HomePod and LIFX lights
I’ve been struggling with this for a few months and everything seems to point back to HomeKit, specifically the HomePods acting as hubs.
we have a separate 2.4Ghz wifi network for IoT devices like lights, power points and a printer. Mostly the lights are responsive through the LIFX app (and through the Eve app) although sometimes the LED strips are slow to respond.
In contrast, lights are often ‘updating’ in the Home app so they are unresponsive until their status is known. Worse still is trying to control them using Siri on HomePods. We have two HomePods and an AppleTV, any of which can act as a hub. According to the Home app, one HomePod is the active hub, the other two are on standby.
Most of the time, unless we go into the Home app and switch the lights on and off (just to kinda wake them up), Siri Sara she can’t control them or she reports that they’re not responding. Often the light or switch will turn on or off after she says they didn’t respond - so delayed response. But sometimes she just can’t control them at all even though we can open the Home app on an iPhone and switch them on or off.
Driving us nuts here because it seems to progressively be getting worse with updates. Anyone got any insights to share? Is it HonePod, HomeKit, or LIFX, or a combination of all three?
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