HomeKit Pause Audio Scene

[Itinj24]

Whenever I add HomePods and AppleTVs to a Scene to pause audio, my Goodnight Scene in this case, the scene fails every time. I even tried creating a separate Pause Audio Scene but that one fails too. Does audio have to actually be playing?

I’m also curious if it might be just one of these devices causing the whole cene to fail. I’m trying to use it to stop playing my AppleTVs and default audio HomePods if the TV was left on.

Maybe it only works for music playing but I don’t see why the scene would fail if that were the case. Suppose I should start by rebooting every ATV and HomePod in the house. More curious, though, if someone actually got a scene like this to work so I don’t waste my time. Thanks.

HomeKit should have a “Sleep All Connected Devices” option for the ATVs too, like what’s in the ATV Control Center.

 

[dotme]

I've never tried this since I'm not an Apple Music subscriber, but if you continue to have issues I wonder if it might work as a Shortcut (In the Shortcuts app, not the Home app) since you'll be home when it runs. I have a couple of shortcuts that "sleep" AppleTVs and they work pretty reliably. With personal requests enabled on a HomePod, I would think you can still use HomePod Siri to execute it. Worth a shot maybe...

 

[Itinj24]

Appreciate the reply.

I've never tried this since I'm not an Apple Music subscriber, but if you continue to have issues I wonder if it might work as a Shortcut (In the Shortcuts app, not the Home app) since you'll be home when it runs. I have a couple of shortcuts that "sleep" AppleTVs and they work pretty reliably. With personal requests enabled on a HomePod, I would think you can still use HomePod Siri to execute it. Worth a shot maybe...

I was hoping for remote control of this as well. Like if I’m at work and my wife left the TV on. I made a shortcut to sleep all the TVs but like mentioned, that wouldn’t work unless I’m home. With CEC, turning off my HomeKit Vizio TV will also sleep the AppleTV only if there is no content playing on the AppleTV. If there is content playing, like AT&T TV, the TV itself will shut off but the AppleTV and thusly the default audio HomePod continues on still making noise.

I think I figured out why it’s failing though. It looks like HomeKit grabs the info from the accessory tile, not the actual accessory. The AppleTV and HomePod tiles are very slow to update in the home app so it shows as failed, even though the content is paused.