HomeKit HomeKit & Siri Getting Worse??

[nfbetancur]

I have a house worth of HomeKit gear—switches, shades, buttons, lights, outlet switches—that up until recently worked GREAT with HomeKit. I could phrase commands using natural language and without giving it any thought and it’d work reliably.

now I’m getting The response, “you can only make one request at a time” to just about everything I say.

has anyone had this issue? I’ve seen one or two threads about this on reddit but no solution.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Maybe give some examples of what used to work and what no longer works?

 

[nfbetancur]

I have 12 rooms (labeled living Room, office—nonewith the word ‘the’ in front of them) and accessories that also don’t have ‘the’ in front of the name. Before I could say lower the shade in the living room to 50% and it’d work. Now it seems like it’s requiring ‘the’ in front of every accessory and room name.
Another example:

turn on the lights in the kitchen used to turn on three different lights controlled by Lutron switches. Now it seems it’s looking for an accessory called them lights’ instead of understanding that I just want anything that is a light or controls a light to be switched off.

 

[malcky77]

I don’t have the word ‘the’ in any of my room names or accessory names either and I don’t seem to have the issues your describing.

However I do word my questions to Siri slightly differently to you....for example I usually say:

hey Siri, kitchen Lightstrip to green 50%.
hey Siri, lounge lamp 100%.
hey Siri, Logan’s Lightstrip off.

just keeping the Siri request as simple and direct as possible and I’ve very rarely had any mistakes or issues.

my entire house is using Philips hue bulbs, Lightstrips, motion sensors and the dimmer switches. Don’t have any other smart stuff at the moment...other than the HomePod of course.