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Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by 14 »

reaperducer wrote: post #90
14 wrote: post #14

I still love jailbreaking. I got an iPhone when they first came out in Canada. They guy who sold it convinced me to change my plan to include video messages. When I got home I realized the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos. Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. I started searching how to take a video and to my surprise you can not unless yo…

the phone didn’t have the ability to take videos It did. But you had to get an app from the App Store for it. Apple's Camera app didn't do videos. But others did.

You are mistaken. The iPhone 2g and 3g could only do videos for a long time by jailbreaking the phone and using a program call cycorder or another one called video recorder both available on cydia. It wasn’t until 2009 with the iPhone 3GS that Apple approved video recording and opened up the older iPhones as well allowing use of a recording app from the App Store. Prior to that you had no choice but to jailbreak. Again the catalyst to why I jailbroke my phone in the first place. Here is one source: https://www.redmondpie.com/apple-approves-video-recording-on...

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by domas »

hcurtiss wrote: post #62

Any recommendations for an aesthetic single speaker with high quality audio that takes Airplay, Chromecast, and bluetooth? You know, without having to jailbreak a HomePod? Stunned it has to be this difficult.

I'm considering replacing my HomePod with either Denon Home 150 [0] or going DIY route with HiFiBerry DAC [1]

[0] https://www.denon.com/en-gb/shop/denonhome/denonhome150

[1] https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac2-pro/

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by sdn90 »

codetrotter wrote: post #72
dejawu wrote: post #28

I hope this leads to some way besides Airplay to play arbitrary audio with no delay. If Apple had just included support for Bluetooth audio (or God forbid, an aux jack) I would've bought two full-sized Homepods to use as computer speakers two months ago.

No delay but Bluetooth audio? Is that that even possible? I use Bluetooth audio a lot when only listening to media but try and use Bluetooth headphones while playing a MIDI instrument. For me I struggle when I try to do that. My headphones are Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT. They support Bluetooth 5.0 https://www.audio-technica.com/en-gb/ath-m50xbt I’ve been using them with a wire connection to my MPC X when doing music b…

I think what OP meant is that Homepod only works using the Airplay protocol, where the delay is 2 seconds. Very few macOS apps support Airplay 2 which cuts it down significantly.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by saagarjha »

whoisburbansky wrote: post #141
saagarjha wrote: post #131

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The fact that jailbreaks exist show that the security was broken when you got there, kind of like when you pick a house’s lock you’re not “reducing its security” unless you choose to throw away the lock entirely. You could (and many jailbreaks do) add a better lock.

Do you have examples of how these better locks work? I'm interested in how these jailbreaks patch over the exploits that led to them working in the first place.

Sure, here's one: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/pdfpatch2/

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by tyre »

reaperducer wrote: post #74
ctvo wrote: post #43

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The aesthetics mainly. HomePods, for all their flaws, are very decent speakers in a small footprint. They blend in and are very minimalist, in my opinion, and that's important to me.

for all their flaws, are very decent speakers in a small footprint This is an understatement. I bought one just yesterday, and was very very surprised by how small it is. It just blends in unobtrusively with the room. It's like it's not even there. A pretty good step on the route to making computers blend in with the world. If you're a tech nerd who is OK with wires and blinking lights all over your home, this won't…

I'm six months into owning one and am still blow away by the quality of the sound.

And yes, the aesthetics. It just looks good. Actively good.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by jscholes »

thebean11 wrote: post #119
jb0x168 wrote: post #101

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Yes. If you use an app like AirParrot, you can do it from windows as well. Can't speak to android specifically but I believe there's an App For That as well.

Alright, being limited to certain devices seems less bad than being limited to specific apps like Sonos

> Alright, being limited to certain devices seems less bad than being limited to specific apps like Sonos

Sonos also supports AirPlay, as well as DLNA/UPnP rendering. So for example you can set a Sonos speaker as the output device, wirelessly, in the latest nightly builds of VLC[1].

[1] https://shaleenjain.com/blog/vlc-dlna-support-2/

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by lukifer »

whoisburbansky wrote: post #140
lukifer wrote: post #128

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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 d…

That sounds incredible, thanks for posting. Do you not use the sync at all with that kind of lag?

The speakers sync perfectly with each other for pure audio, but the setup is definitely unusable for video or games due to the sync delay. It seems to work okay switching back and forth between AirPlay 1 and 2, so I can temporarily take over from Airfoil and use them as an AP2 stereo pair, in which case they sync well for video.

Supposedly Airplay 2 was cracked about a year ago, but there still aren't any usable third-party implementations. Really a shame that Apple hasn't opened up the standard.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by dpkonofa »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #137
ebg13 wrote: post #69

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Does Sonos still spy on people? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680614 )

Everything is spying on us. Privacy was traded for “free” stuff.

That's a weird thing to say in an article about the Homepod which very definitively does not spy on anyone who owns one.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by dpkonofa »

entropea wrote: post #97
throwaway894345 wrote: post #71

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OP may also care about privacy.

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?

You don't need the code. Just hook it up to your network and use Wireshark or something similar to see when it phones home.

Re: HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n

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Post by dpkonofa »

dejawu wrote: post #87
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #38

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What's the trouble with buying any of the competition, if you want those features? You can get a Klipsch R51 PM for quite a bit less than the price of two HomePods. Better audio, Bluetooth, aux, optical, USB, even phono pre-amp in case you have a turntable.

My computer speakers live on a bookshelf in the center of my apartment, so I don't want them to sound muddy from the side that they're not facing. I wanted the Homepods because they're omni-directional, they sound great, and I think they're really cute! I would've happily paid extra for that set of traits, but Apple seems determined not to have me as a customer. What I ended up doing is getting two of the Bose Home S…

>but Apple seems determined not to have me as a customer.

What do you mean by that? It sounds like the Homepod, or even a pair of HomePods Mini, would be perfect for your situation.

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