I have now owned two Homepod Minis for a whole day. Four hard resets later, I got the software/hardware mostly in sync. Except…
1) Sometimes the music pauses for about a second, then ‘rewinds’ itself 2-3 seconds back and restarts.
2) Sometimes the remote display on my iPhone – I am not using AirPlay, but controlling the speakers – disappears/crashes and the music pauses. I have to go back to the Music app and press play there.
3) Or one of the speakers goes silent while the other keeps playing.
4) Or both of them go silent while the apps insist I am in fact hearing the music. No, I don’t have intermittent hearing problems, Apple. You have selective muteness issues.
5) Or they skip songs.
6) I saw this problem elsewhere – the Apple Music app (Mac/iOS) insists I am further on than I actually am, like, I am playing the fifth song while the title of the seventh is already displayed.
7) Siri is a hot mess. (I’m sure this is news for everyone who has ever used Siri! I disabled it.)
8) Or for a few hours everything works exactly as it should and maybe that is the most confusing part.
Is that the 18.4 update that installed itself first thing when I connected the speakers? Wifi super-sensitivity? (I have a Linksys Velop mesh network that works fine with everything else BUT my Sonos Play:1 speakers which I am trying to replace with the Minis. I’d like to not have to replace the entire system so that Homepod Minis don’t pause randomly.) Were/are Homepod Minis always like this? Or… are ALL ‘smart’ speakers like this and I will never find ones that work because Sonos with its app is never getting a cent from me again?
1) Sometimes the music pauses for about a second, then ‘rewinds’ itself 2-3 seconds back and restarts.
2) Sometimes the remote display on my iPhone – I am not using AirPlay, but controlling the speakers – disappears/crashes and the music pauses. I have to go back to the Music app and press play there.
3) Or one of the speakers goes silent while the other keeps playing.
4) Or both of them go silent while the apps insist I am in fact hearing the music. No, I don’t have intermittent hearing problems, Apple. You have selective muteness issues.
5) Or they skip songs.
6) I saw this problem elsewhere – the Apple Music app (Mac/iOS) insists I am further on than I actually am, like, I am playing the fifth song while the title of the seventh is already displayed.
7) Siri is a hot mess. (I’m sure this is news for everyone who has ever used Siri! I disabled it.)
8) Or for a few hours everything works exactly as it should and maybe that is the most confusing part.
Is that the 18.4 update that installed itself first thing when I connected the speakers? Wifi super-sensitivity? (I have a Linksys Velop mesh network that works fine with everything else BUT my Sonos Play:1 speakers which I am trying to replace with the Minis. I’d like to not have to replace the entire system so that Homepod Minis don’t pause randomly.) Were/are Homepod Minis always like this? Or… are ALL ‘smart’ speakers like this and I will never find ones that work because Sonos with its app is never getting a cent from me again?
the Linksys app doesn’t permit me to set channels manually, as it auto-reconnects the devices to the least noisy channel and strongest signal node. I managed to get as far as enforce the use of 2G. Nothing but the Minis* has ever exhibited problems – is it possible that Homepods don’t feature any buffering at all? (I’m listening to my Apple Music personalised station and all was going well for a few hours until it just paused for two seconds mid-song.)