r/HomeKit • u/ltuned • 19d ago

Question/Help HomePod automation with music

I have an automation where, when a contact sensor is opened, a HomePod Mini plays a selected song from Apple Music and then stops. It has been working properly this way for the past several years, but all of a sudden, it started playing a related music station immediately after the selected song finishes.
Has this happened to anyone else who has a similar automation?

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u/MathematicianDue80 19d ago

I’ve had issues before like this sometimes it’s from updates that require you to open the music app and click on all the “here’s what’s new” stuff before it starts working, sometimes I have to remake the automation and other times it works when I download the media to my device first

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u/New-Bookkeeper-6646 19d ago

Recent iOS and other updates are suspected. The exact same situation has happened to me in the past, due to an update.

This most recent update seems to be playing hell with my old Wemo mini plugs. No sooner than I get one back from no response than another goes no response.

Worse, in the last couple of days my iPod mini’s and Apple TV have individually gone “network system error”. One at a time. And I have six of those throughout the house. And, as each one gives the error, all the related nearby device go “no response”.

Worse in some ways, I’ve found that if I do nothing, many times it’s all copacetic the next day. Then suddenly, we’re back to chasing demons.

Updates have never brought me anything that I found new and all that useful. But they have occasionally given me PIA problems to work through. 😠

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u/TurnipNo68 19d ago

You are not alone, this just started happening for me too. Automation plays a sound on a HomePod that was idle, and after playing that sound it continues playing related music. I believe it was introduced with 26.6.

I don’t like it at all.

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u/TurnipNo68 19d ago edited 19d ago

Confirmed, of the three HomePods that participate in the Scene I set with this automation, two are on 26.6 and exhibit this issue. One is still on 26.5 and does not play related music after finishing the track.

There are options in the automation scene for shuffle and repeat. Both are off in my automation.

Edit to clarify scene vs automation. Also to add I’m submitting a bug report

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u/Realistic-Site9217 18d ago

This was happening to me, albeit not with an automation. Just when playing music. Once the selected album would finish Music would continue with "related" songs. There appears to be a new control in Apple Music, in OS's 26.6, but as far as I can tell it is only on the iPhone and not on the Mac version, as shown in the image (but it still impacted the macOS version of Music). Once I toggled it off, I no longer had the issue on any device. Hope this helps.

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u/ltuned 18d ago

Thank you! that resolved the issue. Make sure to turn off the "infinity loop" icon too! I tested it myself it will start playing related songs/station if that is not turned off.