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HomePod Hot Homepods are back again 16.1
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I still believe they’re trying to kill these off one by one and erase them from memory. I haven’t updated yet but thanks for the heads up. Will look out for it.
When do yours run hot? When idle, when playing music, audio for TV?… Curious what to look out for and when. I feel warmth radiating out the top when idle but nothing alarming yet.
I noticed it straight away after the 16 update after 10 minutes of playing ( I use them a lot and this is unusual behaviour). They cooled down whilst not in use, but since testing again yesterday have been hot whilst idle. I only noticed this when i played a track for about 30 seconds and they popped loudly, I checked and they were really quite hot. I have them unplugged atm which is infuriating. I have two ogs and two minis (without symptoms). (The ogs are stereo paired but not used as speakers for tv)
Gotchya. I have 9 OGs and 8 Minis. Don’t care much about the Minis since they’re replaceable. The OG’s I’m protecting with my life lol… or until (if) Apple releases a replacement for it.
If I had 9 of them, I’d be exactly the same. Lets hope someone still knows what they’re doing in whats left of the homepod dept, and sorts this out pronto
Every Apple device has gotten update (Beta or not) except the Og HomePod… Either they know and are working on it or they don’t give a f… I’ve filled a bug report for what it’s worth
I haven’t had any issues with my original HomePods in a stereo pair.
How are you measuring that they’re “hot” and what specific temp are you recording? All I can see from this thread is that playing Apple Music is slow/buggy, but I don’t see any methodology or measurement.
How are you measuring that they’re “hot” and what specific temp are you recording? All I can see from this thread is that playing Apple Music is slow/buggy, but I don’t see any methodology or measurement.
Dont need to use a thermometer, simply using my hand on the top of the homepod - if its uncomfortably hot… its too hot.
Bear in mind in the majority of use up to the point of ( I think it was 15.5, then after a later update the problem dissipated, and now 16.1) it ran completely cool. Never rose above slightly warm; there is something in the firmware, or theres a change of function, that puts an extraordinary load on one or more of the components. You can summise that because different firmware versions brought the problem with them and a follow up firmware resolved it.
It is also intermittent; I played music on them for an hour last week and they remained just warm ( albeit warmer than they used to be) I played two songs over 5 minutes, the day before yesterday and the heat level shot up.
The fact that playing Apple music is also ‘buggy’ confirms the firmware already has some issues. I have noticed many times that the home app and the music app confuse the homepod playback, and it runs very slow.
Im hoping the new 6.2 homekit revamp (altho the og’s arent directly included) will somehow improve the experience.
