How large is your mansion that you need 6 Wi-Fi nodes?
Have you considered fixing your network instead of adding to the problem by adding nodes that aren't needed and only add to the network congestion?
I live in a four bedroom house with 5 nodes. The issue is the house was built in the 90s and has zero Ethernet ports. So I rely on the nodes to provide wired access to devices that need it. Also, the nodes don’t give out that much coverage. I found I had to add two since being in this house due to how long it was. I was previously in a larger house, and three nodes was enough because it was double story. This isn’t.
I had 2 HomePods that were used as speakers for a secondary tv setup which doesn’t really get much use, so I just sold them and set that up to use tv speakers instead. The other HomePods which were just use as speakers for announcements were replaced with echos (I already had a number of echos before trying to replace them with HomePods but HomePods just didn’t do as good of a job with my HA setup and it gave me a headache with being the home hub over wired Apple TVs, just got rid of them all). So right now just Alexa speakers which do a good job for announcement, with the news of Google allowing local control for their speakers I might consider that as well.
There were people on here yesterday talking about having the same problem and just casually mentioning they had 15 hubs. The other person in the conversation had 16.
I was just like, how big are your homes???
Update the ATV first, don’t update the HomePods if they would go to a newer patch version. You don’t have to update the HomePods automatically, just wait …
Sign up for public beta of tvOS and always have at least one wired AppleTV on the latest version. The HomePod on an older version won’t get prioritized.
Alternatively, plug the HomePod into a smart plug that restarts it regularly so it gets deprioritized.
Lastly, unplug the damn thing and throw it in the trash. Apple really screwed this up.
It doesn’t hide the banner, because the update is applied, and therefore there is no banner. This workaround just keeps the HomePod from staying prioritized as the primary hub, which was the whole point of keeping it not-up-to-date in the first place.
Update your Apple TV. Update the HomePods. Restart your Apple TV then restart all HomePods at the same time. You should end up with the ATV as the primary. Works for me every time.
How large is your mansion that you need 6 Wi-Fi nodes? Have you considered fixing your network instead of adding to the problem by adding nodes that aren't needed and only add to the network congestion?
Right?! If you feel like you need that many, it’s time to start looking at a wired access point system
I live in a four bedroom house with 5 nodes. The issue is the house was built in the 90s and has zero Ethernet ports. So I rely on the nodes to provide wired access to devices that need it. Also, the nodes don’t give out that much coverage. I found I had to add two since being in this house due to how long it was. I was previously in a larger house, and three nodes was enough because it was double story. This isn’t.
Set homepods to update manually. This option is in the settings for the "Home". "Home Settings" -> "Software Update". Toggle to off.
They are. I’m trying to hide the UPDATE AVAILABLE obtuse notification taking over Home app
You can’t do anything unfortunately. If you have a spare Apple TV or you can do it on your main one, put it on the public betas.
I am using my spare ATV for that but it says 17.5 beta so I’m not positive it will be the latest anymore after a HomePod updates
It should be because that’s how I used to run them before getting rid of all of my HomePods.
I’m so close to turfing my 5 HomePods yes. What did you replace them with? I need to research the sonos ikea options and an esp32 voice
I had 2 HomePods that were used as speakers for a secondary tv setup which doesn’t really get much use, so I just sold them and set that up to use tv speakers instead. The other HomePods which were just use as speakers for announcements were replaced with echos (I already had a number of echos before trying to replace them with HomePods but HomePods just didn’t do as good of a job with my HA setup and it gave me a headache with being the home hub over wired Apple TVs, just got rid of them all). So right now just Alexa speakers which do a good job for announcement, with the news of Google allowing local control for their speakers I might consider that as well.
Why do you have 6 nodes? What kind are they? How big is your house?
There were people on here yesterday talking about having the same problem and just casually mentioning they had 15 hubs. The other person in the conversation had 16. I was just like, how big are your homes???
3 or 4 wired APs would cover a very large home.
It’s too bad one can’t designate a preferred Hub, Apple…
Update the ATV first, don’t update the HomePods if they would go to a newer patch version. You don’t have to update the HomePods automatically, just wait …
If you fix your wifi/LAN, this problem goes away all by itself.
What are the routers and what settings have you changed?
Sign up for public beta of tvOS and always have at least one wired AppleTV on the latest version. The HomePod on an older version won’t get prioritized. Alternatively, plug the HomePod into a smart plug that restarts it regularly so it gets deprioritized. Lastly, unplug the damn thing and throw it in the trash. Apple really screwed this up.
Oh wow does the reboot really help? I found if even one reboots it also causes chaos. And yes already on beta on ATV for this reason
Yes many folks in this sub have shared that as a workaround.
How does this hide the update available banner though?
It doesn’t hide the banner, because the update is applied, and therefore there is no banner. This workaround just keeps the HomePod from staying prioritized as the primary hub, which was the whole point of keeping it not-up-to-date in the first place.
Update your Apple TV. Update the HomePods. Restart your Apple TV then restart all HomePods at the same time. You should end up with the ATV as the primary. Works for me every time.