I have various lights, smart outlets and HomePods that worked consistently when speaking to Siri on iPhone, iPad, or HomePod. The lights and HomePods have custom names that I gave them. In the last week, Siri on my iPhone but not the HomePods, cannot "find" the lights in the home. If I go to the Home App on my iPhone, I see the device and can control it with taps on the screen but no voice control will work when spoken to my iPhone. I just updated to the first public beta of iOS 13.4, but it was happening for sure on the build just prior too. Any theories as to what is happening?
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iPhone Siri on iPhone (but not HomePod) cannot find devices in Homekit
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I have the same thing happening to me but with different devices. Siri on my iMac will control devices, but Siri on my iPhone or HomePod just tells me "Sorry, I wasn't able to find anything like that in your home." The only way I've found to "fix" this is to delete the home from the Home app and setup a new home. That's not really a fix (you have to add devices all over and setup automations and scenes from scratch).
This has remained an intermittent and lingering problem. The one work around that has seemed to work for me that is a bit less drastic that what you describe is to fiddle with the name of an item in the Home, maybe changing its name slightly, which seems to have the effect of resetting the settings for the whole Home.