Homekit sharing

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Homekit sharing

Hello,

I have big issues in stetting up the Homekit sharing between my devices. I saw that there are a lot of discussions regarding the "Loading Home Accessories and Scenes" you get on different devices you have logged in on your Apple devices.

In my case, after I create one "home" on my iPhone XS Max this is not shared with the other devices I have (2 iPads and 1 iPhone 5S), and all of them keep showing "Loading Home Accessories and Scenes".

On all devices I have iCloud Keychain activated and "Home" toggle" on iCloud.

I tried a lot of workarounds I saw on previous topics, but no success. I don;t know what to try anymore....

All my devices are updated to the last iOS software.

Somebody can help?

Thanks,

Mircea

Posted on Oct 31, 2019 4:19 AM

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bailey#70

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Oct 31, 2019 4:36 AM in response to Mirceal

Funny you should say that... yesterday I installed updates on 2 iPhones, an iPad and a Mac. This morning, after getting an alert for a sensor that I wasn't expecting, I went to check my Homekit configuration to find that ALL of my devices (after insisting I enabled my keychain which I don't recall disabling) now display this message.

I'm really getting peeved at the latest round of updates, they've broken far more stuff than they claim to have added!

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Oct 31, 2019 6:08 AM in response to Mirceal

I'm with you there. I have one iPad which is shared by the household that I haven't updated yet and that still works fine except the account used on that device doesn't have full access to the devices so I can turn things on and off but not change stuff unless I log it back in with my main account.

I've just rebooted my Mac and that hasn't helped. I haven't even looked at the Apple TV's yet!

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Mirceal Author

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Oct 31, 2019 6:18 AM in response to bailey#70

It's strange that, after one hour of showing the message "Loading Accessories and Scenes" I get the option to Reset the Home configuration. When I do this, all devices shows the first screen of start configuration Home accessories. When I create one Home in one device the others are turning on "Loading Accessories and Scenes" and no way forward possible.... So there is a communication via iCloud between devices....

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Nov 1, 2019 6:56 AM in response to Mirceal

So, last night I spent a couple of hours randomly logging in and out of iCloud on all of my active devices, and all of a sudden it recovered on my iPhone... but it had lost all of my automations and scenes (and I have/had a LOT of them so I am not happy).

But after rebuilding what I could remember I then noted that when I re-enabled Home on my iPad and Mac that it wasn't getting a complete picture of everything from the phone; background images are different, some scenes are missing, and some devices didn't want to respond correctly.

I'm not happy... nor would I consider this resolved by a long way!

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Mirceal Author

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Oct 31, 2019 4:54 AM in response to bailey#70

By mistake I tagged it as "resolved". Thanks for sharing with me the frustration.... I am completely blocked in this issue

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Mirceal Author

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Nov 1, 2019 9:23 AM in response to bailey#70

What can I say... Yesterday, I similarly logged out and in rest Homekit, finally I succeeded to fix it! I really don't know what I did but now everything is working fine on all my devices.

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