Homekit automations not working ios15

I removed both my HomePoad Mini's (now only have ATV as hub) and my automations still don't work after 2 days.

This sucks....My most important devices also support ZigBee, so, I think I'll reset them to the ZigBee mode and see if my ZigBee enabled Alexa device will work correctly.

You hit the nail on the head. Constantly something busted that needs to be fiddled with…

“Good morning, oh I see something new is jacked up in the home app, let me go spend a couple hours googling WTF now and then try various remedies to try to get around it”

I’ve spent a pile of money on this crap. The only thing keeping me from burning it.

Apple needs to fix the AUTOMATIONS section of HomeKit. Right now it stinks.

Thanks for taking the time to write this out. I've been struggling with this working one day and then not working the next. I have 2 Apple TVs and 8 HomePods around my large house, so i find HomeKit only works reliably depending on which of those devices becomes the HUB. First of all, Apple... I wish there was a way for us to permanently assign which device becomes the HUB. Mine always seems to assign the furthest HomePods from the centre of my house. Annoying...

The Siri Shortcuts idea is a good one! I can't believe i didn't think of this sooner.

Thanks for pointing my overloaded brain to the obvious!

Had no success with HomeKit, the software would not control my window blinds no matter what I tried. I read and attempted all of the suggestions on this thread without success. Purchased Home+5 and had automation working in 5 minutes! Big fan of Apple so I find this really disturbing that they cannot seem to fix this problem in their software.

Had the same situation, finally figured it out.

Some background - I have an AppleTV HD 4th generation (not the 4k) which is set up as a hub in one location. Then at a completely different location with a different WiFi, I have a HomePod mini set up as a hub.

The first thing you have to realize is that "Home" in the HomeKit app literally means a home. Not a room in a home, but I'm talking in terms of, "I have a home in Los Angeles, and I have another home in New York". So when you are setting this thing up, if you are dealing with two different locations with two different WiFi, make a separate "Home" for each.

The problem - I could turn on or off a device using the HomeKit app, but the automations absolutely would not work.

To resolve the problem, I first made two "Homes", and then set up each device at the appropriate location using it's Wifi connection.

Next, and this is a key point - When you go to test these devices turn OFF the WiFi on your iPhone and use your carrier signal to connect to the internet. You are supposed to be able to control this from anywhere in the world. This thing operates differently when you are directly connected to the WiFi network than if you are off the network (away).

Once you do that, navigate to the HomeKit app, then check each "home" (or if you only have one, check that) and see if the devices are showing their status. Does it say "Off" or "On", or does it say, "No Response". If it says "No Response" then that hub is having issues. In my case, the location that had the HomePod mini were showing it's devices status correctly but the location with the AppleTV acting as a hub was getting "no response". By doing that, I was able to narrow down the issue to AppleTV.

On my AppleTV, I have it set to "Auto Update" the software. Except that it didn't. I did a manual AppleTV software update that was huge, it took 30 minutes to complete. Once I updated the AppleTV, everything started working properly. I think most of these issues are related to iPhone/iPad/AppleTV/HomePod being on different software versions. You update your iPhone but forget to update your AppleTV or HomePod, etc.

Again, on your iPhone make sure your wifi is off and you're using your phone company carrier signal to test your hubs with the HomeKit app. Once you can connect from outside of your home, your automations should all work.

I’m pretty mad considering I just bought Apple hub and a bunch of home kit items and they don’t work. I’m ****** off I spent a bunch of money setting this all up and it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do… Not ok apple. Not ok. Automations don’t work at all, only test works like others say.

Did it work more than once? Mine worked the first time (both leave and arrive). Then did not work the second time. I think that if everything is restarted then it will work once then fail after that. That's the case with me.

I noticed that after the 15.4 update mine failed but if I went through and restarted the iPhone, appletv, and homepods the would work once then fail after that. Its a repeatable test.

During the 15.4 update, several of my automations were once again lost. While there was no beta for my spare ipad my method broke down. I finally have it all working after several more days of frustration. But that’s the thing, if you want to use HomeKit, I guess you need to be ready for it. With the 15.4.1 available, I have some slight hesitation. Do I? Or will it throw off all my stuff once again? Hmm

I use multiple hubs (HomePod Mini, AppleTV) and multiple manufacture devices, they all got screwed up with the 15.4.1 update.

Once again, manually updated AppleTV and HomePod Mini, still problems. Unplugged each device, plugged back in, still some problems. Then, restarted HomePod Mini and AppleTV one more time and now they're all working again.

Very important to make sure every device has the latest firmware, it's restarted, and maybe restarted again. Hubs and devices.

Hey everyone!

i had same problem for a while. i have philips hue bridge and some lights and also 2 apple TV in the house. i tried all ways for fix it but i couldn't. deleted apple TVs and hue bridge, reseted the TVs and bridges and even iphone, ipad but didn't work:)

but today i opened home app on my mac just for organize my lights again and i tried to add automation and IT WORKED:) now i added a leaving home automation as turn off all lights when last person leaves and it seems will work.

i still can not add a automation on iphone but i can see my current otomation which created on Mac.

hope will work tomorrow and i will update my post again!

Same again, here. After some days working, location automations for cam’s are not working again. If I activate “Transmission” for cams when Im at home, but really Im out, the cam’s turns on. Failed location performance 100%. There is no HomeKit support team/category on Apple Support, right? I’ll try to reset every devices at home, HomePod’s, Apple Tv’s and iPad.

I'm guessing one or more of your hubs (Apple TV / HomePod), one or more of the devices, or iOS/AppleTV/Mac OS updated somewhere. When that happens, it seems like you have to restart everything. Actually turn the devices off, restart the hubs, etc. From my experience only when every single link in the chain is up to date will it work.

There's something to be said for using the device maker's apps separately.

I am having the same issues. Since iOS 15 HomeKit is severely broken. No update yet fixed the issue entirely.

It is slow, cameras fail from time to time, HomeKit Secure Video is a fail with notifications coming after people have left again, automations won't trigger from time to time, automations won't play sounds on the HomePods and so on.

Usually it is getting worse, when HomePods are the active hub.

I don't know why I can't chose the hub manually. For Apple TVs and iPads, you can deactivate them as hubs. But not for HomePods. Unfortunately, those are the slowest devices causing most of the issues. How does this make sense?

So I continuously reboot HomePods for the AppleTVs to become the active hub just for HomeKit to switch back after a few days. This is a complete fail.

I had Apple Support on the phone twice based on tickets. It's ridiculous. They told me, I have to uninstall my OpenVPN Client on iPhone. It appears, they don't understand the difference between "Home App on iPhone not working" and "HomeKit automations not working". Won't waste any more time with this support. Hopefully frustrated customers will flood the support for Apple to act on this issue. But my hope is not too high. I guess it's a performance issue with the HomePods and not too many users are having homes with more than 150 devices. So they will always consider it an "exception".

After much tearing of hair and rending of garments, for me it turned out the problem was that cellular data was turned OFF for the Home app in settings. Turned that on, and presto it works 👌 It would sure be nice if the app squawked about that when you set up a “when I/everyone leave/s” automation. Ymmv etc etc but hopefully that helps at least someone else!

HomeKit Hubs no longer work, WTF Apple?!

After updating my iPhone to iOS 15.5, both AppleTV's to tvOS 15.5.1, and my HomePod to 15.5.1 - I am no longer able to access my HomeKit remotely. I logged off and back onto iCloud on the AppleTV's ... still nothing.

What now?