Hi all,

I’m the developer of the HomeView app, a dashboard app that puts your HomeKit accessories as widgets on one screen.

Just want to let you know that 3.0, brings Home Assistant support.

The idea: one clean dashboard on your iPad (great as a wall-mounted kiosk) or iPhone that treats HomeKit and Home Assistant devices the same.

What works with HA in 3.0:

• Lights (on/off, brightness, colour + colour temperature)
• Switches
• Covers / blinds (open/close + position)
• Climate / thermostats (setpoint, and now mode: heat/cool/auto/off)
• Scenes and scripts

It connects straight to your HA instance after setup.

It’s not trying to replace HA’s own dashboards, it’s for people who also have HomeKit gear and want one tidy, glanceable surface for both, especially on a tablet by the door. As HomeKit will stay the primary focus.

Happy to answer anything, and would appreciate feedback or suggestions for future updates. As previous feedback helped shape the app and helped it over 1500 users now. Just post about major updates on this forum.

Is anyone else disappointed or at least underwhelmed by the recent Apple Home announcements?

I’ve been waiting for this announcement before deciding what to do with the Ring cameras I want to replace. I figured I would get the HomeView and HKSV cams that were POE and would load almost instantly in HomeView and Apple TV. After their announcement, and after getting a lot of useful feedback on this forum, I ended up getting UniFi cams. I might try to add Scrypted later—I don’t want to deal with setting up an always-on device for now. I wouldn’t be surprised if the UniFi app fulfills all my needs.

I’m definitely prioritizing quality and reliability over integration. I’m tired of sacrificing quality for integration. That’s why I went with UniFi over Aqara and LG. Will the Matter standard fix this one day? Is there any hope? Or will mixing high quality with integration involve techie plugins like Scrypted and Home Assistant for the foreseeable future? Why can Apple wow us with their mobile devices and not much else? It seems like a blown opportunity to me. Anxious to hear your thoughts.

I have an Apple TV and all of my other HomeKit devices are setup. Anyone know what this means??

Title: Can't add new Matter-over-Thread devices — existing devices work, border routers verified

I'm experiencing a persistent Apple Home commissioning failure. Whenever I attempt to add a new Matter-over-Thread accessory, Apple Home recognizes it, begins connecting, then reports "Thread Border Router Required."

This has happened with both a Kwikset Halo Select lock and an Aqara motion/light sensor. Two identical Halo Select locks previously paired successfully and both continue to work.

Setup:

• Two HomePod minis and an Apple TV
• UniFi Dream Machine, iPhone, iPad and HomePods on the same Wi-Fi
• Both HomePods advertise the same Thread network, verified using dns-sd
• All Apple devices running current software

Troubleshooting already attempted:

• Pairing from both iPhone and iPad
• Switching between all three Apple home hubs
• Factory-resetting and re-adding one HomePod
• Restarting devices and resetting iPhone network settings
• Enabling iCloud Keychain
• Repeatedly resetting Matter setup on the accessories
• Verifying UniFi multicast and isolation settings

Nothing has helped. Existing Matter-over-Thread accessories continue working normally.

Has anyone encountered this specific situation and found a solution that doesn't require deleting and rebuilding the entire Apple Home?

I'm particularly interested in whether the Home's stored Thread network credentials or commissioning configuration can become corrupted, and whether there's a way to repair them without losing existing automations.

I don’t know if this is related to setting up my Duo and this happened before 27.2 dropped… my thermostat is splitting or duplicating. One has 6 sensors, one has 7. Yesterday I tried removing the one that didn’t actually change the temperature and it removed both. Now both are back. Removing makes me have to set up a lot of sensors and automations again. Any other ideas?

Hi everyone,

After updating to iOS 27.2 and tvOS 27.2, I'm having trouble enabling the new Apple Intelligence features in the Home app.

There are two issues:

1. Summarize Videos: I can't enable this feature at all. It keeps telling me that an iCloud+ subscription is required, even though I already have the 2TB plan.
2. Reduce Notifications: When I turn this on, the switch immediately turns itself off.

Here's my current setup:

• iOS: 27.2
• tvOS: 27.2
• Home Hub: Apple TV (active Home Hub)
• Me: Home Resident (Admin), iCloud+ 2TB
• Home Owner: iPhone 17 with Apple Intelligence enabled, iCloud+ 200GB

I'm wondering if the problem is related to the Home Owner only having the 200GB iCloud+ plan, even though I have 2TB as an Admin.

Does Apple require the Home Owner specifically to have the 2TB plan? Or could this be a bug in iOS 27.2?

Has anyone else experienced the same issue or found a solution?

Thanks!

Am I missing it or is there still no option to restrict access for Residents to certain devices in the Home app?

I have tried the Guest option, but they are only able to see the security device for the door, but not light switches etc.

I am wanting to give my kid access to the Home app devices so that he can control his lights and maybe some other things, but I don't want to give him carte blanche over the whole home and allow him to wind up his brother by switching off his lights or anyone else or accidently switching off something he didn't mean to!

I am still amazed at how little care and attention Apple have given the Home ecosystem and even their new HomeView device is woefully inadequate.

For those keeping score:

27.2 has thankfully fixed the Get Contents of URL shortcut action, which is often used to trigger notifications (I use Pushover).

Sadly, Stored Content actions still don’t work in shortcut automations. I’m really anxious to use this functionality to keep track of light status across automations. Hopefully a future update will make it work.

After significant updates to Apple hubs I like to compare advanced automations to shortcut automations. My test is a simple one using a button device and a smart plug.

When button is pressed:

• in the shortcut automation I do: If plug is on, turn off. Otherwise turn on.
• in the advanced automation it is actually two automations. In the first, I use a conditional of plug is off. Action is turn on plug. In second automation the conditional is plug is on. Action is turn plug off.

With the shortcut automation the response time is roughly 2-3 seconds.

With the advanced automation response time is 1 second or less.

Yes, with advanced automations in my example you need to create two of them. But the faster speed can be more than worth it. (note: a third party app is required for advanced automations)

Nothing big, they've just updated the Intercom icon with 27.2 from uneven lines to circle lines. I mean, honestly, I want to know the reason to "why an update was needed" lmao.

I updated my HomePod minis (OG) yesterday and it seems there’s an AI report? What’s this all about?

I don’t remember it being a thing before

Ever since ios27 I’ve been swiping down through muscle memory, but instead have to reach to the furthest corner from my thumb to get of of this screen. Is it just me that finds this frustrating?

There is nothing in the changelog, but I swear to all the homekit gods that Apple has changed something on the back or frontend of 27.2. The issue was present immediately prior to 27.2 and for 9 LONG YEARS, and the fix was noticed immediately after I updated

I can now view all 9 of my HomeCam cameras while my computer is connected to NordVPN. This was literally impossible before. I'd have to disconnect VPN, re-launch HomeCam from my StreamDeck, then re-connect VPN (painful process!) and hope to all hell my cameras dont disconnect (which they do frequently).

Paging HomeCam dev /u/aaron-pearce Are you aware of this!? All 9 of my cameras are now fully operational behind (confirmed connection) to VPN. Apple allowed more than 2 cameras on WAN and now fixed HomeKit behind VPN. It's like a dream come true... I had given up all hope.

Now if we could get rid of that unsightly bar at the top of HomeCam (or make a setting to remove it) , I will be in heaven.

Edit: I am sure /u/RevolutionaryRip1634 will also want to know about this. I remember reading your post 1 year ago and guess what! MacOS 27.2 has finally fixed this issue. Let us know if you're seeing the same behavior.

No idea when this started for me. Anyone else experiencing this?

UPDATE: Needed to update my phone to 27.2 to be able to edit the Home Theater names

First time seeing “door left open” alerts. Not sure if these are new? I don’t remember ever seeing them before. I have Aqara P2 door and window sensors. I don’t see any way to configure a “duration” to determine how long a door needs to be open to be considered “left open” though.

"Sorry, I cannot schedule this for you. I do not support requests that include a duration."

Apparently it used to work but now it sure as hell doesn't

Are there alternatives?