Eero Pro 6 and Apple HomeKit

cMoo92 The new ones don’t at the moment. From what Eero has said it’s going through the certification process. I have faith it will come to them soon enough.

There’s a thread about this on Reddit where the CEO indicated that the eero 6 systems were undergoing HomeKit certification with Apple. So it should just be a matter of time. In the meantime you can get rid of your oils routers in the Home app. But you must select the “Remove Accessory” option on the gateway eero. It doesn’t appear on the other devices. When you do that all of the eero’s you have setup in HomeKit will be removed. 

Thank you, I was able to remove the accessory from my HomeKit with your advice. Yes, what you said is true I got a reply back from eero customer support stating the same fact is you said that they are waiting for Apple HomeKit certification. 

Unfortunately no, Still no HomeKit compatibly. Still waiting for them. I honestly blame Amazon. Just like Ring was going to make their devices Homekit until Amazon bought them and they never did. Same with Google when they bought Nest, but hopefully I’m wrong with eero.  

Previous models became HomeKit compatible after Amazon had bought eero. This isn’t a question of “if” the eero 6 models will become HomeKit compatible, it’s just a matter of when. From the sounds of it, eero is simply waiting on Apple to approve it—so it’s not even eero’s fault.

The previous version became HomeKit compatible before company was officially bought by Amazon in March 2019 and it had the HomeKit in February 2019. I had the previous product when it came out. Apple would approved it by now because they approved it before. Its Amazon that what’s Alexa over Apple. But like I said I hope I’m wrong. 

Anthony-Yasin Amazon announced they were buying eero in February 2019. eero publicly released HomeKit support in February 2020 (HomeKit compatibility was available to beta testers prior to February 2020, but only by a few months). And just because a company is owned by Amazon doesn't mean it won't get HomeKit as evidenced by these situations:

1. eero getting HomeKit earlier this year
2. Ecobee announcing HomeKit compatibility today for their SmartCamera

cMoo92 We’ll see, like I said I hope I’m wrong about it. Amazon has done it before. Ecobee is its own company. It’s not owned Amazon if that is what you’re asking.

Anthony-Yasin I stand corrected. I forgot that Amazon had only invested in Ecobee--not actually acquired them.

HomeKit on routers offers very little functionality. All it does is let you choose to apply a little more granular security to other HomeKit devices on your network. It can be useful, but it’s not even remotely close to being a deal breaker to me. I would definitely stick with the Pro 6 that you already have.

cnewman Absolutely just wait it out, friend. Eero developers indicated on Reddit it’s just going through the certification process so it’ll be on it’s way. 

Richard1864 think you are not following the intention of my question. The eero 6 is advertised to be a zigbee hub and as such the HomeKit intg should see all accessories connected to the eero otherwise it failed in its goal to eliminate the need to purchase an additional dedicated hub just for that.

jwklinck this isn’t a HomeKit issue. The problem is that the light bulb you’re trying to connect only supports 2.4Ghz while your phone is likely on the 5Ghz network. The way to get around this is to temporarily disable the 5Ghz radio so your phone will be on the 2.4Ghz radio. To do this, open the eero app and go to Settings > Troubleshooting > My device won’t connect > My device is 2.4Ghz only

jwklinck correct. Eero pro 6 is not compatible yet with HomeKit. The blame is apparently on Apple certification... but this issue has been open for half a year, easily. 
 

Richard1864 nope nope and hard nope. Agreeing to apples privacy policy?  Yup. Look deeper. Eero has an option here. 

Anthony-Yasin It's also available on the earlier eero pro (pre-6), which I have. You do need to update your iOS eero app for the option to appear. Not sure if you need to be on eeroOS 6.3.1, but probably you do.

clayj correct, I used to have the pre-eero. But I was upset when new l eero router weren’t HomeKit, but now they are.😄

Oscar Gidas Same issue here as well.  Just bought a new Euro 6 for a new network and get the never ending spinning circle after clicking "Setup Homekit" too.

By chance did you find a solution?  Anyone have any insight to this?

Hello dsaponaro ,

Wanted to reach out to you and let you know the best way for us to troubleshoot this behavior will be to either email or give us a call. If you wanted to handle this over phone you can use the link below to find the best number to call and any of our specialists will be able to assist you. If you wanted to work over email I'll send you a direct message with instructions on how to reach out to me.

https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/207376426-How-do-I-contact-eero-support-

Oscar Gidas The solution is to temporarily disable "Thread" support in the eero app (Settings tab > Network Settings > Thread > off).  After that, the "Set up HomeKit" button will work.  Afterwards, you can re-enable Thread.  I realize that my post is 5 months too late for you, but I'm posting this for folks who might have stumbled onto this discussion sometime later.

lifjoy Thanks! That worked. It took me about 5 tries to add my Eero AP’s to HomeKit but it finally worked on my iPhone.
 

On a side note,  I’ve noticed that I had to turn off Eero’s Ad Blocking feature to get ESPN/ABC streaming to work on my network too. It’s a shame we have to keep disabling features to avoid other issues.