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HomePod Can Now Alert You If Your Smoke Alarm Goes Off
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Need to create an automation to disable detection every day at 4:20
The thing is, all of the speech recognition is done on device. No network traffic takes place unless the device is told to do something.
It is one of Apple's primary marketing points. If they violated it, that would destroy the company. Apple's internal motto is, "Privacy is a human right." People all over the world connect Wireshark to their networks and look at every single packet an Apple device sends out. Apple network traffic is very clean. If you look at the traffic coming out of a Microsoft or Amazon device, you would want to burn your home down, just to get rid of them. Apple traffic is even more privacy centered than Linux.
I updated to the new architecture (the first time). So I believe I'm on the new architecture (and the setting to update is not available). However, am I really on the new architecture - how do you "really" know? I too do not have a "Safety and Security" setting to "tap on".
4/19 10:12 EDT - so must have taken some time to "push" the Safety and Security. It showed up this morning.
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Or buy 9 dumb detectors and 1 smart one as long as they're interlinked (which you probably want anyway).Here is the thing. Residential smoke detecters need to be replaced every 10 years per US NFPA fire code. In my home I have 10 smoke/co2 detectors. I can buy and install a fancy $100 smoke detector at a total cost of $1000 every 10 years or I can buy $10 dumb smokes at a cost of $100 every 10 years The HomePod turns my dumb smokes into smart ones at no additional cost. I have one of the Kidde smoke alerts monitors already, which works well, but was discontinued.
RemoteLync Monitor - Discontinued | Kidde
With the launch of our new smart alarms, we’ve made the decision to discontinue support for the Kidde RemoteLync Monitor, effective October 1, 2023.www.kidde.com
Thank you Apple!
I believe the rules for my area are one smoke/co2 on each level, and a smoke in every bedroom. Mine are all wired together but they offer wireless interlinking as well. That way if your alarm in your basement goes off and you're on the 2nd floor, that alarm goes off too. More warning to get out if your furnace/etc decide to make life exciting.
Still don't get how to enable this on HomePod. So I'm just going to set my house on fire and wait…
Good point. All my smokes are connected via a third interconnect wire.
Are the smart smokes compatible with the hardwired interconnect? Or are they intentionally incompatible to force one to replace them all?
I restarted my iPhone, and the "Safety & Security" option now appears on the Home Settings screen, but it's greyed out and inaccessible with no explanation as to why...
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FWIW, I enabled Sound Recognition on my iPhone 13 Pro just after updating to iOS 16.4 and it borked the click sound for shutting off the screen ("Lock Sound"). It also disabled the volume slider on the Sounds & Haptics Setting screen... volume was max no matter where you put the slider. Had to disable Sound Recognition and do a hard reboot to get the normal behaviors back.
I did not re-test this under iOS 16.4.1
I did not re-test this under iOS 16.4.1
That might be a good thing. If one has multiple HomePods, perhaps the HomePods can do some sort of time of arrival location detection, so I don’t have to stand under each smoke for 10 minutes to figure out which one is chirping because of a low battery.
My iPhone has an updated recently section from when I installed my AirPod
I didn't start the fire. It was always burning...
With this latest HomePod update, Siri has finally been identified in real life:
"Hey Siri, listen for my smoke alarm"
Siri:
"Hey Siri, listen for my smoke alarm"
Siri:
I thought you had to turn off hey Siri in order for sound recognition to work.
Same. At least it is a lot better in the new apt as long as we don't forget the venting fan. Even with the one in the old apt would go off, and it was way further from the kitchen than the new one.
I can just hear Siri's response "Playing Burnng Down the House by Talking Heads."
Mine was grayed out, but some minutes later when I went back to main Home Screen, there was a white banner to enable it that I had to click on. Interestingly it only enabled 2 of my 6 HomePods; the ones that are classified as being in bedrooms.
I rebooted my HomePod, and was able to go into Safety & Security to enable the feature.
I thought this when I bought my OneLink... I have 8 dumb alarms and one expensive "smart" OneLink. Turns out the OneLink only sends notifications when it is the one that senses the smoke, not if it's triggered. Perhaps it's different with other brands. My OneLink never sends me notifications anyway though... Doesn't even show me in history that it went off last night (in that case it was the one that triggered because I have disconnected its interconnect line).