Homekit Weirdness or Has SIRI Gotten Too Smart

This is not an HE issue, but hoping someone might shed some light on it.

I have an HE app, my own, that does my bedtime routine. It is triggered by a virtual switch called 'Bedtime'. It sets mode to NIGHT, turns off some lights and turns others on. It has worked great for almost 2 years. I used to trigger it using Echo where I had a routine called 'Good Night' which turned on 'Bedtime'. Worked fine.

When Homekit integration came along I switched things over to that. I created a scene in Homekit called 'Good Night' which just turns on the Bedtime switch. This has worked fine until a few days ago.

About 5 nights ago, I said "Hey Siri Good Night". Which is what I always do that works. This time the mode got set to night but none of the lights got controlled. I thought it was just a fluke so just had her turn on/off the lights I needed and went to bed.

Next day I thought I would test it. Again I said "Hey Siri Good Night". This time it worked fine, until that night when the same mishap happened. So now this has been happening for about 5 nights in a row, the mode gets set and nothing else.

As it turns out the Bedtime switch is not getting turned on. If I trigger the scene manually in the Homekit app it is fine. If I say "Hey Siri Good Night" anytime during the day it is fine. Only at night does Siri do something different. And I don't know quite how 'She' is doing it. I do have a virtual switch called 'Night' that will put my mode into night mode, but don't understand how SIRI would be turning that on.

As I said, this isn't an HE issue but wondering if anyone had any ideas? Maybe SIRI is starting to be AI and taking over my home......

What happens if you say Hey Siri turn on the Bedtime Switch when good night doesn't work? Thinking since it seems time of day driven that someone may have made Siri treat it as a simple greeting rather than a command thinking that was more "natural".

that's what it acts like, but how would SIRI know to turn on my night mode? And noone else can change anything on my system.

Got my brain back working now. I can say Hey Siri Turn on Bedtime and it works as intended. Even at night. So Probably my best solution is to just rename the Good Night and try to remember what I renamed it to. Or even worse get my wife to remember.

Hmm, I seem to recall long ago realizing that Siri just wanted to tell me "good night" when I said "Hey Siri good night", rather than run my iOS shortcut named "good night".

So I just ended up setting it up for "Hey Siri lights out".

What's strange here is it worked for a while and then stopped. Maybe an iOS update changed the way Siri behaves to those specific words?

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