HomePod I’ll never buy another HomePod

[abatabia]

I’ve bought my last HomePod.

I’ve had enough of the frustration.

When they work they're wonderful. They sound great paired with my Apple TV.

When they don’t work which is often they’re an endless source of frustration and regret.

Every time my home WiFi glitches, which I can count on one hand in several years with fios, all my other smart devices, including many from Amazon and Google; come back online within minutes.

Not my HomePods.

I have a pair of mini in my home office that I use as a pair.

This morning I briefly had to reboot my FIOS router, which took all of 2 minutes. My entire smart home came back online without issue. Except my HomePod.

My HomePods all needed to be manually connected to my WiFi even though my phone was already connected.

Now this pair won’t connect or play as a pair.

I even reset them, and they won’t set up again.

Set up, wait a few hours for them to configure, only for them to ask to be set again, several times.

I’ve had this before with my other HomePod pairs.

So now the mini pair sit unplugged and I’ve moved on with my day.

I just don’t get why every other smart speaker I have does not have this issue except for these damn HomePods.

Why is it so difficult? A simple reboot of a router should not set them into a tailspin of my having to reset them only for them not to work!

So I’ll get another pair of another brand’s speakers or use my Sonos ray I never use as an airplay speaker.

I don’t care how they update HomePods this year. I’ll never buy another pair.

Not worth this endless aggravation on the HomeKit and set up software side.

Thanks for letting me vent.

 

[Itinj24]

I hear ya, but I stopped reading at “FiOS router.” ISP routers have historically been nothing but trash and bottle necks. HomePods are very finicky when it comes to WiFi. There are tons and tons of forum user experiences regarding this. Yes, you may have other devices that work well with it but HomePods require special attention and I still do blame Apple for this. As soon as they announced that the Mini would have the AppleWatch chip, I knew right away that the WiFi issues wouldn’t get any better.

Have you checked to see if they’re connected to the 5ghz? I noticed that if they’re on 2.4, you can forget about any stability and reliability with them.

That said, I moved from the ISP router to first eero and now UniFi as my HomeKit home grew. I didn’t get the best experience with eero as the HomePods would roam to eero nodes on the other side of the house but with UniFi, I can lock the HomePod to the nearest AP. Since then, hey’ve been nothing but a dream to use. Only the occasional Siri hiccup but that’s just Siri being Siri.

On that note, I’m not saying you should go out and get the best networking gear on the market because I still think this is Apple’s blunder but if you want a solid HomePod experience , that would be the best route.