Technology

Repair or Replace?

The answer seems obvious for a malfunctioning Apple Homepod

One of our Homepods

I bought two Homepods when they first came out and created a stereo pair with one in the kitchen and one in the living room. My wife loves listening to her Neil Diamond and Bruce Springsteen favorites, and they are also yet another timer she can set when she needs one. The Homepods have incredible hearing too; you can ask Siri a question or give a command (“Hey, Siri, Couch light on”) with your voice barely above a whisper or at a normal volume from another room. That’s true even with the volume rocking the house.

You can also use a Homepod as a speaker during a phone call. My wife tried that when we first set them up. I suddenly heard her brother’s voice and was puzzled because he lives hours away — how could he be in our living room at 8:30 A.M? The voice quality was that good; I had to go check to see if somehow he really was there.

We have loved our HomePods. They were an expensive purchase, but we felt they were worth it.

Stereo Failure

After a recent power failure, I noticed that our stereo paired Homepods showed “Not responding “ in the Apple Home app. That’s not unusual; another power cycle usually makes it happy, and if that fails, breaking the stereo…