Best devices to play music or why does HomePod not work at all

Hi,

i have several HomePods at home which i would like to stream music to.
Obviously they do not work very well at all, not streaming a song from Hassio or the controls do not work.

Has anyone figured out how to use them in a reliable way?

Or, which speaker should i buy instead, Sonos speakers do have a quite big idle power compared to HomePods.