HomePod HomePod mini issue

[DavidAndy]

We have had HomePod mini for a few months but have only encountered this issue yesterday. Possibly caused by 1
5.3 update. The device recognises my and my wife’s voice separately and is pretty good at playing our own individual playlists. However when my wife asked Siri to play her station it appeared on my Apple Music as playing on the HomePod. Also when I asked Siri to play my podcasts and my wife opened her Apple Music it showed that it was playing a podcast. We have separate apple ids but share services through family sharing

 

[TonyC28]

15.3 has caused all kinds of problems for me. I have two OG HomePods that act as a stereo pair and default output my Apple TV 4K. Then two HomePod Minis in other rooms. Since 15.3 my two OGs are showing in HomeKit as separate from the ATV4K. I actually don’t mind this except that it’s different from before and if I play music on my HomePods the ATV4K still shows up as a device playing the music. For volume control through AirPlay the ATV and HomePods do still show up linked as one device. Just now when I said “hey Siri play classical music on all HomePods” the music did start playing but it also shows that my two other ATVs that don’t have HomePods connected at all are also playing the music.

Occasionally when music is playing on the HomePods it now randomly pauses. Or when I say to play music on all HomePods one of them won’t start playing even though it shows in HomeKit that it is. Adjusting the volume gets it going.

My ATV4K remote got confused and instead of adjusting the volume on the HomePods that the audio was playing through it was adjusting the volume on the TV itself.

Basically, a typical apple update that fixes a thing (HomeKit camera snap shots) and breaks a dozen others.