Bluetooth range reduced after installing tvos 12

I have Eve Door, Smoke and Degree. They all stopped working properly with tvOS 12. Disabling ATV sleep or any other action wouldn’t help. The accessories may connect in occasionally, but the problem is clearly with Apple. The Eves work fine directly with IOS 12. I have some Homebridge connected stuff there too. They work just fine.

My problems seem to be solved after tvOS 12.1 upgrade. All those Eves are now reachable and the response times much, much better. A full day gone very well.

One thing that I would wish very much, would be an app (or OS feature) in ATV to monitor the Homekit operations and status. That would be very useful.

I upgraded my ATV to tvOS 12.1.1 today, and am seeing better performance with Bluetooth devices located 'far away' from the ATV. Its only been a couple of hours, of course, but I'm optimistic. Prior to this, the device was 100% un-reachable.

Same issue here with two Kwiket Premis locks, both worked fine for over 1.5 years with one ATV prior to tvOS 12. After only one connects reliably.

Same issue here. After updating my Apple TV my Schlage locks will only work when my phone is in Bluetooth range and I can no longer use them with the ATV as a hub

It's an issue with the locks, not Apple TV

Both of the other users are using the same brand of lock. You are the only one using a different one. There have been no reports here of other Bluetooth accessories having issues.

Do you have any evidence to back this up?

All we know at the moment is that the problems started after an update to the Apple TV and the locks worked flawlessly before that.

Still the locks?

I’m having the same problem FibaroHome Water Sensors.

It does. It will try the connected ATV first then it will try any standby hubs, so there might be a slight delay but it will use the standby hubs.

I take back my moment of joy. The success did not last for too long. No, it does not work. The tvOS 12.1 did not correct the BLE connectivity problem.