Listening to the sound of a movie through both HomePods and AirPods simultaneously.
I have hearing impairment and when watching movies with the others, I have difficulties to hear the sound from Homepods.
iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 17
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Hi there.
Alireza717 wrote:
I have hearing impairment and when watching movies with the others, I have difficulties to hear the sound from Homepods.
I'm afraid that the ATV4K considers sound output via bluetooth an exlusive destination. Oddly, they've enabled a "shared" experience involving 2 pairs of AirPods, but AFAIK, not AirPods + Speakers.
A hack: Modern versions of MacOS include an AirPlay receiver - it's possible to temporarily send ATV4K audio to HomePods and say, a MacBook with it's audio output set to your AirPods (or a Bluetooth hearing aid, etc). I tested it once so that the ATV4K was playing via its usual sony soundbar output, but also via AirPlay to my macbook which I listened to using AirPods. Believe it or not, the audio was acceptably in sync.
Good luck with it. Apple could really do MUCH better for hearing and visually impaired folks. My nearly-blind elderly mother still enjoys reading with a magnifier - we can make the text within well-behaved apps on her iPad HUGE, but the stupid text on the iOS Status Bar and underneath icons, etc. remains very tiny fine print designed by a 20-something UI engineer and approved by the sharp-eyed kids in QA :-).