Hi Matthew,
I haven’t had any problems like that, but I never play music from my Mac. I always either play it using Siri, or using my phone. And none of our HomePods ever drop out, unless we’ve been having network issues. Cheers, Donna Sent from my iPhone On Mar 31, 2024, at 1:57 PM, Matthew Dyer <ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have had my current homepod for several years and it works well
with really only one problem which I have yet to figure out. When
playing music on any of my macs, the device will just randomly
drop out for some reason. I have consitered getting a mini, but
have not desided yet. I have a electa which works with my sirius
XM account as well as my thurmastate. Its certainly an intresting
issue with my music cutting out. This does not happen with my
ipad mini 5.
Matthew
On 3/31/24 12:18 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via
MacVisionaries wrote:
Actually,
the HomePod is a good product. The problem isn’t that the HomePod
was defective, it’s that Apple shouldn’t ship them out without
first upgrading them to a software version supported by HomeKit.
In terms of performance, once it’s connected to Home, it does
quite well, I think. We used to have Sonos speakers, and they
were constantly dropping out and needing to be reconnected or
reset. I don’t have any of that with the HomePods. Also, I
think Apple does a much better job of managing security than
Amazon Alexa does.
Cheers,
Donna
Hello everybody I am inclined to agree
with Anders Holmberg about the HomePod. I don’t want to
get HomePod either. It sounds like Apple has turned out
something that has some pretty serious defects in it. I
am getting along with a Google home speaker and an Alexa
device that my dad invited me to take with me when I
moved out of his house. I also have a Google home hub
which seems to work pretty good. Both of these devices
can be updated. I would hope that Apple would understand
about their defective product and work on a remedy to
fix it. I feel bad for those people that were
unfortunate enough to get a HomePod.
Sent from my iPhone
Hi!
I don’t want to get a HomePod.
Not for this reason but I do not need it.
However it seems very very clunky and
unacceptable to me.
I once was an apple fanboy but now a days I am
not a fanboy of any brand.
Bless.
/A
Hi all,
I just wanted to share this with the
list, as it could potentially impact
anyone considering the purchase of a
HomePod or HomePod mini. Feel free to
share with anyone who might benefit.
After spending an entire afternoon
trying to set up our new HomePod mini, I
found the following article. Buyer
beware! Apparently Apple thinks it’s
just fine to sell these things. I plan
on returning mine, and will only buy
another if the people at the Apple Store
can definitively prove that it is
running a more recent software version.
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The text of the article follows:
To use Advanced Data Protection for
iCloud, all the devices logged into
your Apple ID require a minimum
software version. That includes
HomePod speakers, which must be
running at least HomePod software
16.2.
However, according to Bloomberg's
Mark Gurman, there is a bug in
the Home app that prevents HomePods
running older versions of the software
from being updated if iCloud
end-to-end encryption has been turned
on.
This means anyone buying a HomePod
that ships with an OS older than 16.2
won't be able to set it up, because
doing so first requires an update.
Apple's support document explains
what options are available to
customers facing this predicament. If
the speaker in question is a HomePod
mini, users can connect it to a Mac
via the USB-C cable and update it
through Finder (or iTunes on a PC) by
selecting the HomePod in the Finder
sidebar and clicking the Restore
HomePod option. This will
update the speaker to the latest
software, after which it can be
properly set up.
The full-size first-generation
HomePod and the new 2023 HomePod have
no USB-C port, so unless Apple
includes a fix in iOS 16.3, which is
expected to be released next week,
owners of these speakers will have to
temporarily turn off Advanced Data
Protection to update the HomePod
software. Apple outlines how to do
that in the following way:
- Turn off Advanced Data Protection
in iCloud settings on your iPhone,
iPad, or Mac: In Settings or System
Settings, tap your name,
then tap iCloud.
Scroll to Advanced Data
Protection and turn off Advanced
Data Protection.
- If you received an error message
when you previously tried to set up
your HomePod, you may need to reset your
HomePod. Then set up your
HomePod.
- Update your HomePod to the latest
software using the Home app.
- Turn on Advanced Data Protection
in iCloud settings on your iPhone,
iPad, or Mac: In Settings or System
Settings, tap your name,
then tap iCloud. Scroll to Advanced
Data Protection and turn
on Advanced Data Protection.
Apple advises anyone who temporarily
turns off Advanced Data Protection to
turn it back on immediately after
their HomePod software is updated.
Best, Donna
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