Apple TV only working as hub when connected wirelessly. But when wired, it doesn't show as Home Hub.

Apple TV only working as hub when connected wirelessly. But when wired, it doesn't show as Home Hub.

Apple TV only working as hub when connected wirelessly. But when wired, it doesn't show as Home Hub.
Apple TV only working as hub when connected wirelessly. But when wired, it doesn't show as Home Hub.
3 weeks ago
Model: Deco S4  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.6.2

I have an apple tv 4K latest model.

 

If I connect it wirelessly, then it acts as Home hub for my smat home devices. But, when I wired it using ethernet cable, then it doesn't show as hub.

 

Everything is connected to same router but not sure what is the issue?

 

I googled but couldn't find a solution to this.

 

Can you help?

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Re:Apple TV only working as hub when connected wirelessly. But when wired, it doesn't show as Home Hub.
Wednesday

  @pc10 

Hi, Thank you very much for your time and patience.

Were you still having the reported issue?

I saw a similar post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/1h1qkba/apple_tv_4k_cannot_work_as_home_hub_when/

The OP here mentioned the following test results:

"I did some more troubleshooting using laptops and found that

  1. ⁠Multicast from wired to wired is fine

  2. ⁠Multicast from wireless to wireless is fine

  3. ⁠Multicast between wired and wireless fails

So looks like the router doesn’t allow multicast between wired and wireless. And I read that the HomeKit Hub role requires mDNS to function, so makes sense."

 

Deco doesn't support local DNS reslution either. I wonder if that might be the problem.

Wait for your reply and best regards.

 

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