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HomePod Mini 17.5 (21L5558d)
I have several possible hubs. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know if this was the active hub when I had all the issues.
Home seems to prefer a Mini and as far as I know it only switches when I update the Mini’s firmware.
I have 3 minis and 3 4K ATVs. All on 17.5 latest beta. Since connecting the ATVs to Ethernet, an ATV is always the Home hub. Zero issues
Good point. I forgot to mention my AppleTVs are connected via Ethernet. Hubs as well.
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Even with 2 4K Apple TVs on Ethernet, HomeKit will always choose one my two HomePod Minis.
Also, tickling the HomeKit interface every 30 minutes is (appears to be) keeping it happy.
I will try hourly soon.
In my case with my flaky WiFi router and since the Apple TV 4k is on WiFi at the moment, like I said above, I'm not blaming Hubitat or the integration because I'm pretty sure my problems is on my side. BUT what I don't understand is why does it not pick it up and connect to it without having to reboot Hubitat? This in my opinion is a problem even if my setup is less than ideal right now.
In my case I have my Hubitat hard wired and have 7 home pods in the house.
This would imply that your HomePods have better connectivity (higher speed, lower latency) than your AppleTVs. Is that actually the case?
I can’t see how that would be the case as both tvs connect through a switch to the main mesh router that HomePod 1 talks to and HomePod 2 is talking via a second mesh router.
The fact that you have to have multiple hubs to exceed the Apple imposed 150 device limit is absurd. That’s why I moved all my HomeKit devices to Home Assistant and haven’t had a single issue since.
I was going to report that my Homekit was fine but tonight it has gone funky...Multiple devices have jumped into the default room for no apparent reason. One of them refuses to let me change the room. Every time I go into the accessory settings and change the room from Lounge to Dressing Room in the dropdown room selector of the Home app, it jumps back again (the change won't stick). I've restarted the Home app and the Homekit integration multiple times to no avail.
That I think is more of an Apple issue. Did you change what is being shared to HK recently?
Also, you could try un-sharing one of the problem devices, wait for it to go away, then share it back again. I know that exact issue has come up before but I forget what they figured out. Might be able to find it on the forums by searching.
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I've finally managed to get it back in the correct room. I did try turning off the Homekit switch in the device and back on again. No recent changes.
every couple days my homekit devices all go non responsive and it only happens at night for some reason. I just set hubitat to restart at 5 AM which resolves the issue
You might want to try the solution above of setting up a virtual switch that just toggles every hour or so to keep the connection alive: Done with Hubitat Homekit for now - #10 by TArman
I wonder if the majority of these problems are from Apple TV's acting as the hub. I have primarily homepod/homepod minis and I've never experienced an outage beyond issues in the beta where certain devices crapped it out.
I just have one Apple TV (ethernet) that I got explicitly for HK -- AFAIK, I've never run into this issue, but I admit I rarely ever check HK status, or use it for direct control of anything.
The main purpose of my HK setup is just for presence-sensing, and that seems to work all the time.
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I have three Apple TVs, two HomePod Mini speakers, and two original HomePods.
Currently an Apple TV is the active hub.
Previously, when I have looked, it was usually a Mini.
Not getting this problem anymore, likely because of my every 6 hours Ping/ACK with HE.
I think I will disable it as a test… hmm.
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I've also never had issues like some are experiencing. I have two ATV 4Ks (both wired) and two HomePod minis. I wonder if the sleep settings on the ATVs affect anything; both of my ATV's are permanently on, they're never turned off and don't sleep. The difference in power was so negligible I prefer that they are on permanently.
I think even when the TVs are asleep, they are still “awake“ as HomeKit hubs.
My current Apple TV hub is on the always off. As in, no white led.
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I don't know if this will maybe help with this particular issue (probably not), but for folks with multiple HK hub-capable devices, it sounds like iOS 18 will finally include an option to establish a primary/default hub device.
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