 tv turns on when I ask Siri to play music thru homepod

This problem just started happening for me today. I've had two HomePods connected as default audio output to my AppleTV for 2 years and the TV has never come on when requesting music until today.

I've checked Airplay settings, Home settings, reset the HomePods and nothing has fixed the issue. Anyone found a solution?

Same issue here

i have 2 Apple TV’s

one pared with single HomePod

an other pared with 2 HomePods in stereo mode.

The one with single HomePod turns on the Apple TV when asked to play music, other pare in stereo mode doesn’t ….

Hello from Germany Guys,

I had the exact same issue and could solve it!

you have to close the Apple Music App on your Apple TV!! Double Tap on the House button on the Apple TV remote und force Apple Music to close (swipe above like the iPhone).

turn off the Apple TV and ask Siri to play music. Now it should play on the HomePod.

marc-antoine224 wrote:

Ok so you confirm that it is not normal. It is a bug. So apple must fix it. How can we tell apple to fix this bug ?

Bug, or designed behaviour? Sometimes difficult to tell. Anyway use Feedback - HomePod - Apple to share your thoughts with Apple.

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Now it does it with HomePods that aren’t even connected to any Apple tv (default audio) and not even assigned to the same room. The only workaround would be to not allow your Apple TV to also turn on your tv. Or disable default Audio. None of these are ideal

I don't know why you've been lucky until now, but I'm pretty sure that things have worked this way for a long time. Almost since the default speaker option was introduced. I can't test this myself right now. My Apple TV 4 HD won't let me choose default speakers, and my ATV 4K(v1) can't turn on the TV it is connected to for reasons unknown, so that wouldn't be a legitimate test.

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I’ve had this problem since the first generation of home pod (the original big one) so I’ve had to unpair all my HomePod speakers & only airplay to them when I want to use them in conjunction to my Apple TV. The only other thing I can think of is in my music settings I have it set to play music videos too. So maybe by default it try’s to play on the Apple TV? Idk.

I might have found the solution to this! Just ensure your AppleMusic App is exited in ATV (double press on your option button to swipe off AppleMusic or Podcast). Then open other random app and switch off your ATV.

try play your music thru your iPhone AppleMusic App. It should work without turning on your ATV.

worked for me! Good luck!

I’m on latest iOS 17.5.1

It’s doing it on mine as well . I don’t have a fix. You’ll need to submit feedback to Apple. Try one or both of these links: - Feedback - Apple TV - Apple and HomePod - Apple

I haven't played with this lately, but my experience has been that if you hook up HomePod to play audio from Apple TV, then HomePod also wakes up Apple TV when you use it to play music.

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Ok so you confirm that it is not normal. It is a bug. So apple must fix it. How can we tell apple to fix this bug ?

I’m having the exact same issue. When i ask it to play any music it turns tv on and also whenever i go to my music app on my iPhone and try air playing through HomePod, it switches the tv on!

As noted if you have the HomePod set up to be the default speaker for the Apple TV then this is what happens.

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