homekit - Home App

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homekit - Home App

I may have found a bug in HomeKit. From time to time my devices stop responding in the Home App. The latest incident had 2 Roku Streaming sticks, 1 Lutron Switch, an Eve Camera and a Logitech Circle View Camera stop responding. The same lack of response was noted on 5 Apple devices all running v16.4.1. The primary device is an iPhone 14 Pro.

By sheer luck I may have found the problem. I restarted my iPhone 14 Pro and as soon as it was shut down, I started getting notifications on my other devices that response had been re-established. When my iPhone 14 had fully restarted, I started the Home App and sure enough all devices were responding. This is the third time I have been able to replicate this.

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16

Posted on Apr 15, 2023 5:37 AM

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Mike_P1

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Apr 18, 2023 9:29 AM in response to Berny_NY

Hello there Berny_NY,

It sounds like you have some feedback in regard to some issues you discovered using HomeKit and a workaround. We want to make sure your suggestions reach the right team. When you have a moment, please send those from here: Feedback - Home App - Apple

Take care.

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KWiPod

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May 3, 2023 1:38 AM in response to Berny_NY

This happens with me too - my EveCams drop offline or go into 'idle' mode. The issue seems to be related to having multiple devices capable of running a Home app, in my case a MBP, iPad Pro, iPhone 13 Pro and an ATV (the HomeKitHub). Each time HomeKit is updated through OS updates, I hope for a cure . . . but not so far. In fact, since the new HomeKit architecture was released (all my Apple devices have the latest OS versions), Geofencing in HomeKit is worse: specifically, I get random notifications that 'Someone has arrived home' when I am miles away (only I am the only person who is added in Home Settings - I live on my own!). I have posted a version of this to the feedback page as Mike_P1 suggested.

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Berny_NY Author

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Apr 26, 2023 4:25 PM in response to Mike_P1

I just tried to submit to the Feedback link that you supplied. However when choosing the software version for my devices, the pull-down menus show a max of v16.3. All of my devices are at 16.4.1 with the exception of my watch, which is at v9.4.

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