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Virtue posted:How does the white color hold up to grime? Would like to know this as well. I'm debating getting a couple for kid rooms and white is the only one available in store. I'd prefer the space grey due to gross kids, but eh. e: Oh hey, grey just came back into stock like an hour after typing this post. Picking them up tomorrow. Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Got a pair of minis. These things are pretty cool! The only thing that’s absolutely infuriating is that Siri thinks I’m saying “entercom” instead of intercom and won’t send messages 75% of the time. It’s pissing me off so much that I can’t tell my kids they eat farts from downstairs consistently.
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Nov 21, 2020 17:08
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Jose Oquendo posted:How does the intercom work? Can I send a message from my iPhone (or Mac) but it only outputs to the HomePod? Yeah you can send messages to everyone and their devices (the message can play on your phone and even watch!), or to specific rooms. You can send messages from anywhere too, so you don’t just have to be in your house. It’s pretty slick, and honestly shocking after seeing what a disaster walkie talkie was on the watch.
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Nov 21, 2020 18:29
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Yeah, there's permissions. I had to add my kids apple IDs to my "home," then specifically give them Intercom access. I set all the HomePods up under my apple ID during the setup process though. Just wish Siri would stop thinking I'm saying "entercom" and failing. So loving annoying. My daughter asked to play some music and it called her by my wife's name, haha. I'm not exactly sure how it "knows" which voice is which.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:55
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Ultimate Mango posted:Kids apple IDs? Just create Apple IDs and set their birthday correctly (I sometimes make them 18 for certain apps to get around annoying limitations). Under iCloud settings you can invite family members and set limitations and stuff. You’ll need IDs for your kids if you want it to recognize their voices. Not sure if they will need their own phone to make it work though (don’t know your age range, mine are all rear end in a top hat teenagers). Seems I had to put the Home app on all my kids’ phones.
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Nov 21, 2020 21:24
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japtor posted:Ok I get that part, but do they physically have to be home/connected to the home network, or will it intercom them anywhere? That’s an option 
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Nov 21, 2020 22:52
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Seems my store has tons of minis for pickup. I ordered another pair last night and they’re still available for pickup today this morning.
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Nov 27, 2020 16:04
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Speaking of Sonos, I have a One SL in my toddlers' bedroom that I use to play white noise at night. After I got some minis, I set up an automation to start it at 8:15pm every night. Looks like it just Airplays the playlist I have from one of the Minis in the house, rather than just natively playing it on the Sonos, like you would in the Sonos app. Not super annoying, but that means that whatever Mini it Airplays from, you can't use or else it shuts the playlist to the Sonos One off. I just went back to manually starting it via the Sonos app every night, which sucks, but whatever.
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Dec 1, 2020 19:31
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I don’t think so. It’s device-specific I believe. Even the watch and phone don’t share timers.
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Dec 25, 2020 07:28
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beefnoodle posted:They do. I use them for cooking all the time. Ok I’m going to have to revise that after using it for..... cooking today. If you start it on your phone, the phone and watch both buzz. If you start it on your watch, I think only the watch buzzes.
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Dec 26, 2020 05:48
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Will a 5W block work?
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Dec 28, 2020 06:22
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The new haptic feedback on the 12 is great. And the mini LEDs get brighter the closer you get too. And also kinda funny. I’ll be walking by our kitchen mini and my phone will start vibrating.
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Jan 28, 2021 19:19
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After working at my desk a couple days, the vibrating thing can get a bit annoying when it tries to grab the audio when you don't want it to, especially since it also blurs the phone screen as well.
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Feb 2, 2021 01:16
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Don’t worry, a cord replacement is probably only $79.99!
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Feb 21, 2021 03:21
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I don't know if there's a way beyond rebooting it, but yeah, my toddlers like to play with ours as well and constantly un"pause" stuff.
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Feb 25, 2021 20:13
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Is there anyway to turn off the doorbell notification sound on a specific Mini? I have a Mini in my toddlers' room for white noise while they sleep, and I'd rather not get the overly-loud SOMEONE IS AT THE DOOR when someone rings my doorbell while they're napping or sleeping. e: Oh hey, there's a "Chime on HomePod" option 
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Mar 15, 2021 19:08
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I'm sure that sounds great but man, that looks loving ugly.
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Apr 7, 2021 00:13
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IUG posted:How do these update? I see my minis at 14.6, and don't want them restarting or making noise at midnight or something. Home app. It should check when you open it, or maybe hold to open a homepod in there. Sometimes it’ll automatically say it at the top of your house page and you hit the update button. I assume it’ll do it automatically at some point in the next 6 months if you don’t manually trigger it.
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Jul 20, 2021 02:13
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Endless Mike posted:I turned on iCloud Private Relay on on my home wifi to see what it was about then forgot to turn it off, and my Homepod couldn't fine my phone. Which makes sense. So don't do that. My phone hands off audio just fine if I have private relay on.
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Sep 22, 2021 15:44
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Yeah I wouldn’t agree with them sounding like a laptop speaker at all. They aren’t going to sound like a Sonos speaker, but they are significantly better than a laptop. My kids all have one for music and they like it.
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Oct 16, 2021 16:56
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Yeah, anyone can control your lights and stuff.
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Oct 31, 2021 07:39
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wooger posted:I’ll be happy if I can get Siri to stop shouting at me when I set lighting scenes. “Hey Siri you’re too loud” seems to drop the speaking volume, but I noticed it was loud again the next day.
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Dec 14, 2021 19:26
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Holy poo poo, changing your apple ID password is SUCH a loving pain in the rear end when it comes to HomePods. Every loving time I try to set a HomeKit scene, it says I have account issues and to open the Home app for further details. I open Home, and sometimes an account thing appears, asking me to put my password in. Even when I do, I still can't set any scenes and gives me the same account error over and over again. gently caress.
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Dec 17, 2021 18:45
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Yeah I’ve tried rebooting and all that. Half the time the account ! doesn’t even show up even though it’s saying there’s an account issue on the speaker itself. Dumb. I have to activate scenes with my phone like some caveman now.
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Dec 17, 2021 21:12
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Minis are $80 at costco: https://www.costco.com/homepod-mini.product.100696292.html When using a pair with an ATV, is there any audio lag? I’ve got a pair of Sonos Ones that I AirPlay to, and the lag is horrendous, like to the point where I just use the TV speaker instead.
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Jan 22, 2022 23:24
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I changed my apple password like a month ago and my minis are still randomly asking me for the loving password.
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Jan 23, 2022 05:54
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Timers don't sync between your phone and watch. How dare you think that it is possible to sync between Homepods!
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Jan 26, 2022 00:11
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“Some” Lol when I asked it to turn OFF the kitchen lights, it would turn my hallway lights ON. They’re in separate HomeKit rooms.
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Ultimate Mango posted:My 2022 recap was literally only lullaby music for babies because the setting to not update my listening history and library did not work, and I did not notice. Was a christmas gift for christmas 2021, and I finally fixed the problem a few weeks after the recaps came out. Haha my top tracks were ocean waves. We use an ocean wave album as white noise for our toddlers at night. After that I have baby shark and this is Halloween from nightmare before Christmas. Then like 100 tracks of Dio, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Metallica, and Pantera.
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Jan 16, 2023 10:05
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Don’t the Apple Watch S6/7/8/Ultra/OG HomePod/HomePod mini all have pretty much the same CPU? And this one has the same one?
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Jan 18, 2023 16:33
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The least believable part of that youtube video is Siri responding instantly with out any "on it"s or "just a sec"s and eventually timing out and saying to ask later.
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Jan 18, 2023 17:55
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Mister Facetious posted:Every review I've watched of a homepod mini, the fucker takes a good 2-5 seconds to answer anything. I've got 6 minis in my house and a few seconds is pretty standard and acceptable, but every once in a while it goes full moron and will say "on it" 20 times in a row. I don't have any OG HomePods though, so I can't compare the processing times.
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Jan 18, 2023 22:44
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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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priznat posted:What ones did you get? Eve? https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D37FKGY
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Jan 20, 2023 01:23
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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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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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Feb 7, 2023 16:32
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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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Mar 27, 2023 21:10
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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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priznat posted:Annoyingly it still doesn't seem to have the update popping up for me, despite the phone being iOS 17 now.. Reboot your phone and check in Home Settings again
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priznat posted:I have, several times, unless it's not the swipe to power down and then press side button to restart or some other thing? Volume up + sleep button, slide to turn off? That's what worked for me.
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