So I got a HomePod mini during christmas to have as a speaker in a room. Main thoughts upon getting it was mainly to be able to stream from phone or computer music or audiobooks when in that room. Basically it was mainly purchased to be used as an airplay speaker (without built in battery and OK sound quality for the size (homepod mini has really good audio quality for its size)).
Anyway realizing tunein was built in I’ve really struggeled with getting Siri to play the station I want from tunein directly on the homepod, asking siri usually resulted in basically a random station playing. Not a biggie since I could always airplay from some other unit in the house but this has anoyed me to some degree.
But today I just tried ”Hey Siri, play station Heavy Metal Radio” and lo and behold it actually played Heavy Metal Radio. Before this I’ve tried ”Hey Siri, play Heavy Metal Radio” or ”Hey Siri, play Heavy Metal Radio on tunein” and the results have been almost random.
So I tried this with some other stations that I know the name (not only metal stations) and to me it seems that the magic phrase was to sat ”play station” and not just ”play”.
I share this just as atip to try out if there are other people being frustrated by this.
To note is that my HomePod is set to swedish so ymmv depending on language.
Anyway realizing tunein was built in I’ve really struggeled with getting Siri to play the station I want from tunein directly on the homepod, asking siri usually resulted in basically a random station playing. Not a biggie since I could always airplay from some other unit in the house but this has anoyed me to some degree.
But today I just tried ”Hey Siri, play station Heavy Metal Radio” and lo and behold it actually played Heavy Metal Radio. Before this I’ve tried ”Hey Siri, play Heavy Metal Radio” or ”Hey Siri, play Heavy Metal Radio on tunein” and the results have been almost random.
So I tried this with some other stations that I know the name (not only metal stations) and to me it seems that the magic phrase was to sat ”play station” and not just ”play”.
I share this just as atip to try out if there are other people being frustrated by this.
To note is that my HomePod is set to swedish so ymmv depending on language.