Got a HomePod mini yesterday and set it up. My excuse for finally getting one was that today is my oldest granddaughter’s birthday party, Harry Potter themed, at my house, and I want to have HP soundtracks playing in the background during the party. Yes I’m sure there was another way to do it, but I wanted a HomePod mini, so I’m using that as my reason. ;-p
Anyway, it never wanted to set up with my phone - kept telling me I needed to set up Apple Music (which is done), and also set up two-factor authentication (also done). I tried setting it up with my ipad pro, and it worked with zero issues.
It seems to be connected to my phone now as well. It shows up in the Home app on both devices as connected.
My questions are:
Will it use either device? How do I know which it’s using, or does that even matter? Usually both of those devices will be in the vicinity of the HomePod.
Software updates - do I need to do those directly on the Homepod, or through the phone or iPad? How will I know when they’re needed?
Oh, and just gonna throw a couple more questions out there because, in spite of all the posts on here about these being crappy, I’m kinda liking mine. I’m wondering, if you add a second one, and it’s not really far away, does it connect with the first in the sense that they do the same thing? How do you speak to one and not the other? How do you make them do separate things?
I know I can probably find all this out there somewhere, but I’m pretty techno challenged, especially with these kind of things because we are in a rural area where we’ve never had good enough wifi to have things like this, and I’m hoping someone can just give me a quick rundown I can actually understand.
Thanks for the help!
Anyway, it never wanted to set up with my phone - kept telling me I needed to set up Apple Music (which is done), and also set up two-factor authentication (also done). I tried setting it up with my ipad pro, and it worked with zero issues.
It seems to be connected to my phone now as well. It shows up in the Home app on both devices as connected.
My questions are:
Will it use either device? How do I know which it’s using, or does that even matter? Usually both of those devices will be in the vicinity of the HomePod.
Software updates - do I need to do those directly on the Homepod, or through the phone or iPad? How will I know when they’re needed?
Oh, and just gonna throw a couple more questions out there because, in spite of all the posts on here about these being crappy, I’m kinda liking mine. I’m wondering, if you add a second one, and it’s not really far away, does it connect with the first in the sense that they do the same thing? How do you speak to one and not the other? How do you make them do separate things?
I know I can probably find all this out there somewhere, but I’m pretty techno challenged, especially with these kind of things because we are in a rural area where we’ve never had good enough wifi to have things like this, and I’m hoping someone can just give me a quick rundown I can actually understand.
Thanks for the help!
