HomeKit Scenes Choosing Random Colors

[Itinj24]

Anyone else experiencing this issue where you create a Scene with colored lights but the Scene just arbitrarily changes to random colors on its own?

 

[waw74]

what brand bulbs? I know hue (maybe others) will not take a color command if the bulbs are off, So if the bulb is off and homekit sends "color" then "turn on" the color command is ignored. Playing the scene a second time should get it.

also check out the eve app, it lets you pick which parameters are stored in a scene. might help you visialize better what's actually stored.


and the obligatory, you've rebooted all home hubs?

 

[Itinj24]

what brand bulbs? I know hue (maybe others) will not take a color command if the bulbs are off, So if the bulb is off and homekit sends "color" then "turn on" the color command is ignored. Playing the scene a second time should get it.

also check out the eve app, it lets you pick which parameters are stored in a scene. might help you visialize better what's actually stored.


and the obligatory, you've rebooted all home hubs?

Thanks for the reply. They are Hue bulbs but what I’m saying is, the Scene will just change colors on its own. For example, I have some landscape Hue lights that I created a simple Scene to turn them all red. After some time, maybe a few hours, that Scene will change it self to some random colors- blue, green, purple, whatever.

I tried creating it in the Eve app but it just does the same. For some bizarre reason, HomeKit is changing it up. Someone else on Reddit posted the same issue.

I rebooted the active hub with no luck. Would it make a difference if even the inactive hubs are rebooted? I have 25 in total. Would be a huge PITA lol. They rebooted when I updated them all to 18.1 recently. Had the same issue before and after. I also rebooted my network.

I reported to Apple but was curious if this is widespread or not.

 

[waw74]

Not sure, but I've seen it be helpful if reboot them all.

might be easier to do a whole house reset, turn off anything that needs a soft power down like computers, and head to the breaker box. Turn all of them off, or use the main if you have one.

 

[Itinj24]

Not sure, but I've seen it be helpful if reboot them all.

might be easier to do a whole house reset, turn off anything that needs a soft power down like computers, and head to the breaker box. Turn all of them off, or use the main if you have one.

Im nuking it all today lol. Thanks for your help.

 

[NathPlays]

Im nuking it all today lol. Thanks for your help.

Did this work for you? I’ve been wrestling with this scene problem for a month and also oddly have the exact same issue trying to control the bulbs individually through HomeKit using a smart switch, with no scene use involved.

 

[Itinj24]

Did this work for you? I’ve been wrestling with this scene problem for a month and also oddly have the exact same issue trying to control the bulbs individually through HomeKit using a smart switch, with no scene use involved.

Negative. Scenes are broken 🫤