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HomePod HomePod noticeably slower after iOS 15

I have got HomeBridge (HOOBS) in my set up. I’ve got a security system and ring doorbell set up for it. Both of those work absolutely fine.

I also have Sonoma smart blinds and ever since iOS 15 they have been very temperamental. For example I will say close all curtains and even when it says they are all closed, or opened, maybe 50% of the time one more haven’t actually done anything. Again all of this crap since iOS 15.

Worked perfectly before.
 
All my devices are behaving perfectly when changed through the Home app.
Commands through HomePod seem to fall on deaf ears.
 
teflocarbon said:
All my devices are behaving perfectly when changed through the Home app.
Commands through HomePod seem to fall on deaf ears.
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Yes, this is my experience too. However prior to iOS15 I did notice that some of my devices (I think HomeBridge) would toggle just fine in the Home app but when asking Siri she would take ages and eventually say “sorry, I didn’t hear back from your device”.

And yet if asked through Siri on iPhone, they’d be toggled (and confirmed) just fine.

So in my experience this HomePod issue began with iOS 14 and was made significantly worse in iOS 15.

The only way we are going to get a resolution to this is to hassle Apple about it. Make sure you all make a detailed report here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/homepod.html
 
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My Homepods (both OG stereo pair and the kitchen Mini), started deteriorating sound wise, volume wise, and Siri wise in 14.6. 15.0 made it even worse.
 
StumpyBloke said:
Very unlikely to be.

Yes lossless is fine, but Atmos only works on the OG HomePod.
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A new RC version of IOS 15.1 have just been released. Maybe there is another for audioOS, to solve the Siri and popping issues on the Homepods.
 
15.2 is out (in beta), for the Homepods. Lets hope that the final version brings improvements.
 
15.1 fixed some issues for me. Particularly I don’t get “one moment…” anymore.
It’s still not as fast as picking up my voice. But it responds to almost all wake words at least, it also gets on/off mixed up somehow. So we’ve gone from almost unusable to mildly pathetic. Progress!
 
teflocarbon said:
15.1 fixed some issues for me. Particularly I don’t get “one moment…” anymore.
It’s still not as fast as picking up my voice. But it responds to almost all wake words at least, it also gets on/off mixed up somehow. So we’ve gone from almost unusable to mildly pathetic. Progress!
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It definitely didn’t improve anything at my end. In fact I think half my automations just don’t work at all now. Lights that are supposed to come on in the evening before sunset just don’t.

HomeKit is just a disaster now. I don’t know why Apple bothered joining the Matter group when they can’t even get their base system to work correctly. I’m about to go back to Alexa to be honest. She would even tell me specifically which devices were not responding unlike Siri who just says “some of your devices didn’t respond” which is of absolutely no use whatsoever.
 
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Homepods OS 15.2, according to several reports, does fix a LOT of things, and improve Siri performance tremendously on the Homepods, but it´s still in beta. We´ll have to be patient...
 
StumpyBloke said:
I still constantly get one moment, on it, just a sec! And the usual this is taking longer than it should, this is taking a while. And then of course just failing to work altogether. Absolute piece of crap.
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Same here. 15.1.1 does NOTHING to fix that.
 
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B/D said:
Homepods OS 15.2, according to several reports, does fix a LOT of things, and improve Siri performance tremendously on the Homepods, but it´s still in beta. We´ll have to be patient...
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Does that beta auto install if you’re in iOS 15.2 beta?
 
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B/D said:
Well, if a software update broke them, another can fix them.
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Be careful what you wish for. Original HomePods and updates are like playing Russian roulette. Or features stop working. Or the infamous not signed in bug.
 
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cardfan said:
Be careful what you wish for. Original HomePods and updates are like playing Russian roulette. Or features stop working. Or the infamous not signed in bug.
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Very true. And yet, they are the only way to solve issues.
 
StumpyBloke said:
Nor does the current 15.2 AudioOS beta (for me)
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Huh?. Damn.


Given that Apple is aware of all this, and given that they have reached to some people to further investigate this issues (even requesting some testers to send to them their homepods units), and said that 15.2 will bring improvements and fixes across the board for the homepod family, I wonder if all these Siri/Homekit issues are sever side issues and therefore no software update can fix them. In any case, is up to Apple to solve this mess...
 
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