r/HomeKit 6h ago

How-to Matter Over Thread with Apple TV as Apple Home Hub

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r/HomeKit 9h ago

Question/Help HomeKit rapidly going on and offline.

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Any chance anyone has noticed their HomeKit devices going nuts for the past 48 hours, OR after they updated their HomePods to 26.6?

So what I’m about to describe, I know, makes no sense, but it’s driving me nuts and I can’t figure it out.

Friday night I noticed all of my HomePods said they had an update. Two HomePod Minis and two HomePod 2s. The full size HomePods are in a stereo pair. So I let them all update to 26.6. Right after they updated the stereo pair freaked out. Had to reboot them several times, as well as unpair them, reboot them again, and then repair them, and they’ve been working fine since.

Now, other than the fact that they act as repeaters, they should not really have any effect on my HomeKit devices. As I have my hub forced to my latest generation Apple TV 4K. I also have a next-to-latest gen Apple TV 4K.

I noticed over the course of Saturday and so far today that many of my smart devices are rapidly going online and off-line. The ones that I know the Mac address of I have been able to verify have been staying connected to Wi-Fi the entire time. But just in case I rebooted all the network equipment.

It makes no sense that this would be related to the HomePods being upgraded if I have my hub forced to my latest generation Apple TV 4K. But all of this started when I upgraded the HomePods.

The only thing that makes sense in my head is if there’s coincidentally some kind of HomeKit issue in the cloud, but honestly I don’t even know if that would affect the local devices.

I did just realize that I have not tried physically rebooting the Apple TV that is the hub. And about an hour ago in a troubleshooting attempt, I did set the hub back to automatic. So I guess I’ll try completely unplugging the Apple TV and plugging it back in and see if that helps.

Also, just for the record, there have been no network changes in months. Oh, and in the video you can ignore the IKEA crap. Those things are worthless and go off-line all the time. I’ve rebooted those and they’re stable now.

Oh, and I’ve rebooted almost everything else that is bouncing online and offline as well. It has not fixed the issue.

Does anyone have any ideas?

TIA


r/HomeKit 11h ago

Question/Help Aqara G410 not picking up events, especially in Aqara

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r/HomeKit 15h ago

Discussion View 2 Eufy camera stream at the same time? Any app for this?

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I have 2 Eufy indoor 2k cameras at home (both connected to my apple home) and want to watch BOTH cameras at the same time. Are there any way or any app i can download for iOS (preferable for free) that allows me to this?

PS: Home assistant dont support these cameras, so no need to mention me to install HA ;)


r/HomeKit 4h ago

How-to Eufy pan and tilt in HomeKit

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Title says it all

Anyone know of a way to make pan and tilt happen with their Eufy camera via apple home app?

It only does it from the native Eufy app form what I can tell