Now to be fair whilst it's such a simple request, wake up to BBC Radio 1, it's always been too complicated for poor Siri. Wakening me up, fine. playing bcc radio 1, fine. putting them together, not possible.
But Google Home could do this when it first came out, and for many years after, why is it getting worse ?
First I could do it easily by voice and it worked 100% of the time. Hey Google waken me up every week day with music, answer the what time, and what music questions and job done.
then a year ago or so, Google 'improved' its service, and it was no longer possible. to set music alarms via voice, for reasons never properly explained.
But help was at hand, automations could do it. a simple in-app automation of 'play BBC Radio 1' worked great for months.
then in the last month or two, its got really weird. to me, with smart devices, surely whatever they do or not do, it should be the same every time. info in, info out. but no.
without me changing or messing with the automation, around 4 days out of 5 randomly, it fails to play the radio station, wakening me up with some comment about radio not being available on free Spotify, but it can play a playlist called bbl radio 1, then it plays someones playlist from years ago with some ***** music.
however about once a week or so, it surprises me with BBC Radio 1, how can this be only sometimes?
For most of the time, it meant me wakening up to this random playlist, saying 'hey google stop. hey google play bbc radio 1'. as for some reason me saying it would work fine. then all of a sudden, even saying 'hey google play BBC Radio 1' would have it play a foreign radio station. sometimes its impossible to get it to play it. then the next morning it will shock me by getting it right on the automation.
in the last 4 days, I had 1st day - old Spotify playlist, then 2 days in a row BBC Radio 1 hurrah!, then today a random Spanish radio station that sounded like its name was Radio Siesta, all from an automation that clearly says BBC Radio 1.
