BBC Radio Stations on HomePod Mini

I've spent a very frustrating afternoon trying to get our new HomePod Mini to play BBC Radio stations, it's the only reason we bough the HomePod instead of an internet radio. We live in an area of the UK with poor FM and DAB signals. The BBC guidance is practically non existent. After lots of attempts, unbelievably it seems to have worked, I'm not very good at tech, but here's what I did... basically follow a couple of Youtube video's which gave the basics...watch


Two difficulties, one finding the 'media' to select the playback destination, this was in the blue little buttons (Scripting, Controls, Device etc), below 'search action' on my iPhone, swipe left and 'media' will appear


The second was that after setting up the shortcut it would only work after I had deleted the 'Shortcuts' App (the programme thing) and then reinstalled it through the App Store, my Radio Two and Radio Four shortcuts were still there and worked. I'd also renamed them, so rather than 'Play Radio 4' it reads 'Radio Four' and the Siri command was then, 'Hey Siri, Radio Four' and after avfew seconds Siri announced 'done' and it worked :)


It may be different for you, but worth a try.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.2

Posted on Dec 5, 2024 10:26 AM

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Dec 5, 2024 10:59 AM in response to worlestone

it seems that the homepod rely on online radio by accessing tuneIN TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, Audiobooks, and Podcasts


and people have reporting that bbc pulled their live radio support from tuneIN some time ago, if that has not changed then you will likely not be able to accomplish it apart from airplaying from a mac or ios device to the homepod speaker

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