HomePod minis not working with Mac mini M1 after Sonoma Installed

Not true, has nothing to do with Ethernet. Same Problem in an all Wifi based setting.  The music time bar of Mac OS Music app progresses as normal but there is no sound on Homepods anymore. This happened even before Sonoma from time to time, now it's happening with almost every song.

If your iMac is connected via ethernet, disconnect the cable and use WiFi instead. I have found this restores the airplay functionality. I believe there has been some change in the code from Ventura to Sonoma that forces the use of WiFi only for AirPlay. Previously you could AirPlay from your desktop machine as long as you were on the same network as the other device, regardless of whether you were connected via an ethernet cable or via WiFi. This now appears broken.

Hi. Sorry to hear you are also having issues. From what you describe, it looks like you have a bigger network related issue than I encountered. I can only report on my own experience. And I agree that it doesn't seem logical that connecting via WiFi rather than ethernet should fix the issue, but in my case it did.

And, if you search elsewhere in this communities site and also on some other forums, you will find others reporting the same thing that I did and also reporting unplugging ethernet fixing the issue. I can therefore only conclude that my issue and that of the others for whom my suggested fix actually works is in fact related to an ethernet connection.

I do hope you find a solution to your issue and if you do, please share it as I am sure others may well be experiencing the same issue that you are. Good luck.

I think Apple has created a circular network problem in the iOS17 release - I'm having similar bad latency issues across all my HomePods, ATV's and the Home App in general - my home app takes 60-90 seconds to get the states of the devices in my network - it used to take 2-4 seconds after opening the app - and once it gets out of the Updating... state it's wrong about 50% of the time on the state of the device (the light is not on, but Home says it's on)

I've had particular trouble with Matter.io devices on the network that were using Thread. They don't update or respond any longer at all, so I've been unplugging them (Eve Energy) at this point - they had been somewhat stable in the iOS16 world - I've also lost control of my Yale Apple door locks...

The reason I think it's a circular network problem is because states of devices keep changing at random - a given device like the Apple TV can now talk over wifi, thread, wired-ethernet, and even bluetooth - and I think messages may be flowing across multiple paths and stomping on each other

I have a lot of Apple TVs and HomePods and in the Home App home settings hubs tab, I see that one of the ATVs is Connected, the rest are in Standby and the Mini's say Not Responding...

I have a lot more work to do - I have to force the ATV's to update to 17.0 (they are in Auto update mode, but none have self-initiated that yet...) and I'm resetting the Mini's, but overall, I'm not optimistic about getting my Home app back in a healthy place - this is the least stable release I've experience in my 5 years of using HomeKit...