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A screenshot of the Home app in iOS showing three "cards", one for the HomePod and the other two saying "Outdoor Temperature" and "Indoor Temperature", with the current values for those.

HomePods are controlled via the Home app on iOS, which uses Apple's HomeKit (https://www.apple.com/ios/home/). Someone wrote a Node.js service called Homebridge (https://homebridge.io) that lets you write your own plugins to show up in Home, so I did some coding and now have our Raspberry Pis that have the temperature sensors attached showing up right from within iOS! I'm going to write up a blog post going over how I got it all going in detail, because there was a LOT of trial and error.

Posted on 10 April 2020, 11:20

A wide-angle photo of our office. At the left and right walls are two white bookshelves with lots of books on them, right next to both are two desks with computers on them. There are stuffed animals on the top of the bookshelves, and a half-height bookshelf immediately to the bottom-left of the photo with a white Apple HomePod sitting on it.

I was talking about the HomePod with co-workers and mentioned our old audio setup and the mess of cables and how having stereo sound in our office didn't really matter, then I remembered that I'd posted about our setup twice previously — originally in 2014 (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/597) then the current arrangement in 2016 (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/434) — but hadn't taken an up-to-date one. So I tidied up, and here it is!

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Posted on 7 April 2020, 20:08

A photo of the box of a white Apple HomePod.

Woohoo! Despite JB Hi-Fi saying it would be delivered on the 15th, it arrived today. 🎉

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Posted on 7 April 2020, 11:07