Today I want to talk to you about a global failure that has been taking place for a few months with some HomePod around the world, especially the HomePod Mini… and well, I say it’s a global thing because it happens to people from many different countries… but it doesn’t happen in all the HomePod, in fact it just happens to me in one of the 5 that I have… and in my case it can more or less coincide with the deployment of iOS 26 but it can’t be directly associated, as there are people in Reddit commenting on it for months, so… no idea, but what is clear is that, either by the iOS or by way, All of a sudden, a lot of HomePods have started to fail..
The problem: a ghost presses up
If your HomePod has suddenly stopped working or has weird behavior, I’m telling you, you’re not alone. Yes hYou make a search in Reddit, you’ll see how there are a lot of users reporting rare errors.especially for the HomePod Mini. A few weeks ago it happened to Emilcar. In your case, one of the HomePods did not respond as a central accessory and had to restore it… but restore it with the complete process, which involves connecting it to the Mac and installing the firmware to low level and then reupdate it and so on.… and he’s been fixed, he’s not back to us.
to have had more problems.
In my case, one night the music started to sound in the HomePod Mini in my daughter’s room.. She stopped him and continued to sleep as if nothing, but then it sounded… with Andrés Calamaro, who was not so bad, but it was already something alarming and I unplugged it. What hit me is that just The day before, version 26.2 of the operating system had come out and I thought it was the update that had restarted it when it was downloaded. And the music had been lost… but no.
It makes me feel like it happened to everyone more or less from HomePod os 26, which is now no longer called that but Audiovisual 26 giving clues that there will be a new system that is not just Audio but good… but the case is that now that all our HomePods are something less than 3 years old, they have suddenly broken a lot of them all over the world. Either it’s a failure of version 26… or it’s a clear case of planned obsolescence, no longer Apple but some internal component.
Total, I spoke to the Apple Store of La Vaguada which is the one that gets me the closest to home, I gave them the serial number and they told me that I no longer had a guarantee and that all I could do was buy me another. It is clear that the cache is not expensive, you can even find some for wallapop at good price, but there are rumors that a new HomePod Mini 2 is going to come out in a few months (eye that this can make our conspiranoic ideas grow even more and that someone is pushing us to buy the new…)… but well, the case is that I don’t think it’s a good time to buy a new HomePod Mini, so it had to see if it was going to the basu.
A or he was sort of getting along.
It doesn’t have to say that I tried Emilcar’s method, I plugged it into the Mac and restored it in DFU mode or whatever that is called in the HomePod… and within a few days he took it back for granted. It was also clear that The HomePod thought someone was pressing up because, if you take off the current and turn it on again, the led on the top starts to give back while it restarts.… and sometimes it gets red and says it’s going to be restored, which is what it does when you want to consciously restore it and the method consists of precisely that, pressing up when you give it back to power to start the reset process…. In any case
I wanted to find a way to fix it… or throw it in the trash to sleep the dream of the righteous, of course.
I mean, this HomePod Mini is the one that wakes up my daughter. It is a central of accessories, yes, but you know that with the high availability of the central of accessories in HomeKit (which Home Assistant does not have, everything is said by the way), if a central does not respond but you have more there is absolutely nothing. In fact, you can now tell the operating system if you have any preferred accessories, some HomePod that you have special affection for because the color makes you match the color of your eyes or, in my case, some Apple TV compatible with Thread and with network cable, so I make sure that it is always connected even if there is some problem with wifi… but well, the ca
Or if this HomePod wasn’t always on, nothing happened either.
My daughter also doesn’t use it to listen to music, sometimes she tells her to turn on or off the light and little more… but she does use it as an alarm, that you already know that in the morning when you have to wake up the light will light up little by little and it sounds the music by the HomePods in the rooms… so that the HomePod was on at that time, for more than enough as operation in degraded business continuity mode until we buy the new one and can go back to normal, so I’ve connected it to a socket of sockets I have from the Meross brand that has 4 sockets (and it’s Matter, the verd
is that this regatta I like very much and works beautifully without having an excessive price… and what I do is that that plug is all day long without current until the time comes to sound the alarm clock… at that time, the light is turned on and, instead of the music immediately, it gives the plug power, wait 1 minute and launch the music to the HomePod Mini to turn it off again at 5 minutes.
Yeah, I know is a scalp solution But it’s that, a workaround, a patch, until the new HomePod Mini comes out, which is expected for March or April, it’s all right.
My future self has added this little piece here because Charly, a touch of the Telegram group that is also a neighbor and friend, gave me a YouTube video about how to dismount the top of the HomePod Mini and disconnect the top touch panel. This has its drawbacks because you can no longer touch it to invoke Siri without saying the ‘Hey Lola’ or to go up / down the volume and so on, but you can keep using it all day, send it music, change the volume from the device or ask Siri and stuff like that… what happens is that Charly is very manitas, she likes the mess with small things… I’m used to manipulating huge things, you know, so
I know that if I try to dismount the HomePod, I’m going to mess it up and I’m sure it’ll end up in the trash, but well, since it’s already broken, I’m going to try.
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In any case, either with my workaround you can do with a smart regatta or a smart plug or with a Shelly who controls a plug or as you wish, for the moment I have solved the problem. None of these nights, when the alarm clock turned on, did the red light thing to me going up and reboot. In case it had been fixed alone, I’ve tried to let it be connected all day… and it’s not that I do it all the time, not even every day, but sometimes I scare you and it turns on alone… and it’s that the bastard just turns on at night, you won’t say he’s playing music at 12: 00, he likes it.
I see more light at night.
A my daughter, who is 10 years old at this time, I told her the truth, that the HomePod was great but that someone or something was coming up at night to touch it and that’s why it turned on… now she’s sleeping a lot quieter as you can imagine.. Yeah, well, you can also imagine my wife’s tantrum for telling this to the girl. Che, they just don’t have a sense of humor either.