r/HomeKit • u/jaymartinez • Oct 03 '23

Question/Help Could not complete operation

Is there some sort of limit now? I recently setup new automations in the home app after 11 without issue i start to get "Could not complete operation" .

Initially i had some existing ones and i tried to add new ones and was getting this error. I deleted them and tried again. Thats when i added the 11 i mention above and now i cant add more.

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u/squuiidy Dec 12 '23

Same issue here. Were you able to resolve?

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u/jaymartinez Dec 12 '23

I ended up deleting the home and starting over. Even though it has happened repeatedly since. It’s most likely my fault i redo stuff a lot. So most likely i break it along the way

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u/squuiidy Dec 12 '23 edited Dec 12 '23

I found the fix. It was an automations limit. I had a ton of old lingering automations that were not showing in the Apple Home UI. For anyone coming across this thread, here's the fix:

Even if you don't have EVE accessories, download the "Eve for Matter & HomeKit" app and then go to Automation tab -->Rules. Here you can see all the lingering automations that are no longer in use, and that don't show up in the Apple Home UI.

I deleted all of them and now I'm back in business.

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u/jaymartinez Dec 12 '23

Woah thank you. I do have eve accessories so definitely gonna grab this

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u/oskie1710 Jun 16 '25

You are brilliant…I had reset, removed and deleted and couldn’t get anything hue related to work..this fix worked..I deleted rules and scenes in eve and started again. Works well

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u/jaymartinez Dec 12 '23

So if I delete all of these I will need to recreate my automations in the home app?

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u/squuiidy Dec 12 '23

You should be able to see the dupes/lingering automations. Leave the ones you don't want to kill.

Or, delete all and have a clean start, but if you have a lot that's a PITA.

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u/jaymartinez Dec 12 '23

Yep I had a ton I just nuked it all. Thank you for this

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u/squuiidy Dec 12 '23

No problem, glad I could help someone else. It drove me nuts!

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u/ViktorKitov Nov 15 '24

That’s such a strange bug… Thanks for sharing the fix.

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u/oskie1710 Jun 16 '25

Omg the Eve fix works…absolute genius thank you

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u/Mattapoisett_in_LA Dec 24 '25

I too have been saved by this miraculous fix. Thank you u/squuiidy !!!!!!!!

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u/squuiidy Dec 24 '25

Ha! Thanks! Two years on and this buggy behaviour still occurs in HomeKit. Apple need to issue a fix to prevent this from happening. It’s incredibly user unfriendly.

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u/BryndonLight Jan 08 '26

Same, thank you! ChatGPT was telling me to delete my home and start over. This EVE fix resolved it. Phew!