Homekit hubs appear in multiple homes - with separate networks, making devices not reachable. (homepod minis)

This issue seems to be getting repeatedly worse. There is clearly no separation of devices by location, within iCloud. I would think this would also be a significant security risk, because of devices can bleed or control across locations, then something else probably can.

My fix does seem to work - but it's just another disaster.

When it happens, figure out the device - remove it from iCloud as an authorized device, and wait and hope that it picks another device at the appropriate location. Eventually it should reconnect.

However adding the device back in later on will usually trigger the same fault, and it'll start all over again.

Dear Apple. Alarms, Fire Alarms, Security, Water Sensors, Temperature, Monitoring Cameras, Door Locks. All these things when HomeKit compatible, are losing connectivity and creating significant security risks.

I have a same issue and it’s causing big problems. 🥵

4 HomePod‘s in my apartment in which I have a tenant who is renting a room. All lights are managed through HomeKit.

I’ve got 5 HomePods in my summer house with a poor Internet connection through GSM-network.

Suddenly no lights can be managed in the apartment. It went so far that I purchased a new a Phillips Hue Bridge because I thought that gone broken…

Finally I discovered that HomeKit decided to have one of the HomePods in my summer house as the hub.

And it happens again and again.

I guess that GSM router connection at the summerhouse makes everything worse.

All my 40 lights and other accessories are suddenly dead in the apartment.

Super annoying and even worse for my flatmate who might have guests.

Wouldn’t be surprised a bit if this is for my flatmate would tell her friends:

“Sorry, we have no lights so we cannot cook food or do much else here tonight. My landlord is using that ****** HomeKit from Apple, and they don’t seem to care enough. Also, that’s why I couldn’t get my make up on, so I don’t want to go out either.

That HomeKit is making my life miserable. Got to make sure my next landlord has something store that ****”

Come on Apple.

Drop the ball on the cars. Tesla is taking that market away.

Try to get your products working correctly instead.

I have the very same issue. It’s making the entire home to down every now and then triggered by the HomePod appearing in both homes tricking the other home to set its HomePods into standby. Three result is that cameras and security being disabled. Serious issue, would be good if Apple could confirm that it’s a known issue.

Will try to reset the “faulty” HomePod mini in my summer house when I get there in a week. Maybe that could help.

Same issue, but the problem seems somewhat random in that you would think all homes with the same cloud username would have all the same equipment in them. But in my case, they do not.

I have an even more challenging issue. I live in a two family with two different homekit homes. Since all the hubs think they are on both accounts, as the primary hub wanders around between the two units, I get intermittent doorbell breakage. If the doorbell for unit 2 is pressed, but homekit has decided that the primary for unit 2 is a unit 1 homepod mini, no doorbell rings.

The good news is that ios16 seems to fix this issue to some extent. No unresponsive condition of any device in at least this week.

The bad news is the issue of "both homepod minis appear as hubs in both homekit homes" still exists. If Apple doesn't try to recognize and fix this issue, it will be a huge hidden danger.

It seems to have returned in the last few weeks. It's also worse. Whereas previously we could remove the device from the remote location by deleting it from the iCloud/AppleId account - now it seems to shuffle the devices in the HomeKit Home and not move the preferred device (local to that Home) to the 'Connected' status. Many devices are on standby at the preferred (local) location.

But it does seem very new and has returned rather quickly. Of course it's impossible to tell which firmware update created this problem. AppleTVs, HomePods, or something else.

I’ve also got this issue, and it appears to have started for me on iOS 16. I have two homes setup in HomeKit; all home hubs from both homes show up in the primary home incorrectly. The second home fortunately only shows hubs that are present there.

On my iPhone running iOS 16, HomeKit is convinced that both homes have the same location, which is the address of the second home. As a result, location automations don’t work on the first home. This also breaks automatic home switching in the Home app, since when I’m in the second home it picks the first home (with the incorrect address) to switch to.

On my iPad running iPadOS 15.7, the addresses of both homes are correct and therefore home switching in the Home app works properly. All hubs from all homes still show up in the first home though.

So at least part of it appears to be iOS 16 related. Hopefully this is on Apple’s radar.

I have a semi solution that seems to help:

On each Apple TV you can disable the other Apple TV Homehubs from other locations.

I am not sure I understand if there is any intended functionality with this or simply a bug.

Installed the last update, then house B took over house A, but after 2 days of not doing anything as I was away from both house, suddenly one of my HomePod in house A took control of house A and house B is under control of a local HomePod. So seems it at least solved itself.

Yep. For me, the big issue is having all my HomePod minis, (six total) show up in both homes under hubs and bridges. But what really complicates this is that I used the same room names in both homes. The Home Hubs list for the second home shows just the room name as the hub name. So, for instance, It lists "Master Bedroom" twice . Changing the name on the single HomePod mini, which is also my one and only hub at the second home helped.

The two HomePod minis in my main home kitchen are stereo paired. In the Hubs listing for the main home, they show as "Kitchen HomePod" listed twice. But, in the second home, it shows "Kitchen" and then "Kitchen (2)" right below that. There are no HomePods or other hubs in the kitchen at that second home.

It just all gets so confusing. There needs to be a distinction in the devices listed under any and all screens compatible with the actual home/room and device name for multiple locations like this. Or, the whole thing is a clusterf....

Also, iOS 16.1.1 nor 16.1.2 improved this in any perceivable way. However, it did and is causing me some other issues. The worst being, intermittent swipe issues with my iPhone X.

I have also the same problem. That’s a huge bug. Any solution?

I dont understand why you cannot manage the hubs in the home app and allocate or delete in order to have them acting at their right place !!!

did anyone retest with 15.4.1 yet?

Yes same AppleID

Same issue. I can force my 1st home to stop using my 2nd home's homepod by taking the 2nd home's wifi offline for a few minutes which forced my 1st home to use the 1st home's homepod.... but now my 2nd home is using the 1st home's homepod too and all the accessories in the 2nd home are not working.

Come on Apple, it's not rocket science.