From 58991b22a64074578d88d4ffedef81ff4a21b573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: HomeSpan Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:03:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update QRCodes.md --- docs/QRCodes.md | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/QRCodes.md b/docs/QRCodes.md index 7db4ecd..a22ca0e 100644 --- a/docs/QRCodes.md +++ b/docs/QRCodes.md @@ -3,20 +3,19 @@ Instructing the Home App on your iPhone to pair a HomeSpan device to HomeKit by manually typing its 9-digit *Setup Code* generally involves the following: 1. The Home App searches your local network for unpaired HomeKit accessory devices -2. Available devices are displayed as small tiles along with their name and an icon reflecting its category (e.g. light, faucet, door) +2. Each device available to be paired is displayed as a small tile along with its name and icon reflecting its category (e.g. light, faucet, door) 3. **You** select the device you want to pair to HomeKit 4. **You** provide the Home App with the device's *Setup Code* 5. The Home App connects to the device you selected and tries to pair using that *Setup Code* If instead you use the Home App to scan the device's *Setup Code* from a printed tag, step #4 occurs first, followed by the Home App searching for unpaired devices and then asking you to select one for pairing. In either case, your input is required twice: once to select the device you want to pair, and once to type (or scan) the *Setup Code*. -Pairing using a *QR Code* as an alternative to using a *Setup Code* combines all of these steps into a single user-action. You scan the *QR Code*, confirm you'd like to proceed, and the Home App does the rest. This works because the *QR Code* contains not only the *Setup Code*, as well as the device category, but also a new *Setup ID* that tells the Home App the "ID" of the device to pair. The specific steps are as follows: +Pairing using a *QR Code* as an alternative to using a *Setup Code* results in a simplified series of steps: 1. *You* scan the *QR Code* -2. The Home App displays an icon showing you the category of the device indicated by the *QR Code*; the Home App does **not** show you the name of the device +2. The Home App validates the code and displays an icon showing you the category of the device it intends to pair (but **not** the name of the device) 3. *You* confirm you'd like to continue the process -4. The Home App searches your local network for an unpaired HomeKit accessory device that is broadcasting the same *Setup ID* as provided in the *QR Code* -5. If it finds such device, it attempts to pair using the *Setup Code* as provided in the *QR Code* +4. The Home App searches your local network for a "matching" device, and if found pairs the device* ---