HomePods Keep Stopping Playing Music
In the past couple of months, especially with the 16.0 update, I've run into the problem where my OG HomePods and Mini's stop playing music randomly--in the middle of a song. This is occurs about 5 - 10 minutes into asking them to "play something I like everywhere." The Home app shows them all paused, and sometimes, the Home app says that they are all playing, but one of the mini's or OG HomePod's won't be emitting any sound at all, or the Home app will be saying that they are not playing when they are. Asking Siri to "resume" does nothing, as she says she can't do so.
This is extremely annoying, especially when I have guests over and the music just randomly stops. These things have not worked reliably since the day I got them. The Home app, while updated and now more cumbersome to use itself, is just as unreliable at managing them as it was before. I just don't get it. I can't believe I pay $10 a month for Apple Music, on top of the over a thousand dollars on these speakers for such unreliability.
I have a pretty fast home network that runs on four eero pro 6's. I've tried disabling Dolby Atmos as well as Lossless, but the problem continues. I've tried turning off thread in eero as well as leaving it on. No difference. I have client steering turned on but fear turning that off as then, well, as I move from room to room with a device I'd have to manually reconnect to the nearest router, ugh.
Does anyone have any advice? I see that the problem is actually widespread, and has been for years, although I've just begun to experience it with the latest update in this fashion. I'm ready to throw them all out a window at this point. And to witness as new options are added while these bugs continue is beyond infuriating.
