Where’s LBC radio gone on HomePod?
Hey Sir Play:
As in your other thread I can play LBC UK radio in Apple Music on my iPhone and in Catalina, so I think this may be a temporary issue, although I cannot check my HomePod right now to see if Siri is able to call it up.
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Same here for both UK and Manchester. I used to get what I asked for 'Hey Siri Play LBC UK' Got be 'Now Playing LBC UK by TuneIn'.
Now for both, I get 'Now playing LBC News UK' By TuneIn or 'Now Playing LBC News Manchester'. Intensely annoying.
siri play lbc radio returned lbc news for me this week.
on my iPhone lbc uk radio has no sound so air play doesn’t work either.
really annoying.
Hey Siri play talk radio is still working ok though.
i wonder if I can build a shortcut that’ll play lbc before 10 and then talk radio after if I ask for either station with bonus points for auto turning over to talk radio if playing lbc at 10am.
I know the feeling. My other half is an Apple fan hence the home pods and hates the idea of google in the house on a security basis but I've got so mad that I'm buying a mini google pod just so I can listen to the radio. Got one in our Airbnb and it plays everything easily. It can even play any Radio 1 or 2 - something HomePod also refuses to do. So in the end sounding radio is better than no radio. It's a talk station after all and I really don't need the bass notes in Nick Ferraris's voice!
HI all
The play LBC UK request appears to be up and running again 👍🙂
That’s not working, now LBC News Manchester plays rather than LBC Manchester.
Hi
Requesting LBC radio works at the moment
GF
10am = the mass switch off
Does anyone from apple actually look at these forums, who do you complain to get this working. At this rate I am back to Alexa, apple please sort this s*** out, you want people to by your so called smart speakers.
I created a shortcut called chat radio that'll if invoked before 10am will play LBC and TalkRadio after 10.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/361f76ce29d84df496931f2c5f2a43db
the challenge now is that HomePod won't run my shortcuts.
Yeah I've got two in my bedroom they're great for morning radio and I use Airfoil to push music to all Airplay devices in my house. But I've got a PowerNode 2i in the lounge and Homepods in the Kitchen and Garage and a pair of KRK VXT4s in the office.
So the minis are almost a novelty that means I can still hear the music when I go to my bedroom for something. They don't really fit in with the rest of the house.
I can't see why Apple would stay with them and not the Homepod other than I guess sales figures aren't making it viable.
Still we can all go look for Alexa alternatives now and our Siri problems are solved.
If you look at 'Why Apple is Killing the HomePod' from Rene Ritchie on Youtube he gives a good talk about this.
Not LBC of course but just Siri Problems in General. The basic theme is Apple Concentrated on sound and build quality whereas Google and Amazon have done better with smart features.
Yeah I have to say if you're like me you'll be left thinking why a company like Apple couldn't do Quality and smart.
They must understand that Siri is competing with Alexa and Google assistant.
Siri is available across most of its products and will tie together the 'Smart' ecosystem for them.
Hi
Me as well it keeps Playing Lbc news
Thx. This works
LBC on HomePod
