HomeKit Siri woes

[Bazooka-joe]

So my homekit setup seems to work perfectly with the exception of my driveway light which has a Philips Hue bulb in it. I have a weird issue where I can switch the driveway light from Siri using HomePods, my phone, my iPad and my apple watch using the app or voice commands.
So if I ask Siri to switch on the driveway light from any of my Apple devices it works. However if I ask Siri to switch off the driveway light from any of my devices it works from any device with the exception of my Apple Watch.
Siri on my watch responds with “Done” but the light remains on. As with all my Apple devices, my watch will switch the light on but it just doesn’t switch it off but still responds with “Done”.
Siri on my watch switches all other lights on and off with no issues. It just seems to be the driveway light that it can’t switch off although it says it has done so. I can switch it off from my watch using the HomeKit app but not the voice command.
Very strange as it used to work

 

[Itinj24]

Did you try rebooting the Watch yet?

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Did you try rebooting the Watch yet?

Yes rebooted the watch several times. It may be a glitch with Watch OS

 

[Itinj24]

I’m sure I had this issue before but it wasn’t persistent. A one time isolated issue. Strange that it keeps happening. I would probably start with A hard reboot of the iPhone (seems to correct a lot HomeKit issues at times) and if that doesn’t work, removing the one bulb and re-adding. Maybe a network reboot. Very odd it’s just that one bulb.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

I’m sure I had this issue before but it wasn’t persistent. A one time isolated issue. Strange that it keeps happening. I would probably start with A hard reboot of the iPhone (seems to correct a lot HomeKit issues at times) and if that doesn’t work, removing the one bulb and re-adding. Maybe a network reboot. Very odd it’s just that one bulb.

Yes I have done a reboot in the phone, network and watch and it still doesn’t work. It’s just the one bulb that switches on ok via the watch but doesn’t switch off though Siri says ‘Done’ on the watch. Homepods, phone and iPad can all switch the light off via the voice command. The watch can also switch the bulb off via the HomeKit app. It’s just the voice command that doesn’t seem to work

 

[Itinj24]

Last thing I’d probably try is resetting Siri by relearning voice. If that doesn’t work, my OCD would make me go out and replace that bulb although it’s probably not the bulb lol. I’ve grown to hate Hue with a passion. My automations never trigger as scripted with these things. Dimmer switches often don’t work. Only device I can’t complain about is the motion sensors. Slowly over time I’m gonna make the switch to smart switches.

 

[Bgosh]

I've encountered a similar issue before. Sounds silly, but try renaming it in the home app. After you rename it query it from your watch by both its new name, and also by location like "turn on/off everything in the driveway" (or whatever location you have it established in the home app). If you confirm it works you can change it back to its previous name. I've had 2 instances of a bulb (or multiple bulbs) not working via siri on every device but one and that fixed it. Good luck!

 

[Itinj24]

I've encountered a similar issue before. Sounds silly, but try renaming it in the home app. After you rename it query it from your watch by both its new name, and also by location like "turn on/off everything in the driveway" (or whatever location you have it established in the home app). If you confirm it works you can change it back to its previous name. I've had 2 instances of a bulb (or multiple bulbs) not working via siri on every device but one and that fixed it. Good luck!

It’s just very weird that the issue only surfaces with the watch and to turn it off. your troubleshooting method is worth a shot though.

 

[Bgosh]

It’s just very weird that the issue only surfaces with the watch and to turn it off. your troubleshooting method is worth a shot though.

Very weird indeed. Figured I'd throw it out there since it was such a bizarre solution to something similar I encountered. Especially when reboots didn't work in my case. Simple enough to give a try before nuking devices 🙌

 

[Itinj24]

Very weird indeed. Figured I'd throw it out there since it was such a bizarre solution to something similar I encountered. Especially when reboots didn't work in my case. Simple enough to give a try before nuking devices 🙌

Absolutely. Matter of fact, I had an issue turning on one of my Leviton switches yesterday. Realizing i changed the “type” from light to switch and Sri didn’t recognize it anymore. I called it a “switch” with Siri and it worked.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Thanks guys, I will give it a try

 

[robnbill]

So my homekit setup seems to work perfectly with the exception of my driveway light which has a Philips Hue bulb in it. I have a weird issue where I can switch the driveway light from Siri using HomePods, my phone, my iPad and my apple watch using the app or voice commands.
So if I ask Siri to switch on the driveway light from any of my Apple devices it works. However if I ask Siri to switch off the driveway light from any of my devices it works from any device with the exception of my Apple Watch.
Siri on my watch responds with “Done” but the light remains on. As with all my Apple devices, my watch will switch the light on but it just doesn’t switch it off but still responds with “Done”.
Siri on my watch switches all other lights on and off with no issues. It just seems to be the driveway light that it can’t switch off although it says it has done so. I can switch it off from my watch using the HomeKit app but not the voice command.
Very strange as it used to work

We have experienced some unusual Siri issues - everything works from the iOS devices thru the app - and the particular device works within a scene. In one case we had named our Kitchen Pendants - Pendants - Siri would not wor on that individual light. We changed the name to Island - it works.

You might just try changing the name. There are a number of pecularities with names of devices in Siri.