HomeKit Homekit hubs stuck in standby

[bbednarz]

Anyone have any ideas for fixing my home hubs being stuck in standby?

When the latest version of iOS 15 was out my smart home was working really pretty well. Automations were firing as expected, no real issues. Come iOS 16 and all hell broke loose. Automations deciding at random to work, motion sensors being delayed or entirely non-responsive, buttons partially working, etc... I sucked it up and dealt with it thinking 16.1 would address these issues... Updated everything today. Phone, iPad, Mac, 6 HomePods and 6 Apple TVs. A few hours afterwards I rebooted everything on the network, router, hubs, HomePods, Apple TVs.. everything. Was going to spend some time tonight going through my automations to make sure they all looked good and thats when I noticed I no longer have a connected home hub. All 12 home hubs are displaying "standby". None of them will take over to connect.

I have tried rebooting everything again. I tried restoring one of the HomePods to factory and resetting it up. I tried disconnecting one of my Apple TVs from ethernet to use WiFi instead. I am signed in everywhere. I tried disabling one of the Apple TVs as a home hub and re-enabling it... So far nothing.

In the meantime I am not sure if my automations will fire or not. It will not allow me to edit any of them either. Anyone have any ideas short of blowing everything up? I have in the neighborhood of 115 accessories. If I restore everything yet again, Im ditching homekit and going over to home assistant.

 

[Itinj24]

I’ve seen this before but it eventually resolved itself when one of the hubs just connected. As for a user based input, I’m sorry but I got nothing.

 

[RamGuy]

Does this mean that all your devices are stuck on "standby" all at once? You are supposed to only have a single device listed as "connected". In our home, we have 6x OG HomePods and 2x Apple TVs and there is always just one saying "connected" while the rest are on standby.

We are also experiencing a lot of issues related to both time-based and location-based automation. So far I've pinpointed it to be an OG HomePod issue in our home. Whenever one of our HomePod is the "Connected" home hub, automation is not working at all. If one of our Apple TVs (both are 4K Gen.2 models) is the connected home hub, everything works.

Seems to be a bug with audioOS 16.X running on the HomePod. Its really annoying as we have no control over what device is the "connected" one, and there are no settings whatsoever. Can't set a preference, can't remove our HomePods from the list of possible home hubs or anything which makes this completely random depending on whatever device is the currently connected home hub.

 

[waw74]

not sure how you did the reboot, but it seems to work better if you unplug all of the hubs before starting to plug them in again, so they're all off at the same time.

 

[RamGuy]

I simply trigger a reboot within the Apple Home-app in quick session, none of the HomePods are back online before the last one goes into reboot thus triggering my Apple TV in the living-room to become the "connected" home hub.