Homekit an LG smart TV 2019 not working

@robertapple1 OMG THANK YOU!!! That worked!

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that LG is trying to send the input names over to HomeKit, and that one of the names being too long is causing the failure. @Apple Please take note.

When the LG TV is "smart connected" to a cable/sat Set top box (please ignore "remote", its between the TV and the STB), the LG TV names the input based on the provider, which is a long name ("Baltimore Something FIOS Verizon blah blah blah blah Services Something Something").

When the LG TV is "smart connected" to the STB, Adding the LG TV to HomeKit fails ("Home couldn't connect to Accessory" or similar message)

When the LG TV is NOT "smart connected" to the STB, adding the LG TV to HomeKit succeeds just fine.

When the LG TV, after being added to HomeKit, is re-"smart connected" to the STB, the LG TV Accessory in HomeKit becomes unresponsive.

When the "Smart connected" STB input name is re-named on the LG TV to a short name (Home Dashboard -> Edit -> Rename input), and an exists in HomeKit, where previously was "Unresponsive", HomeKit accessory is now responsive.

Conclusion, long input name causes an error in the accessory update/verification process.

Solution: Rename input after its "smart connected" to a short name

Last weekend, I finally got AirPlay and Home working. The solution for me was to reset the TV. I setup homekit RIGHT after I reset it (its in the onboarding).

Come to think about it, it hasn't worked since I setup all my other services including Spectrum (Though that's an unverified statement). I can say, I did not rename anything this time around.

Yeah!!!! That worked for me. Shortened the and viola everything works. I think a more descriptive message from the Home app and LG should not assume it as done unless they get confirmation from the Home App.

1. Shortened name. Didn’t help

2. Disconnected STB (both from control panel and physically). Didn’t help.

3. Factory reset TV, then tried to connect to Home from very beginning. Didn’t help.

SM8200.

any advice?

Once your TV is connected to the set top box (STB) and before you add it to Homekit shorten the name it generated for the input on the TV to a shorter version i called mine "LG TV". I then went to the "Airplay 2 Homekit setup" on the TV and got to the screen where the homekit code is displayed on the screen. Then went to Homekit app on my phone and hit the "+" key in the upper corner and selected "Add Accessory", when the screen showed the camera I pointed it to the code on the TV screen and viola it added it to my Homekit setup.

Hope you have the same success I had.

Happy Holidays

I also have an 8200 and neither Airplay or HomeKit work.

Airplay - shows code, code entered and then tv reports disconnecting from Airplay

HomeKit - tv shows in accessory list, select TV, enter or scan QR code, HomeKit app reports can’t connect.

Latest iOS, latest tv firmware 😡

Also to add to my last message.

i have noticed that when you scan the QR code with the home app setup the code on the TV instantly changes to another QR code and the home app is reporting the code is incorrect.

I had exactly the same issue. On your iPhone go to settings, privacy, location services, System (that one is all the way down) and then make sure the switch behind Home Kit is ON... this worked for me and fixed the problem.

Hi Dear community,

This is driving me crazy too... nothing seems to work !

Does anyone of you know how to change the naming I find in HomeKit : LG WebOs TV A1F5 ? This is far too long and I believe from what I read before it has to be shortened...

In my settings I called my TV : LG e9, so I don't know where this name is coming from...

Thanks guys

Hi Enzodima

Unfortunately I changed two things at once but I have got it working now.

i first connected my tv to my router with an Ethernet cable and then pulled the power cable out and left it 15seconds.

After rebooting both HomeKit and Airplay worked straight away. I have remove the Ethernet cable and switched back to WiFi and it is still working.

i think it was probably the power cycle that fixed this for me.

I hope this works for you too

🤷🏻‍♂️ Not sure what else to suggest. I did try everything in this thread before removing the power cable. Just switching it on and off / rebooting didn’t work for me. All my location settings are as per this thread. The Bluetooth/magic remote issue doesn’t seem to be the issue for me.

Maybe try rebooting your iPhone, iOS 13 is pretty buggy and I’ve had to reboot my phone far more on iOS 13 than any other iOS version.

All right guys, I found how to make it work, and trust me I tried everything !

I did what I didn’t want to do which is hard reset my TV because I spent a lot of time calibrating it to my tastes.

After resetting it, I did try to launch airplay via Tidal and it instantly recognized my device. After that I tried to add my LG Tv to HomeKit and again, it worked.

I was about to forbid my TV to join the 5ghz network but it works without doing it, so I suggest you skip this too and leave your router as it is.

it works perfectly and I am a happy man ;-)

Again thanks to all of you guys, I am fresh into this community but love it already.

All the best

Mahdi