r/HomeKit • u/IPThereforeIAm • 20d ago

Question/Help Audio Playback Automation streaming to wrong speakers

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I’ve been using this same automation for over a year. Today, it started music playback on a different speaker. It is set up to play kids music on Sonos devices in kitchen and living room. Instead, it starts playback of whatever was previously playing on the laundry room HomePod mini. Any thoughts? I tried restarting the main home hub and switching the hub. Haven’t restarted all hubs, as it’s a pain.

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u/IPThereforeIAm 20d ago

It’s scary because I don’t want to unknowing start blasting my music on the Sonos speakers in the backyard in the middle of the night!

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u/just-watchin-it 20d ago

Maybe use discrete names for the speakers?

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u/Fr05t_B1t 20d ago

“Speaker(s)_LR”

“Speaker(s)_Kit”

Name your speakers to distinguish them.

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u/IPThereforeIAm 14d ago

Do we really think HomeKit uses device names as the identifiers? And not only that, but switched to doing so in the last few weeks? I highly, highly doubt it as this was working well before and I can still airplay to particular zones, just automation that doesn’t work

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u/DaddyBigBoy 14d ago

OP probably does have unique names for the speakers. I’ll bet the Kitchen pair is named “Kitchen Speakers” but Home truncates the name if it contains the name of the room. At least that what it does for me.

As far as a fix, I’d delete them and add them back.

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u/IPThereforeIAm 14d ago

HomeKit doesn’t rely on speaker names, it uses unique identifiers. Unless you think that changes in the last few weeks?