homepod will not controle philips hue lights

Have you tried the following:

• Restarting the bridge
• restaring the homepode
• are both the HomePod and bridge useing the same wifi and same Apple ID
• Are the ligths showing up within the HomePod

  Are both the HomePod / lights / bridge showing up within the same room within the home app

• Have you tried removing the lights from the home app / Hue app then re-added the to the app.
• Have you tried re-setting the HomePod to factory setting.

I use Phillipa Hue light with the HomePod and has had no issue with useing them at all since day one. Hopefully these may help or else you may sadly have to wait till Phillipa can work out what’s the issue and if it’s somthig on there end or apples to maybe hopefully fix the issue but my self and friends I know have not had this issue.

UPDATE:

I found a friend of a friend who has the same issue she, reinstalled the Hue app added the lights (made sure lights, bridge and HomePod was added to the same scene) and then it worked fine, might work for others.

Have you tried restarting your Hue bridge?

I actually spoke to a Tech from apple regarding this about 2 weeks ago..

He stated it is an SDK issue from Phillips Hue bridge advised me to reach out to Phillips.

I spoke to Phillips and they stated they are aware of intermittent issue and working on a software update to resolve.

I had this happen.

Reposition the HomePod / Hue Hub near to each other, then press the Hue button.

That worked for me.

See the home hub advice from Apple here:

Automate and remotely access your HomeKit accessories - Apple Support

I am successfully using Wemo and LIFX devices. I don’t have Hue and, going by this thread, it is hit and miss whether they all work.

The LIFX lights are worth considering as they don’t need a separate hub like Hue lights. However I did have difficulty setting them up until I found a tip to change the device name when first connecting it to wifi. There might be a similar glitch with Hue.

Apple aren't listening here, but I get the impression from some other threads that Hue and HomePod aren't playing well right now. Use Feedback - HomePod - Apple to let Apple know you are affected.

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And you are sure that in your iCloud settings Siri sync is turned on? Seems they are not syncing.

Can anyone from Apple help? This feels like a bug, not a setup error, I've seen a similar question posted this week. I have reinstalled and restarted all my hubs, homepods, etc. All my firmware is up-to-date, still have the issue. Again, the philips hue lights and bridge all work within the Hue app, they also show in my HomeKit app on my iphone/ipad, I CAN control the philips Hue lights from my HomeKit app by pressing the buttons manually, I can also control the Philips Hue lights via Siri on my iPhone/iPad, but I CANNOT control them via Siri from my Homepod. My Homepod IS setup correctly and can control other smart home devices I have installed, JUST NOT the Philips Hue light bulbs. I have an Apple Airport Extreme as my router, if that information helps as well.

Not really, sometimes it works great and other times it’s a total hot mess! Believe it or not I have an Amazon echo which I use,I put it in the same room works flawlessly every time 100% with lights and everything else.

I think this is a software glitch between Apple HomeKit and the Phillips hue app...

I hope one of these companies will get their act together LOL but for now I’ll just use my work around because I really enjoy the quality of the HomePod speaker

I just set up my HomePod using my iPhone and it then worked with my Bridge.

Did you ever get this issue resolved? Just bought my HomePod and having EXACTLY the same issue.

Philips Hue Bri and lights. Will turn off/on with Siri in iPhone but not recognised on Homepod

It‘s very frustrating

Thanks for the reply

My HomePod is in the same room as 3 Philips hue lightbulbs. Siri on my iPhone controls the light...one, two or all of them. Functions work well

Siri on HomePod does not operate the lights at all.

it’s actually not the Phillips hue system it’s the HomeKit app for an app it’s a hot mess! I have recently purchased name is on echo device, set it up in working flawlessly with hue lights my HomePods every time no connection issues whatsoever response to every command!

I have been a long time Apple user but I’m getting fed up with their products being crap

I’m curious if you like Alexa what will become of your HomePod? I currently own two homepods but the lack of multi user voice support and a other problems I’m afraid Apple will never support has me thinking about switching to either Google or Amazon.