Hue Bridge 2.0 HomeKit Problem

ALLELUIA !! thanks @travetown for pointing this out. It worked. Shame on Philips support : I got tickets opened for weeks and they are not even abble to direct me to this.

And for the people who are not into computers stuff : why the heck is this simple command not implemented in the Hue app????

How easy would it be for Philips to provide a simple way to apply this fix?

It worked for me, not hard but not for everyone.

My Siri is sorted now, works great, pity it took someone else to sort it.

Thanx very much !!! it worked for me / but without the colon after config in the "Clip Api Debugger URL" ! Thanks again

It worked !

thanks Travetown for pointing it out !!!

And for those who have problems to share their homekit config with another user, I managed to make it work by installing and opening the eve app on the second user's device.

I've just bought into Hue and ran straight into this problem. I have Siri working on my iPad, but it's stuck on icloud syncing no matter what I do, so I can't use Siri on my iphone, or share the settings with other users. Hue is great when it work but the hue stock app is utter garbage, it's buggy to an absurd degree and the convoluted workarounds described here just to get basic functionality working are insane. I couldn't get the Eve app to work either, it found my lights but I couldn't create any rooms, no matter how many times I tried it would never let me add anything. It also keeps forgetring the bridge, which is just fantastically entertaining.

I don't know if this mess is down to Philips or Apple, but they seriously need to grow up and sort it out now. Enough releasing buggy junk which doesn't work. Utter muppets.

so.. iOS 9.2.1 Beta 2 released to developers today.

No fix yet. 😐

This huelabs tool seems to make the process a little easier....

http://labs.meethue.com/support/siri-homekit

This worked for me if followed carefully:

http://labs.meethue.com/support/siri-homekit

I had the exact same problem and this fixed it perfectly! I found this on the developers website. It will reset the pairing so you can successfully re-pair your bridge.

First, go here: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

Follow the instructions and make sure that you can turn a light off, exactly as they tell you to. This will ensure that you are communicating with the bridge from your computer and have permission to send commands.

Then, in the debugger under URL type:

http://<ip-address.of.the.bridge>/api/<username>/config

You should have the IP address and Username set up from the "Getting Started" that you just completed.

In the "Body," copy and paste the following:

{

"homekit": {

"factoryreset": true

}

}

Click PUT.

It should return a "success" message.

Lastly, go into the Hue app, click on Settings > Siri Voice Control > Pair Bridge. It will instruct you to enter the code as if you've never done it before. You should then be able to see / select your scenes and lights for voice control.

Hope this helps!

With the hue labs fix, is this now allowing you to use the same iCloud account for two devices and successfully have Siri integration work? Thanks.

Tried this solution but still get the same another user already paired the HomeKit enabled bridge.... error.

Any suggestions?

Excuse me? Apple has customers using Apple products in other countries, too, and they deserve just as much help as we do. Stop being so smug.

"4. To share your HomeKit settings you will need to enter in your roommate or family member's icloud account. NOTE: I tried to add my girlfriend's account using her gmail account associated with her apple ID. That didn't work. I had to use her @icloud.com email."

This is beyond frustrating. I can control our Hue lights just fine on my iPhone 6. BUT, when I invite my wife to share settings on her iPhone 6s using her iCloud email she never does receive the banner note with the invite. This is not the Apple I've known since 1979. Please fix this, Apple or Hue, or whoever is responsible!

It's ridiculous that someone has to do that. However, I'm glad it worked for you.

What makes me angry is, to get Siri working with HomeKit (which I did), we lose Find My iPhone capability. This is a major fail on Apple's part. I would classify HomeKit beta at best.