Unable to get the IRK key for two phones for the private BLE device integration

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I am pretty sure I followed the instructions as they were written, and I tried four times with my phone (OnePlus 15) and twice with my wife’s phone (OnePlus 12).

On both I had Bluetooth HCI snoop-log on.

For my phone I unpaired a BT speaker, while on my wife phone that wasn’t necessary since she had never been paired with that speaker. Then turned BT off and on again and re-paired.

The adb command adb bugreport scanwatch chewed rather slowly through the percents, and the zip file was downloaded, but there was no FS\data\misc\bluetooth\logs\btsnoop_hci.log in the zip file. I found a directory with today’s date and the time I did the pair/repair called BT_HCI_2026_0809_151542.cfa buried deeper in, but that’s obviously not it, because I opened it and got this from Wireshark:

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The last time I tried ADB with my own phone I had BT turned off, but that gave a file with a different name, bugreport-(redacted - probably ID on the phone)-BP2A.250605.015-2026-08-09-15-21-20.zip and still not the one logfile I’m looking for.

Any idea why this is not working? I tried both with the latest version of adb, downloaded today, and one I had been using for a while.

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I used the connect to a Windows PC instructions, worked first time. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/private_ble_device/#on-windows---for-any-devices-that-will-connect-to-a-computer

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Thanks, finally got it! One tip, if anybody sees this: To find the correct device MAC go to Device Manager in Windows, click on Bluetooth, find the phone in the list there, open the dialogue window for the phone, go to Details and find Hardware IDs. That’s the MAC, which corresponds with the MAC in the Registry Editor.