I posted this in the beta 5 discussion, but putting it here for visibility. I’m hopeful this will be fixed in the betas. 🤞🏼 I’ve put a summary of the bug below.
FB23893604
When an Apple TV (tvOS 27 beta 4 & 5) is acting as the Home Hub and executes a Home app automation containing a Shortcuts action that requires network access or location services, the action fails silently with no error shown anywhere, and the automation halts — no subsequent actions in the shortcut run. The same shortcut runs correctly every time when triggered manually on iPhone/iPadOS, or on a hub running OS 26, or OS 27 beta’s 2 & 3. This is a hub-execution-context-specific regression, not a network, DNS, or shortcut logic issue.
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Actions confirmed to fail when hub-executed (all tested individually, isolated repro):
- Get Contents of URL (tested against both LAN hostname, LAN static IP, and external HTTPS — e.g. https://apple.com)
- Get Headers of URL
- Get Contents of Web Page
- Get Items from RSS Feeds
- Get Current Location
- Get Weather Forecast (both "at Current Location" and "at [specified location]")
- Get Weather
Actions confirmed to work when hub-executed:
- Get RSS Feeds from URL (feed discovery only, does not fetch feed content)
- All of the other home related actions seem to work fine, but I haven’t tested exhaustively.
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Impact:
This breaks any Home automation that depends on external data (webhook-triggered smart home logic, API calls to local home servers, weather-based automations, location-aware routines) when the Apple TV is the executing hub. Automations that rely purely on HomeKit device state are unaffected.
FB23893604
tvOS 27 beta 4 & 5: Home app hub-executed automations — all network- and location-dependent Shortcuts actions fail silently
When an Apple TV (tvOS 27 beta 4 & 5) is acting as the Home Hub and executes a Home app automation containing a Shortcuts action that requires network access or location services, the action fails silently with no error shown anywhere, and the automation halts — no subsequent actions in the shortcut run. The same shortcut runs correctly every time when triggered manually on iPhone/iPadOS, or on a hub running OS 26, or OS 27 beta’s 2 & 3. This is a hub-execution-context-specific regression, not a network, DNS, or shortcut logic issue.
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Actions confirmed to fail when hub-executed (all tested individually, isolated repro):
- Get Contents of URL (tested against both LAN hostname, LAN static IP, and external HTTPS — e.g. https://apple.com)
- Get Headers of URL
- Get Contents of Web Page
- Get Items from RSS Feeds
- Get Current Location
- Get Weather Forecast (both "at Current Location" and "at [specified location]")
- Get Weather
Actions confirmed to work when hub-executed:
- Get RSS Feeds from URL (feed discovery only, does not fetch feed content)
- All of the other home related actions seem to work fine, but I haven’t tested exhaustively.
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Impact:
This breaks any Home automation that depends on external data (webhook-triggered smart home logic, API calls to local home servers, weather-based automations, location-aware routines) when the Apple TV is the executing hub. Automations that rely purely on HomeKit device state are unaffected.