HomePod The "Move to" Apple Music HomePod Command

[StumpyBloke]

I recently discovered the move to command where you can tell Siri from a particular HomePod to move the currently playing music to another HomePod. For example, "hey Siri move to living room".

I have been experimenting with this and as usual, it's far from the robust seamless experience that Apple used to be known for and and no longer known for. I have an issue when moving music from a single HomePod to a stereo pair whereby Siri responds sorry I can't play this music there (or words to that effect) even though it does start playing on said stereo pair (after the usual on it, just a moment, still working bull **** that Siri is renowned for).

If I use the move command to any single HomePod it works, well, after up to 15 seconds and the ubiquitous on it et cetera crap she spurts.

Just wondering if anyone could try their set up and see what happens if they send from a single to a stereopair please?

For info, everything is up-to-date with the latest full public releases and have been restarted but to no avail.

 

[Itinj24]

I recently discovered the move to command where you can tell Siri from a particular HomePod to move the currently playing music to another HomePod. For example, "hey Siri move to living room".

I have been experimenting with this and as usual, it's far from the robust seamless experience that Apple used to be known for and and no longer known for. I have an issue when moving music from a single HomePod to a stereo pair whereby Siri responds sorry I can't play this music there (or words to that effect) even though it does start playing on said stereo pair (after the usual on it, just a moment, still working bull **** that Siri is renowned for).

If I use the move command to any single HomePod it works, well, after up to 15 seconds and the ubiquitous on it et cetera crap she spurts.

Just wondering if anyone could try their set up and see what happens if they send from a single to a stereopair please?

For info, everything is up-to-date with the latest full public releases and have been restarted but to no avail.

I’m out at the moment but I can try when I get home. Which HomePod(s) in particular? Mini, OG or 2nd Gen.

FWIW, I used to use this feature a lot, dating back a few years and it worked great. The more updates (downdates?) the worse these things get.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Ooops, the stereo pair are minis. I can “Move” from them to my OG and other minis with minimal fuss apart from “on it” etc. Thanks!

 

[Itinj24]

Ooops, the stereo pair are minis. I can “Move” from them to my OG and other minis with minimal fuss apart from “on it” etc. Thanks!

Ok so I just tried it using your configuration. Here was the result:

“Hey, Siri, play some music in the Master Bedroom.”
(Split my pair to make a single OG and the music played with no fuss.)

“Hey, Siri, move this to the Master Bathroom.” (Stereo pair of Minis)

Immediately Siri said, “On it” and no longer than three seconds it was playing flawlessly in stereo in the Master Bathroom.

Not to say I won’t have this issue in the future or didn’t have it previously and didn’t know but all these HomePod issues I notice are random and intermittent. Some days they’re wonderful but most days they suck. I get the response of “Something went wrong with Apple Music, try back later” more often than not. Extremely frustrating.

Must be our Wi-Fi, eh? 🤦‍♂️

 

[StumpyBloke]

Thanks for trying.

So you are saying you *DID* get the correct transfer of music to the stereo pair from a single HomePod and *NO* error message?

My whole house is on a Netgear Orbi mesh network, a brand-new set up, so don't believe for one second it is my network in anyway shape or form.

As always, appreciate your help.

Edit: As an aside, another thing I can't stand with HomePods and HomeKit is when setting a scene it always takes up to 15 seconds from any HomePod, but less than one second from my phone… Using Siri on both. Have you noticed that as well?

 

[StumpyBloke]

Some more testing:

Had some music playing on the single HomePod in the kitchen and said add to living room. This worked absolutely fine (now playing in kitchen and living room and perfectly synced). Asked Siri from the kitchen HomePod to stop playing in the living room and it did indeed stop playing in the living room quickly but the kitchen HomePod kept saying, waiting, just a sec, and finally “mmm I didn’t hear back”. I just don’t understand how it can be so crap.

I have got a top-of-the-line broadband and wireless system which cost a small fortune with everything up-to-date and no old technology at all and yet still having to put up with this complete and utter abortion. The Siri and HomeKit teams need sacking. I could crap better code!!

 

[Itinj24]

Thanks for trying.

So you are saying you *DID* get the correct transfer of music to the stereo pair from a single HomePod and *NO* error message?

My whole house is on a Netgear Orbi mesh network, a brand-new set up, so don't believe for one second it is my network in anyway shape or form.

As always, appreciate your help.

Edit: As an aside, another thing I can't stand with HomePods and HomeKit is when setting a scene it always takes up to 15 seconds from any HomePod, but less than one second from my phone… Using Siri on both. Have you noticed that as well?

Yes, no error messages. It went down exactly as I described above.

BTW, I was being facetious about the Wi-Fi lol. I was giving a nod to the crappy software. If you go on Reddit, most of them still believe these issues are a result of poor Wi-Fi and it’s thinking like that, that gives Apple an excuse. Bull spit!

 

[StumpyBloke]

Thanks for confirming. And yep no worries, I got where you were coming from regarding wifi. There are a couple of users on here who keep blaming people's wifi too when it comes to HomeKit being !