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HomePod Can Now Alert You If Your Smoke Alarm Goes Off
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Good to know. I assumed the original models weren’t going to be supportedI tried rebooting with no luck. I had to remove my HomePods and re-add them one at a time before they showed up under Sound Recognition, although I was pleasantly surprised to discover the feature does indeed work on the original 2018 HomePod. Ironically, it was one of my original HomePods that got the feature first
It even offered it to me when I was adding it back on my iPhone...
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I hope you like shelling out $1428+tax every 10 years when the smokes expire.
Yup, I was sent a pair of those to review for iLounge about seven years ago. Would have never paid the $150 for even one, much less two, but since they were free, I kept them installed for about a year until one of them started incessantly chirping as if it was failing. Finally gave up, ripped them both out, and reinstalled my original smoke detectors.
The only real fun part about having those was being able to ask Siri questions like this...
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Yeah, me neither. I actually triple-checked the settings and even set off one of my smoke alarms to see if it would pick it up 🤣
It probably shouldn't be a big surprise, though; the original HomePod obviously handles "Hey Siri" just fine, and that's presumably much more complicated than detecting the shrill sounds of a smoke alarm 😏
Go the update banner about 10 minutes ago when I opened the Home app. I hit the update and now only 3 of my HomePods (one OG and a pair of Stereo OG’s) are showing in the list but I have 14 total HomePods (mix of Minis and OGs). I knew I shouldn’t have done this update remotely. It definitely got screwed up.
Well worth it they also detect when there is activity in a room and control my hvac as well. Cheaper than the alternative HomeKit detectors. This is my second round of detectors first gen was 5 years all detectors expire. I don’t pay tax I’m my state.
I’m not sure it would have mattered. I think there’s a settings update that has to be pushed out to each HomePod individually. The others will probably catch up eventually.
I had to kick off the first two HomePods by removing them and reading them to HomeKit. Another two showed up on their own about an hour later, then another an hour after that. I’m still waiting on the rest…
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up. More factory resets and restarts. What else is new? Lol
Originally only one of my HomePods were showing in the list, but I just let it be and now two more have showed up.
Yup, I think it’s just a matter of patience. Apple doesn’t always cater to us eager early adopters 😄
It appears to be that way until at least one of your HomePods gets whatever it needs from the Apple mothership to tell it to switch the feature on.
Some folks have had success simply rebooted their HomePods. I had to remove two of mine and re-add them to HomeKit, but I think they would have showed up eventually; the rest have been trickling in all evening.
In addition to the critical notification sent to your devices, the HomePod that detects the sound announces a check-in and proceeds to a two-way communication (intercom) so that you can hear what is going on from your iPhone and speak through that HomePod if necessary.
Very cool way to make all smoke alarms smart. Now they just need to add glass breaking and more importantly custom recognition such as wake up alarms etc.
I have a cool physical chime that goes off in the morning and would be amazing to tie that into HomeKit. When I tried via iPhone sound recognition it didn’t work well from distance across bedroom.
Very cool way to make all smoke alarms smart. Now they just need to add glass breaking and more importantly custom recognition such as wake up alarms etc.
I have a cool physical chime that goes off in the morning and would be amazing to tie that into HomeKit. When I tried via iPhone sound recognition it didn’t work well from distance across bedroom.
Yeah, it just activated on the prized OG I have in my bedroom—cool. I think I need to get my phone closer to the farther-away mini downstairs for it to do the same; I was honestly surprised it didn’t activate along with the OG, but also I know how sometimes these things are proximity-sensitive (throwback to soon-to-be-extinct profile installation 🥲💔)
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The Sound Recognition feature that is built into the latest version of the HomePod and the HomePod mini is now able to detect the beeping of a smoke alarm, sending you an alert if there is an emergency situation.
Announced when the new HomePod debuted in January, the Sound Recognition option is available as of today, according to TechCrunch. It can detect both activated smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, sending a notification to an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
If you're at home, you're going to hear a smoke alarm go off, but if you're away, it is a useful feature to ensure that you're alerted as soon as possible when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected. Some smoke detectors are smart and are able to send alerts, but for those who have standard hardware, the HomePod offers peace of mind.
Smoke alarm Sound Recognition can be set up using the Home app on an Apple device. HomeKit setups that incorporate a camera will be able to send a video along with the alert so that you can see at a glance what might be wrong and react accordingly.
Sound Recognition is done through the HomePod or HomePod mini and the alert is sent from device to device, with no involvement of Apple's cloud servers.
Article Link: HomePod Can Now Alert You If Your Smoke Alarm Goes Off
I see nothing in my HomeKit that even remotely looks like this. Fake News?
The Sound Recognition feature that is built into the latest version of the HomePod and the HomePod mini is now able to detect the beeping of a smoke alarm, sending you an alert if there is an emergency situation.
Announced when the new HomePod debuted in January, the Sound Recognition option is available as of today, according to TechCrunch. It can detect both activated smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, sending a notification to an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
If you're at home, you're going to hear a smoke alarm go off, but if you're away, it is a useful feature to ensure that you're alerted as soon as possible when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected. Some smoke detectors are smart and are able to send alerts, but for those who have standard hardware, the HomePod offers peace of mind.
Smoke alarm Sound Recognition can be set up using the Home app on an Apple device. HomeKit setups that incorporate a camera will be able to send a video along with the alert so that you can see at a glance what might be wrong and react accordingly.
Sound Recognition is done through the HomePod or HomePod mini and the alert is sent from device to device, with no involvement of Apple's cloud servers.
Article Link: HomePod Can Now Alert You If Your Smoke Alarm Goes Off
Took a phone reboot and a restart of all homepod minis via the home app and then the option to enable this feature popped up. One of my 5 minis never had the option even after two reboots, had to unpair it and pair it again and then it showed up enabled automatically.
Seems to be a bit of a buggy rollout but coming from Apple these days that seems to be the norm.
Seems to be a bit of a buggy rollout but coming from Apple these days that seems to be the norm.
Restarting the HomePod made the activation prompt to appear in the Home app. I’m using the new home architecture.
I'm curious about that WiFi Networks and Routers section you have. What devices are compatible with that?