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  • Wish List: 14 new HomeKit features we want to see from Apple

    I would love to see new features but I would also like to see some fixes: I would like to see Apple add the ability to establish a specific device as the Master of your HomeKit configuration. I find that once you have a very large setup with multiple users synchronizing the accessories, scenes, and schedules either takes forever or revert. For example, if I add an accessory with my iPad my iPhone may take days or sometimes never see the new accessory. Additional, it has taken days for the new accessories to show up on my wife's devices. My wife's current Home App is not up to date with what I see. On some rare occasions the newly added accessory disappears and does not return. Secondly, also add the ability to explicitly specify which Apple TV is the primary for remote sharing and bluetooth. I have multiple Apple TVs that are scattered throughout my house. I recently installed the Yale bluetooth lock at my front door. I have found that HomeKit will randomly select the Apple TV to act as a bluetooth bridge. On occasion, HomeKit will select an Apple TV that is more than 30ft from my front door or between several walls and my lock becomes unreachable. The only way to fix the problem it to go to the selected Apple TV and disconnect from HomeKit and reconnect, then go to the Apple TV that I wish to use as a bluetooth extender, disconnect and reconnect. After a few minutes HomeKit uses that newly select Apple TV for remote access and bluetooth communications. I find that I have to go through this exercise every few days or after I have to restarted my wifi. Lastly, there is something that does not work properly with HomeKit setups with more than 150+ devices. I think some of my sync problems may also be related to the number of devices. After, I got past 100 I noticed it takes longer and longer to add new accessories, scenes, and schedules. I notices that it affects the timeliness of the notifications and randomly causes devices to become unresponsive. The devices are not truly unresponsive and if I press and hold the device (force touch) it is like it reaches out and updates the status immediately or if I swipe between rooms it updates the status of unresponsive devices. It behave as thought the database/config file that hold the HomeKit setting has reached some sort of size limit and only the most recent update make it into the settings. If I remove devices and scale back the number of registered accessories the behavior returns to normal. If they fixed these things I would be so so happy.
    watto_cobra