Honestly, I don't belive that engineers working at Apple are using Homekit or Airplay. Because if they did, they would (hopefully) scramble back to the office first thing Monday morning and hammering the keyboards.
Airplay is still a disaster. Ok, i am of course also guilty of investing deeply into the ecosystem and I am probably nuts by having 14 HomePods around the house - despite knowing better. So I should probably not be whinging.
If they work as advertised, then they are convenient and sound quality is good enough for us. However... To get several of them to play music together is very often a complete headache. Even after having set up a scene with multiple homepods playing a music list or radio station, they often won't work. Scene failed, or some homepods not playing, etc.
Or when you manually trying to include some homepods with airplay: you select the homepods, spinning circle for a few minutes, but nothing happens.
Or in the Home on the front page, HomePod are showing as NOT Playing but when you select them, the app then shows that they are playing something. Or vice versa.
Or when you playing something on your Mac and you want your Audio not only to play on the speakers which are hard wired to the Mac but also airplayed to other HomePods: I have to select sometimes either the Mac speakers off and or, or the Airplay symbol for the Homepods off and on. Or have to restart the music app... It's a s..t show. Honestly.
One "solution" which provides remedy at times, e.g., when I tried to run a scene which is supposed to play music on several selected Homepods: run another scene first which has the same Homepods selected but instead of playing music they just play ambient sounds. Then I select the music scene again and this time the scene works.
So kind of "priming" the HomePods first... You could not make this stuff up.
And all HomePods are running on the same 5GHz network within 10m off the router and no other devices experiencing any abnormal network behavior.
Airplay is still a disaster. Ok, i am of course also guilty of investing deeply into the ecosystem and I am probably nuts by having 14 HomePods around the house - despite knowing better. So I should probably not be whinging.
If they work as advertised, then they are convenient and sound quality is good enough for us. However... To get several of them to play music together is very often a complete headache. Even after having set up a scene with multiple homepods playing a music list or radio station, they often won't work. Scene failed, or some homepods not playing, etc.
Or when you manually trying to include some homepods with airplay: you select the homepods, spinning circle for a few minutes, but nothing happens.
Or in the Home on the front page, HomePod are showing as NOT Playing but when you select them, the app then shows that they are playing something. Or vice versa.
Or when you playing something on your Mac and you want your Audio not only to play on the speakers which are hard wired to the Mac but also airplayed to other HomePods: I have to select sometimes either the Mac speakers off and or, or the Airplay symbol for the Homepods off and on. Or have to restart the music app... It's a s..t show. Honestly.
One "solution" which provides remedy at times, e.g., when I tried to run a scene which is supposed to play music on several selected Homepods: run another scene first which has the same Homepods selected but instead of playing music they just play ambient sounds. Then I select the music scene again and this time the scene works.
So kind of "priming" the HomePods first... You could not make this stuff up.
And all HomePods are running on the same 5GHz network within 10m off the router and no other devices experiencing any abnormal network behavior.
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