i don't want it to recognize just my voice, i had no issue prior to this last update where anyone in my house could say "siri turn on/off the bedroom light" and it would work flawlessly, now its asking to set up voice recognition... that shouldn't be the case.. every other smart accessory (ie other lights fans and TVs) works without having to set up voice recognition
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Apple Pulls iOS 16.2 Option to Upgrade to New Home Architecture
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Before you go through the trouble of doing this, try running your hubs (i.e. Apple TVs and HomePods) through a power cycle. That worked for me to get my spouse back on the Home.
You could always set it up to get rid of the prompt and then disable it in settings. Is there an option to deny the request for setup? Forgive me, I’m unfamiliar with the prompt since we’ve had voice recognition set up for a long time now.
If you’re open to trying it, it is really nice to be able to add things to my reminders, text, and make calendar appointments from HomePod. Without voice recognition this wouldn’t be possible.
I upgraded last week when it was released. Everything still working but with few noticeable issues:
it is slower than before when I open the home app, it take a bit longer to get all the accessories status. Also, from time to time, it displays the last status rather current status, I will have to open or view another app then come back to home app to get status refreshed, or just wait for few long minutes it may refresh itself. Contrary to others indicated, my experiences are when Apple TV as the active hub, it seems a bit fast and stable in general, when HomePod mini as the active hub, it is slower and also effects automation stability as well.
another non-updated encounter for reference, I used to have 14 original homepods in my HomeKit configuration, my home was never worked smoothly. Always had some access not responding, and home hub constantly switching, my thread network is unstable, secure video not working most of time, etc. until one day that I decided to remove the original HomePod then suddenly, my home app worked instantly, everything just work as expected. open the home app and all the status show up rightway until this update.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
it is slower than before when I open the home app, it take a bit longer to get all the accessories status. Also, from time to time, it displays the last status rather current status, I will have to open or view another app then come back to home app to get status refreshed, or just wait for few long minutes it may refresh itself. Contrary to others indicated, my experiences are when Apple TV as the active hub, it seems a bit fast and stable in general, when HomePod mini as the active hub, it is slower and also effects automation stability as well.
another non-updated encounter for reference, I used to have 14 original homepods in my HomeKit configuration, my home was never worked smoothly. Always had some access not responding, and home hub constantly switching, my thread network is unstable, secure video not working most of time, etc. until one day that I decided to remove the original HomePod then suddenly, my home app worked instantly, everything just work as expected. open the home app and all the status show up rightway until this update.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
I just update to new home integration and now I can't invite anyone to my home setting at all!!!
Also, I need to work around on August module on my Yale lock as well. Luckily, it works out fine after I spent 2 hours how to config to work with home kit again!!!
Also, I need to work around on August module on my Yale lock as well. Luckily, it works out fine after I spent 2 hours how to config to work with home kit again!!!
Sure, but it was the only real draw of 16.2 in the first place. So that’s the only thing I would’ve updated for. Waste of time. I’m sure there are other bugs as well, there always are on the major point releases.
Only issue I had with the new architecture is the first night one of my thread nanoleaf bulbs that was paired somehow lost thread and got all slow and wasn't in sync with the other bulb. I factory reset it and re-paired it and all is well since. My outdoor lights have been more reliable with turning on once I pull in the driveway since the update as well.
I have simple setup a few bulbs that I mostly only use when gone, one all the time, and a door lock. With one Apple TV, my ipad, my iphone and Mac. Update was mostly fine just that long time in spinning before my old homepod updated. But after then clicking on the update to the new architecture resulted in same image shown with this article I would get error and need to update my HomePod which was already updated. But my lock and lights work fine so I am likely not target for all this with not much of a home setup
Hey Rychiar, I've been having general issues with my NanoLeaf Essential Bulbs/Light Strips and have tried to reach out to NanoLeaf directly and have not had a whole lot of success. I'm curious if, in general, when you open your NanoLeaf app, you have to wait a while for the spinning/refreshing/connecting of each device to finish before you can interact or if I'm having a different issue. I'm basically trying to gauge my understanding of what I should be expecting because so far, I'm not thrilled with the lag to interact with my NanoLeaf devices when compared to my (much more expensive) Philips Hue bulbs and Wyze cameras/outlets.
I have an iPad now as my Home hub, (even though when they release the aforementioned Home update/architecture, that requires an AppleTV or HomePod mini) and that has not helped. I took advantage of the Best Buy sale on the HomePod minis yesterday, which I'm eagerly awaiting for their arrival. I'm really hoping that having one of them managing my Home as a new hub is going to make a world of difference, but what are your thoughts?
My nanoleaf app definitely has a bit of a delay til I can interact with the bulbs and strips. the home app is instant for them though now that I fixed that one rogue bulb. I'd def recommend something other than an iPad as a hub. Nanoleaf products work sluggish without a HomePod mini or new Apple TV as they fall back to slow unreliable bluetooth for communication instead of thread. I have 2 Apple TVs and 5 HomePods so my hub jumps around a lot.
I had the same issue. Invite sent. Accepted and silently failed.
Solution for me oddly was to reboot all of my Apple TVs then it was fine.
I will never do this again! I always just update, but for this I should have waited...blew up my whole home, I have been trying to rebuild it for the last week...too many devices to list, too many devices to nuke, and it's still not just working...going forward anything involving Homekit upgrade I will wait a month to do, fck that! thanks apple for a horrible experience😩 and don't tell me it worked for me, I have 26 home hubs, 150 devices, hoobs, 16 reolink cameras...if you aren't all in with homekit like I am, your 1 homepod and apple tv working means absolutely nothing to me😡😤
Terrible marketing text. Does the average user understand "underlying architecture" when reading that paragraph? NOPE.
Yes when you create your backup you can select save to the cloud or a file. I saved mine to the cloud.
The documentation on the website is pretty good.
From the posts it seems majority if not all of problem homes have HomePods (and minis). Has anyone using Apple TVs only for hub had problems with 16.2 update? I have Apple TVs only and made sure -all- devices in the family (many) were updated before Home upgrade, and it went smooth, and works better than before.
Also consider, if you have Wi-Fi only home devices (no Bluetooth), there is no to little value to having multiple home hubs (redundancy sounds great, but there seem to be bugs with switching hubs currently). If you have a stable Apple TV / HomePod (ideally one with wired network connection to your home router), enable HomeKit on that device alone, and -disable- HomeKit on the others (no standby, disabled). With standby, through the course of software updates, power cycles, and Wi-Fi network loss (which happens more frequently than you see, it could be sometimes firmware upgrades in the middle of the night), the active hub changes to a standby one (you've probably observed a different Apple TV/HomePod becoming active from time to time), and I think this brings up unwanted dynamics and bugs, at least prior to 16.2 (before 16.2 I had problems until I disabled all but one Apple TV for HomeKit).
Also consider, if you have Wi-Fi only home devices (no Bluetooth), there is no to little value to having multiple home hubs (redundancy sounds great, but there seem to be bugs with switching hubs currently). If you have a stable Apple TV / HomePod (ideally one with wired network connection to your home router), enable HomeKit on that device alone, and -disable- HomeKit on the others (no standby, disabled). With standby, through the course of software updates, power cycles, and Wi-Fi network loss (which happens more frequently than you see, it could be sometimes firmware upgrades in the middle of the night), the active hub changes to a standby one (you've probably observed a different Apple TV/HomePod becoming active from time to time), and I think this brings up unwanted dynamics and bugs, at least prior to 16.2 (before 16.2 I had problems until I disabled all but one Apple TV for HomeKit).
This is effed up. When it works the new architecture had the accessories respond lightning fast. But after the public release when I ask Siri to turn off the lights/fan I occasionally get the error “there are no accessories of that kind”. Hopefully gets fixed in 16.3.
Same. I guess we lucked out. One homepod OG two homepod minis, two
Apple TVs (2022 and original 4k), meeross switch, whole home lutron, myq homekit bridge, circle 2 doorbell, two eve waterguard 1.0, lifx led lights, level door lock, all working. I did apply firmware updates to the meeross, lifx and level mostly out of precaution as I had not used their apps in quite awhile.
Responsiveness is far far better now. This is how it was meant to be.
I hope they work out the issues so others can use it as well.
You cannot disable HomePods from being HomeKit hubs! Nor can you control what is the active hub.