Given other people's response, I'm clearly the odd one out here, but I found it buggy and infuriating to use. I wanted what I can't imagine is a unique shortcut, "Good Morning", which should:<p>- Set the volume to 50% on my home pod<p>- Start playing an ambient radio station in Apple Music<p>- Start a slow fade in on my bedroom lights<p>It's been a nightmare, and I finally gave up altogether. I got my shortcut configured and set up with Siri. It's pretty simple, being only 3 steps, so I don't see where there's that much room to go off the rails, but oh boy does it.<p>The HomePod responds, and says "okay, running your shortcut". It then sets the volume on my <i>phone</i> to 50% and starts playing music there instead. It then tries and probably 80% of the time fails to set the home scene to turn on the lights. When it fails, it says "Please continue on your iPhone", where Siri's output states that it doesn't understand, as if I misspoke something to it... but it's running a set list of commands, there's no room for me to misspeak when setting the HomeKit scene. And clearly the shortcut triggered since it's now playing music at half volume a foot from my head.<p>And there's no way that I can tell to have it specify an AirPlay speaker to play out of. I don't get why the home pod, which responded to the request in the first place, can't play the music. If I tell it to play the exact same playlist directly it does so just fine. Maybe I'm "too advanced", being a tech person myself, but this really feels like basic stuff, and it seems to have missed the mark by a wide margin.