Here’s an update to my situation …
I just purchased a new HomePod Mini today and hooked it up to my home network.
I removed my IPad as being the Home Kit Hub in my network… That is what I was originally using for all my IOS devices to join to.
I removed and deleted all the settings in the HomeyKit app .
I removed Homey as being a bridge in my IOS devices.
I rebooted Homey and paired my new HomePod mini to Homey. It didn’t pair the first time, but paired on the second attempt.
I then rebooted Homey again just to be safe…
Since then I’ve been testing everything for about 3 hours now.
So far so good. 
Everything seems to respond fast and quick and is fairly snappy … I’ve haven’t had any failures to connect my devices at all.
While I’ve been testing everything tonight I also turned off the Wifi connection on my iPhone so it’s just connected to 4G LTE. (As if I was away from home)… It also hasn’t had any failures which previously happened a lot while I was away from home…
I’ll post an update tomorrow on how my testing ultimately goes but so far so good… My iPad was probably the contributing factor to my issues but it sounds like Homey needs to get its code up to scratch.
If it starts to work reliably from now on I’ll be happy but I will still have some very stern comments to make about Athom. 
Their business model and attitude are totally deplorable. This is shared by many comments I’ve seen over the internet.
I spent $600 AUD to buy my Homey Hub. This is “A LOT” of money in my country. I can buy a second car for this price. 
I purchased it as it was advertised has having “Apple HomeKit compatibility” !!! plus also other features (which don’t really work properly after trying). The inbuilt IR and 433Mhz also really “NEED” to have learning capabilities but Athom arrogantly don’t seem care about this after so much negative feedback about this…
I can buy 3 x Habitat Hub’s for $600 AUD. Even Apple don’t charge this sort of money. I expect a five star product for this price and that it perform what it advertises to do, and do it reliably. This is not so from my overall experience with the system. .
Im quite pissed off to “now” find out that Athom’s Apple HomeKit compatibility feature is essentially just a “joke” to them… This is crazy…
HomeKit is such a major platform for smart home connectivity in the global market… Millions and millions of people use the IOS platform. Its nut’s that Athom just treat’s this with total contempt and disregard. I’m very disappointed in this information.,
If they don’t properly formalise this feature into Homey or they dump it I’ll be returning my Homey Hub back to the retailer for a refund.
Id dare say many people bought this hub as they thought it would “properly” integrate with their IOS devices . I’d dare say a class action will ensue if they don’t get their act together on this…
Very disappointed…
