Apple Home 2.0: Rebuilding My Smart Home

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After experiencing some issues, I decided it was time to rebuild my entire Apple Home smart home from scratch. In this video I will bring you along so you can exprience my process and learn from my journey and mistakes.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Starting Over
1:50 New Wi-Fi 7
3:10 HomeKit Backups
4:00 Saving HomeKit/Matter Codes
4:25 Starting my Rebuild
6:44 Adding Hubs & Thread Devices
8:00 Restore from a Backup
9:06 Tips for Rebuilding
10:22 Assign Accessories for Backup
13:17 Restore Home
15:06 Restore Automations
16:15 Restore Service Groups
16:54 Restore Scenes
18:46 Final Thoughts
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@jeffn1119 9 ай бұрын

Apple really needs to put more effort into homekit in regards to letting us make backups of automations to prevent things like this from becoming a mess down the road. Also their HomePods that constantly have thread issues and feel the need to take over as the main home hub. Ive had to rebuild twice in the past

@JeffFromMichigan 9 ай бұрын

We've removed our HomePods at this time until I feel Apple has addressed some of the issues with Thread and which device is handling Apple Home Kit. Luckily we use Spotify, so it works with all my Alexa screens and my Google speakers.

@jeffn1119 9 ай бұрын

@@JeffFromMichigan hopefully with iOS 17 these issues are resolved 🤞🏻

@stereothrilla8374 9 ай бұрын

Agreed. I’ve put over $11k into my smart home all running fully on HomeKit. I have a very fast mesh network and multiple hubs for integration. The only part of the system that seems to consistently function dependably without lag are the Lutron devices. It’ll work fine for days straight without issue then it’ll be unresponsive. Extremely frustrating for the amount of money I’ve spent. Super annoying when I come home in the rain with groceries and my garage doors won’t automatically open. I can’t help but to think it’s a problem on Apple’s software end.

@Polkster13 9 ай бұрын

I am so sorry you had to go through all of this pain. I am so glad that your wife was supportive and understanding as you had to go through this. I have only had to do this once and I dread ever having to do it again. I feel your pain, brother.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support! Yes I'm very glad the family has been patient with me during this rebuild. I know it's been frustrating for them at time as well.

@bwadley75655 9 ай бұрын

Wow I have been through this more than once but I only have 50 or so devices not 165! I could feel your pain watching this as it’s not easy, and I agree hubs are great! Still love HomeKit 🥰

@jvonkas6542 9 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for being the HomeKit lab bunny! I had my share of trouble with a MUCH smaller setup. Trouble started with Apple's New Architecture. Apple support included designing a plug-in for me to reverse to old Architecture but they also had to reverse a server upgrade at their end. I had to setup my home from scratch and things came back to 99% reliable! The next hurdle was vendors upgrading firmware to include Matter. That was bad news for me. I had go through hoops to exclude the Matter protocols and just use Thread. My conclusion: HomeKit is certainly not plug and play. I loathe to imagine an uninitiated person (like my granny) getting into it! It's nerd stuff for sure, like the early Internet. I'm also glad I did not pay for Controller! Instead I used screenshots to record my settings.

@gregghayes6710 9 ай бұрын

I am sorry for your pain Shane! I found this super interesting to see how to selectively restore with controller.

@MrNatetheTeacher 9 ай бұрын

So eager to watch this video. I have had trouble with my home for months. Tried starting from scratch and even failed at that. Hoping I get an idea from you here.

@michaelthompson657 9 ай бұрын

If you want a full backup so you can even change the device you’re running it on I would 100% recommend home assistant

@marauder2575 9 ай бұрын

Was going to ask why not consider home assistant. HomeKit is developing so limiting yourself to HomeKit devices will work, but it's ultimately a lot more limiting than what you can achieve with a bit of work in hass.

@michaelthompson657 9 ай бұрын

@@marauder2575 exactly! Can’t believe some of the things HA can do!

@tjevo4g 9 ай бұрын

I've heard this is the way to go, but have zero experience with Home Assistant. Is there any video you'd suggest watching to get started combining the two?

@michaelthompson657 9 ай бұрын

@@tjevo4g I’d definitely recommend Smart Home Junkie KZfaq channel, it’s what I used but beware HA is a rabbit hole!

@KalvinJack 9 ай бұрын

Give it some time, I bet he’ll switch over. I love Apple. But not for my smart home. Home assistant all the way. The only single thing I like about Apple home is being able to access lights super quick by swiping down the control center. But I only use that for my nightstand light late at night. Also for some (not smart) reason you can’t choose which lights are in the control center they are just randomly there 😂 rant over. Gl Shane.

@faengelm 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for detailing the steps. Your comments on the benefits of hubs were great.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

@TTaddeo 9 ай бұрын

WOW. JUST WOW on how many people are experiencing the same issues but never had a place to voice their frustrations! Holy S**t! Thanks for your attempts at guiding everyone through this process. I look forward to seeing a video on the resolve of it all, 'cause like everyone else, my Homekit is glitchy and I can never figure out why! I was just about to switch out my Orbi mesh for Eeros, but now I'm going to hold off and see what happens with you first. Thanks for being that honest and our Hero guinea pig!

@GeorgeLangabeer 9 ай бұрын

Man, I can only imagine how frustrating this must be. Such a weird & crazy thing. You had me scared to death I was going to have the same issue, but knock on wood, so far so good. So strange it hit you like this. I’d be going nuts. You’ve handled this very well. This should be a great help to anyone experiencing the same issues.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

I appreciate the kind words! Those that live with me may not agree that I handled it so well 😅🤣. It's been a bit stressful. Honestly I appreciate the patience of everyone else in the house. Just when they get used to the convenience of smart home stuff, I rip it all up and nothing works. I'm sure it's been frustrating for them too.

@LukeHoersten 9 ай бұрын

My Apple Home setup stopped working after the iOS December 2022 update. After working with apple senior support and engineers for 6 months, they admitted it was a software database error on their side and was unfixable. I had to rebuild with 50+ devices. I got the sense they didn’t even understand how much work that is. Extremely disappointing. After the rebuild everything worked flawlessly but now I have ghost home hubs that constantly report as offline but I can’t remove them. It’s really been a nightmare. Terrible support tbh.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear this. Yea, unfortunately Apple doesn't have much help in terms of support for HomeKit.

@EmilTheoneandonly 9 ай бұрын

Very smart content as always! Well done

@TheAustin2099 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, this is very helpful.

@MarkGreenwoodOfficial 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the post Shane. I have been watching your channel for some time. But this was a great post, in that I'm facing the same decision. I started such a long time I have some devices that started at the beginning of Home Kit. I look forward to hearing how everything goes for you.. Best of luck my friend.. I'm hoping it's all successful!!!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support! Best of luck to you as well!

@jdb6284 9 ай бұрын

I know how this feels Shane. After fighting Homekit for over 1 year I gave up and jumped to home assistant. Never looking back. One day you’ll be fed up with apple ignoring homekit issues and maybe you’ll be brave enough to do it too.

@vDereks 9 ай бұрын

Same here. I'm all in on Home Assistant, and only use Apple Home as a simple front end for some devices. All my automations, scenes, etc. are in Home Assistant. MUCH happier.

@BLX187 7 ай бұрын

As an Apple guy. This makes me sad

@hughvines4585 5 ай бұрын

Home assistant sucks I have trouble all the time

@mikerisner 9 ай бұрын

What a coincidence! You're not alone. Ghosts in the machine here and there. Erratic functionality, mostly related to my HOOBS box. I went thru a process starting with simple fixes (that did not work), and ended up starting over completely from scratch. Then reviewing ALL of my automations and shortcuts. It was a slog, but I got thru it.

@1BSDjunkie 9 ай бұрын

Interesting video! Have had issue with Philips Hue in the past, so I got rid of the Hue bulbs and hub and switched to Nanoleaf smart bulbs. Occasionally they need to be reset to factory default settings and added back. I keep all of my codes in the Notes app with #Home and #HomeKit so I don’t have to go climbing ladders and re-looking them up! But resetting to factor and adding them back seemed to help. Not sure what you were experiencing but will check your videos Shane! 👍

@dit100 9 ай бұрын

This really has me thinking. I’ve been debating about moving all the smart devices to a separate SSID. I don’t have nearly the amount of automations you have. It might be easier to move the non smart off the current SSID LOL. Thanks for doing this video.

@zain-zeus 9 ай бұрын

I went through the same situation after updating to 16.4 and all my HK accessories was not responding so I started from scratch as well, luckily I had a backup with controller and most of my accessories are from Aqara plus couple of other hubs and few wifi devices, some automation I couldn’t restore from controller but I had I photos of my all automations. What I learned is I should always have a QR code backup, I keep most of the automation as scene based automation and always using a hub. Thanks Shane for your video 🙏🏻

@LukeHoersten 9 ай бұрын

16.3-16.4 new architecture update was horrible. Did the same for me. All devices non responsive.

@evan 8 ай бұрын

Dang this is a NIGHTMARE. I’ve had to start from scratch once from similar problems last year and LORD did it take ages to redo all my automations and scenes. Thankfully my lights are hue so yeah the hub saved me lots of time

@SharpShooter9867 9 ай бұрын

Hey! Just getting into setting up my Apple Home, I’ve been learning a lot through your videos. What do you recommend for a smart sliding door lock? TIA

@joeisaia238 9 ай бұрын

I had a similar issue with my thread network. Not sure if you tried this first but I just did full erase/resets on my home hubs (3 ATV 4K 3rd gens) and everything worked normally after.,

@cliquemediaproductions 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Shane for making this. I thought I was alone in my smart home turning into a dumb home. I will be starting from scratch as well. The only difference is, I am going to do a do-over completely, not restoring anything from backup. Wish me luck! LOL. ~Dan

@bravomike09 9 ай бұрын

How many devices do you have Dan? It would be great if you could follow up and let us know how it went. How long it took to rebuild and if you think it was worth the effort? Thank you!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Good luck my friend!!

@cliquemediaproductions 9 ай бұрын

@@bravomike09 I have 37 devices plus Homebridge. I am going to wipe the entire setup out and start from scratch. I will certainly come back here with an update.

@stevesmacfix 9 ай бұрын

Still watching the vid as I'm typing but I feel your pain. I just redid my homekit from scratch and I'm glad I did. . Obviously it's not as big as yours but I do have 44 devices. I did not change the name of the network but I did reset each device. I noticed response times are faster and definitely less problems. Feel your pain. That was smart to setup a new home. I will do that next time. Great vids man.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad to hear your rebuild seemed to be worth the trouble.

@heaththompson6034 9 ай бұрын

Shane, great video as always. I wondered what were the specific kinds of issues you'd been seeing that led you to a complete redo of your smart home. All I could really pick up from your comments in this video were that you were having issues with some of your Thread devices. Any details you could share would be helpful.

@cassio-fm 9 ай бұрын

yeah I'm curious about the issues too. I have so many!

@gregg5958 9 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh…if even you have this problem, what hope is there for the rest of us? This stuff needs to just work. People like your Grandpa and my mom can’t deal with this, and hell even I cannot deal with these types of issue. And more importantly, no one should have to.

@jvonkas6542 9 ай бұрын

second that. Look at my post from today.

@JohnCap523 9 ай бұрын

Not until Apple figures out how to monetize it.

@Green_Arrow_2023 9 ай бұрын

I have a Notes document where I scan/photograph every homekit code for every accessory. That won’t help with my automations and scenes, but it’s a start. Also, if I’m starting over, I’d wipe the scenes and automations since those could be corrupted (?). Anyways, thanks for sharing this,we all face something like this eventually (it shouldn’t be like that, but it always seems to be). A good video to show how to rescue yourself in a situation like this, and also why hubs are not a bad thing. Also, my 50+ device HomeKit home is working with no issues right now. It’s been pretty stable for the last 3-4 months 🤞

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Using the Notes app is another great suggestion. Thanks for sharing!

@howardzhao4685 9 ай бұрын

I had tons of troubles at one point, and talked with Apple support and vendors without any good results and solution. Just about to the point to rebuild the entire Home, then I noticed as soon as I removed my original HomePods from the Home, everything came to life as I was expected. I reported this to Apple. ever since I removed original HomePods, my Home has been working for the past two years without any problem. The HomePod mini is fine. My problem started with Threads devices as well, then getting worth with other devices and WiFi performance, especially with the 2.4GHz network, which was also Homwpods as the primary clients too. Just some experiences to share. Thanks again for your video.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@Gimrison 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for sharing. This experience was very difficult and I hope your family understands what you have gone through.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! They have been very understanding in this process. I know it's been quite frustrating for them when everything stopped working as I was rebuilding.

@ansred 9 ай бұрын

Home Assistant is the answer. Thinking about it

@MartinHiggs84 9 ай бұрын

Starting over you can use everything you have learnt since implementing it and build something better 😊

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Silver lining. I like it!! 😃

@MartinHiggs84 9 ай бұрын

@ShaneCreates Indeed 😀 look forward to the possibility of short videos of your implementations

@Jupiter0ne 9 ай бұрын

First of all, thank you very much for sharing this Shane. I would imagine it was very difficult and maybe a little embarrassing for a HomeKit content creator like yourself to have to show just how difficult and a mess HomeKit can be. I am *slowly* setting up a HomeKit home and am fortunate enough to be doing this in a new build where Ethernet was run everywhere. And if there is one thing I consistently see on the various forums is that a ROCK SOLID WiFi network is needed. I was wary of mesh Wifi so I hardwired my APs for WiFi on each floor. Perhaps it is easier for someone with a one story or wood-framed home, but I'm glad I don't have to rely on mesh. Keep up the good work!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the kind words. I also hard wire my access points. It was a pain to setup, as I don't have ethernet runs everywhere. It's great if you're able to do it. For those who can't, a good mesh network is the next best thing. All my wifi devices (and zigbee and everything else) worked fine... it was just thread giving me problems. That's also why it was a tough decision to wipe it all and restart... since everything else was still working well.

@Plazman 9 ай бұрын

You should AirBNB your home to developers to test their products!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

😆 Actually one day I'd love to have an AirBNB , update it with cool smart home tech and then rent it out!

@Bigglare 9 ай бұрын

Hubs for the Win! Nothing like a Hubitat, or Home assistant with Apple Homekit bridging. One Single Zigbee/zwave mesh in the house. Even thread uses hubs contrary to what they want to call them, Homepods, Nest Hubs and Echos are all Thread Hubs.

@movingloz 9 ай бұрын

Feeling for you big time.

@JayBay813 9 ай бұрын

And ima about to build it right with you. What a convenience, especially we are taking the big step in migrating away from traditional systems offered by companies 😂

@bobthekelpie 9 ай бұрын

That was the most resigned "Let's go!" I've seen on these videos! I think I'm going to have to do a rebuild myself soon *sigh*

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Oh no... sorry to hear that. It's definitely a last resort.

@Eargasm_ 9 ай бұрын

Shane what cameras are you using? I need to replace my nest system of 5 cameras that cover indoor and outdoor. Ive been looking at Aqara but am not sure. Thanks!

@iuaislamf 3 ай бұрын

After doing smarthome tech for the past 3 years, I've concluded for our home it's always a good idea to establish a maintenance plan, perhaps every season or 1-2 times a year. Get outdoors, clean the devices up, reconfigure the system, change passwords and the like. I get a sense that most smart home users may set up everything once, but fail to perform necessary maintenance to keep the systems in good working order, imo

@iGiorgisWorld 13 күн бұрын

amazing videos. why you dont start with Homey pro? I have only Homekit devices but Im thinking to start from scratch with homey pro at my new home.

@philliphenderson5474 8 ай бұрын

Regarding the lighting automations you use in your home, how do you make lights turn off automatically when there is no activity in a room or area? I've tried various approaches, but have yet to find one that works well.

@JesseShauffer 9 ай бұрын

I had to do this because of the Matter update…but it was the best decision I made. Over 100 devices!

@mikeyfl 9 ай бұрын

The HUB takeaway is priceless and ironic for a common view in the smart home community. MATTER, no thanks?

@KilikaGhostWolf 9 ай бұрын

I understand your pain I've also been having home issues as well I would suggest not doing too much until the OS 17 releases on Apple and probably a few months after that then try to fix everything just suggestion and I think that's part of the issue that there's some issues with that with all the extra pushing of updates and well another stuff

@JimFlanneryDRONES 9 ай бұрын

Yup! I’ve been having problems also, especially with my Onvis switch being forgotten, and my Eve Weather app needing to be manually REFRESHED to show “current” temperature. My wife saw me sweating over getting all the automations working, and said, “Wouldn’t it be easier and faster to just get up and switch a lamp on when you need it?”

@eraldway 9 ай бұрын

Wait till you get iOS 17 and see all your short cuts and automation are broken.

@craigSCIAVA 8 ай бұрын

HomePod minis and the new HomePods disconnecting has increased immensely since upgrading to iOS 17. Biggest issue I've been having. Is that one the HomePods stop functioning properly if I reboot my router (Amplifi Alien) everything works flawlessly for about 24 hours. I have FIOS gig speed any great Wi-Fi speed internally.

@eraldway 8 ай бұрын

@@craigSCIAVA yes. And overall the AirPlay conditionality to AirPods is broken most of the time.

@Razorgirl 6 ай бұрын

@@craigSCIAVA… I recently purchased a second Alien and was devo when I received a notification that the Amplify mesh is not compatible with HomeKit. 😫 Have you found a work-around?

@mikewolf5367 5 ай бұрын

So much negativity. I haven’t had not one issue.

@eraldway 5 ай бұрын

@@mikewolf5367 hmm. Negativity? You do know this comment was posted 4 months ago? iOS 17 was a cluster mess and nearly broke all home automations. We are now 2 major updates into iOS 17. Things have changed.

@waynecrumhorn8877 9 ай бұрын

I was having trouble with my Thread network becoming slow and unresponsive. Resetting individual devices became very cumbersome. I eventually tried turning off the 110v breakers to my entire house, then restoring power. I also unplugged from battery backup systems. It restored the entire Thread network in less than a minute. Resetting some appliance clocks is a minor inconvenience compared to the alternative.

@bofty 9 ай бұрын

Lucky that company sent some stuff right as you needed it!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

The wifi wasn't the issue. I could have kept using the same wifi routers. It was definitely an Apple Home issue and not a wifi issue. All my wifi accessories were working fine (even in Apple Home)

@VishalPatel-uc2js 9 ай бұрын

Hi Shane great video learning a lot for my new house. I see have homey could you make a video on this

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Yes I can. Coming soon! 😀

@uniqueflh2941 9 ай бұрын

That seems like SO MUCH of a pain...I, honestly, think I might just go back to a 'dumb home' instead of trying to rebuild from scratch. I'm really curious if the Controller for HomeKit back-up/restore would have worked successfully if every associated Accessory had been added to the Home prior to attempt. Glad to see that you got things 'mostly' back to proper. Thanks, as always, for the content!

@michaelthompson657 9 ай бұрын

Have a look at home assistant, full seamless backup and restore with any device

@Rick210Texans 9 ай бұрын

Love the video Man however you’re adding all the stuff I would just go to Home Assistant route and still keep all the functionality you Apple home

@stevec6857 9 ай бұрын

I recently switched to TP-Link Deco BE95 mesh WiFi 7 (four Decos) and it literally solved the problems I was having with my smart home. Just reinforces what you always say about starting with a solid WiFi system. Expensive? Yes, but I wouldn’t go back. Hubs are gold!

@rorylong314 9 ай бұрын

I only have a small setup, as I have a small home, and even with a complete Apple Airport setup, I still had issues. For a separate reason I switched to Unifi and everything has been infinitely more reliable. Most people are completely unaware of the crappiness of their ISP supplied network devices

@mmaxton 9 ай бұрын

The crazy thing is that Shane had been using the very high quality (& VERY expensive) Orbi Mesh WiFi - about $1500!! Still wasn’t enough. I feel lucky that my home has Ethernet throughout, and I can just run a few Wired APs. Sometimes I think we should be able to expect more, and other times it still seems like magic that it works at all. 😄

@rorylong314 9 ай бұрын

@@mmaxton Mesh is ok, but nowhere near wired AP’s. I had to do that. 150+ year old house with 1m thick stone walls doesn’t equal a good fit for mesh

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

I hard wire my APs also. Definitely recommended if you can. I did this with the Orbis as well. All my smart home wifi devices were working fine. Just the thread ones that had problems. And I think it's related to Apple or Nanoleaf border routers. Not wifi. Just some weird bug or issue with the thread network it seems.

@rorylong314 9 ай бұрын

@@ShaneCreates I have 3 of the old Nanoleaf E27 bulbs and, I would be very slow to buy more Nanoleaf stuff based on them

@ItsRichieT 7 ай бұрын

How do you feel about the TP-Link router after 2 months or so?

@amshaq007CR7 9 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same rebuilding mine

@Jjsaba2008 9 ай бұрын

What security cameras work with Apple HomeKit the best

@michaeldoebler828 8 ай бұрын

With Aqara 2 motion sensor can it activate a Wyze light switch?

@morells09 9 ай бұрын

F in the chat for my man Shane

@technithusiast 9 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear you have to do a full restart. In the video you briefly mentioned what you think the root cause is but I didn’t hear you talk much about things you would do to prevent? Does this change the way you’ll start adding devices to your ecosystem or is there some other lesson learned that would change how you move forward?

@david_allen1 8 ай бұрын

That's a really great question! That would be the gold from this horrible experience that others might benefit from.

@zr00t 9 ай бұрын

I've had a lot of Thread issues as well, I'm pretty sure it comes down to the fact that I have a 1st gen Homepod that does't support thread that keeps making itself the primary Homekit hub and when it is the primary, my Thread network goes offline. I ordered a couple more homepod mini's and will retire the 1st gen Homepod and hope that fixes my overall issue. That said, I do have one nanoleaf bulb that just won't add itself to the thread network for some reason, gotta try and reset that one again.

@Rockovissi 9 ай бұрын

I’m sort of getting there myself. I’ve been thinking about getting the Samsung Smartthings Station with Thread and Matter support and use Amazon Alexa. I can’t stand duplicate devices so I’d have to delete everything from Amazon and connect it all to Samsung which then adds the device to Amazon.

@LOUDERthanU 9 ай бұрын

Only a few smart items in my home. Its Apple based. Of late i am having consistent problems with both my homepod minis and Gen 2 homepods. While they are paired in 2 separate areas, both sets seem to drop their link so i cant control their volume as a stereo pair. Tried a bunch of fixes but its nearing to to sell them and move on

@MrDingleberry31 9 ай бұрын

How long did it take to restore everything?

@drgardner01 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, I’m having a few quirks that aren’t enough to prompt a rebuild although it may be in my future. Just curious if you’ve upgraded the underlying Home architecture to the new version? (This is the one that was rolled out, pulled, and is now showing up in the iPadOS 17 beta.)

@mmaxton 9 ай бұрын

The new architecture was originally rolled out in 16.2, then pulled, but has been available again since 16.4. I feel Shane’s pain - been there, done that. But considering the number of devices, and possibly some extra cruft in his system, given how many devices he probably tests on our behalf, this isn’t too surprising.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Yes I have been on the new architecture since it was first rolled out. Never had any issues with that.

@CoolTies 9 ай бұрын

I have a random climate sensor set to “default room” and I can't change it's location or name. I'm so frustrated but I'm hoping it's the iOS 17 Beta issue. I'm truly worried to transfer anything over to Matter asPitt hasn't ever been reliable.

@charlesxavier1904 9 ай бұрын

I see that you set up a nano leaf border router for your daughter's room. Could you have just paired everything to the existing home pod?

@rgen28 9 ай бұрын

It is a good decision. Now you can make more videos about it

@freshguy601 8 ай бұрын

Apple needs to do with homekit head what they did with one for apple maps! Homekit has so much potential!

@SteveHinrichs 9 ай бұрын

I have had to rebuild in the past. It is the biggest pain in the a$$. The positive side is it will clean up any of the old codes or automations which are not being used. Starting from scratch makes me to fix the smart home the way I wanted and not just putting up with old automations. You know the ones you want to clean up and fix right, but still kind of works.

@sev_11 8 ай бұрын

Can we get a video about how the new deco WiFi mesh system is handling the HomeKit devices because….. anything going to no response?

@Ha1frican 9 ай бұрын

My setup started having the same issues at the same time I wonder what’s up

@noneyabusiness7856 9 ай бұрын

Ok I’m very much a novice and I don’t know if this applies here, but my window/door contact sensor on aqara recently for like the past week or so has been been giving me false readings. Was there an update or something that just wrecked everything? Cause even my presence sensor keeps saying the occupancy in certain rooms when there’s no one and now my closed door always reads open. I don’t know what’s going on cause I reset my window/door sensor and the problem persists

@peligon1 9 ай бұрын

Hi Shane, maybe you should consider waiting it out and rebuild from scratch with IOS 17, which should be released in the coming days...

@jay271190 9 ай бұрын

Oh man I feel for you! Out of interest what was that thing clipped to your shirt? As I’m assuming you were using your AirPods for audio at that point?

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

That is a microphone for the camera.

@provoschoolbus 9 ай бұрын

Our smart home had the same issue since the new architecture. We tried everything with apple and their seniors as well. We eventually moved and set everything up new from scratch, and factory reset all the accessories. We also replaced a lot of the accessories. It’s glitching again… beyond frustrating.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Oh no... sorry to hear that. I know the frustration...

@danielf2714 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video Shane. Was it a Homey 2023 I saw in your closet 😉 will you show it in future videos? 😍

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Yes! Video coming soon! 😃

@mazagami 9 ай бұрын

In hubs we trust! 😂

@okieplaya 8 ай бұрын

why did you not use your homey and replace all those hubs?

@lukits01 9 ай бұрын

I have a thread network with matter devices connected to google nest 2nd gen and apple TV 4k as border routers. The Eve matter device work flawlessly with both ecosystems but my Nanoleaf devices are so unreliable, they would randomly drop off google or apple or both. Rebooting the apple TV seems to fix the issue on the homekit side for awhile, but it would eventually drop off and come online again randomly.

@TheYudenList 9 ай бұрын

Which device used as the hub when you had the issue? Maybe it was hub (some old Apple TV) without thread support?

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Actually... the odd thing is... it's only when an old Apple TV (without thread) was the main homekit hub that the thread devices worked. Took a while to figure this out, but when removing all other Apple border routers, and only using Nanoleaf border routers (with old Apple TV as HK hub) thread worked. As soon as an Apple Border router joined the setup and became the HK hub, thread accessories stopped working.

@_iErik 7 ай бұрын

If you did it all again, clean slate, where you had to acquire all of your smart home devices again, would you get nanoleaf devices again or would you try to stick to the Philips hue (or other) ecosystem?

@ShaneCreates 7 ай бұрын

Well I mostly use the Nanoleaf Lines and Shapes, which I love. I don't think Phillips Hue offers any products like that, so yes, I'd probably still use Nanoleaf if starting over for that. For Bulbs and lightstrips (which I don't have many of either brand), I might would use Philips if I had a whole lot of them.

@benmurphy8413 9 ай бұрын

Shane, What case is that on your iPad Pro? I see it has an “X” logo on the back but curious as to the brand. Thanks!

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

It's the Pitaka magnetic wireless charging case: geni.us/PitakaMagiPad Love it because it works with their wireless charging iPad stand: geni.us/PitakaMagStand (affiliate links)

@TheFluffyDuck 4 ай бұрын

I think there needs to get more discussion as to ones router and settings used.

@davidc-l9174 9 ай бұрын

Are you still using Hubitat to integrate some things into HomeKit? Also, how’d you get your Reolink cameras into HomeKit? I want to switch to HomeKit, but I also want to make sure the major things I have can be switched over.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

I was but I did not re-add Hubitat to the new Home setup. I am also using testing out Homey Pro right now so I'm moving most of those devices from Hubitat to Homey while I test that out. Reolink cameras are integrated into HomeKit via Scrypted. It works great. HomeBridge also works. I made a video about this a little while ago.

@davidc-l9174 9 ай бұрын

@@ShaneCreates I appreciate the reply, and I'll search the channel for your Reolink video!

@ponsholm 9 ай бұрын

Home automation is supposed to make things easier but sometimes the opposite occurs. My smart home is not anywhere close to yours but own several Apple TVs and HomePods etc. When I upgraded from architecture 1 to 2, the Schlage deadbolt with apple home key generated multiple users with multiple keys and I spent weeks trying to delete and/or remove users. Second, I absolutely love the way HomePods stereo pair works. It automates pretty much everything in a living room and turns on/off the TV etc. However, I cannot count the amount of times recently I have issues with no sound, one speaker disconnects, audio lags etc. specifically while watching the KZfaq Apple TV app between commercial breaks. I have tried everything to make this rock solid and although there are no real solutions posted out there, I think reserving a static IP to both HomePods seems to be a possible solution. Some say that part of the problem lies with using an ethernet connection to the Apple TV, it then makes the HomePods behave like a wired device. In my Eero setup this is exactly how they show up. if you ever want to revisit HomePod Stereo pair with new ideas and problem solving, this could be an interesting video!

@jvonkas6542 9 ай бұрын

Familiar with your HomePod gripes. See my post from today. New Architecture was to blame .. I say was!

@JBaby_9783 9 ай бұрын

I recently rebuilt my smart home when I got Starlink and eero Pro 6E a month ago. I ended up unplugging ethernet from my 3rd Gen tv 4K. My OG HomePods just kept dropping off and I wouldn’t be able to mute, Siri wouldn’t work, and I couldn’t use timers. They kept showing up as wired unknown devices in eero’s app just like you’ve stated. It’s been two weeks with no more issues. But I really wish I could hardwire the tv again. Overall even with these minor setbacks I’m loving my smart home again! I had a lot of issues with my home not working due to my previous ISP’s crappy Nokia mesh router.

@myHomeKithome 9 ай бұрын

Damn! What specific issues were you having with your Thread network? I have been fighting with Matter over Thread devices. I just cannot get them into Apple Home.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

I think it was related to the Apple and Nanoleaf border routers joining the same thread network.

@myHomeKithome 9 ай бұрын

@@ShaneCreates got it! Hopefully you don't run into those issues anymore.

@cpete0079 9 ай бұрын

This may be a dumb question but I have Xfinity internet that I hate with the fury of 1000 suns. I have no mesh devices but do have multiple HomePods and another hubs. I have 100ish devices connected and am continuously rebooting my modem. I just “upgraded” the xfinity modem 6 months ago and still have issues. I supposedly have the best internet plan, but still experience slow/not working internet multiple times per week. Is it just throttling? Do I need a mesh network? Other thoughts? House is 3800 sqft if it matters.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Not sure the router that you have, but often the ISP provided routers are not very good... especially with that many devices. If you have a modem/router combo provided by your ISP, there is a good chance that getting a solid mesh wifi router system that could handle more devices would be a big help.

@Niks.Camera 9 ай бұрын

My matter thread devices interfere with my homekit thread devices. They kept dropping down to Bluetooth.

@georgesarkisyan7506 9 күн бұрын

Any one cam make any sugestion what kind of control to use for 64’ led strip that will work with home kit

@andyprosserman2088 9 ай бұрын

What do you have your hubs connected to? I've been struggling to find ports to connect all mine to on various Eero devices.

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

You can get a network switch if you need more ethernet ports.

@Shin3alight 9 ай бұрын

Does the TP link Wi-Fi support a distinct 2.4ghz channel, or allow 5ghz to be turned off while connecting older devices with 2.4ghz only apps? My Netgear Orbi 750 will not allow that 😕

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

Yes, you can specify 2.4GHz or combined 2.4/5 GHz for your SSIDs.

@1csearle 9 ай бұрын

Makes you wish you could have a hub/router for each room and have all chid dependencies connected to those hubs/router and just add each hub for each room

@faengelm 9 ай бұрын

I'm thinking about what you would have to go through if you moved to a new house and wanted the same automation. Or, what if the buyer of your house liked your automation and wanted you to assign it to them. All those accounts that are personalized such as AppleID, Philips Hue, Aqara?

@ShaneCreates 9 ай бұрын

If a new owner took over, they would have to re-setup everything. If I moved, you should be able to reconnect everything and use the same SSID name and password and get most of your stuff back up. The tedious part for me was having to re-add everything to a new network and then re-add to Apple Home.

@RF200000 8 ай бұрын

What is there on the wall for adjusting temperature? How is this device called? Is it google nest? How do you connect this to HomeKit?

@ShaneCreates 8 ай бұрын

I am using Ecobee Thermostats

@Sciue 5 ай бұрын

This is in IMHo planned obsolescence, after updating to ios 16 all my Eve Door & Window (Homekit) stopped working and never had any more notifications.......

@iKevinF 7 ай бұрын

If you have an Apple TV or HomePod, do you still need other vendor border routers? I thought by having an apple home hub it negated the need for the other border routers?

@ShaneCreates 7 ай бұрын

Currently each "ecosystem," i.e. Apple Home, SmartThings, Alexa, etc., creates their own Thread network. So for this reason you will need a Thread Border Router for each voice assistant or ecosystem that you wish to use.

@iKevinF 7 ай бұрын

@@ShaneCreates Oh I see. It’s confusing sometimes because I have an eve light switch that doesn’t need anything but an Apple TV, but I was looking into getting the Aqara smart lock for my front door and couldn’t tell it if needed its own or if the Apple TV alone is ok.

@robozzy 3 ай бұрын

By any chance, did you manage to connect that Govee Lyra lamp to Homekit?

@ShaneCreates 3 ай бұрын

Yes it is connected through Homebridge.

@Bubbles-mz6fv 9 ай бұрын

I was in your shoes a month ago due to stability issues with Apple Home, failing automations, and Siri. During that time I migrated all of my accessories (150+ devices) to Home Assistant and forward them back to Apple Home so I can control them from both Apple Home and Home Assistant. Home Assistant automations are much more customizable and more reliable. Apple Home just isn't mature yet unfortunately imo.

@PattyKuluCakes 9 ай бұрын

Idk what’s wrong with my HomeKit setup but, it keeps on showing my old homes even after deleting them in the Home settings. I would delete the old home and then it’ll reappear a couple days later.

@flyfishing51fifty 9 ай бұрын

We are about to do the same. We set up our lake house with Apple Homekit. Now we are moving there full time because of kids left home, lifestyle change, etc. Automations will need to be different and it makes sense to just start from beginning and this time will be documenting it so it can be easily followed in a years time.