My mother has lights on HomeKit automation. They didn’t go on yesterday. I noticed on her iPhone that all the home hubs (a HomePod, a HomePod mini and an Apple TV) were on Standby. I restarted all the hubs , updated her iPhone to 16.1.2, signed one of the HomePods out of iCloud and then back in — no change. Then I noticed on her iPad that one of the home hubs says Connected. I looked at both, and the iPhone kept saying everything was on Standby but the iPad said not. All devices are on the same Apple ID. She has 2 factor authentication. Any idea why one device would report all hubs on standby but another would report one device as connected?
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HomeKit iPhone says all hubs on standby; iPad says one’s connected
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Fixed. What did it? I turned off the WiFi router for 5 minutes. When I turned it back on and all the devices reconnected, the home hubs reassigned the Apple TV as the new Connected home hub. The other 2 went on Standby, and this was reported correctly in both the iPad and iPhone Home app. If you ever find all of your home hubs in Standby, try this.
