Siri No Longer Turns Room Lights on/off

I have three “Rooms” set up in Philips Hue and Apple Home. Siri can still control two of the “Rooms,” but yesterday Siri reported there’s a problem when I attempt to voice control either “Kitchen” or control any of the Philips bulbs in it individually. I CAN control “Kitchen” and/or it’s individual lights manually via Home or Hue. My iPad is the original source for Home and Hue. My iPhone XS has always worked as a Siri control for lights when I’m out of range of my HomePod’s hearing. I opened the Home app on iPhone and found a bogus room named “Ktchen” along with the “Kitchen” room. I deleted the bogus room and reloaded the lights back into “Kitchen” via Hue, which noted Siri and Home were now out of sync. It updated Home but the problem continued. How frustrating. A side variable is I ran the update for Hue in the middle of this silly mess, but the problem existed before that. Anyone else?

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Posted on Aug 17, 2019 3:45 AM

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Aug 17, 2019 12:43 PM in response to John Dwight

It’s gotten unnecessarily worse. ICloud threw up a warning that an iPhone 20 miles away was trying to access it, Allow or Don’t Allow. Unaware that this was in actuality my iPhone, I chose Don’t Allow, and changed my password for iCloud, moving all of my Apple devices to the new password. Now, Apple Home has gone Catch 22, insisting that I fix my Account before it can function. This, I’d already done. What a needless disabling of a working setup. The only solution I can think of myself is to delete everything in Apple Home and start from scratch. Going through the gruelingly dodgy act of trying to pair 2 Home Pods again and wasting two to four of hours of my day for no reason. Epic Apple fail.

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