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HomeKit My Apple Watch won’t connect to HomeKit camera?
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My Eufy pan and tilt doesn’t work on my watch using the stock Home app and never has. My 5 Logitech ones all work faultlessly though.
However they all work through the paid for Home+ app from the App Store.
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However they all work through the paid for Home+ app from the App Store.
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Home+ 6 is a full-featured HomeKit app which makes working with HomeKit easier. Home+ lets you control, manage and automate your smart home like never before. - You can create powerful automations which are not possible with the Home app. - You can access all characteristics of an accessory...
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Hmm so it’s by camera then. This camera advertised it working on the watch.My Eufy pan and tilt doesn’t work on my watch using the stock Home app and never has. My 5 Logitech ones all work faultlessly though.
However they all work through the paid for Home+ app from the App Store.
Home+ 6
Home+ 6 is a full-featured HomeKit app which makes working with HomeKit easier. Home+ lets you control, manage and automate your smart home like never before. - You can create powerful automations which are not possible with the Home app. - You can access all characteristics of an accessory...
It’s not cheap for an app but it’s superb.
I can’t believe Apple let some 3rd party app work over them!
It should work as long as the camera is in HomeKit. Some cameras are, however, finicky. 12 Logitech Circle 2’s and a few of them would stream on the watch while others would show unavailable. They worked better when my phone was in cellular that my home WiFi. I also have a Nest Hello running on a Starling Hub which isn’t an official HomeKit decide and works great on the HomeKit watch app. I think it’s just the HomeKit app on the watch. It’s not very good and very slow.
Mine do that from time to time as well. Does it do the same when your phone is in both cellular and WiFi?
In my opinion and experience, HomeKit is becoming more and more unreliable. With failed automations especially location-based ones, devices continuously showing as disconnected. All completely random, or completely unreliable.
You might have better luck to me. I just think in its current state, in my experience anyway it’s absolutely atrocious. It doesn’t even border on being reliable when it comes to Geo Fencing automations and scenes.
Are you at least getting rich notifications on the watch for motion alerts? Try hard rebooting the watch. Press and hold crown and side button at the same time till you see Apple logo. See if that fixes it. I rarely have issues with HomeKit in general but in my opinion, the Watch app has been neglected by Apple. Very laggy and buggy.
I did get some notifications but I changed it to only notify when no one is home now I haven’t had a break in to test. Lol
That’s interesting cause I have setup a automation to run at a certain time for all lights and TVs to turn on and have yet to see it work