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[Ernst79]

Problem is that Home Assistant is using the MAC address as address, which is used in the unique id. And phones (both apple and android) use a rotating MAC address for privacy reasons, which is already found out.

It should be possible to create a workaround, similar as for the iBeacon devices, which also have a rotating MAC address. iBeacon devices use an uuid inside the payload, which can be used as unique id. We can check how @bdraco did this for the iBeacon integration, but I'm afraid this is not going to be be an easy change.

[Sorien]

at first i thought that iBeacon will have similar problem but as you said it uses uuid not mac to identify device so i'll use iBeacon instead as it should solve my use case, once i get it working https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/80357

[Ernst79]

Ok, I'll close this issue than, as your use case is solved.