HomeConnect device status issues

tc10
Grasshopper

The Shaw Rogers HomeConnect app is showing a number of my devices as being off-line even though they are actually online.
This is just recently happened.

I have rebooted the XB7 and my iPhone and restarted the HomeConnect app.

Is anyone else noticing this same issue?

This makes it more challenging to do troubleshooting when Iā€™m having network issues on some devices and they show as off-line. 

All of these devices are online

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-- for "security" reasons, some of your Apple devices sen...

mdk
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@tc10 -- for "security" reasons, some of your Apple devices send a randomly-different MAC-address each time the device connects to your home WiFi.  So, you may see one device showing as "expired" (last connected a while ago) and also as "current" (recently connected).

Within Apple "Settings", you can disable this "randomness", but sending the same MAC-address at multiple locations (A&W, Timhortons, Starbucks, ShawOpen, etc.) may allow your device to be "tracked".

 

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Thanks for reply, I just double checked.  the Mac address...

tc10
Grasshopper

Thanks for reply,

I just double checked.  the Mac addresses are the same.
And the devices do not show up under any other name in the connected devices 

 

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