macOS 13.2 is corresponding release to iOS 16.3. Shows up fine for me on 13.2.
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How to Use the Temperature and Humidity Sensors on HomePod and HomePod Mini
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macOS 13.2 is corresponding release to iOS 16.3. Shows up fine for me on 13.2.
Does anyone know if seeing this in the iPhone Home app depends on what iPhone you're using? I'm on an 11 pro and can't see it, but my other half is on a 13 mini and she can. Just wondering if there's an issue with the update on my phone.
@dwaite - Thanks for that and I will investigate further. 👍
Update - I've got 3 network Macs around me at the moment, an MBP M1 Pro, M1 Mac mini and a Mac Studio. No luck getting the temp and humidity data on any of them, even after restarts and alike.
Weird.
I'll try a couple more machines later; I may even break-out an Intel Mac and blow the dust off it.
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It’s odd as this morning my landing one was spot on but now my plug in temperature is stating 12.5 where my HomePod mini says 14c.
If I place the mini in a different part of the lounge the difference was like 2c.
Unless of course, it just doesn't work and you have to go through the usual factory resets and re-adding gauntlets.
My bathroom HomePod Mini’s humidity sensor is way off. It reports around 40% all day long, even when I’m taking a shower and the humidity is more like 95%. Unfortunately I was hoping to use this to automatically shut off my exhaust fan when the room is finished drying out after a shower.
People keep on saying it “takes some time to calibrate” but what is it calibrating against, exactly? Calibration without an external reference point is kind of worthless. I have a non-HomeKit digital hygrometer in the room next to it and it reports credible-seeming humidity values which respond very quickly to changing conditions and cost like $10, and I was hoping my Apple device would be at least as accurate and responsive as that.
People keep on saying it “takes some time to calibrate” but what is it calibrating against, exactly? Calibration without an external reference point is kind of worthless. I have a non-HomeKit digital hygrometer in the room next to it and it reports credible-seeming humidity values which respond very quickly to changing conditions and cost like $10, and I was hoping my Apple device would be at least as accurate and responsive as that.
There's nothing I've seen set up for that yet. It would require a long-running iOS-or-Mac app (probably on a Mac because running an iOS app 24/7 is problematic) querying the sensors repeatedly and stuffing the readings into a database. It might be possible to, instead, use Homebridge or some similar software that pretends to be a HomeKit device to do the querying, which would allow running it all on a Raspberry Pi or similar small/low-cost dedicated computer, but I'm not sure if HomeKit allows HomeKit devices to query other HomeKit devices directly, or if they all can only answer to a Mac/iPhone/AppleTV/HomePod.
My approach, years ago, was to use a special purpose Arduino board that can read the signals from off-the-shelf remote temperature/humidity sensors (Oregon Scientific in my case, but it'll read dozens of different brands), and then feed that data into a collection of Raspberry Pi's that decode, average, display, and store that information, and also produce graphs that get uploaded to a web page I can read remotely to get the kind of graphs you mention. It was a fun project, ended up being 15k lines of Python, five Raspberry Pi's, an Arduino, and some specialized hardware (not that it needs to be that complicated, I just added a lot of extra stuff). Reminds me that I need to spend a weekend switching the forecasting data feed from DarkSky to Apple Weather.
I ended up swapping my dining room and bathroom HomePods, since the dining room one seems to have much better humidity tracking and I don't care about tracking humidity in the dining room.
I'm having an issue with my Mini's. Sometimes Siri tells me the humidity percentage and sometimes she just says it's "high." I can't figure out why it's going back and forth. The first day after I updated my iPhone and my HomePod's, everything worked fine, now it doesn't want to give you the actual numbers. Once again Siri is failing, is Apple ever going to address how bad Siri is? It seems like they just don't care about it.
I can see it on my ipad etc , any way you can get siri to speak it ?
Yea, say "hey siri, what is the temperate in my...(whatever room your speakers are in). Same for humidity. However, there are obvious bugs that Apple needs to address. A lot of people (including myself) are having major issues.
Is everyone on this forum from the UK or something? LMAO, what's up with all this "C" talk? Furthermore with all the different readings people are seeing...you could have 10 different temp or humidity devices in your house, and you'll not see the same reading across the board. It's just not possible. My Dysons show one reading, my Mini's show another, my weather stations show another, my phone's weather apps (each one shows different readings), etc...not gonna happen guys!
To us, the "F" talk is equally as weird.
I mean... when its freezing its 0 degrees C right...... so much easier to understand and visualise. Minus C is blooming cold... and plus C is not. 30 C is blooming warm.... and everything in-between is nice.
Now... 32 degrees F is freezing? What the actual F is that all about?
It's not weird to you cause you're not from the states lol Is this site more of a UK/Euro site? If so, I never knew that.
Tested my HomePod Mini against 2 other humidity sensors in the same room. The HomePod was 10 degrees (C) lower than the other 2 sensors, which somewhat matched.
Either my HomePod Mini is broken or Apple really cheaped out with the sensors.
Either my HomePod Mini is broken or Apple really cheaped out with the sensors.
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Yes. I can ask Siri, "What's the temperature inside?" and it reports from the sensor in the HomePod mini. Or, I can ask "What's the temperature outside" and I get the temperature reading consistent with the Weather app.
Not quite, every device that reads temp or humidity is going to give you different numbers. There is no way that you're going to see the same numbers (or even close) with multiple devices or readers. It's how the manufacturer calibrates them. Just like when a weather app tells you it's a certain temperature in the city or town you live in, trust me, it's not that same temperature throughout the entire city or town lol Just like it can be raining across the street from you but on your side of the street, it's not raining.