Philips Hue - Homekit sharing

Update

at least i finaly was able to accept the invitation on my wifes iPhone. Only then, after accepting, the HK Icon appeared in Settings just below Safari .

now Even Siri works on her watch

the only thing i havn't figured out. How to get Siri working on my wifes iPad too. Since the invitation is already accepted on th iPhone, i can't accept anymore on the iPad. When sending the invitatin again, nothings happens of coures.

so how can i share with two devices running the same apple id ???

Georges,

First of all sorry for my bad English.

I also got the same problem on my girlfriends iphone but managed to fix this.

This where my steps: (Primairy device: My iphone6s IOS9.1, Secondairy device: Girlfriends iphone6s IOS9.1)

1. Secondair device settings -->Homekit--> change--> Remove all homes

2. primariy device -->settings-->homekit-->home-->change-->remove the secundairy user

3. Remove Hue app on secondair device

4. Install the hue app back again on your secondair device

5. Login on your hue app with a differend account then the main account that allready is connected on your primairy device (admin)

6. go to your primairy device --> settings siri -->select all scenes you wanna share--> right top --> typ the mail adress from your secondair device from step 4 and send request

7. Accept the request on your secondair device

8. check on your secondair device : Settings-->Homekit--> check if the shared home (configured step 5) is now the only home you see

9. test siri on your secondair device saying the following commands:

• Turn on my [lamp name] (e.g. “Turn on my Sofa lamp”)

• Turn off my [lamp name] (e.g. “Turn of my Reading lamp”)

• Dim my [lamp name] (e.g. “Dim my Bedside lamp”)

• Dim my [lamp name] to [xx]% (e.g. “Dim my Bedside lamp to 90%”)

• Set my [lamp name] to [color] (e.g., “Set my Cooking lamp to orange”)

So the main problem is that homekit default made a "home" config for you. When you accept the sharing from your primairy device the "shared home" gets the secondair config in homekit.

Homekit can only see devices from your "primairy home" so you need to delete the default emty "home" config so the shared "home" config gets primairy in home kit.

Hope these settings also gonna work out for you guys.

Hi,

I tried to duplicate steps but now My wife controls hue and I cannot control it. On step 5, I don't see an option to login into hue app into a different account. App seems to connect bridge then it pairs to siri. Maybe you can explain what you mean by different account? my wife has different apple account.

If anyone else has a solution, otherwise would have to wait for update from philips hue.

1. Secondair device settings -->Homekit--> change--> Remove all homes

I thnk you deleted all homes on your primairy and secondairy device you only needed to remove the secondairy user insite homkit

Maybe you can explain what you mean by different account? my wife has different apple account.

Your wife has a different apple account and you also need to make a Philips hue account with the same apple id mail adress.

So know Primairy & Secondair device settings -->Homekit--> change--> Remove all homes

Then follow my steps again.

Hi,

thanks for additional info, I created an another account on hue matching icloud but I am still getting "sorry, I was not able to find any lights". still not working.

I will wait for an update to fix issue.

Wife and I are having this exact issue. Would be nice to see this addressed quickly.

Hi durome04,

I'm having excelly the same problem as you have.

Have you solved the problem already?

If not i'l contact Philips to ask them.

Thanks in advanced.

Palermo

Yes, I was able to solve the problem and now my wife is able to use the siri voice control to control our hue lights.

Here is what I did, hope it helps you.

1) I powered my phone off for a few minutes, then powered it back on.

2) While my phone was powered off, I removed HomeKit from my wifes phone and signed her out of her iCloud account.

3) I signed her back into iCloud, but did not turn on the iCloud keychain.

4) I resent the HomeKit invitation, we accepted the invitation on her device

5) Turned on iCloud Keychain.

6) Tested siri voice control on my wlife's device, and all seemed to work fine.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

Although, all I had to do on my wife's phone to get it to work was Settings>HomeKit> and then "Edit" and remove her primary home kit. As soon as I did that, Siri started working to control the lights!

I had been struggling with this for hours, and your post has helped me solve the problem, thanks again! I set up the home kit sharing with my wife (iPhone 6S+) and both the kids (both iPhone 5s). The kids phones were able to control the lights right away with Siri, the wife's phone was not. The only difference that I see now is, that the kids 5s iPhones do not have a "primary" home under home kit, they only have the "shared" home. So deleting the wife's primary home solved the issue.

Yes great. It worked, just removing primary home kit then it worked for both wife and I. Thanks all

I can confirm this works.

TThis fixed our problems as well, thank you!

THANKS!!!! This worked for my wife's iPhone as well. Just delete the primary "Home" and it started working.

Hi, thanks now all works expect that my girl still can't admin them, but with voice can control the lights..

Hey, I don't receive the invite on my wifes phone.

Tried to re-send already twice but nothing is coming through.

Any idea?