Duplicate ZB PAN IDs, again

In the last year or two there were a couple of now-closed threads discussing duplicate ZB Pan IDs and Extended Pan IDs. I've now run into this same issue after migrating a C-8 to a C-8 Pro.

Was a solution posted regarding how to force one of the hubs to create new IDs?

FWIW I have two C-8s and a C-8 Pro in "production", and three older units on the shelf unused. As expected only the C-8 that was migrated has the duplicate IDs. All three C-8x hubs are on 2.4.0.151.

TIA

It is often helpful to link to previous discussions. This should only happen if one hub was migrated to another, in which case the new hub will have the same PAN ID and Extended PAN ID as the old hub. This is necessary to make migration work.

There is no way to force either hub to create both IDs new. Resetting Zigbee on the new hub will return it to its "natural" Extended PAN ID and avoid this problem, though doing so would be counter to the goal of migration (since you would need to re-pair all Zigbee devices). Despite identical Extended PAN IDs, you should still be able to use both hubs afterwards if you want, just on different channels (and after a Zigbee reset on the old hub after you know everything is working, which will generate a new PAN ID in all cases). This is all in the documentation.

If there is something else, more context is needed.

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Got it. Thanks for the quick reply.