Remotely reconnect homepod to wifi

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péterh Author

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Remotely reconnect homepod to wifi

I’m away and monitor my home via my homepod remotely.

My homepod mini received the 15.6 update and restarted.

It now cannot reconnect to wifi alone (since my iphone is nowhere near). I have radius logon on my wifi (user+pass).

Why doesn’t it cache the login on device?

Is there a way to make it connect to the wifi remotely?

Otherwise the update mechanism just killed my monitoring capability until I get home, which is one of the main advertised features of the homepod.

HomePod mini, 15

Posted on Jul 22, 2022 12:00 AM

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turingtest2

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Jul 22, 2022 9:18 AM in response to péterh

If you can reboot the access point remotely then that is certainly worth trying. HomePod should use cached credentials from your iCloud Keychain and in my experience works correctly with a standard Wi-Fi network. If more steps are required to connect, such as those described in Use your HomePod on an 802.1X Wi-Fi network - Apple Support, then I would think you're out of luck.

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turingtest2

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Jul 22, 2022 5:51 AM in response to péterh

There isn't a way to communicate with HomePod remotely if it hasn't reconnected to your Wi-Fi. I've updated my HomePods remotely before without issue, but mine are at work and at home so it is at most a day or two before I'm on site if there is a problem. I suggest you turn off automatic updates once you're able to get access to it.

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péterh Author

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Jul 22, 2022 9:11 AM in response to turingtest2

It’s clear I can’t communicate with it remotely unless it connects to the internet.

I was wondering if e.g. rebooting the wifi access point would help..

Essentially my question is:

Is it by design that homepod cannot automatically reconnect to wifi after reboot without an iPhone being near?

Or it does reconnect automatically after reboot for other people using regular wifi authentication (just password) and therefor it is a bug only with homepod connecting to radius authenticated wifi?

Since this it designed to be the hub of home automation it needs to be able to recover from power failures, updates other reboots etc by itself and not having to do something manual all the time to keep it working.

(I have it on UPS just because of this issue, but that isn’t a fail proof solution either. I haven’t expected a software update during the time I’m gone, but turning of autoupdate isn’t the ideal solution either…)

It needs to be able to fully recover after a reboot and it needs to store locally all the info it needs to be able to do this.

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