Siri no longer recognizes HomeKit scenes

[eicca]

Once again, Apple breaks something useful that worked just fine before. I have three preset scenes for my bedside lamp, and I could say "Set light to bright/relax/bedtime" and it worked great. Now when I tell Siri to set light to one of those scenes, I get "Ok, the light is on" and it comes on to the last used setting, totally ignoring the request for a scene.

Anyone else see similar behavior?

 

[eicca]

Nobody else controls HomeKit with Siri, huh?

 

[sparky672]

I have two different scenes called "Lockdown" and "Garage Lockdown". It does not matter if I say "Hey Siri Lockdown" or "Hey Siri Garage Lockdown", Siri always ignores the word "Garage" and sets the "Lockdown" scene instead.

I tried changing the scene name from "Garage Lockdown" to "Garage" and when I say "Hey Siri Garage", Siri ignores scenes entirely, jumps to devices and tells me the status of the garage lights. I've tried various other names for the scene representing the actions of closing my garage doors and shutting down the lights with other kinds of comical and nonsensical results. I'm using "Lock Garage" right now which works, but is not my preferred name.

The whole HomeKit thing seems so half-baked. You'd think the easiest default operation would be the exact matching of the spoken command BEFORE jumbling up the words and trying to blindly guess what I want.