Another user asked why the HomeKit icon is not appearing in their Apple TV Control Center. This support document indicates it should be there and able to control Scenes and devices.
Use tvOS Control Center on Apple TV - Apple Support
I don’t have the HomeKit icon on my Apple TV’s Control Center either. I’m running tvOS 16.6 on a 4K gen 4 Apple TV box.
So is this a bug or a configuration issue?
Apple TV 4K, tvOS 16
It’s there on mine but it says in the document you posted that it only controls Scenes and cameras.
I have two scenes but none of my accessories are shown. I’m going to assume if you don’t have any Scenes or cameras, that the Home App might not show up? Try creating a scene in the Home App on another device to see if this changes after restarting ATV and post back if this works. Thanks.
It’s there on mine but it says in the document you posted that it only controls Scenes and cameras.
I have two scenes but none of my accessories are shown. I’m going to assume if you don’t have any Scenes or cameras, that the Home App might not show up? Try creating a scene in the Home App on another device to see if this changes after restarting ATV and post back if this works. Thanks.
The support document does say ‘cameras’ and ‘scenes’ so I guess read too much into that. I try creating a scene as see what happens.
And it turns out I can control accessories using the Siri button on the Apple TV remote. I did not know that before.
Yes, any Siri enabled device you have will operate Homekit. Like Apple Watch, etc.
Thanks for posting back with the solution. Currently functionality is limited on the ATV Home App. Perhaps it will improve in a future update. I have the home architecture upgrade, I’m not sure if that matters.
Thanks, creating a Scene made the HomeKit icon show up in the Control Center. I was expecting too much.
Control HomeKit accessories from the Apple TV
