Cannot share HomeKit controls

As my girlfriend does not have an iCloud mail address we tried your solution.

And it worked! She invited my @me address and after that I could invite her back!

Finally. Not the solution I was hoping for, but at least it works.

While we’re at it. Has anybody an idea why location based automations do not work with her iPhone 8?

Location sharing is active for HomeKit in all settings in her phone. And her phone is selected as to be shared in those settings.

I think that’s a little dramatic… But to each his own. I’ve had HomeKit devices for about two years now and in general, they have worked pretty flawless… Usually my issues have been centered around a faulty device.

I just installed iOS 11.2.1 on my iPhone 7 Plus, my daughter’s iPhone 6, and my wife’s iPhone 6.

I have an @me address tied to my iCloud account. My daughter has an @icloud account tied to her iCloud account. My wife has an @gmail account tied to her iCloud account.

I was able to invite my daughter with no problem—worked exactly as expected.

When I attempted to invite my wife, I got the familiar “not associated to an iCloud account” nonsense. Then, I went to her phone and added a “home” and invited myself to it. After that, I went back to my phone and attempted to invite her to our home. Invite sent!

I then deleted the dummy home from her phone and we’re all good.

NOTE TO ALL: make sure that the people whom you are inviting have notifications for Home ON! If not, the invite will not be delivered and you will have to cancel the invite and resend AFTER the target guest has turned on notifications for Home.

I feel sorry for all who are still stuck, and the patch is obviously not perfect (see above for what I had to do to get my wife invited), but it does seem to work in some/many cases, especially when the target guest has an @icloud account tied to their iCloud account.

Good luck all!

I'm currently having this issue also. I had to reset my Home to setup some new devices that were being difficult, but now I cannot invite others back to share Home. Even though they are signed in with their Apple ID on their devices, when I try to re-invite them back, I get Invitation Failed, Could not invite "x" because the Apple ID is not registered with iCloud. Thought the iOS11.2.1 update would fix, but still having the same issue.

I also had this issue up until 2nights ago. I read that it was an OS system problem so I updated all my devices to the latest iOS and tvOS. After the updates i was able to once again send an invite to my wife and grandson (who lives with us). All is well again.

Note: We were able to send and accept the invites to both my wife’s and grandson‘s phone, but we had to re-start both of their phones before the devices would respond and were able to be controlled on their phones.

IF YOU USE Phillips HUE, then that is likely the issue.

If you use Philips Hue, then send the invite from within the Hue app.

Evidently, Apple updated their homekit information page stating that everybody has to be updated to 12.2.5 for Home app invites to work. So instead of actually fixing the issue, they just cut out older devices completely from HomeKit sharing even though they were working just fine previously.

Very disappointing.

In case anyone is looking, the thing that seemed to work for me was using an alias email address.

It didn't seem to work with the @icloud address, but did work with a personal non Apple email address set up as am alias for the iCloud address / account.

I tried Jonny's suggestion above which didn't work for me, although it may have cleared something so worth trying that and then an email alias if you have one set up.

Try the solutions found in this thread. Should help...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8195273

You made it farther than I have. I send out a share, but it never appears anywhere on my wife devices. Where do you see it when you say "it successfully shows up in HomeKit?" I have never found a home kit app. I see a home kit in settings, but that doesn't even show up on my wife's devices. I thought maybe it came by email, but I don't see anything there either.

Did he download the same apps that you have? but my Schlage lock will not work with any home kit commands. And when I say goodnight it makes it two words and doesn't understand.... ........my sons phone is under my family share.....I set him up with the apps and when I try to pair with the hub it says that someone already has the home kit configured and needs to share their settings. Logging into iCloud next...

I have HK working on guest phones now.

I removed all the invited people that were not working and re-invited them. Siri is now able to control from their devices. Hopefully I get a chance to test when I'm at work so I can see if the remote control works off network and away from bluetooth. FYI your bluetooth icon will 'pulse" when its contacting a lock or bluetooth accessory.

Everything is working.... big day and night for me!!!! Key must have been removing all home kit information from my invited guests.... and resent invites....

I was awoken this morning to all the lights going on and off as the kids were learning the commands !!!

So the key for me, when sending HomeKit invites for Siri Voice Control from the Hue App, using the new Hue Bridge 2.0, was to be sure to use the actual primary Apple ID account email of the device that the recipient uses to login to the iCloud account. You can't use any other associated iCloud email addresses you must use the primary iCloud email of the invitee.

I had the same problem with our Hue / Homekit installation. The solution that worked for me is this: Make a working installation on one device (in my case a iPhone6 and set it all up including enabling siri voice commands in the Hue app). Next, in installation>homekit on this 'master' device, sent an invite to the other user on his @icloud.com address, this one is important, do not use the @me.com address. For some reason it only works with the @icloud.com address. Then the other user is also able to execute siri voice commands to the Hue. Works flawlessly.

Success.