I have contacted Apple many times but still don’t grasp why they don’t fix this.
First, once you connect HomePod to AppleTV you have to manually disconnect it from AppleTV or by Airstream via another device to sever the connection between HomePod and AppleTV.
Say you left it connected and then told Siri on HomePod to play music, Siri will reply saying it’s going to do it and then says it cannot.
Second, if you use the remote app to control AppleTV, it’s so inconsistent it’s hard to grasp. Sometimes volume controls work and sometimes they don’t for the same app.
Third, if you create a stereo pair via the iOS app, and you want to stream music from your phone, it’s a disaster. First it will launch AppleTV, turn the TV on, all to play on homepod. Then, the phone and AppleTV will be out of sync and you can often wind up with two streams of music, one coming out of AppleTV and one coming out of the phone.
I raised these issues with Apple many times. I’ve talked to multiple homepod users all of whom have confirmed these bugs.
Why does Apple seem so unable or unwilling to address this?