After overcoming the hurdle of getting my Rachio on my Wi-Fi network (see my other post), I tried to connect it up with my Home (HomeKit) app. Here is what I encountered:
I went into the Home app and tapped the plus sign in the upper right and selected “Add Accessory.”
On the screen above I tapped on “I Don’t Have a Code or Cannot Scan.” This brought up a screen that showed the Rachio as a HomeKit bridge. I tapped on that.
I then entered the Rachio’s HomeKit Setup Code from inside of the Rachio iPhone app:
After that, I saw this for a little while:
However, it ended up with “Unable to Add Accessory:”
I checked that the Rachio was still connected, and it was:
And I checked the firmware version, which is the latest (iro3-firmware-hk-5-632):
I’d be grateful for any ideas on how to fix this.
Oh, looking at other posts this seems to be relevant: my Wi-Fi network is a 4-node Linksys Velop mesh network.