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First HomePod Jailbreak Stokes Speculation About Smart Speaker's Hacking Potential
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For me, there’d be great value in the Bluetooth connectivity to be able to use the HomePod as a sound system for our Peloton bike that only supports Bluetooth and 3.5mm AUX. Neither of which HomePod supports. Still using an old iPod HiFi plugged into the AUX port for that one.
You should sell your Peleton and just use Apple Fitness+. Apple is the only acceptable product to have in your house.
/sarcasm
Spotify and tidal connect or even Sonos, chrome cast built in etc so that you don’t have to use AirPlay that horribly drains your battery, everything will run direct from the servers of the service...and Bluetooth would be a nice way to control all that! Even from android
also, speaker calls for any service you want!
this is exciting!
If I want to use the Homepod as a speaker(s) for a Mac, then Airplay carries quite a lot of latency for anything such as system sounds, sounds coming from your browser etc. This can be 1 - 2 seconds.
Given lots of people use youtube on their Mac's, this makes a Homepod a non starter as a speaker for your Mac.
Bluetooth would resolve this, if implemented in the same fashion as AirPods.
You could even have a pair running in stereo (just like AirPods). The hardware is there.
For sure on that. Not once have I ever missed Bluetooth on my HomePods. AirPlay 2 is superb and just works.
If people need to use Bluetooth, they should purchase a Bluetooth speaker. Easy. And there are a ton of those out there.
Those are the languages of Siri, HomePod only supports a subset of it. My language is available in Siri but not on the HomePod, hence HomePod is not available in my country.They support 21 languages, about half of what google does and way more than Alexa's 8.
Language Support in Voice Assistants Compared (2021 Update)
We compared language support in Siri, HomePod, Alexa, and Google Assistant. Find out who covers the most languages and dialects worldwide.www.globalme.net
It is hard to find which languages are currently supported, but I saw following mentioned: Cantonese, English, French, German, Mandarin and Spanish.
See https://www.google.com/search?q=homepod+apple+tv+latency+game+site:www.reddit.com
for latency / lag issues with Airplay
for latency / lag issues with Airplay
You already can right in the HomePod settings.
How to change Siri's voice and language on HomePod
Want to change the HomePod language used or Siri’s voice on your smart speaker? This tutorial shows you how to change them both.
www.idownloadblog.com
Someone should copy those .app bundles from /Applications onto a M1 Mac and try running them to see what would happen. Might fail, requiring frameworks or expecting I/O connections not in place, but it could be fun
You use the sarcasm tag, and I know you meant it sarcastically, but spend enough time on MacRumors and you start to get the slightly creepy feeling that there are a lot of people that actually live their lives this way: Brand first, all factors second.
To the extent that things like this simple hack drives some of those people up a tree is reason enough for them to exist, though. ;-)
As was said in the previous thread regarding the workaround to get stereo HomePods working on Mac; Youtube works in sync through Safari. System sounds and many other sounds do not however.
iOS works well on HomePod with anything that buffers, but any real-time stuff carries that latency.
Somehow Apple have managed to remove the latency from Apple TV to HomePods when gaming, which implies that lag-free audio is possible. Whether this will be added to iOS and MacOS is anyone's guess.
For anyone who can't understand why people would like to see Bluetooth activation on HomePod, it has everything to do with latency removal and allowing other devices to access them. It's possible with AirPods, so should be possible with HomePods too.
Not generally interested in jail breaking - never saw the point on phones.
But if they could make the HomePod support streaming from arbitrary URLs, that’d be hugely interesting to me. (No I don’t want to read out a URL to Siri - I want to be able to say “play Downtempo Lounge” and have Siri stream from my orprivate subscriber-only URL.)
But if they could make the HomePod support streaming from arbitrary URLs, that’d be hugely interesting to me. (No I don’t want to read out a URL to Siri - I want to be able to say “play Downtempo Lounge” and have Siri stream from my orprivate subscriber-only URL.)
I am not into jailbraking anymore, but I would like to correct the title a bit into
First HomePod Jailbreak Stokes Speculation About Smart Speaker's Potential
...crippled by Apples Firmware.
I seriously doubt there are many, if any, really potential customers not buying this because of a lack of Bluetooth. If you want a bluetooth speaker with serious sound, you can get one with an 8" woofer and stereo pairing capability for $90 at Costco. Oh, but you want Siri and HomeKit? Then you must have an iPhone and probably other Apple devices and AirPlay is superior in almost every way.
TL/DR: For some, bluetooth might feel like a nice-to-have, but I doubt any appreciable number are refraining from buying a HomePod because of it.
funny you know more than than one of the most successful companies ever,
Do you feel at all silly saying apple is turning off potential customers? Because it comes off like you have no clue.
I don’t think so, that’s only your feeling. People who just want to connect to a Bluetooth speaker to play music won’t consider a HomePod as their are many alternatives available.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. But the question posed earlier in the thread was ‘what Bluetooth would allow that you can’t already do’?. And then everybody started talking about it. And the answer to that is lag free audio.
Spotify support is the feature I really would like to use but I won't jailbreak even if I can get that.
I feel like your response to me is more about ‘what Bluetooth would allow that you can’t already do’ than what I actually said? I was responding to a comment that there would have been be any appreciable change in HomePod sales if Bluetooth had been available. Which I don't believe is true, for (subjective) reasons stated in my comment.
While we're discussing it, however, I would point out that it seems the "Lag-free audio" answer is only for a narrow use-case (computer speakers). I use my HomePod as a speaker, and have even played with it as my TV speaker, and have never experienced delays in playback, control, or synchronization. So I suppose a more accurate answer to "what bluetooth would allow that you can't already do" would be "use them as computer speakers". Even then, a software update to MacOS catering to that odd use-case would fix it in an instant. Opening bluetooth is not the silver bullet there.
Can it run Doom?
Hmm.
Imagine that. A Game - where input/output is controlled by voice interaction with sound effects, where the players vocal control, suggestion and potentially even vocal reaction affects their progress or outcome of the game. To play a game in the perception of someone whos blind.
Hmmm!! IF done right it could be extra special.