my HomePod keeps disappearing from my automations.
I'll set it up as an accessory to play music and after a couple of days it has been removed as an accessory from all automations.
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HomePod, 13
you can try resetting home pod
then set it up again and create a new Automation
Homepod in automations only works if you set up, edit, save on a device using iOS 13. Is it possible you edited the automation on a another device using iOS 12?
Make sure all your software is up to date - HomePod and device using the home app etc
New devices are shipped with the OS they came installed with. They usually all do need the latest update. Adding HomePod to an automation needs IOS 13.4. with the device you’re using to se it up with to have the latest as well.
Yes I did read all your comments.
Just saying a reset might help fix it. I’m not sure what’s causing this. It only happened on mine for awhile, then the latest HomePod update seemed to fix it . Check your HomePod is on 13.4 and you’re using the correct Apple ID.
In the Home App long press on the HomePod, tap on the gear icon to bring up settings and scroll down to software update to see which you’re on or if it needs an update.
I put my HomePod command into a scene called music. Then I added that scene to the automation. Since then it has remained but it's only been a few days.
On 28 April, I posted on this trail that I was having similar issues with HomeKit automations, involving HomePod performing certain activities, disappearing from HomeKit shortly after they have been set up. I did more research into this issue on the internet. All seem to say to update the iOS devices to the latest version including for the HomePod. One suggested setting up a scene separately and then use HomeKit automation to call up that scene. Tried all these in the past week with no luck. Restarted the HomePod and AppleTV (4th gen) ... any iDevices which used the same Apple ID .... still no luck.
Then last night I tried setting up an automation ... not giving up yet. I set up separate scenes for the HomePod to play from various radio stations ... wondering when these scenes would disappear from my HomeKit. I set up an automation to start playing one of the radio stations for the next morning as a wake up alarm.
Surprisingly, I woke up to the HomePod playing that radio station this morning. And all the scenes that I have set up for other radio stations are still available on my iOS device's Home app.
I noticed something odd for a brief moment in one of my iOS devices in that it didn't have some of the scenes listed. It wasn't the device that I had set up those scenes with. Later, when I checked again, they had appeared. I wonder if that device got an update from my Apple ID.
Sorry for the long post. But just want to share my observations. So HomePod automations are now working for me after a week of frustrations. Not sure what the exact trick was to get it working. And not sure if the scenes and HomePod automations will hang around.
To all, please submit a Bug Report to Apple. Otherwise they can’t know it’s an issue that needs to be addressed in a future update:
Sounds more like a Homekit issue though. Homepod just serves as a Hub
Please submit a bug report
Check this website out ... looks like the HomePod can't be integrated into HomeKit scenes and automations ... but this article is more than a year old and probably based on an older version of the operating system.
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/homepod-homekit-siri-shortcuts/
But we have been able to set up automations involving HomePod, just that they disappear after a while. So may be the functionality is there, just that Apple has not sorted out all the bugs and we are having this issue of disappearing HomePod automations.
Ok Grumpy, you actually did not say you had updated the HomePod to iOS 13.4. IOS 13 is not the same.
It’s possible a recent iOS update to the device linked to Homepod might have a bug that's caused this issue. iPhone 8 is on 13.4.1 now.
No, I don’t have a solution. We give suggestions that might help and I’m not inclined to offer other ideas since it might not be a “solution”.
Good luck!
Same here since this morning. Homepods disappeared from all scenes. Scenes involving only a homepod disappeared.
I had this problem before last year, and after 4-5 times it stopped happening until now. Nothing changed, no new devices, no logins/logouts/.
The only thing that I did was enabling the wifi on an old iPad2 that I use as a picture frame.
When it happened last year, it was around the time I set up the old iPad as a picture frame.
So it seems - in my case - that getting this old iPad on the network triggers something.
Since the last software updates to homePod and IOS the scene with the HomePod has been stable until this morning ..
It still amazes me how when I recreate the scene the home app knows which automations to add the scene to.
This has to be a software thing.
I have set it up using iOS 13, I have saved it. And I used it for several months this way. In the past few weeks I have set it up numerous times and without warning HomePod disappears from the automation.
This is getting really weird. I woke up this morning and my 6 AM automation ran but no HomePod. I checked the HomeKit app and found that HomePod has been removed from all automations and scenes.
Can anyone tell me why HomePod removed itself from the Home app and deletes it from all scenes and automations without warning.
sorry. guess I haven't made my situation clear. I have updated to the latest operating systems all of my apple products. I have reset/restarted all (iPhone 8, Apple TV and home pod) several times.
this is why I'm on this forum.
Please respond to this post only if you have a similar problem or a solution.
My HomePod keeps disappearing from my automations
