Homepod mini plays music by itself

I have just bought a homepod mini last week. However it is troubling me as it played music spontaneously and unexpected from time to time.

After adding the homgpod using default settings, on Monday, I was working remotely on my job when the homepod mini suddenly started playing music. I was not listening to any music or video, since I prefer silence when working on more challenging tasks. My husband was not at home either. Luckily I was not on an office metting. How embrassing it could be otherwise?

Then again on Wednesday, at about 5am in the monrning, the homepod started playing music at a loud volume by itself, again. Everyone was in a deep sleep. My husband was woken up and walked to the living room to turn it off.

We have no pets of any sort and no automation for playing music. My husband was irritated. He uninstalled the entire Apple Music and iTunes from his phone.

Does it mean the device is malfunctioning? Is there a way to disable music permanently?

HomePod mini

Posted on Feb 21, 2024 9:14 PM

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Posted on Mar 1, 2024 6:42 AM

I am mad about the Homepod.

I have reset the homepod, I have only myself and husband in the home group, and allowed "only people sharing this home". We have no pets. We have no other people on our LAN/wifi or in our house.

Last Thursday during working hours, when I was the only living thing at home, and was in a complete silence. The homepod suddenly said "OK, start to play radio."

Last Saturday at 2am, we were both sleeping and Homepod started playing music at a loud volume.

Since then I had unplugged it to make sure we could sleep.

This morning I plugged it in and reset the Homepod again. At 1:35 am when no one was active the Homepod replied "OK play music from your library" and started playing.

I pushed on its top trying to stop it, but it kept resuming the music in a few seconds each time I pushed to stop it.

I said "Siri stop playing", and it complained "There's nothing to stop", yet resumed the music.

All this nonsense had to be termininated by unplugging it from the power.

I am mad about it. What a nuisance? Why is this thing so obsessed in playing music at midnight?

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