HomePod I can't AirPlay to my new HomePod from Music App from my Mac

[rgomez]

Hello,

I've just finished setting up my HomePod. Everything works fine, except when I try to use it as an AirPlay speaker from the Music app on my Mac. It keeps telling me that "only people who share a home in the Home app can control this speaker" (my translation, don't know if that's the message in english).

Now, I don't see how I am not "sharing" my home with myself! I don't have different Apple Ids, I can play to that HomePod from my iPhone, and I can even see what's playing on the HomePod from the Musc app itself.

I have closed my session on the Music app, restarted the computer, and so on, with no luck. I don't want to disable that option on the security settings, specially because it doesn't make sense at all.

In the Home app in the Mac (I didn't even know it existed) I can see the HomePod, along with my Apple TVs and HUE lights. I can open the HomePod and change the settings. Just can't play music to it.

I don't know if I am missing something very basic somewhere, but I have looked around all the settings I can find and I don't see anything.

Thanks!

 

[waw74]

try rebooting your router, and the HomePod if you haven't

you might also try resetting the HomePod to default and starting over.

Which version of OS X is your Mac running?

 

[rgomez]

Thanks for your reply.

I am running my Mac on the latest: 10.5.4.

I have already reset the router and the HomePod. No luck. I would try starting over, but without knowing the cause, it's just bound to end up in the same place... ?

 

[YatBob]

There is a setting on the Home app where you can choose who has access to the HomePod, one setting is the one you mentioned only people in the home, Everyone, or anyone on the same network. On the Home app click the little house in the upper left hand corner

 

[rgomez]

There is a setting on the Home app where you can choose who has access to the HomePod, one setting is the one you mentioned only people in the home, Everyone, or anyone on the same network

Yes, I know. But I don't want to change it to the "lower" levels. At the end, the HomePod is registered to my AppleId, I have that Id on my mac, so it just doesn't make any sense that it doesn't recognize I'm sharing my house with myself so I can control it. And, as I said, I can AirPlay to it from my iPad or my iPhone without issues. I just don't get it :-/

 

[rgomez]

It appears the problem is not what the message says, but trying to use the HomePod *at the same time* as some other receiver (which I guess doesn't support AirPlay 2). As I am usually connected to that other receiver (a Yamaha R-N602) when I clicked on the checkbox to connect to the HomePod it gave that error.

I disconnected from that receiver by chance, and then tried again connecting to the HomePod, and it worked! When I tried to add the Yamaha to the "mix" then it gave the same error. I tried connecting to an AppleTV and the HomePod and it worked, so my guess that the problem is mixing AirPlay and AirPlay2 devices at the same time.

Now: I can connect to the Yamaha receiver *and* the AppleTV at the same time without problems. The problem appears only when mixing with the HomePod. I don't know if the AppleTV (it's a 4k) supports using AirPlay but the HomePod only the newer AirPlay2 version?