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Yah I have a couple of those little weno plugs and they’re great and integrate with homekit well!
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priznat posted:Yah I have a couple of those little weno plugs and they’re great and integrate with homekit well! I'm not a smart home person in the least, but I have one of those plugs explicitly for a space heater in my office after one too many "I turned that off didn't I? Gotta go check" nights and it's great. If you're going to be homepoding it, you can also use Shortcuts to set up a custom Siri command for heat on/off etc. The harder part was finding a decent space heater that didn't need to be explicitly turned on and just came on with power.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:I'm not a smart home person in the least, but I have one of those plugs explicitly for a space heater in my office after one too many "I turned that off didn't I? Gotta go check" nights and it's great. If you're going to be homepoding it, you can also use Shortcuts to set up a custom Siri command for heat on/off etc. Cool thing is apparently Apple is enabling temperature sensors in the homepods (and minis) so you could even set an automation to turn it on if it dips below a certain amount and you are at home between certain hours etc! I'm extremely keen on the temperature/humidity sensor support to just have some more tracking of the different areas of the house etc.
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Nice. After I just got done putting Aqara temp/humidity sensors in most of my rooms, and even in the ones with Minis.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Nice. After I just got done putting Aqara temp/humidity sensors in most of my rooms, and even in the ones with Minis. What ones did you get? Eve?
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priznat posted:What ones did you get? Eve? https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D37FKGY
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priznat posted:Cool thing is apparently Apple is enabling temperature sensors in the homepods (and minis) so you could even set an automation to turn it on if it dips below a certain amount and you are at home between certain hours etc! My Gas bill just went up 4x I'm never using my heat again lol I'm also moving soon so I might pick up a few more mini's for around the house.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:I'm not a smart home person in the least, but I have one of those plugs explicitly for a space heater in my office after one too many "I turned that off didn't I? Gotta go check" nights and it's great. If you're going to be homepoding it, you can also use Shortcuts to set up a custom Siri command for heat on/off etc. It’s pretty much that except it’s an electric radiator. My office is separate from the rest of the house and while it’s insulated it does take a bit of time to warm up. So I don’t have to bother going in, turning it on and then waiting for the room not to be freezing. The temp sensors being available on the mini also sounds pretty neat.
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Temp and humidity sensors have been enabled on Homepods! I had to reboot mine and then they show up for the room I have it. Going to use it to control an outlet that I have a humidifer on. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-use-the-temperature-and-humidity-sensors-on-homepod-and-homepod-mini.2378205/
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I'm shocked how cold my house actually is lol
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Not working for me and lots of other folks I guess. Oh well I have a smart thermostat in the same room.
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LuckyCat posted:Not working for me and lots of other folks I guess. Oh well I have a smart thermostat in the same room. Yeah I've updated everything and its not working for me either.
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Works for me! I now have objective information about how poorly the HVAC heats upstairs!
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Yup the sensors work for me although they did take a while to calibrate. Useful as I can set up an automation to turn the radiator in the office if the temp gets too low. Not really sure what the humidity means its like 46% on a rainy day.
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LuckyCat posted:Not working for me and lots of other folks I guess. Oh well I have a smart thermostat in the same room. Do you have other devices that can act as a Homekit hub? May have to reboot those as well. When a Homekit device stops working for me, I usually end up rebooting my homepod and apple tvs.
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phosdex posted:Do you have other devices that can act as a Homekit hub? May have to reboot those as well. When a Homekit device stops working for me, I usually end up rebooting my homepod and apple tvs. Nope just the HomePod Mini. I wonder if I don’t have it set up as a hub? It looks like this in Home. 
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I've got Aqara temp sensors in a lot of my rooms, and I noticed that Home reports the temperature from them instead of the Minis in the same room. Which I probably prefer, but interesting, nonetheless.
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Ugh, I need some kind of point update. Since 16.3, nearly all my HomePods need commands spoken twice to get them to go through. Oddly, it happens more with commands for my lights than with commands for information (weather, etc).
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Thwomp posted:Ugh, I need some kind of point update. Since 16.3, nearly all my HomePods need commands spoken twice to get them to go through. Having the same issue.
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Thwomp posted:Ugh, I need some kind of point update. Since 16.3, nearly all my HomePods need commands spoken twice to get them to go through. Seems like apple should have some sort of beta program for this poo poo
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I have a feeling this will have been asked before, but, is there any way to tweak the range and/or sensitivity of Handoff on a HomePod/mini beyond disabling it entirely? I have a mini on my desk, and I use my phone at my desk like 4ft away from the thing, and the phone keeps interrupting me with the HomePod interface and it's infuriating. I'd expect it to only do this within like 1-2ft or so.
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Bleh, the updating to 16.3.1 in the Home app has been spinning for almost 24 hours now for my 6 Minis. I’ve never seen an update get stuck. e: weird, I unplugged one of them, checked them an hour later and the update installed Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Thwomp posted:Ugh, I need some kind of point update. Since 16.3, nearly all my HomePods need commands spoken twice to get them to go through. The 16.3.1 point update resolved this, for the most part.
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Climate control showed up last night in the Home app finally. This morning, it’s not there anymore. 
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I got me one of those HomePod Minis, mostly as Thread border router for this home automation crap. It has surprisingly good sound. Expected worse.
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Another point update is out. I was finding the last point update was helping with Siri timing out less and less so here’s hoping.
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Is there any word, or better yet reliable test data measuring the latency of the AppleTV/Dual HomePods eARC use case, ideally specifically covering the latest AppleTV and 2nd-gen HomePods? I am intensely curious about its viability for latency-sensitive gaming cases.
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Fedule posted:Is there any word, or better yet reliable test data measuring the latency of the AppleTV/Dual HomePods eARC use case, ideally specifically covering the latest AppleTV and 2nd-gen HomePods? I am intensely curious about its viability for latency-sensitive gaming cases. I used it to watch the Super Bowl. It seemed fine.
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Right, but I'm specifically interested in gaming as a use case. I want to know the latency in milliseconds. The Apple TV and I think TVs generally where eARC is used can delay the picture so audio is always in sync even when latency is involved, but that doesn't work in games. Obviously it'll never be perfect with both an HDMI and a wireless step involved but if it can get into the ~40ms neighbourhood it goes from being a severely compromised experience to perfectly usable in all but the most demanding cases.
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HomePod software got an update, it's at 16.4. Stability and software improvements according to Apple.
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Binary Badger posted:HomePod software got an update, it's at 16.4. On it.... Just a sec.... Still trying.... I cannot compete the request right now. Please try again later.
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My homepods were already 16.4, I wonder if I put them on the beta and forgot.
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Has anyone else problem with wifi connectivity? I use 2 homepods mini paired for sound out on my Apple TV. When the pods are ungrouped they connect fine to my wifi network. As soon as I pair them together and use them as sound out for the Apple TV they’re marked as not being on the same network as my iphone in the home app and only one of the pods will respond to the remote (like pressing mute only mutes one of the pods). Unpair them and a couple of minutes later they’re marked as being connected to wifi. I’ve lost count over how many times i’ve done a factory reset of them. I really dislike this product.
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One thing I have noticed with having a homepod mini setup to play the radio at 6:30 is that it will stick an ad in before the station, usually for shopify or something like that. Is this just something in the radio stream provider within Music or is this a homepod thing? Any way to disable that?
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Almost certainly the radio provider. I've never gotten an ad in an Apple Music stream.
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Endless Mike posted:Almost certainly the radio provider. I've never gotten an ad in an Apple Music stream. Weird it is the CBC music stream which is ad free, that’s why it stood out. Have no idea where in the chain this ad is getting stuck in.
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New HomePod software is out, but there's an issue where it doesn't show up in the Home app unless you reboot your phone.
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You can initiate Airplay sessions with Siri with the new OS as well
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Binary Badger posted:You can initiate Airplay sessions with Siri with the new OS as well Hopefully this works better because trying to get her to play the same music on the Apple TV and the HomePod is an exercise in frustration. Lol it works sometimes and a lot of the time she says she can’t do that.
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Annoyingly it still doesn't seem to have the update popping up for me, despite the phone being iOS 17 now..
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