Homekit Automations are broken in iOS 16

The "turn off" function is in an automation. It has been working for months but seemed to stop working a few days ago. Nothing else had changed (no competing automation).

This morning, while I was asleep, my 5am automations did not work! At 6:45 I started using my Apple TV which woke up my Original Homepods and a 7am automation worked. One of these Homepods is the primary Home Hub.

So... I will re-enable an automation that keeps the Homepods playing a song all night (at near zero volume) to see if that gets the automations working. I disabled this after installing 16.1 on the Homepods as that update seemed to fix the problems but, in my case, this has not lasted long. I won't be trying 16.2 beta.

I have tried almost all of the solutions proposed here and nothing works consistently. Spent enough time on this will hope new architecture fixes some of the automation woes.

I have noticed a new thing going in which is the camera status lights being turned back on (they were all turned off in native app and HomeKit and after upgrade they all turned on again) I turned them all off again and now notice about half of them have turned themselves on again in HomeKit and native app.

I don't have my Apple TV yet, it's on pre-order.

I've updated my iPhone, iPad and all HomePods to it. I have not updated my Watch or MacBook Air, but both still seem to be able to control the home (your mileage may vary).

Yeah, I’ve deleted the home Kitt home three times. I have four home pod minis and three Apple TVs. I have one home pod mini setup as an alarm clock, it never works. I can’t trust home kitt and will not buy another apple device until apple sauce gets their head out of their butt. I’m working on the most up to date OS, none of it works. Go Amazon!!

Updated to 16.1 for TVOS, time trigger automation still hit and miss. Apple need to pay more for their QA. They are not doing their job obviously. Not going to delete my home and re-configure 40+ accessories.

Has anyone tried to back up your home with controller, delete it and restore it again? Is this reliably working? I really don't want to try it without some feedback as I have abut 130 accessories (via KNX mostly).

Just a heads up, I signed out of iCloud and signed back in….that still didn’t help, actually I think it made it worse. Location based automation were kinda working but the time based ones weren’t. Beyond frustrating since I rely on so much of this for my home.

If I make any changes to HomeKit at all, my automations stop working. I have to go into my main HomeKit hub (my Apple TV 4K), sign out of iCloud, restart everything, and then sign back in. Everything seems to work after that UNTIL I make any changes. This is ridiculous, please fix!!!

Yes, changes including changing the name of a device, in a scene. Adding or removing a device in a scene. Or changing the time a scene comes on or off. Seems like the main hub isn’t continuously syncing changes so, if changes are made, it doesn’t recognize the changes and just stops working all together.

Same here. Thought building everything from scratch would solve it. Logged out on appleTV and in again. Hope this will do it again. Think I should consider some auto reboot from time to time on the appleTV.

So I've had a few missed automations on the latest update (the one that shall not be named for fear of overzealous auto-moderation).

I've reported the issues via the feedback app.

It is better than 16.0 and 16.1 though. It's a lot better.

ive gone through many OS updates while using homekit. almost everyone of them forced me to factory reset the home app to get things working again. good thing there is a way to backup your home settings (sarcasm). for me all of the automations that I had stopped working. I was using timed automations that broke. when arrive broke. the scripting doesn't work at all anymore.

I will be factory resetting my home again. that means re creating all the automatons. in my case about 50. also rejoining all the users. disabling homekit on all the appleTVs and factory resetting all the HomePods.

apple really needs to fix their QA process and hire new HomeKit developers.

in this round of HomeKit issues I have already deleted al the automations and tried to put them back.. some work some don't. no automation that has a time on it does not function correctly. all automations with scripting in them does not function at all.

Does one need to sign out from all devices? I have an iMac, MBP, iPhone, two iPads and three ATV all signed in to my iCloud account. The three ATVs are “disabled” for Homekit and for troubleshooting purpose I am only ysing one HP mini. Thanks.

Kind of over it for now. Went through all these different steps (signing out of all devices, factory reset all hubs and reset back up, deleted and recreated home automations, etc. etc. etc.) and had everything working for about a week. Then for no apparent reason all HomeKit automations stopped working again. Not a single thing was changed in the HomeApp on purpose.

Not going to go through these different fixes again, just going to assume they don't work until they start working again.