Hey everyone! My mom lives alone and is getting really forgetful. Like, leaving her front door open all day while she’s out. And it’s getting worse. We suspect early Alzheimer’s, but things aren’t bad yet. She loves our HomeKit setup and it dawned on me that I could do some smart things to help her out and run her devices from my phone.

I’m thinking of a deadbolt with fingerprint and keypad and phone unlock. Pairing that with room sensors for occupancy and door sensors to ensure they are closed.

What else does the group suggest? I’m asking for hardware and automation suggestions. Thanks!

Is this possible without a bridge? It should be since other accesories are possible to connect through bluetooth ?

I know many on here have wanted the ability to choose their own Preferred Home Hub and we finally have it. That being said, when should you choose your own over Automatic Selection? Is this just an if things don't seem right or is it proven one is better than the other?

I have 5 Apple TVs and 4 Homepod Mini and 1 OG Homepod.

It seems people like ATV over Homepods. So since 1 of my ATV are the latest ethernet ATV would that be the one to pick. The others are a mix of last gen and 1 older non-4k.

The only issue I see sometimes really in my mixed thread, wifi and Lutron Caseta home is a device or two not updating right away and saying no response, but it eventually fixes itself until I get another device deciding to say that.

Should I start with Automatic selection, restart the house and see if all is good, then move to picking them by most recent/powerful?

Hey HomeKit fam. I recently got a great deal on Prime Days for the Eufy S330 camera bundle with the home base 3 (Homebase 380). The home base has connect to my homkit as a bridge but the cameras are not showing up. It looks like the series 2 cameras and the series 3 pro cameras are good but not the ones I bought. I can send these back, OR I could set up a home bridge. These cameras are OUTDOOR cameras, which are hard to find for apple HomeKit.Also, home bridge might help as we have two houses on our property our house is all apple and all HomeKit, the other house is all amazon Alexa stuff.

If I do home bridge then can I connect the two houses in HomeKit?
What are the pros and cons of home bridge?
Should I send these cameras back and look at something else?

Any and all feedback is welcome, I am leaning towards returning these cameras, but I do have 2 rasp pi 3B computers here I could set up a home bridge for next to nothing. Let me know your thoughts. and thanks everyone.

Hi Everyone,

I have two logi circle 2 cameras at my house that have worked for years with my hksv. I recently put in a new router, TP-link BE-95 and after connecting the cameras via updating their WiFi connections, they’ve both gone unresponsive for over two weeks now. They worked for roughly a week each then stopped working. The lights on the front are solid green.

I can’t figure out if it has something to do with my new network setup or the most recent iOS 18 updates since they were both done around the same time.

So far I’ve tried:

• resetting the WiFi multiple times but I’m unable to
• restarting my routers via unplugging them and via the app multiple times
• switching from my wired Apple TV home hub to a wireless different Apple TV Home hub.
• I’ve also confirmed the cameras were paired to my main network with all of the Apple devices I have for HK.
• holding the camera reset button for minutes trying to reset it
• power cycling the cameras

Does anyone have any ideas?

I just wanna thank the sub 🫶

I finally fixed the issue with Control Center toggles showing as unresponsive! I originally saw this post suggesting enabling IGMP snooping. It was already enabled. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/s/d7ZxonmtcG

I searched again and found this one related to Ubiquity modem routers. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/s/nSZc3PXtdR

I decided to give it a try on my ISP modem (Tiscali, which is an Italian provider) and the issue is now resolved. The issue hasn’t come back since a month.

For reference my modem is a ZTE H2640W which is also used by other italian ISPs like TIM and Vodafone. I also tested it out on a ZTE H388X.

Thanks everyone again!

Edit: it wasn’t clear maybe. I disabled it and it fixed it

Any way to remove these buttons from the camera notification?

If not, is there any way to remove these aqara device from it since I don’t use it for that purpose? It’s just a hub, I don’t use it for security.

All HomePods and Apple TVs are showing not responding but yet every single device is fully functional in the home app. I restarted all of the HomePods and the Apple TVs. They are working just fine hey Siri works just fine and I can control all of the devices in HomeKit just fine. Any ideas?

I bought the Aqara E1 radiator valves about two years ago and everything worked fine until this month.

I have two kinds of automation: turn the radiator down at night and up again in the morning. And turn the radiator off when the windows in the same room are open and on again when they are closed.

This month however I noticed that about 1/3 of all commands send via these automations or via Siri are simply ignored.

Eg: I close the window but the radiator valves stays at "off". When I test the automation in the Home app it works on the first or second press.

The log in the Aqara app also shows that the radiator valve did not receive the command.

Running iOS 18, Aqara hub updated to the latest version. The Apple TV 4K Ethernet is set as the HomeKit hub. Already restarted the Aqara hub and Apple TV.

Does anyone have a similar issue? Did anyone manage to fix it?

Looking to receive some recommendations on HomeKit cameras.

Some important context:

I live in an apartment and can’t have it wired up to power. I mistakenly bought the Logitech circle view wired doorbell one from Apple Store, but returned (should’ve done my homework). It will have to be battery powered. Would also like for it to work with iCloud storage. Not really looking to subscribe to another cloud storage if I can avoid it. Currently using an Amazon doorbell and I haven’t enjoyed the experience.

I have a Logitech circle view security camera I used to monitor the pets when I’m out of the apartment and really like the user experience: integrated into the home app, no special subscription needed, decent enough quality, etc.

I have a new set of Tapo P125M smart plugs, which are HK compatible via Matter. Two of the three plugs behave as expected in HK. The third plug appears on my router as active and appears in the Tapo app as active and is controllable via the Tapo app. However, HK often shows it as “no response”, though as I’ve reached this point in this post, HK is now seeing the device again.

The P125M is located about six feet from one of my ATVs (latest model). It’s also about four feet from a WiFi node. I’m not sure why it is dropping in and out of HK while being visible to the WiFi network and responsive to the Tapo app. These are my first Matter devices, so I have near-zero experience with Matter. Network is an eero Pro mesh, IPv6 is on. I’ve not rebooted the router recently, though there is a firmware update in the queue, so the router and nodes will be rebooting soon.

Any thoughts on this?

Ever since my network devices all updated to with HomePod or tvOS 18, my encode plus is a big fail on HomeKit. Loses its connection. “No response.”

Also the app still sends me notifications even though I have them turned off.

This worked flawlessly before.

Hi, I just built a home studio above my garage and I am looking to replace these Lumary lights. They randomly go out. Does anyone have suggestions? Looking for the BEST solution. Would love something that would work with HomeKit. Thanks!

Any recommendations for this? I know there a lot of options, seen some people have issues. Anything out there that you love?

Any suggestions for something that could work as a stable pet camera? We have a pet we like to keep an eye on while away but want something we can set up without wiring (thus the battery power) and works with HomeKit. The smaller the form factor the better!

I’m looking to put 4 bulbs in my outdoor fixtures so that when I arrive home they turn on automatically as it’s very dark. Any recs? The current bulbs are those old style Edison bulbs so I’d like to keep a nice look.

Hey guys, I've been breaking my head with this issue for a couple of months now. With every Hue App or iOS update I'd re-try only to encounter the same issue!! I've also seen a few posts here with people having the same issue so I thought I'd post the resolution I bumped into accidentally that works 100% when it comes to importing complete Hue Scenes into HomeKit. The issue was that when you used the "Scene" option on the Home App to try to import the current scene on the Hue App, it would mess up the colors and sometimes not work at all on certain lamps. It was frustrating to say the least. Well, today after adding a new Eve Energy Outlet, I started digging a little deeper into the Eve App and playing around with the scenes, and low and behold, you can import Hue's scenes into the Eve App, it'll automatically add that scene into HomeKit, and all the colors stay true no matter how many lights you have or how complex the scene is!!! Just go into the Hue App, set the desired scene there, then go into the "Automations" tab in the Eve app and add a scene there. Choose the room and all the lamps will appear there, just make sure NOT to choose the "Temperature" option, as that'll mess with the colors!! Choose "Power", "Color", and "Brightness" for each of the lamps in the scene and leave the temperature option disabled. It'll work perfectly!! Also, you don't need to own any Eve devices for this to work!! 👍🏼👍🏼

How well does a Meross Garage door control (MSG100-HomeKit) work with HomeKit, particularly with security in mind? Does it (Home or Meross) ever glitch and open the door for no reason?

I just purchased a home last month and am new to HomeKit. I’ve slowly been working on adding devices to my setup and getting a video doorbell is essential because I work from home on the second floor and never hear anyone who is at the door. I keep missing contractors and whatnot.

I would like a wired doorbell that works natively with HomeKit and ideally HKSV (although from what I’ve read people have all kinds of complaints about HKSV functionality). I would also like the doorbell to use the chime that’s built into the house if possible.

From browsing this subreddit and other research it seems like these two products are frequently recommended, but it also seems like they both have a lot of criticism from the community.

I have a covered front porch and the doorbell will never be in direct sunlight, so I was leaning towards the Logitech circle view. But I really want to avoid getting a product that only works sometimes. Do any circle view owners here have issues when direct sunlight is not a factor?

Any updated opinions based on your experience would be great. Please keep in mind I am relatively tech savvy but am completely new to the smart home / HK world.

Thanks in advance!

I've noticed that recently, not sure since when, Home seems to try harder / wait longer before giving up on a request. It will say that "x is taking some time to respond", or something like that, and then, well after previously I would've given up, the request is fulfilled. Has anyone else noticed this?

In iOS 17, every time I’d open Music or Podcasts I would immediately get a little notification in the app to choose the nearest HomePod. In iOS 18 that seems to have just disappeared. Anybody else experiencing this and know how to fix it?

I am struggling to find this hub that is not responding. It’s been there for some time and believe this is what is stopping me from seeing the new hub control list. I am running iOS 18.1 DB. Any ideas on how to find and remove ?

I am trying to automate turning off a space heater when the room is warm enough. I set this up with an Eve Degree a few years ago, and it has mostly worked ever since. However, the Degree has a battery cover that's impossible to remove, or at least it feels that way, and I'm tired of dealing with it. This room recently gained a HomePod Mini, so I thought I could just use the onboard temperature sensor. The automation is simple: when the temperature goes above a certain number, turn off the smart plug the heater is connected to.

The problem is that this doesn't seem to work. For automations like this, I'm used to having to use a third party app, with a trigger set to when the temperature changes to any value and a condition of the temperature being at or above my desired number. When I saw the options for the temperature going above or below a number in the native Home app, I thought maybe Apple had finally fixed things, and these automations could be done without another app.

I've searched this sub, and it seems that some people have problems with the sensors in HomePod Mini. They're inaccurate, or take a very long time to register changes, or randomly don't work with automations. However, the posts I found mostly mentioned problems around when the sensors were enabled, in iOS 16.3. Is my problem the way the Home app still does this kind of automation, the use of a HomePod Mini, or something else? Thanks for any input.

I cannot get my Aqara FP2 indicator light to work. I want it to indicate when it detects a presence.

I have the “anti light pollution mode” switch turned off and I’ve tried turning that on and setting the time to 23:59 - 0:00, but neither get that light working.

I want to use that light to help me troubleshoot some small issues in my detection area.

Does anyone have their light working? If so, what are your settings?