Set up apple tv as a home hub on your apple tv go to settings users and accounts and make sure that youre signed in to icloud with the same apple id as your ios device. Automate your accessories and scenes to turn on or off when you or a shared user arrives or leaves your home.
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Apple homekit automation not working. To see if your apple tv is connected as a home hub go to settings on your apple tv. Automation to turn on the thermostat does not seem to. When you buy a connected home accessory that works with apple homekit youre buying a product that meets apples requirements for both security and functionalityhomekit is a framework that connects your home automation products and lets you control them with siri and the home app for ios. Carefully resetting your entire homekit system focusing on the misbehaving accessories can help deal with this problem and get everything back up and working. Homekit devices primarily work within the confines of your wi fi network. If you are having daily power outages like we are now this is a major annoyance.
Turn off the power to any accessories that are having problems. None of my automations whether time based or sensor based are executing even when connected on the same lan. If youre on ios and your homekit manufacturer has built in support for hap homekit accessory protocol you should be able to access those devices on a cellular connection but if youre finding yourself out of luck you might need to hook up a homekit hub. They will not start working again unless you restart the hub in my case an atv4k and sometimes you need to disable and re enable each automation. 1 is to turn off the thermostat at 630 am daily 1 is to turn off the tv at 1130 pm daily and the last is to turn on the thermostat at 69 degrees at 10 in the morning. What the heck is homekit and how does it work.
After you sign in to icloud your apple tv automatically sets itself up as a home hub. To create an automation triggered by location you and the people you invite to control your home need to turn on share my location for the primary ios device 1 used to control your home. I have 3 sets of automations. Homekit automation not working i have an apple tv 4k tvos 133 running as a homekit hub an ipad running ios 133 and a mac mini running macos mojave 10146. Go to settings your name share my location tap from and make sure that this device is.