I too am offering an unqualified perspective, but I do get Siri to play music and turn lights on and off. One thing I remember when I was looking into HomeKit and setting all this up is that newer Apple TV’s are a HomeKit hub. This is critical for the lights as when you are away you could turn the lights on and off, the Apple TV HomeKit enabled in your house is being the brain and makes all this integration work remotely. I don’t have an Apple TV and I can only turn my lights on and off when I’m in the house - fine by me.
Perhaps in your situation when the Apple TV is on everything in the house latches on to that, but when it’s turned off, instead of the speakers just talking to your phone or iPad like they normally would, they are not listening and just waiting for your Apple TV to come back before taking orders. On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 12:28, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, sorry to merely offer untested ignorance in reply, Stephen, as our > Apple TV is too old for HomePods to connect to. Presumably, if you > disconnect your Apple TV first, and then ask, Siri's more willing once > again? If so, and sorry to state the irritatingly obvious, but sounds like > an iOS gremlin to me: having connected your HomePods to Apple TV, Siri is > now (wrongly) trying to find said device before obliging, and as Siri > can't, Siri won't! > > Sounds like it's worth a trawl of Apple's forums and/or registering the > issue. Do keep us posted and sorry I can't offer a real life test to > confirm one way or t'other. > > AP > > On Sunday, 17 January 2021 at 17:07:39 UTC Stephen McW wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We have a pair of HomePods. I have an Apple Music subscription. If I say >> “hey Siri, play some David Bowie” Siri will oblige and play through the >> HomePods. >> >> We bought an Apple TV HD and set the default sound output of said device >> to the HomePods. If I say “hey Siri, play some David Bowie” Siri will >> oblige and play through the HomePods ... but it seems, only if the Apple TV >> is connected. If for some reason, as was in our case, the mains plug was >> not in the Apple TV, what I got when asking was “now playing xxx by David >> Bowie. Silence. I’m sorry I’m having trouble with that, please try later.” >> My iPad would stream the same music with no trouble. >> >> Once the Apple TV was reconnected to the mains, the same Siri request >> played through the HomePods. >> >> This is weird behaviour to me. As HomePods don’t require an Apple TV for >> Siri to stream music over them, why does a connected Apple TV become a >> requirement for them to play? I would have expected the HomePods to simply >> stream as they would if we had no Apple TV. >> >> Is there a way round this, or is it just the way it is? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> Stephen >> >> You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/db4e07be-6e76-4a96-89ff-87f5b5fecd0bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/db4e07be-6e76-4a96-89ff-87f5b5fecd0bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAEjhqLQB4eJnJs%2BC3cRUhNg9uCmHfA89MrOmvOXi7z3JnYPhng%40mail.gmail.com.
