how to specify which speaker Siri speaks from in stereo pair of Homepod?

In my paired HomePods, placed on opposite ends of a large room, Siri speaks out of the left side speaker and I’d like her to speak from the right speaker. How to swap them? The switch L - R feature does not do this. I’ve tried to unplug them and physically swap, which solved the problem for a while, but it somehow switched back again. Ideally we could control whether Siri listens and speaks from L, R or both. Possible?

Posted on Aug 11, 2018 10:08 AM

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Aug 24, 2018 1:58 AM in response to J NY

You can specify the "leader" HomePod by creating the stereo pair from that speaker's setting.

When you do that, that speaker becomes the left one, but you just have to change the stereo setting and it's done.


The bad news is that, after a while (probably whenever one HomePod temporarily loses connectivity, like when you restart your router or ISP-provided STB), the setting goes back to the left speaker being the leader.

And according to Apple developers, this is an expected behavior ( ! ).

I find it crazy and will open a thread about that right away.

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