I have an Apple TV in kitchen, that I mostly use for listening to music, sometimes radio via Broadcasts, sometimes Apple Music. For a year I had a Sonos One SL connected via airplay, I didn’t want the Alexa version because I don’t want Amazon listening in. It worked well and sounded well and was fairly reliable. Sometimes with Channels or YouTube I’d have to reconnect to the speaker a few times but seemed to get more reliable with updates.
I got a mini over Christmas and used it until a couple of weeks ago. Sound wise I didn’t have any complaints, it sounded good and was loud enough to fill the room, the Sonos sounded better but is bigger and more expensive so wasn’t too surprised or disappointed. It was the reliability that was the biggest issue though. I had to connect the speaker to the Apple TV every time I used it. When listening to radio the sound cut off every so often. I tried listening to radio multiple ways and it happened with all of them. I used the Broadcast app, Apple Music, the stations apps when they were available and the BBC Sounds app on my phone.
I changed back to the Sonos and most of the problems stopped. Radio never cuts off. I don’t have to reconnect every time I use it.
So is this normal for using with Apple TV or should I contact apple to see if it can be fixed? I was always going to get a stereo pair of speakers and would prefer homepods because I liked having Siri but I’m leaning towards Sonos.
what would be good, would be if you could pair an Apple TV and homepod permanently so that you can control it via Siri on HomePod, at the moment it seems like a work in progress.
I got a mini over Christmas and used it until a couple of weeks ago. Sound wise I didn’t have any complaints, it sounded good and was loud enough to fill the room, the Sonos sounded better but is bigger and more expensive so wasn’t too surprised or disappointed. It was the reliability that was the biggest issue though. I had to connect the speaker to the Apple TV every time I used it. When listening to radio the sound cut off every so often. I tried listening to radio multiple ways and it happened with all of them. I used the Broadcast app, Apple Music, the stations apps when they were available and the BBC Sounds app on my phone.
I changed back to the Sonos and most of the problems stopped. Radio never cuts off. I don’t have to reconnect every time I use it.
So is this normal for using with Apple TV or should I contact apple to see if it can be fixed? I was always going to get a stereo pair of speakers and would prefer homepods because I liked having Siri but I’m leaning towards Sonos.
what would be good, would be if you could pair an Apple TV and homepod permanently so that you can control it via Siri on HomePod, at the moment it seems like a work in progress.
