Unable to set up Apple TV (4th gen) as Home Hub

What I don't understand is why in this day and age, big company's like Apple can't test there software fully before distributing it!!! This CLEARLY doesn't work!!!!!!

If it requires an iPad to fix it, is Apple going to buy everyone an iPad???? Why should we have to go out and buy more product that may or may not work from a company that already proved they can't make product that works???

I' have 4 ATV4s and went through many of the challenges and Apple support fixes described here. Ran into a lot of the same challenges and Eventually got three working but gave up on the last. Finally I got the last to work ... and can't find this solution documented anywhere. Note this is my observation, so I'm not sure it's 100% accurate.

It appears that in addition to the iCloud and 2 factor requirements, for HomeKit the ATV may require it be originally configured using wifi (not Ethernet). The failing ATV was setup plugged into cat5/6 and none of the repair steps with a Apple support worked - including multiple full resets and reconfigure. Finally I gave up and moved it to a new location without an Ethernet drop and did a full reset and configure -- but on wifi. It immediately popped into HomeKit!. Plus once setup, it continues to work when on Ethernet..

So observation - try a full reset and and setup on wifi.

i tried everything.

Rebooting, resetting, signing in and out and all over again...

still no Home under settings / iCloud

frustrated... this is supposed to work automatically and not costing me hours and hours of trying random things...

giving up...

giving up is the solution... last thing i did was logging out of the iCloud on the iPad and back in... to no avail...

but walking away for a couple of hour.... coming back checking for the status it shows "homekit connected"...

giving it some time seems to help...

Is Apple going to give me an Ipad to make this work? I don't have any.

You have to sign out of iCloud on your appleTv. Restart you appleTv. Then log into appleTv iCloud account and it will show up under settings > iCloud. In this exact order.

I've tried everything in this thread - my 4th Gen Apple TV won't show up as a Home Hub. One thing I just noticed - which isn't exactly clear - is that I was setup as 2 step authentication instead of 2 Factor authentication. I had to change this in both my iPhone and iPad - Homekit / Home Hub still doesn't show up but support suggests it might start working tomorrow - we'll see.

I had the same problem and resolution. As soon as I opened the Home app on my iPad, the HomeKit field magically appeared on my 4th a generation Apple TV. Glad it's fixed, but you shouldn't need to own an iPad for this to work

These totally worked for me.

For step 3, I just switched off the Hue app under settings -> privacy -> HomeKit on my iPhone (iOS 10), and then turned it back on again after step 5

This was the solution that finally worked! Thank you.

While my apple TV is shown as the wrong name for some reason the only 4th gen apple TV I have is "living room" and is called bedroom but I restarted it and it was found.

The same here... I don't have an iPad. Are we sadly out of luck in setting up Apple TV as a hub?

Thank you! This worked for me. Without the need to fiddle with the settings in the iPad (which I don't own one).

Thanks again.

For me, I had to turn on two factor authentication and then sign out of the Apple TV and then sign back in with the two factor authentication turned on. That added the home kit menu.

Thanks Cartaa,

That worked for me too. I toggled both

General>Privacy>Location Services ->On/Off

General>Privacy>Location Services>HomeKit ->Always/Never

It showed up immediately