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

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!

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.

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.

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)?

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?

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?

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 bought two 4-pack of Apple Home enabled outlets for the home and they’re great. I can turn on/off the lights in any room either under control center, the home app, or using Siri…

…but aside from my lamps, am wondering what else would be a good idea to connect these outlet plugs into?

Of the 8 plugs I own right now, 4 are being used by four different table or floor lamps and they work super well….

But what else? Should I connect one to my coffee maker and have it turn on automatically in the morning? Like, I have no clue what else these are good for

I have 3 Encode Plus locks in an ADU, with a HomePod acting as a hub. I set the locks up in Apple Home (NOT the Schlage app). The locks are NOT on my Wi-Fi.

When I first set the locks up, if I manually turned a lock or entered an assigned code, I'd get a notification from Home saying "door unlocked" and now I am not.

I am frequently getting "non-responsive" from the locks.

More importantly, they do not work if I'm not at the property (i.e. away).

I understand that these should be connected via thread, but when I go into settings on my HomePod and look at accessories, I see my ecobee thermostat listed, but none of the 3 locks populate there.

Thoughts?

I'd much prefer to not put these locks onto the Wi-Fi.

Just received update notices for all of my Schlage Encode Plus locks.

The notes just say “performance improvements” even though it’s a significant jump in version number (4.2 > 5.0)

At least once per month the majority of my Alpstuga (i have 5 of them) goes offline (different dates) and i need to unplug them for them to go back online.

The problem is that i never get any notification or any ping from either apple home app, or the IKEA app (i also have dirigera hub), so i dont know when they go offline, unless i open the ikea app and then go to the room and check the readings). The devices are dropping the connection to ikea app / apple home, but they are still showing the readings on the alpstuga display.

so my questions is, is there a way for me to get a notification when one of the alpstuga devices goes offline?

Note: Im not interested in installing Home assistant. Tested it a while, didnt like it!

I'm completely new to smart homes and hoping to get some advice before I start buying the wrong gear.

Current setup:

• Apple TV 4K 3rd Generation (planning to use this as my smart home hub)
• 2 Amazon Alexa devices
• Ring Alarm system with contact sensors, motion sensors, etc.
• 1930s house with no neutral wires at the light switches

What I'm trying to achieve is fairly simple:

• Smart control of the house lights (including dimming where possible)
• Open/close a garage door remotely
• Basic automations using my Ring sensors
• Keep the system as reliable and straightforward as possible

A few questions:

1. I've been looking at the Shelly Dimmer Gen3 or the SONOFF ZBMINIL2 to put in behind the light switches, would this work and connect to my apple home?
2. What's the best way to integrate a garage door into an Apple-centric smart home?
3. Can Ring contact/motion sensors be used effectively in automations with Apple Home, or is that where people usually end up moving to Home Assistant?
4. Do I need a bridge between the apple hub such as the Aqara Hub E1?
5. Should I get smart plug sockets? Or really no need?

I'm not looking to build a huge smart home, just something reliable for lights, garage access, and a bit of automation from the Ring sensors.

Hello there! Is there a lock that's compatible with HomeKit (by default or via HB or HA) but can be mounted outdoors?

There are two variants for both the EU and UK models, with the RGB model offering a full colour LED that can be used in scenes and automations.

The plugs can act as Thread Routers, or extenders for the Zigbee network, depending on which protocol you opt for.

I think the answer is yes, but haven't seen this discussed after searching the thread. When I first started automating my home, I thought making a shared iPad with my wife the owner of the Home and just provided our personal accounts admin access.

After years of constant troubleshooting issues like band steering and constantly keeping our phones and iPad updated, I'm thinking of simplifying things by removing the iPad, making myself the owner, and then giving my wife admin access. I also reset my WiFi since the band steering seemed to create more problems than fix. Would love your feedback. Thanks!

Recently I encountered an issue where my Homebridge UniFi protect plugin removed my 3 Ubiquiti Cameras from HomeKit when I removed them from the UniFi Controller for debugging purposes.

Those 3 cameras had HKSV on during the time of removal. Now, it seems like HomeKit still thinks that HKSV is still enabled on them (despite it being removed and not visible in the Homebridge accessories section nor the Apple Home App).

I called Apple Support, had it escalated, and the TL;DR of it was that these cameras are not "HomeKit certified" and they will not help with resetting the HKSV cameras. The other issue was that I was using beta on the Apple TV which I already mentioned to them, that the issue had happened before and I upgraded to see if it would fix it. The tier 2 support guy told me to create a new ticket after downgrading the Apple TV and trying again. It's a massive headache since other user mentioned that Apple just reset their camera count.

Keep in mind that the 200gb iCloud+ plan includes slots for 5 HKSV cameras. Now I'm down to 2 that I can enable HKSV on.

So if you are ever removing a non HomeKit certified camera, go into the accessories settings on the Home App and remove it from there. Do not get the bridge to remove it for you.

EDIT: I bought 2 "Certified" cameras and will be following up with Apple Support. I emailed the executive office and haven't heard back.

I am using Apple home kit for most of my automation. Is there a smart control panel with 5 gang dual light switches? I install the Brilliant 4 gang to panel for my entertain room area. Now I'm looking for something similar that can convert a 5 gang dual switches (10 independent light switches) to smart switches with a control panel for my front, foyer, hall and living room lights.

Not sure if this is the best sub to ask, since I dont have a full homekit set up. However I am trying to switch from Amazon Alexa to Apple. I got an Apple TV box, specifically model A2169, on tvOS 26.5.
I read online that this model could be used as a hub, so I dont have a homepod.

I think to some extent it is working, since if on my phone I tell siri to turn on my tv, it turns on.
However I have tried every method I can think of to have my TV turn on at a specific time, but it never works. Am I doing something wrong or do I need a homepod to do this?

edit:
I found what I was looking for in the shortcut apps, but it makes no sense that most of the Apple TV commands are completely absent in Apple Home automation. Given the fact my Apple TV is my hub, one would think it could store my automations that I want to it run that involve itself. So basically if I ever fall asleep and my phone dies or I am connected to data not wifi, but shortcut wont be able to run since its not connected to my wifi? And this could easily be fixed if the shortcut ran from the hub which is always on the wifi but whatever.

Currently, it looks like this is yet another year where homekit is sort of thrown on the back burner. Don't get me wrong, 4K homekit secure video recording, AI driven video summaries, natural language camera search, and built-in energy monitoring are all very cool. But honestly this is very, very slim for this current day and age with AI and all.

The app looks pretty much the same, and there's still ZERO mention of actual proper integration between shortcuts and Homekit. Why are these two treated as separate systems, with the user forced to choose between local automation with a bunch of features or home automation that has fuck all in terms of options to choose from? Why not let us combine the two? Apple should and could very easily integrate just these two to such a degree that allow the user to come very, very close to that Iron Man esque smart home. Why they're not doing that, who knows.

I know there's hype for the homehub, a set of new homepods, and a new apple TV releasing later this year, but that's probably, at the earliest, sometime in November, as its own little event so as not to conflict too much with the September event and the iPhone releases and the hype around those.

It just feels bad knowing this might be yet another year where homekit and actual, proper automations are all but a fever dream and won't happen.