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How to Use the Temperature and Humidity Sensors on HomePod and HomePod Mini
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I suspect the Home API didn't support devices hosting other nested services until the latest release. This is basically packaged up and represented as a climate sensor which is connected to the network via the HomePod mini, not that the wireless speaker has volume and humidity as readable attributes.
Americans are the only ones still measuring in F
The rest of the world moved on to the superior C. Not only Europe, but Asia, Pacific and Africa too.
Obviously my opinion, but:
Ounces to pounds and gallons and feet to miles are scourges, but celsius is only better if you are doing scientific work. Fahrenheit has a wider range of 'livable' temperatures, which makes it easier to describe and communicate everyday temperatures without resorting to decimals.
Celsius isn't even an obviously "stable" measurement, since it is staked to water freezing and boiling in exact conditions, and freezing is an exothermic reaction (and boiling exothermic) making the actual calibration harder to perform. There are certainly challenges to use it in a scientific setting as well.
More significantly, it isn't tied to the *actual* SI unit of energy, the Joule, requiring a conversion multiplier from celsius heat units to joules.
So in the end, neither one chose the universally 'right' scale or anchor point, but Fahrenheit (based on being on gathered temperatures put on a 0-100 scale) is more useful for describing living temperatures.
After I set up my HomePods today, the temperature and humidity was showing in the home app. I decided to move them to different locations and ever since then, the temperature and humidity readings don't show in the Home app. However, if I ask Siri what the temperatur and humidity is in Home Theater, it tells me.
Anyone run into this problem?
Anyone run into this problem?
Frustrating that I'll need to update my iPhone to see this info, as I like to stay on older versions for a while to dodge bugs that may not show up for the first few weeks of a new iOS. Oh well, price of progress...
Glad to read about this update, I never noticed until just now… late to the party but FWIW, as a few others noted, temp sensor for my homepod is way off from the actual temp… then again the other temp device I have sitting by the homepod could be the inaccurate one… how to tell? I guess I’ll just have to monitor it for a while. It’d be nice if it was just a few degrees off or less.
Meanwhile, the Homepod humidity measurement is exactly on par with the other sensor’s reading. Hmm.
Meanwhile, the Homepod humidity measurement is exactly on par with the other sensor’s reading. Hmm.
In my 3 HomePod minis (my other few big HomePods are Gen 1 unfortunately), one of them is constantly reporting a humidity of 41% which is impossible, although that room is not really humid it’s no way lower than 50%, spring has come and the relatively humidity outside is 99% now. The other one looks a bit better, with humidity at around 70-80%. The remaining one is always “no response” in temperature and humidity - no matter how I reset it. I just gave up.
The sensors in the HomePod mini are very unreliable.
and HomeKit Secure Video hasn’t been recording anything again after its temporary resurrection after iOS 16.3.
HomeKit is a big clusterf&ck and that says a lot about Apple’s overall software quality nowadays.
I’m the biggest fan of Apple and I can say that HomeKit is a big shame.
The sensors in the HomePod mini are very unreliable.
and HomeKit Secure Video hasn’t been recording anything again after its temporary resurrection after iOS 16.3.
HomeKit is a big clusterf&ck and that says a lot about Apple’s overall software quality nowadays.
I’m the biggest fan of Apple and I can say that HomeKit is a big shame.
Resurrecting this thread for some help please. Two HomePod 2nd Gen plus one HomePod mini, all purchased mid-2024 and all kept up-to-date on current software versions. The 2 larger HomePod2Gens are paired as wireless TV speakers through an AppleTV device. Also using an iPhone13mini on v18.1 of iOS.
From time to time all 3 of my HomePods go “No Response” for their respective temp and humidity features, confirmed by both “Siri” and the Home; all other functionality still works. Only fix so far is to disconnect power, wait a few seconds, reconnect, and wait for start up and calibration if any. Then after a day or so they go “No Response” again. Lather, rinse, and repeat to fix. There has to be a better or at least more convenient way to resolve.
Any suggestions?
From time to time all 3 of my HomePods go “No Response” for their respective temp and humidity features, confirmed by both “Siri” and the Home; all other functionality still works. Only fix so far is to disconnect power, wait a few seconds, reconnect, and wait for start up and calibration if any. Then after a day or so they go “No Response” again. Lather, rinse, and repeat to fix. There has to be a better or at least more convenient way to resolve.
Any suggestions?
It happened to me as well in the past. After updating and restarting everything connected to it, not only the HomePod, it worked.
Sometimes prior to that I even reset the HomePod mini and it worked.
It's a pain in the neck I know but you need to try . Good luck!
Yeah, I’ve done the unplug-wait-replug trick a few times now and it’s really getting tiresome. Why can’t the HomePods temp/humidity sensors not go “No Response” for any appreciable period of time? Very annoying.
I sometimes have to re-ask my HomePod mini because it is slow calculating the temperature and the second time it works fine.
Been there, done that. For me a 2nd ask has worked only once in many, many tries. So far, the ONLY thing that resolves the problem is unplugging/replugging/wait-to-boot cycle…not too bad the first 2-3 times, but every two days or so is just ridiculous. I guess it’s time to call Apple for support as the 3 units are still under warranty.