Todd VaziriMay 22, 2024

If I want to use an Apple TV as a HomeKit Hub to help control wireless devices (like smart locks), does the Apple TV need to be physically close to those wireless devices or does it use your existing Wi-Fi network to connect?

(I’m going to using the Schlage Encode Plus)

Show threadFrank McPartland
@tvaziri I use a very old iPad Mini as a HomeKit hub for the Encode Plus. My wife loves to unlock the door with her Apple Watch
May 22, 2024 at 3:25amIceCubesApp
Show threadDave Wood 🇨🇦May 22, 2024
@frankmcp @tvaziri Note that iPad is not supported as a HomeKit hub anymore. It’ll keep working on an old Home setup, but if you do the upgrade in the Home app to the “new, more reliable architecture” or whatever they call it, the iPad will no longer work as a hub.
Show threadMonty Hayter 🇨🇦May 22, 2024

@davewoodx @frankmcp @tvaziri Using an iPad was always tenuous anyway — things tended to break if you took the iPad anywhere outside the home. (Note that the same applies to the AppleTV: be prepared for all sorts of inconvenience if you relocate it to another network, even temporarily)

But to the original question: uses the WiFi network just fine.

Show threadFrank McPartlandMay 22, 2024

@davewoodx @tvaziri

I did not realize this --thanks for letting me know!