I am having trouble getting my HomePod to work with my philips hue lights. From my phone I got it to work and I can ask Siri to turn them on or off. But when i ask HomePod Siri she keeps telling me she can’t find it, cannot do that, etc. Very annoying, is there anyone out there who can help me with this??
HomePod
Have you tried the following:
Are both the HomePod / lights / bridge showing up within the same room within the home app
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.
How did you get Siri on the HomePod to recognize the Hue lights?
Notice that the HomePod are only controlling the lights for the room where the HomePod is located (or commanded otherwise).
So my situation:
- Living room, 2x HomePods, 2x full color Hue bulbs
If I say "Hey Siri, turn the lights off." only the lights in the living room responded to that command.
If I say "Hey Siri, turn all the lights off." all the lights in- or outside the house responded to that command.
I don't know if people set up a HomePod in a room without lights but it's possible that your hue lights not responding to a local command instead of a global command.
Ok, I finally got it after hours! Home app, then click top left corner arrow, status of homepod was standby for me, basically I think I had to go to my apple tv, which was also a hub, settings, go to my home, disconnect and reconnect, that made everything work. Amen!
Make sure homepod is home hub.
homepod will not controle philips hue lights
