It's gone from saying "your device is taking time to respond" to now saying it's on when it isn't, the home app still has a 20-30 sec delay in turning stuff on, grrrrrr!
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Apple Releases HomePod 15.4.1 Software With Siri Fix
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I have 4 ATVs and 3 HomePods, 15 HomeKit devices... honestly the system scaling hasn't been much of an issue for me. I don't mean to oversimplify but I've never had to unplug anything except when my stereo pairing used to get messed up before they fixed that issue with a software update.
My favorite thing is when you ask Siri to do something, it can’t get to the device but you can just press a button in the home app and the device turns on.
HomePod+Siri is one of the biggest disappointments in apple’s product line. Not even considering the weird home hub problems like the primary forgetting how to figure out sunrise/sunset for automation triggers OR the original HomePod always being a thread device connectivity problem if it ever happens to become the primary.
HomePod+Siri is one of the biggest disappointments in apple’s product line. Not even considering the weird home hub problems like the primary forgetting how to figure out sunrise/sunset for automation triggers OR the original HomePod always being a thread device connectivity problem if it ever happens to become the primary.
Not sure what people do with their homepods but I never had a single problem with the lights or other homekit accessories and they are mostly from Meross or Eufy. The only thing that frustrates me is that Siri sometimes understand different words that I say and I triple checked, my English is fine.
Hey Siri play I want it that way
Siri: here's I wanna die
Siri are you ok?
Hey Siri play I want it that way
Siri: here's I wanna die
Siri are you ok?
I have been having random pauses with my music and sleeping white noise, hopefully this fixes it
I hard-restored my mini's and 15 minutes after started my playlist they went silent again for 2-3 secs. So, no solved as it seems.
Would love a HomePod for $200 in between the mini and the old regular.
Hey siri turn the fan off, ok fan is on 🤦♂️
Siri is decent with requests usually but still needs plenty of improvements. Someone needs to teach her what on and off means though.
Siri is decent with requests usually but still needs plenty of improvements. Someone needs to teach her what on and off means though.
15 devices is not even close to larger scale, I have 15 devices in my kitchen alone that are connected to homekit…large scale is 12 wemo light switches, 8 lutron light switches, over 40 Hue devices (lights, motion sensors, switches), garages doors, 6 tv’s in the house, 15 wemo plugs, over 20 aqara devices, whole security system etc……my whole house is connected to homekit, that is large scale (and I’m in a typical middle class home)…homekit and don’t get me wrong, neither do the others truly work…to get everything to work, you need multi automation platforms…it’s a cluster fck, and nope homebridge is not a solution either
Agreed. It’s amazing how inconsistent it has been over the years, never really improving by any significant measure. Commands / words it used to recognize would all of a sudden have difficulty with. Most recently, the Apple Watch no longer starting workouts when issuing commands through AirPods and the random muffled Siri voice issue which is a first.
Why is it I can ask Siri on my HomePod mini to turn on/off lights etc, and I’ll get “one sec” or “lights aren’t responding.” Yet if I open the HomeKit app I can access them and they work instantly?
Siri really needs to be blown up and start over. Shame how Apple was ahead of the game when it launched and have done very little with it ever since. Another “hobby” I guess.
Siri really needs to be blown up and start over. Shame how Apple was ahead of the game when it launched and have done very little with it ever since. Another “hobby” I guess.
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You can also pause media on nearby devices. Very handy.
Only several times per month?! Literally multiple times per day here. And it's only me and my wife; we sound nothing alike. Does anyone know – would something fix this? Resetting something? Signing in and out of our accounts? Anything?
Yeah Apple Music is cutting out for me too. I really really really really want to fix this. Only with Apple Music
When updating my HomePods, I had to tap “Update All” three times to get the update installed. First two times I got an “Cannot update HomePod X” message.
All HomePods now at 15.4.1. No problems so far.
All HomePods now at 15.4.1. No problems so far.
"Fixed Siri" is the biggest lie I've heard this year.
The mini’s are great speakers for casual listening but the Siri part of them is really frustrating.
Every new release has been worse than the previous one.
One thing that’s still happening today: you say Play X, the lights on the HP turns ON, the Home app show the mini’s as “Playing”, you can pause/play from the control center and change the volume…but there’s no sound being played. It’s the most infuriating thing, plus if you consider that the bastard comes with FOUR mic’s. Can’t Apple use one of them to check if the audio is ACTUALLY playing?
At circuit level it would be easy as well, just check how much current the amplifier is using.
Other insulting thing:
Me: Play X on Living Room
Siri (using the Living Room mini’s): I can’t find any capable device in this room
Me: 💀🤬
Finally, the light on top. Is never consistent. And is too dim to even see the +/- sign’s.
Every new release has been worse than the previous one.
One thing that’s still happening today: you say Play X, the lights on the HP turns ON, the Home app show the mini’s as “Playing”, you can pause/play from the control center and change the volume…but there’s no sound being played. It’s the most infuriating thing, plus if you consider that the bastard comes with FOUR mic’s. Can’t Apple use one of them to check if the audio is ACTUALLY playing?
At circuit level it would be easy as well, just check how much current the amplifier is using.
Other insulting thing:
Me: Play X on Living Room
Siri (using the Living Room mini’s): I can’t find any capable device in this room
Me: 💀🤬
Finally, the light on top. Is never consistent. And is too dim to even see the +/- sign’s.
Please please please have fixed the gapless playback. 🤞
We play brown noise to drown out sound, and now there's a random 2-5 second delay between these gapless audio sleep track when they are supposed to repeat, and they don't loop properly at all. As a result, our entire household hasn't slept the same since 15.4 was released. 😴
update: in my initial tests, this bug has been fixed! yay!
We play brown noise to drown out sound, and now there's a random 2-5 second delay between these gapless audio sleep track when they are supposed to repeat, and they don't loop properly at all. As a result, our entire household hasn't slept the same since 15.4 was released. 😴
update: in my initial tests, this bug has been fixed! yay!
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Don’t take the is the wrong way but when you get that complex in a home system it’s going to be a clusterfk no matter what platform (as you even stated yourself). My uncle has a giant mansion with a massively expensive Control4 whole smarthome automation system and the technician basically lives in his house because he has to call him out so often for issues. You may be in a middle class home but I think most would consider you a smarthome superuser of sorts 😂 As I like to say… mo money mo problems
