Homekit Automations are broken in iOS 16

So you know, when you reinstall the HomeKit app it comes from the Cloud and all of your accessories, scenes and automations are saved and back again. Be certain to REBOOT THE PHONE after uninstalling the HomeKit. It's pretty simple really. You'll have to delete the HomePod from the HomeKit in order to remove it but reinstalling that is easy.

ive been using homekit for 4 years now. I have found the shotgun method is really the only one that solves anything. with each upgrade from apple things break and calling them to get it resolved never amounts to a solution. the only thing that ever resolves anything is factory reset you stuff. as for using Mac home to program your stuff. that used to work until iOS 16/macOS 13. none of the scripting works but you can create the scripting automations with an iOS device. just dont edit an existing automation that uses scripting with the Mac home. it will break the automation. as always im sure the macOS functionality will be corrected in the next release just like all the past issues do.

if you see the image I uploaded you can see that the scripting functions does not load. but still loads fine on IOS

Yes, you’ve repeatedly said it. But it makes little sense because the app on your iOS device does not control the automations.

Deleting the home from the app and then having to re add it makes some sense but is a huge ball ache. That is what Apple support told me I had to do to continue to get help from them. But this is clearly a bug and one that is soon to be fixed.

The only way to resolve the Philips Hue setup in my home was to do the automations on the Macbook Air in the Home app there. The Air is updated to macOS 12.6.1. (Monterey). So I will keep that status on the Air until iOS and ipadOS have been corrected.

You know you can disable your appletv as a homehub in the settings? I don’t think that’s possible for HomePods, but it is possible for the appletv. So you might want to look into that as an easier alternative to restarting or unplugging it.

With my AppleTV 4K (original version, which I’m guessing is 2017) as my homehub my automations continue to work on 16.2.

I did have some really weird behaviour about 4 months ago that led to me doing a full wipe and reinstall of everything on it though. I wonder if that might have cleared whatever latent glitch is causing you problems now?

It’s a bit of a pain to do, but as little actual data is stored on them, once it’s done it’s not too bad other than signing back into a few services.

I saw that, but I found it confusing because it showed my wife's iPhone as unsupported when I thought it should already be running 16.2. Turned out it wasn't because for some reason it hadn't auto-updated. So it should tell you about unsupported shared home devices. At least it did for me.

It also seems the Home app won't work at all on unsupported devices after the upgrade. But that isn't totally clear either.

So you have the 128GB Lan capable model and it still shows flawed automations? Thank goodness you shared that. I was literally considering upgrading my 2017 model. Not going to now. I have disabled my Apple TV as a hub and now just have my HomePods handle the automations and this seems to work as long as the HomePod is nearer the devices. I think HomeKit does a suboptimal job of routing instructions to the nearest HomeKit router and making sure they arrive. I follow this thread. If you sort out the issue on your tv I would appreciate an update here. Cheers.

' "Turn lights on sunset" works, while "turn lights off at sunrise" does not.'

As I noted many pages ago, I think there is an issue with Home Hubs going to sleep, or similar, due to lack of activity at night (maybe losing wifi connection?). My "fix" was to keep a Homepod awake by looping a music track at very low volume all night. I didn't need this after a recent 16.X update.

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/controller-for-homekit/id1198176727

Deleting the automations and adding them again solved it for me.

Oh ****. That is bad, you definitely did it all. I would say call Apple and create a ticket to feed into their system. 2 new updates came out and none addressed home kit.

Very interesting, your post. How many of your devices are Thread capable and are they working OK overall?

Thanks, turn off Hub option and on again fix my problem with unresponsive automation

With 16.2 HomeKit has worked almost perfectly. I would say about 90%. No jumping of home hubs either. Are you on 16.2?