How about removing all your HomePods and starting from scratch? Add only one and see if it works.
Yes. Not quite sure what the difference is and I can't find any good explanation in any of Apples instructions. I would think if you weren't on the same network it wouldn't be accessible anyway.
I did that a couple times. I deleted all of them. Removed the airplay app, re-installed at at this point only have one selected.
If you want to compare notes, let me know, but I don't think there's much if anything that's different between our setups.
It seemed like this all happened when they updated the Airplay App to be able to play music. I don't use that, but wondering if there is something there. Have you been able to get that to work? If so. what is the format of the url to enter. I can't seem to get it to work.
No. I don't think that has been enabled yet.
But, I don't have an Apple Music account.
Whatever I play is a free radio stream.
I don't have an Apple Music account either.
When I turn on debug options for the device. Then try to do a TTS. In the logs it appears it creates a mp3 file to send to the device. So you would think you could do the same thing manually.
Here's an example of what is going on. When I turned off the alarm this morning around 5 the pod announced it just fine. Nothing else has been going on till just a few minutes ago. Let the dog out. When he comes back to the door a motion sensor triggers a tts saying the dog wants back in. That message was broken up, just bits and pieces.
I've never experienced breaking up of a message.
Maybe a different voice?
Tried that too. Doesn't seem to make much difference.
At this point I'm gonna just live with it. None of the notifications are that critical, so if we miss one it's not that bad. Just frustrating.
Well I kinda had hopes for the last changes. But no. Worked ok for a few hours after a hub reboot, but gradually got worse and worse. Doesn't work at all now. May try another reboot this morning.
