Homekit Thread Devices not working after upgrade to home assistant 17.1

HI,

all my homekit thread devices fail to connect in home assistant since I did the upgrade to home assistant 17.1 (from 16.1) and Operating System 16.0.

I still see in the OpenThread Border Router that all the device are connected via Thread. And all Matter over Thread devices are still working.

I could not find any useful logs only some related to Bluetooth which is not used anymore for these Homekit Thread devices.

Was there any change done regarding Homekit over Thread devices?
Could it be that the devices lost the Thread binding?
I also enabled Debug logs for Homekit Device Integration but can’t see any related logs.

BR,
Martin

Thanks, does this mean you are investigating the issue?

Do you have any other Thread devices that aren’t through then HomeKit Device integration?

Like Matter over Thread devices that aren’t associated with HK Device integration. Are those working?

What is your OBTR? Do you try restarting it? Or all of them if you have multiple? Do you have Thread devices just in Apple Home? And if so, are they communicating ok?

Also, did you try restarting your router? Thread uses ipv6 so your routers handle that, so a restart never hurts.

Were they working fine on previous Supervision version? If so I’d go to my latest backup with the old supervision version.

Yes as written all Matter over Thread device are still working.
I use the home assistant AddOn for OTBR. Restarted it and also the whole server and router without success.
Yes they all worked on 16.1. I check how i could downgrade.

Downgraded now to 16.1 and all Homekit over Thread Devices are now working again. So there is definitely something wrong in the versions after 16.1 till 17.1.

Should I create an issue on the home assistant core?

With HA 17.1, I think you are referring to the HA IOS App ? In that case, you need to file an issue on the IOS App github.

No has nothing to do with iOS. I have an Android App but it is not related to the APP at all. It is an issue of the Home Assistance Homekit Integration.

Created now a Github issue: Homekit Thread Devices not working after upgrade to home assistant 17.1 · Issue #149128 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

What is HA 16.1 and 17.1? Latest release of HA is 2025.7.2, the one before was 2025.7.1. And last month release was 2025.6.x

Sorry it is 2025.6.1 and 2025.7.1

Upgrad from 2025.6.1 to 2025.8.1 worked fine and all homekit Thread devices are still working. Issue was fixed somewhere.