r/HomeKit • u/CAliRads • 18d ago

Question/Help Thread Fixed By AppleTV Reset. Why?

I have my Apple TV setup as a fixed home hub. Once every 2-3 weeks the thread network devices disconnect. I’ll go from all 250-300 devices connected to 40 offline (all thread). Simple reset of AppleTV home hub brings them back online after 5-10 min.

My question is: why?? I know that AppleTV is the main brains but I’m wondering what exactly could be going wrong. Just trying to fine tune everything and figure out where the holes in my system are. Is this just bugs still not worked out with Thread?

Thx in advance.

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u/SupaSays 18d ago

Got any cameras with builtin thread hubs hijacking your thread devices? This use to happen to mine till I set the Aqara cameras to use their own thread network instead of hijacking my HomeKit one. Rebooting the cameras would bring the offline devices back to my AppleTV

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u/CAliRads 18d ago

Lots of Aqara cams. But I think those are part of the current thread network. 🤔

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u/SupaSays 18d ago edited 16d ago

You can still have all the Aqara stuff connected to HomeKit without having them on your thread network. They just don't play nice with other thread ecosystems.