<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the delay noticing the question.</div><div><br></div><div>The pin is only used when you want to link new devices. It is not the part of the communications that recognizes things that should already be paired. It changing or not has no reasonable way to have any effect on the problem you’re having. it’s not even used by the protocol anywhere unless you’re re-pairing with homekit.</div><br><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 3, 2023, at 11:23 AM, Brian Williams via XtensionList <xtensionlist@machomeautomation.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>believe that you told us that the HomeKit PIN is going to change every time that the HK interface is recycled, and hence, when an OS update requires the Mac to be restarted, we are going to have to rebuild the Bridge. Is there any way to avoid that?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div>Thanks,<br> James<br><br><br>James Sentman http://www.PlanetaryGear.org<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://MacHomeAutomation.com<br><br><br></div>
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