[jhwhite]

I used to have Google Home and moved to Homepod Minis. I should have ran them side by side, but that would have gotten very confusing for other people in the family.

Siri is fine at controlling smart home devices, giving weather, timers, etc...but if you ask it questions more times that not it wants you to use your phone. Google Home handled that so much better.

We have Apple Music and have Homepods around the house so we use it for that.

[4rt]

<kitchen homepod> "Hey siri set a timer for 5 minutes"

  "hey siri what timers are running" -> "it's 10:45am"
  "hey siri how long left on the timer" -> "there's one timer with 5 minutes remaining"

  <bedroom homepod>
    "hey siri list all timers" -> "there are no timers set"
    "hey siri how long left on the timer" -> "it's 10:45am"