I have 2 homepods as a stereo pair. One of them made a loud bang, unpaired and wouldn't work anymore.
But I reset to factory settings, set it up again and made the stereo pair again. Things seemed to be OK.
But the next day it happened again but this time I saw ants crawling all over it.
It seems that ants caused this. They were probably inside the homepod the day before so I couldn't see them and never suspected ants to be the cause. I sprayed the homepod to kill the ants, found the queen ant (which strangely seemed to survive the spray) and removed it.
I didn't take a photo but someone on reddit had a similar problem and made this photo:
Anyway after getting rid of the ants I reset to factory settings, set it up and made the stereo pair again.
No more loud bangs or unpairings.
The ants definitely caused this. I have no idea what damage they may have caused inside it but the loud bangs makes me think they got to the electricals - but it was probably just shortings because I managed to get the homepod working again.
The strangest thing is that the ants only went for the left homepod - there were no ants on the right one.
I thought there might have been some sticky substance on it attracting the ants - but there wasn't.
There is something much stranger going on.
But I reset to factory settings, set it up again and made the stereo pair again. Things seemed to be OK.
But the next day it happened again but this time I saw ants crawling all over it.
It seems that ants caused this. They were probably inside the homepod the day before so I couldn't see them and never suspected ants to be the cause. I sprayed the homepod to kill the ants, found the queen ant (which strangely seemed to survive the spray) and removed it.
I didn't take a photo but someone on reddit had a similar problem and made this photo:
Anyway after getting rid of the ants I reset to factory settings, set it up and made the stereo pair again.
No more loud bangs or unpairings.
The ants definitely caused this. I have no idea what damage they may have caused inside it but the loud bangs makes me think they got to the electricals - but it was probably just shortings because I managed to get the homepod working again.
The strangest thing is that the ants only went for the left homepod - there were no ants on the right one.
I thought there might have been some sticky substance on it attracting the ants - but there wasn't.
There is something much stranger going on.
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