Homepod does not play while in the same room with ATv4K.

Totally agree, can't ask siri questions while ATV4k is using HP. This thing only does one thing right, play superb sound quality. I've discovered restarting the HP every time you want to use works wonders. So if its connected to ATV4k and you want to disconnect to play back from your phone, just restart and everything will work properly. Restart is your new best friend, too bad you can't ask siri to restart herself, then this thing would be even more useful.

Yep, having the same problem. Lots of people on Reddit are reporting similar issues. My HomePod that is set up as my Apple TV home theater speaker no longer allows me to airplay audio to it. If I try to airplay any audio from a video I am watching on my iPhone or iPad, the Apple TV turns on and tries to take over the video. I tried getting audio to play through the HomePod while watching Netflix on my iPad, and the Apple TV tried to take over, so I got a warning that Netflix cannot be streamed from my iPad to an Apple TV. I wasn’t trying to airplay the video to the Apple TV, just the audio to the HomePod.

When I unpair the HomePod and the Apple TV, then I can again send the audio from Netflix on my iPad or iPhone.

apple makes no mention of this in any of their support documentation. Perhaps a bug?

Same here. You have to disconnect HP from ATV and works. Siri then has an internet connection. But while using in theater mode connected to ATV, and you ask Siri a question, she says she’s not connected to the internet. Disconnect from ATV and she reconnects to the internet. Siri’s so stupid, she can’t do two things at once.

Thanks for the tips...but that is very disappoint when this is a smart speaker with an A8 chip there to do ”more” and now it can't process more than one thing at a time....🙄