HomePod Possible HomePod AirPlay 2 Issue

[Itinj24]

So I have a stereo pair of HomePods audio defaulted to an AppleTV 4K in my living room. I also have another HomePod in my kitchen that sits on a counter right behind my living room couch so sometimes I enable the Kitchen HomePod via AirPlay 2 to get some TV audio coming from behind me.

The issue is, when I tap on the AirPlay 2 group to remove the kitchen HomePod from audio, I lose audio to the living room stereo pair as well. Only way I found to fix this is remove the HomePods default audio option then re-enable it.

Is this a bug anyone else noticed or am I the only schmuck? Lol. Tried restarting the HomePods and ATV, rebooting the network, rebooting my phone.

 

[waw74]

I think default audio is not airplay

so when you add the kitchen, you're switching both sets of speakers to airplay.
so you're probably losing "atmos" on the HomePods in the living room.

 

[Itinj24]

I think default audio is not airplay

so when you add the kitchen, you're switching both sets of speakers to airplay.
so you're probably losing "atmos" on the HomePods in the living room.

I’m pretty sure the content I’m watching doesn’t even support Atmos (NHL Hockey) lol but I would think that the audio would return, or switch back on, even after removing the third AirPlayed HomePod. I’m getting silence.

 

[Itinj24]

It seems 14.6 fixed this. I just removed the third HomePod in the mix and ever so buttery smooth, it ended the audio and the two defaulted stereo pair kept playing the audio.