Weird occurrence today. My two switches have been online all day in the Home app while at home on WiFi and while away from WiFi. This hasn’t been the case since the last update where either one or both would show “No Response.” The weird thing is, when I go to the Leviton app, none of the two switches show up in there. It’s just a blank screen. I haven’t tried but wondering if it’s possible to bypass the Leviton app and connect directly through the Home app since it seems they’re working now and each switch has its own unique HomeKit code. Don’t really need the useless Leviton app if the switches are working properly and I don’t care for their awful firmware updates that do more bad than good. Speaking of which, there is a Leviton app update which I’m hesitant to do now.
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HomeKit Sudden Leviton Issues?
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I shouldn't have posted my previous comment. Yesterday I got the dreaded "No Response" from one of my switches. That one is now responding again but a different one is not responding this morning. Oh well. 1st world problems I guess.
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Oh come on. You know you want to. What if this is the update that fixes everything?????????????? ha ha ha
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Oh come on. You know you want to. What if this is the update that fixes everything?????????????? ha ha ha
Well, I did update, didn’t do squat lol. On a serious note, how many Home hubs do you have connected/ on standby?
Reason I ask is because I just got 2+ solid days of my Leviton switches working while home and away which I haven’t seen in weeks. The hub, which is HomePod, was connected for a full day and then that’s when the switches started to work. The hub just switched itself today to another HomePod and the switches went all of a sudden “No Response” same HomePod hub that was giving me issues before.
So if you’re running more than one Hub, any chance you noticed that the Hub switched itself to a different one screwing up the switches?
I just have one hub. My Apple TV. I have ecobee (with 3 sensors) connected and 11 Leviton switches. Almost never have trouble with ecobee. When there is a problem with a switch it usually resolves itself in an hour and it is usually different switches every time.
I have five HomePods and 45 switches and dimmers. I am so frustrated I can’t even see straight. Do you think having so many HomePods is a problem with the hub situation. I purchased an iPad just to act as the hub. I cannot figure out what the hub is for all of the switches.
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How do you figure out what all of the switches and dimmers are using as a hub.
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where have you seen the 1/2 off sales...? I need 45-50 switches...ugg
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If you tap on the home icon in the top left and scroll down to Home Hubs (I think it’s called home hubs. I moved two months ago and have yet to set my HomeKit devices back up) and tap on that, it will show which hub is currently connected and what’s on standby. HomePods cannot be disabled as a Hub but ATVs and iPads can be.
With that many, I’d maybe look into Lutron Caseta switches. Their switches tie to their own hub, which the ties to an Apple hub. I have some of those as well and they are rock solid for me, and for all the for all the reviews I have seen.
Yeah it’s in the settings for the home, same place where you add people etc to a home. I do not have a home pod, but one of my Apple TV’s shows connected, another says standby. I don’t think there is supposed to be more than one ever connected at a time. Has anyone seen more than one device showing connected at a time?
Nope. It’s just one at a time. Standby hubs are probably there in case the connected one loses connection.
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Heard vey good things about Lutron Caseta, which is what I’m going with on the new house. Only issue is I have 74 switches in the house alone and the max is 75 on one Caseta bridge. I wanted to add a few Lamp dimmers and Pico remotes in three way where wiring is not required which would put me over the max. I’ve researched about using multiple Caseta bridges but I’m seeing mixed results. Worked fine with my three Hue bridges at the old house so hopefully HomeKit can stitch them together. If not, I may have to use some Leviton switches to relieve the 75 device cap on the Caseta.
Yeah, I’d try two bridges first too myself. I’d also go with iDevices switches before lutron after my personal experiences. I also only want things that easily work with Siri or echo and iftt etc, which Leviton does not do.
I’m going to rewire a fan and use the lurton fan switch and a light switch and two picos instead of the remote that comes with the fan, nothing annoys me more than not knowing if the last person flipped the switch on or off (current one regular switch to the entire fan and light) and finding the switch was used and not the remote because the remote was on the other side of the room. And also the opposite when the remote was used but as I’m entering the room I need the light on and I can’t turn it on in the dark till I find the remote...
I’m going to rewire a fan and use the lurton fan switch and a light switch and two picos instead of the remote that comes with the fan, nothing annoys me more than not knowing if the last person flipped the switch on or off (current one regular switch to the entire fan and light) and finding the switch was used and not the remote because the remote was on the other side of the room. And also the opposite when the remote was used but as I’m entering the room I need the light on and I can’t turn it on in the dark till I find the remote...
I just bought a Hunter Cavera ($179 at Home Depot, not bad!) for the bedroom and plan on getting the Lutron switch for that too even though the fan is HomeKit enabled out of the box.
I have some Leviton switches and dimmers that I never installed at the old house so I’m gonna try those first before trying something else but yeah I also heard good things about the iDevices switches. They’re so damn expensive though. The Levitons were pretty unstable for me until I removed a really old wall mounted iPad Air2 that was running in my HomeKit. Miraculously the Levitons were flawless after that. Adding 74 WiFi switches is sure to bog down my WiFi not including all my other HomeKit devices and other electronic devices. Lutron seems to be the best solution.
thanks for the replys
Do you think I need to get rid of 4 of my 5 Home pods? Maybe there’s a conflict with the hub situation??
I run into the very same “no response” issues with the Leviton but NEVER with the new Wemo Switches or Dimmers. They are always connected so clearly it’s a problem of Levitons. It has to be their firmware. Also at least Wemo made their app more secure. The Leviton app has no security at all.
I’ve been having the same issues and 8 of 10 switches are now showing no response. Even after resetting they work for a few hours and go out again. Recently (last 6 months) I’ve use 4 Meross HomeKit switches and the app is very user friendly and have had no issues with them. I am thinking of replacing all the Leviton with Meross at about $20 a pop on Amazon I took the risk of trying them and they work great.
Hi all my snap link Leviton won’t open up it try’s to login , I have to force it about 5 to 10 times
I'm trying to hold out and see what Leviton does regarding Matter support..
Yeah good call. I’ve been itching for more Smart Home stuff but waiting as well. However, I’m all in on HomeKit so to me it doesn’t matter if it’s straight HomeKit or Matter, as long as it works in HomeKit. I’m hoping it’s the devices not currently supported by HomeKit that get into it with Matter and hopefully it’s by way of firmware update.
Well, for what it’s worth I’ve had good experiences with the first gen levitons. I see many complaints, but they have been very stable for me. I’m running a UniFi network at home tho.
Yeah I don’t really know what the story is with the Levitons. Some praise them, some despise them. I’m in the despise camp, which is a shame because I happen to think they’re the nicest, cleanest looking switches on the market. When I had them installed, one of the five switches was about 10 feet away from an eero pro router with a clean line of sight. Out of the 60+ devices I had in my home, the Leviton switches were the only ones dropping connection daily. Automations and scenes would fail because of them and it got frustrating to say the least. I always thought it was a weak WiFi radio but I have no clue. I have gigabit Verizon WiFi and was getting 150-200 D/L, 100-150 U/L speeds standing at that switch.
Over the years the Levitons have actually been one of the most stable HomeKit devices I've owned. Recently ecobee thermostats have been the worst for me. I probably have around 10 of the original Leviton switches.
I think a lot of this is centered around networking and Homekit flakiness. Years ago I made some changes to my routing settings that I found online. I think there was something about IGMP snooping and a couple other things. For a long time that brought my HomeKit experience to near seamless. As I have upgraded parts of my network to Unifi, I've found that devices can be online and still not responding to Homekit (Looking at you ecobee).
I think some of the flakiness is just the HomeKit protocol itself honestly.
Yes I generally agree with the fact that HomeKit is the usual cause of the drops but the Levitons were also dropping from the My Leviton app. They seemed to get progressively worse with each firmware update. There was one that was rock solid but heck if I remember which one that is lol. I still have them in box. I’ll give em another shot.
Didn't realize a second generation came out for these. I have 24 switches and only had trouble with 2 (technically 3) of the switches. The first one I think was user error when installing and not having a breaker off. Leviton sent me a replacement and that replacement has never worked right. Wouldn't upgrade firmware and has not been able to connect to network.
The other switch that failed stopped turning the lights off all together. No matter what you do to the switch it is always sending power to the fixture unless you flip the breaker or pull a wire. I have found the customer service pretty helpful in the past but I just haven't gotten around to contacting them about the latest issues. I will probably just buy a couple of 2nd gen replacements and then try to get warranty replacements later and use those in new locations.
The other switch that failed stopped turning the lights off all together. No matter what you do to the switch it is always sending power to the fixture unless you flip the breaker or pull a wire. I have found the customer service pretty helpful in the past but I just haven't gotten around to contacting them about the latest issues. I will probably just buy a couple of 2nd gen replacements and then try to get warranty replacements later and use those in new locations.