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Hello All

We have three Apple TVs in our home, and one keeps disconnecting from the C4 Remote. My only option at that time is to restart the Apple TV. Is there any way to fix this.


Posted

It’s ridiculous that we have to reboot Apple TV’s every single hour!, it’s very random now, we have one in every room and it’s super annoying to do this to all 7 of them, feels like Home Assitant early days!

Anyways, am installing tvOS 18.1 beta and will let you know the good news (if any!)

Posted

No, 18.1 beta does not work, same issues, I had removed Apple TV Control from C4 app an re-add it, added the remotes back and removed the old EA from Home app, let’s see if this will work

Posted

Okay so far so good and still working since the remove and re-add and for sure it’s a HomeKit issue, exactly like we have to remove Sonos and re-add it back for it to work with HomeKit, I’ll closely monitor this and will report back if there are any issues, am on IOS 18.x on all Apple devices

Posted

I can confirm it’s working without issues now for all ATV’s, so all u need to do is to turn off ATV control in C4 app and re-enable it, then in home app accept the discovered controller and remotes, remove old controller, that’s it!

Posted

Am on 18.1 beta on ATV, it’s working fine for more than 48hrs now so I can assume it’s solid till now and they fixed this bug already and will be released end of this month AFAIK.

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16 minutes ago, Amr said:

Am on 18.1 beta on ATV, it’s working fine for more than 48hrs now so I can assume it’s solid till now and they fixed this bug already and will be released end of this month AFAIK.

Have you tried a Director reboot? That is when I loose my connection to ATV (other than that, TVOS18 is rock solid for me).

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18 minutes ago, Amr said:

Am on 18.1 beta on ATV, it’s working fine for more than 48hrs now so I can assume it’s solid till now and they fixed this bug already and will be released end of this month AFAIK.

Apparently TV OS18.1 releases on Monday

Posted
2 minutes ago, South Africa C4 user said:

Have you tried a Director reboot? That is when I loose my connection to ATV (other than that, TVOS18 is rock solid for me).

I don’t believe a director reboot is the answer, Apple screwed on their side and they need to fix this, it’s a HomeKit issue, they start missing with it sometime ago where I had to completely reset my Sonos Speakers and re-add for HomeKit to work with it again, I had spent hours trouble shooting HK issues sometime ago and they are very slow in resolving things, the “default room” issue toke them a year to resolve and we had to re-implement things from scratch for HK to properly work with C4 accessories.

Removing ATV from the app and re-enable it fix it for me without a director reboot.

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36 minutes ago, Amr said:

I don’t believe a director reboot is the answer, Apple screwed on their side and they need to fix this, it’s a HomeKit issue, they start missing with it sometime ago where I had to completely reset my Sonos Speakers and re-add for HomeKit to work with it again, I had spent hours trouble shooting HK issues sometime ago and they are very slow in resolving things, the “default room” issue toke them a year to resolve and we had to re-implement things from scratch for HK to properly work with C4 accessories.

Removing ATV from the app and re-enable it fix it for me without a director reboot.

I’m not saying a Director reboot is the answer.  What I am saying is that in my setup I don’t lose connection except when I do a Director reboot.  

Thus I am asking if you have done a Director reboot and if the Apple TV remains connected after the Director reboot?

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1 hour ago, South Africa C4 user said:

Have you tried a Director reboot? That is when I loose my connection to ATV (other than that, TVOS18 is rock solid for me).

What do you do to bring back the connection after the reboot?

 

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40 minutes ago, South Africa C4 user said:

I’m not saying a Director reboot is the answer.  What I am saying is that in my setup I don’t lose connection except when I do a Director reboot.  

Thus I am asking if you have done a Director reboot and if the Apple TV remains connected after the Director reboot?

From what I know, eventually you will loose connection to ATV’s randomly, only way now is to do what I did, no need to upgrade ATV to 18.1, just disable/enable ATV control as I explained and u’ll have back ur ATV control like tvOS 17.

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1 hour ago, ekohn00 said:

What do you do to bring back the connection after the reboot?

 

Rebooting the Apple TV fixes it every time.  I use my iPhone to control the AppleTv and go to the reboot option.  Hey presto I am back u0 and running after doing that and I have no more issues until inext reboot Director… could be worse (I guess)

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11 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said:

Rebooting the Apple TV fixes it every time.  I use my iPhone to control the AppleTv and go to the reboot option.  Hey presto I am back u0 and running after doing that and I have no more issues until inext reboot Director… could be worse (I guess)

By time, you will need to reboot ATV’s every hour, this was my case, I had ATV’s on a power cycle switch, eventually lost connection every hour or so till finding the solution

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1 hour ago, Amr said:

By time, you will need to reboot ATV’s every hour, this was my case, I had ATV’s on a power cycle switch, eventually lost connection every hour or so till finding the solution

Interesting.  I’ve been on TV OS18 since a day or two after it came out publicly and literally only have the problem after a Director reboot.

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6 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said:

Interesting.  I’ve been on TV OS18 since a day or two after it came out publicly and literally only have the problem after a Director reboot.

I’m about the same. Had to reboot the Apple TVs only a couple times after a director reboot and they’ve all been fine since then for me on tvOS 18.

Posted

I’ve just loaded 18.1 last night (release candidate) fingers crossed….. I’ll give it a few days, then try rebooting the controller to see if it fails or not.

Posted

Well I installed 18.1 3 days ago. Unfortunately when I used the system last night and tonight it was disconnected. 

When I reset the appletv it reconnects  
 

 

 

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