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Accessories
When every Hue light shows No Response but the Hue app works perfectly, one accessory has failed, not thirty. Here is which one, and why factory-resetting the Bridge is the wrong move.
8 min read
Accessories
HomeKit carries two separate battery signals and neither is a measurement. That is why a sensor at 60% stops working, and why the warning often arrives after the failure.
8 min read
Automations
A sensor automation has two halves that break independently, and the Home app can only test one of them. Here is how to tell a trigger that never fired from actions that never ran.
9 min read
Troubleshooting
Resetting an accessory is the advice everyone gives and nobody prices. It silently strips the accessory from every scene and automation. Here is what to record first.
8 min read
Network
A HomeKit setup that takes three seconds to turn on a lamp is not broken, so nothing you restart will obviously help. Here is how to measure the delay and find where it actually comes from.
10 min read
Home Hubs
If everything works at home and fails the moment you leave, your accessories are fine and your home hub is not. Here is how to test it without leaving the house.
7 min read
Network
Most HomeKit accessories only speak 2.4 GHz, yet splitting your network is usually the wrong fix. Here is what needs which band, and what to change instead.
9 min read
Automations
A broken automation looks completely normal in the Home app. Here is how to find the dead ones, why deleting the wrong ones costs you, and what to do when one refuses.
7 min read
Troubleshooting
An accessory that responds in the manufacturer app but not in Apple Home is not broken. The two apps reach it by different routes, and only one of them is local.
9 min read
Troubleshooting
An accessory that drops out and comes back cannot be diagnosed by testing, because testing is exactly when it works. Here is how to read the pattern instead.
9 min read
Troubleshooting
A new router does not break your accessories — it removes the network they were paired to. Here is which settings break HomeKit, and the order to bring everything back.
10 min read
Automations
The Home app reports a scene as "Failed" without naming the action that broke. Here is how to find it in minutes, and why a slow accessory is not a broken one.
9 min read
Automations
An automation that never fires and one that fires but half-completes are different bugs with different fixes. Here is how to tell them apart and repair each.
8 min read
Home Hubs
When your home hub goes down, every accessory looks broken and no automation runs. Here is how to confirm the hub is the problem, and what actually brings it back.
7 min read
Troubleshooting
"No Response" in the Home app almost never means the accessory is broken. Here is how to tell a dead bulb from a dead network, and fix the right thing first.
10 min read
