General Siri Shortcuts don’t work on HomePod

[DerMario]

Hey, I have several Siri Shortcuts under the Siri Tab in Preferences. I did one should play a Radiostation via Airplay on the HomePod.

All Devices are latest Software....But the HomePod doesn't recognize the Phrase I recorded....the iPhone does.

Can someone help me please...

 

[ryanmp]

You're gonna be disappointed and might want to throw it in the garbage: the HomePod doesn't support the Siri Shortcuts...

Ahh... that’s completely untrue. HomePod supports Siri Shorcuts just fine and I’ve got a few that automatically airplay from the iPhone when activated.

 

[DeanL]

Ahh... that’s completely untrue. HomePod supports Siri Shorcuts just fine and I’ve got a few that automatically airplay from the iPhone when activated.

Ooo you're right! Apparently it has to be signed up to the same Apple ID for them to work. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209055

 

[DerMario]

Mine is on the same Apple ID.

I already did a reset of the homepod.. No luck

 

[ZEEN0j]

Ahh... that’s completely untrue. HomePod supports Siri Shorcuts just fine and I’ve got a few that automatically airplay from the iPhone when activated.

What do you mean automatically AirPlay?

 

[ryanmp]

What do you mean automatically AirPlay?

So I have a Siri shortcut that:
- Switches off various LIFX lights (linked to Homekit Scene)
- Arms Arlo alarm system
- Plays rain sounds from Apple Music

When I run the shortcut from HomePod, the rain sounds are played from the HomePod.

The only issue I'm having with this Siri Shortcut is the HomePod volume. I've used a System Volume shortcut, but that doesn't seem to change anything on the HomePod.

 

[MontTrain]

Not sure if it helps but I had a similar problem. If I ran the shortcut from Siri on my phone it worked but on HomePod it wouldn’t recognise it.

The fix for me was that location services wasn’t set correctly on my iPhone.

Settings - Privacy - location services - share my location from this device

 

[DerMario]

Not sure if it helps but I had a similar problem. If I ran the shortcut from Siri on my phone it worked but on HomePod it wouldn’t recognise it.

The fix for me was that location services wasn’t set correctly on my iPhone.

Settings - Privacy - location services - share my location from this device

That was the key!!!! Thanks!

 

[ZEEN0j]

So I have a Siri shortcut that:
- Switches off various LIFX lights (linked to Homekit Scene)
- Arms Arlo alarm system
- Plays rain sounds from Apple Music

When I run the shortcut from HomePod, the rain sounds are played from the HomePod.

The only issue I'm having with this Siri Shortcut is the HomePod volume. I've used a System Volume shortcut, but that doesn't seem to change anything on the HomePod.

Ok so it wasn’t actually airplay. The HomePod is playing the song. It would be nice if you could make a shortcut, run it on your phone and it started playing on a airplay speaker.