HomePod mini became available in Finland few weeks ago, so I bought two of them. We have three users: me, my wife and our daughter. And I can't figure out how music playing through Siri works. If my daughter walks to the HomePod and asks it to play music through Siri, it often picks a playlist/station from my library. Which is not what we want. And just now as I was troubleshooting this, and I asked it to play some music, it played it from my wife's iPhone. I mean, if I went to her Music app, I could see the song playing there. Also, I just asked it to play my favourites mix, and it played my favourites mix, but it was shown played in my wife's iPhone "now playing"-screen, not mine. And she can control the music through her phone. If I tried to connect to the HomePod, it would replace that was playing with the music from my iPhone. I have no idea what the logic is here.
I have set the "Primary user" of the HomePod to be my daughter, logic being that is the safest choice (what IS the "HomePod account" mentioned there?). Personal requests are turned on. And another weird thing: I have checked the settings for personal requests on our iPhones and iPads and everything seems to be ok. But I just went there in the Home app on my Mac, and there is says "voice recognition not available". This is only visible on the Home-app on the Mac, not iPhone or iPad. Also, if I ask the HomePod "Who am I", it tells me it can't answer. EDIT: I tested the "Who am I?" on the Mac, and it works there. Only difference I can think of is that the iPhone has MDM-profile on it.
So, to further test this, I created a second home, reset the HomePod and added it to the second home, and configured it with my wife's iPhone. And now it seems to only connect to my wife. We have a grocery list in Reminders that I'm sharing with my wife. I told HomePod to add something to the list, it did, and I got a notification that my wife added something to the list. Also, if I now ask Siri to play music, it plays from my wife's Apple Music Account, not mine. I then tried to explicitly tell Siri "Hey Siri this is XXXXXX, add sugar to grocery list", and it did, but it again said it was added by my wife. Also, when I ask Siri about my calendar, it tells about my wife's calendar. And I do all this through Siri using my voice. Now, my wife's iPhone was right next to me when I did these, but so was my iPhone, so I don't think that should be the issue.
So, what is going on here? Am I fundamentally missing something? Note: Siri is set to Finnish, but it should work as per Apple.
EDIT2: I just noticed that if I tap on the HomePod in Home-app in my iPhone or Mac, I can view the timers and alarms. But if my wife does it on her iPhone, it complains that they can only be viewed when the iPhone and the HomePod are on the same network. Needless to say that they are on the same network.
I have set the "Primary user" of the HomePod to be my daughter, logic being that is the safest choice (what IS the "HomePod account" mentioned there?). Personal requests are turned on. And another weird thing: I have checked the settings for personal requests on our iPhones and iPads and everything seems to be ok. But I just went there in the Home app on my Mac, and there is says "voice recognition not available". This is only visible on the Home-app on the Mac, not iPhone or iPad. Also, if I ask the HomePod "Who am I", it tells me it can't answer. EDIT: I tested the "Who am I?" on the Mac, and it works there. Only difference I can think of is that the iPhone has MDM-profile on it.
So, to further test this, I created a second home, reset the HomePod and added it to the second home, and configured it with my wife's iPhone. And now it seems to only connect to my wife. We have a grocery list in Reminders that I'm sharing with my wife. I told HomePod to add something to the list, it did, and I got a notification that my wife added something to the list. Also, if I now ask Siri to play music, it plays from my wife's Apple Music Account, not mine. I then tried to explicitly tell Siri "Hey Siri this is XXXXXX, add sugar to grocery list", and it did, but it again said it was added by my wife. Also, when I ask Siri about my calendar, it tells about my wife's calendar. And I do all this through Siri using my voice. Now, my wife's iPhone was right next to me when I did these, but so was my iPhone, so I don't think that should be the issue.
So, what is going on here? Am I fundamentally missing something? Note: Siri is set to Finnish, but it should work as per Apple.
EDIT2: I just noticed that if I tap on the HomePod in Home-app in my iPhone or Mac, I can view the timers and alarms. But if my wife does it on her iPhone, it complains that they can only be viewed when the iPhone and the HomePod are on the same network. Needless to say that they are on the same network.
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