a device, but when I’ve had to re-add a device I would ensure that I gave it the same entity name. The renaming is not obvious using the HomeKit integration, but it’s there.
Thanks I’ll try that. I was hoping it was something simple like that. Last time I had to add one back I ran a restore afterwards which set the entity name back but it didn’t work. I was hoping that once the device was back on my WiFi HA would see it as the same device.
Also, if you delete the unresponsive device before you add it again it will probably be added with the same name.