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Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by ben174 »

pbronez wrote: post #31
kissiel wrote: post #5

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They would need a time machine too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePod I wonder if jailbroken homepod would still do the audio enhancements on the fly with, let's say, spotify. Or the detection of commands in google assistant even while playing music very loud.

Spotify doesn't currently support HomePod, which is really annoying since the HomePod Mini looks awesome. You can vote for HomePod support on Spotify's community site: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Na...

It does. I just tested proximity handoff from iPhone to HomePod.

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Post by crooked-v »

alfonsodev wrote: post #37
thebean11 wrote: post #26

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You seriously can't do that on a vanilla homepod? Seems like the most basic feature every bluetooth speaker has. Re: the delay, usually for videos the computer will compensate by delaying the video playback to match the speakers.

Yep, seriously, I was shocked too when buying my first (and last) Sonos, there was a list of apps, and a list of FM stations that worked with the Sonos app, and some had arbitrary restrictions like Spotify needing premium account. I don't own an Apple HomePod, but I'm assuming the situation is similar because I read Spotify is not supported yet. If that's the case "The speakers of the house."[1] slogan might be miss-…

HomePods have AirPlay, so you can use that to stream arbitrary audio from anything that supports it (officially Mac and iOS devices, but there are various apps that have reverse-engineered the protocol to stream from Windows and Android).

It's not Bluetooth, but as long as you don't literally need Bluetooth hardware specifically you can use it the same way.

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Post by messe »

reaperducer wrote: post #78
mikestew wrote: post #65

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It's been years since localization has been any defined part of my role, so I thought I'd go Wikipedia[0] just to make sure I didn't screw it up. Should have gone with my gut because Ireland wasn't listed in the page I went to. :-( "I'd swear Ireland has its own code. But Ireland is in GB, right? Or is it just UK, and GB is something else? Aww, screw it, I'm not putting this much effort into a smart arse comment, EN-…

But Ireland is in GB, right? No. But that's a subject we really shouldn't get into here.

I mean, I think it's safe to get into matters of geography. Ireland is very much not in Great Britain, and is a separate island.

Let's not mention the UK though...

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by messe »

mikestew wrote: post #65
1-more wrote: post #41

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I think you want en-IE; boy howdy is localization a fraught subject!

It's been years since localization has been any defined part of my role, so I thought I'd go Wikipedia[0] just to make sure I didn't screw it up. Should have gone with my gut because Ireland wasn't listed in the page I went to. :-( "I'd swear Ireland has its own code. But Ireland is in GB, right? Or is it just UK, and GB is something else? Aww, screw it, I'm not putting this much effort into a smart arse comment, EN-…

> Or is it just UK, and GB is something else

Neither. For anybody curious, Northern Ireland is part of the UK, the Republic of Ireland is not. Great Britain is the island consisting of Scotland, Wales and England. The UK consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Ireland refers to both the island, and also to the state also known as the Republic of Ireland. The state has been independent from the UK since the 1920s.

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Post by antibuddy »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #102
entropea wrote: post #97

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Do you have the homepod code or are you just going by what a trillion dollar company that does plenty of shady things advertises to you?

Do you the source code for the microcode running on your CPU or are you just going by the corporate advertising? :) Obviously we have to put some trust in corporations if we're not to live a purely analog existence, and so it stands to reason that we can put a little more trust in a company whose business model is selling premium hardware (and which increasingly sees privacy as a competitive advantage) than a company…

I agree with your sentiment that there is no absolute here; however there is a difference if the whole machine is a blackbox or just the CPU and is sold by a listed corporation that is only accountable to their shareholders.

They see privacy as a marketing advantage, however they collect data as they see fit. It is also important to note, that they are indeed in the ad business and even if it is no match to their hardware business they are profit maximizing. So even if they don't sell your data now this can change and your record on that big corp will become known to whoever pays enough.

Side question: Does Google directly sell personal data to advertisers? (For Google applies what I said above anyway)

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Post by lukifer »

prdonahue wrote: post #79
lukifer wrote: post #60

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I keep Siri disabled on mine, and I use a Raspberry Pi for cloudless voice control. They’re pricy for dumb speakers, but worth it IMO.

How are you using your Raspberry Pi to control your HomePod?

It's a convoluted setup I'm not sure I'd recommend to anyone else! :) Still tinkering on it, but current rig is a Respeaker Core [0] running voice2json [1], which sends MQTT commands to a Mac Mini running mopidy [2], and the audio is routed through Airfoil [3] to multiple AirPlay speakers. (In theory, a Pi could drive all that directly, using shairport [4] rather than Airfoil.)

The major shortcoming is that Airfoil doesn't support Airplay 2, so it doesn't take full advantage of HomePod stereo pairing; and while the sync is perfect, it comes at the cost of massive lag (5+ seconds). Sounds great though!

[0] https://respeaker.io/rk3229_core/

[1] https://voice2json.org/

[2] https://mopidy.com/

[3] https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/

[4] https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync

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