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Belkin WeMo lights

Switches · Lighting

Partly worksApple Home issuesLocal

1 report: 1 says it partly works.

Reported with 1 integration: Belkin WeMo.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Belkin WeMoPartly works LocalPartly in Home
Missing from Home app until HomeKit started late
Did not appear in HomeKit Bridge with auto_start; delayed start workaround
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… Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.): Raspberian with docker and HASS.IO. Component/platform: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/wemo/ Description of problem: Wemo lights are no longer appearing in HomeKit when auto_start is enabled in the HomeKit component. If I disable auto_start and create an automation to HomeKit.start after 5 minutes then the lights show up. It would appear to me with the restructure of the wemo component in 0.85 to speed up startup, that now HomeKit starts before wemo lights are configured, meaning they never show up. The workaround to start HomeKit …

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.

Issue #20032 · 2019-01

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BrandBelkin
CategorySwitches