grlym

China officially changed it's Covid policy last week at sessions held in Beijing with Xi Jinping.  It is now CCP policy to get countrywide herd immunity ASAP.  So it is now the law that all citizens, even if they test positive for Covid MUST report to work, be it at a factory or in a medical facility.  At a second positive test, they can self sequester.  China unfortunately does not have a population vaccinated with RNA vaccines and does not have the ICU capacity per 100,000 population comparable to the west.  This will likely be very, very traumatic and messy.

Yes I noticed my HomeKit which is largely a Phillips Hue system of lighting in a 1000sf loft and an AppleTV 4K associated with a flat panel Samsung TV and 2 original HomePods, was not fully functional and dis-coordinated in the ways discussed in comments above.  I just left the system alone and did nothing.  It updated itself through all the devices and sensors over a period of 8 hrs, so by the end of the day, everything was back to "normal".

So about 4 months ago, I asked an acquaintance of mine who has been intimately involved with the apple wireless group for a while, if they had been disbanded.  He said no, simply renamed and still hard at work.