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Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:51 pm
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Different Computers
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After spending most of the day using HomePod "natively"--that is, letting it stream Apple Music on its own--I decided to experiment with it as a client of my Airfoil Pro setup.
It totally integrates perfectly. In fact, it works better than I would have thought! I did not anticipate that once HomePod acted as a client of my Indigo iTunes setup, that my telling it to pause would pause the Indigo iTunes house-wide. But it does! Skipping also works perfectly. No more "Turn on Track Skipper"!
I have just hit one oddity--after telling Siri to pause while acting as an iTunes client, I was unable to get it to resume the iTunes stream. When I checked the Home app after asking HomePod several times, Home said it was playing, but iTunes on my Indigo server was still paused.
Ha-- I just tried a work around. My Indigo iTunes server is called "Home Audio". I asked HomePod to "play Home Audio." and it worked. The iTunes server resumed the song I had paused. BUT HomePod also decided I meant some song from the Apple Music catalog and started playing that while my iTunes server kept on playing the previous song.
SmartThings refugee, so happy to be on Indigo. Monterey on a base M1 Mini w/Harmony Hub, Hue, DomoPad, Dynamic URL, Device Extensions, HomeKitLink, Grafana, Plex, uniFAP, Fantastic Weather, Nanoleaf, LED Simple Effects, Bond Home, Camect.