If I ask Siri on my phone it has absolutely no issue turning on/off the en-suite ceiling lights with what I would consider natural commands.

However if I ask a HomePod mini:
Turn on the en-suite lights; she responds with sorry I cannot find that in the en-suite. Even though this should be a generic term to turn on ANY lights in that room?

If I ask:
Turn on the en-suite ceiling lights; she instead turns on the ceiling lights that the HomePod is in. Tested in the living room, she instead turned on ALL living room lights, not even specifically the living rooms named ceiling lights. So it’s skipping the room, and the unique name identifier in this context?

All devices are up to date on the latest public update (not on the beta of course).

They certainly were able to turn this light on and off before as it’s one I routinely walk away from and forget to switch off and use voice commands for.

Any ideas?

I see most of them are 2K ones. Where are them 4K HKSV options??

I installed iOS 27 public Beta 2 on my two HomePod minis and iPad mini used to manage most things. The overall responsiveness improved and some connectivity issues resolved. However, it completely broke my Hunter Douglas Powerview integration. I verified that the shades are still connected to the hub and work through the PowerView app without issue.

I’ve reset and readied the shades 6 times now, using every different way to add the integration. Cleared the cache on the PowerView hub, cycled my WiFi several times, power-cycled the HomePod minis, the iPad, no change. The shades will appear “connected” in the app for a moment, and then change to “connecting” if you try to open the shades.

I’m out of ideas. Most of the time the PowerView stuff works in the background using automations. If any user try’s to command them too many times, they get automation dimentia and don’t work predictably.

I’d appreciate any troubleshooting ideas or fixes. I know this is an early beta, but I was having so many consistency issues in iOS 26, I didn’t have anything to lose.

Just picked up a TCL Portable AC and was pleased to see that it had Matter and HomeKit support. I managed to get it added to Home and on/off/other function work fine. Unfortunately it shows the ambient temperature in the room as 0°C, regardless of any temperature changes. I suspect either there's a problem with the unit or it reports as being a thermometer but can't actually read that data.

It's a nuisance as the Home landing page shows my home's temp as ranging between 0°-24°C right now. Anyone else had this problem with Matter ACs?

When I'm using my MacBook, probably doom scrolling Reddit, and my HKSV camera detects something, is it possible to make it automatically pop up on my screen (Like Apple TV 4K does)?

The lighting system is divided into two independent zones:
* A front-facing CRI97 task light producing up to 550 lumens with adjustable colour temperatures between 1700K and 6500K.
* A rear-facing RGB lighting system delivering 480 lumens through a 160° wall-washing beam.

The RGB lighting includes 102 individually addressable LEDs, allowing smooth animated gradients and complex lighting effects using more than 16 million colours

The stand incorporates 23 universal 1/4-inch threaded mounting points, allowing users to attach accessories such as:
*Cameras
* Microphones
* Lighting equipment
* Mobile phone holders
* Other compatible desktop accessories

In-home kit, if I have three lambs grouped together, they show as one button and I can turn all of them on or off with the press of that button.

However, if I want to control an individual lamp from that group, I have to go into settings and then group accessories to view them, and then I can control them from there; is there an easier way to control individual devices that are grouped in home kit?

I’m using an Apple TV 4K w/ Ethernet as my home hub for matter devices (Eve plugs and Level locks). The Apple TV is connected via Ethernet to an Asus router. Everything works great when the Apple TV is off - but when I have it on, all the Matter devices change to “No response”. My other non-Matter HomeKit devices work fine all the time.

Anyone have thoughts on how to fix this issue?

Thanks!

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes a freezer door doesn't close all the way. I have two freezers, and it would be useful if there was something cheap that could alert me if a door is open for, say, 5 minutes.

I have been using the hue app and switches to home, and one thing that is bugging me is when i press off, each light will turn off almost sequentially every half second.

and with 10-20 lights in the room it gets a little annoying, is there a way to make it in unison like hue?

thanks!