Funrush Author

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Apple TV not available as Homekit hub

Hi,

Unfortunately I have an issue. I can not use my 4th gen Apple TV as Homekit Hub.

-My iPhone is controlling the homekit stuff in my house. This works as expected.

-My AppleTV and iPhone are connected to the same network ( there is only one in my house, airport extreme)

-Both devices are logged in to the same iCloud account

-Two factor authentication is turned on for my iCloud account

-iCloud keychain is turned on

Am I missing something?

Trouble shooting steps I've done:

Restarted my iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Extreme and modem (just in case).

Logged out of and back into my iCloud account on both iPhone and Apple TV

Factory reset my Apple TV

Turned iCloud syncing off for Homekit, turned it back on

Removed my Apple TV from my list of registered iCloud devices (this triggers a two factor dialog on the AppleTV)

After nothing worked I updated to the iOS 11.2 public beta's on iPhone and Apple TV

Restarted my iPhone and Apple TV a dozen times.

Homekit is not showing up under Settings>Accounts>iCloud (it's not disabled, it doesn't show at all)

Non of these steps resolve the issue. Does anyone have a trick that works?

Very frustrating, am I missing something?

Thanks, Jonatan

AppleTV 2, iOS 11.1, null

Posted on Nov 3, 2017 3:30 PM

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tomhostler

Level 1

9 points

Posted on Dec 4, 2017 6:54 AM

Hi funrush - thanks for your reply.

After factory resetting my AppleTV, and downgrading to non-beta software, and resetting HomeKit (i.e. deleting the HomeKit database) I can report I have finally gotten it to work again.

However, initially after performing all that resetting it did not look like it was fixed! Every time I viewed the HomeKit setting in AppleTV -> Accounts it did not list HomeKit as before.

This may not be news to you, but it was to me ... but you have to FIRST create a new Home in the Home App on your iPhone/iPad ... by adding a HomeKit accessory manually AND THEN the HomeKit Hub on AppleTV seem to kick into life.

I've now spent almost 24 hours re-adding every Lightbulb and smart plug etc, but it seems to be fixed.

I still think HomeKit is the flakiest piece of Apple Software i've ever encountered. It needs a web interface via iCloud to manage DB's for example ... but i'm glad to get it running again.

Hope you get your own setup sorted - and do try the point above just in case it's the same for you.

Tom

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Dec 4, 2017 7:52 AM in response to tomhostler

Sorry to chime in, but which version do you have installed I want to try your solution today, thanka

Dec 4, 2017 2:05 PM in response to rmadrid20

Hi - no problem - I'm running 11.2 on both my iPhone X and ATV.

Good luck with your setup rmadrid

Dec 5, 2017 5:40 PM in response to tomhostler

No luck here, I have the same set up than you but HomeKit doesn’t work, so frustra

haytondw

Level 1

8 points

Apr 28, 2018 1:23 AM in response to tomhostler

This worked, Thanks

This is one product Apple don’t seem to have thought through!

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