HMHomeManager homes is empty

Question

I'm creating an instance of HMHomeManager, registering the delegate, waiting until homeManegerDidUpdateHomes() is called, but when I read manager.homes, it returns an empty array.

I tried checking the following:

• Adding the NSHomeKitUsageDescription key to my info.plist
• Removing and adding access to HomeKit for my app in the Settings app
• Deleting my home in the Home app and recreating it

Nothing seems to work, though.

Answer 1

Turns out it's not enough to enable all those settings. You also need to go to the Capabilities tab of your project, and enable HomeKit. Otherwise manager.homes.count will be zero, and manager.primaryHome will be nil.