Homekit automations not working ios15

OKAY... Every year when there is a time change my Automaton would stop working which would drives me CRAZY. So, The FIX to this issue is straightforward, all you have to do is TURN OFF LOCATION SERVICES on all your devices for about five minutes and then turn them back on.

I can only confirm that with 15.4 all my locate automation were lost. With 15.4.1 all these were recovered and actually works! :)

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.

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".

I’ve given up on the HomeKit automations for now. I’m using Meross outlets that I have items plugged into, so I’ve just set up my automations in the Meross app. Siri will still let me give voice commands to control them, so everything works like it used to, just not in HomeKit.

Hi everyone, I found the cause why automation is not working.

Actually because of timezone and I think probably it’s a bug in iOS.

My timezone is (UTC+3) and when I want to set a schedule I have to add (8+ hours) on my current time to work as expected.

(e. g. Planned at 6:00AM, Actual set at 2:00PM)

And my automation runs at 6:00 AM

I don’t know why it happens like that but I will try to raise a bug and hopefully apple will fix it.

Same issue here. I tried resetting everything from scratch and automations still don’t work. Oddly, pressing the “test automation” button within the automation performs the correct action, but the automation will not activate at the specified time. Apple PLEASE fix this!

Totally agree with! Same here! Since iOS/tvOS 15.2, I'm facing a lot of issues with automations. I have two aTV (one wired connected to the LAN and one wifi connected) and three HomePod mini. After update to iOS 15.2 and especially tvOS 15.2/HomePodOS 15.2, automations working unreliable and sporadically. It doesn't matter whether automation triggers a scenarios or single accessory - all are affected! Also old and new automations. Hitting the "Test Scenario" button in the Home app, the scenarios executing as expected. But as it comes to trigger automations time based or sensor based, I cannot rely on a proper execution.

I also followed some "so called best practices" and have completely removed all three HomePods from my setup. No improvements with the remaining two aTVs in my HomeKit setup.

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.

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.

That app is $21 in Canada. I use the company apps for my automations. I use Hue app for my hue lights, works much better and they are free. Glad works for you though. 👍

I’m using an old iPad as my hub and I am having the same issue. The automation is not working. When I got the test this automation it works but when it’s time for the automation to take place it never does.

I still get the same issue you have, “test automation” performs the action but the enabled automation will not activate at the specified time. I have to manually activate it. I’m hoping that I find the fix for it. I tried everything is this page.

I tried removing homepod mini (and was about to throw it out of my window). I used my iPad as homehub before, but as I use my iPad for travelling and Training I bought this dumb homepod. It did work untill iOS 15 Update. I am very happy that I have my Google and nest hub. Hoping for Them to fix the availablity of sensor-triggers Then I Will flush apple and iOS for good.