Downgrading HomeKit back to old architecture

I think this is why Apple is a 2.6 trillion dollar company.

They probably did this knowing enough people will eventually buy the needed

“ APPLE ” equipment. They can out wait us !

if they did it accidentally, they probably don’t care, as it might cost them too much to pay the software designers to fix it. That would cut into their trillion dollar valuation….

I don't quite see the conspiracy. If you've dabbled in software to any degree, you'd know what a real issue "vendor lock-in" is, and this move reeks of it. And believe me, as the natural scientist that I am, I *despise* conspiracy theories with a hydrogen-reaction-burning passion!

In any case, liking a company's products, which I do Apple's, does not necessarily mean you have to agree with every decision and/or vendor move they make, as I don't with this one (and others).

But I digress. I remain unable to revert the HomeKit architecture upgrade, and I refuse to buy any company's products to solve artificial problems caused by implementation decisions that, most probably, could have been approached in open & standards-compliant ways that wouldn't corner customers by artificially removing all but 1st-party "solutions".

This is a long thread, at one time I did revert. Later I decided to create a new HOME in Homekit, go with the Upgrade, and manually add all my devices back. Don't delete your old home till you are absolutely sure you moved everything other devices like August Lock will need to physically be replaced.

After I got all moved, door locks, devices, 16 cameras, and Updated my Apple TV 4k, I can say it works well. The AI on-camera detection is fantastic, the PIP screens on the Apple TV when someone walks in front of my door are great. I can see when a car pulls up in the driveway.

in the end, the new architecture was much better than the old. Notifications are way faster. unlocking the door more responsive.

This worked…Thanks! Even after downgrading though, when I forward an invitation to join the home, it asks the receiver to upgrade. Any ideas? Thanks again.

Works like a charm! Got my iPad reverted back to old architecture!

IOS 17.02

I also got the same error.. please help

The error comes up when trying to install, so no the profile isn’t installed and can’t be.

Thanks. Profile wouldn’t install this morning, but glad it worked for you.

Not good enough from Apple.

It's not so hard for them to try to sell you useless junk hardware apparently.

There is no Homekit under setting. Unable to downgrade..

this is very frustrating

this obliterated my home and it took days to set everything up again.

I am, unfortunately, still stuck. I’ve been able to reset and downgrade the home but I’m not able to add my Hue Bridge or any of my hue devices without re-upgrading :(

Would like to try this. However, I don’t even have the HomeKit option under settings… any idea?

Good grief, if that’s what you think of the company then why are you still a customer? Conspiracy theories rot the brain.

Can’t downgrade either. I think Apple owes me a HomePod mini to replace this deliberate loss of functionality