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AirPlay enables streaming from basically any source on iOS or macOS, including Spotify.
AirPlay is garbage. It has a 2-second lag, and still regularly loses sync for me. Apple didn't even bother to update macOS to support stereo homepods over Airplay.
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Yeah, that'll be a differentiator for me. We have a few Echo Dots, which are pretty neat devices, but I'm not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon and Google. Also, my neighbor was getting swatted and narrowed it down to his Echo Dots.
I find it odd that you say you're not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon, yet have bought a few devices that actually do that and then have proceeded to put them into your home...? For someone who isn't a fan of providing audio, you seem to have willfully done so. I am genuinely confused.
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Sonos has not supported this for over 10 years, and seem to be doing quite well. It is a “smart speaker”, not a speaker, so expectations are different.
Are you talking about aux? Because Sonos Move supports plain bluetooth audio connections; I use it all the time.
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I was gonna say it, but then you did. My non-tech partner 100% agrees. “Love it” is a term that I’ve heard. I do have a few (literally a few) custom shortcuts for weird things that it just couldn’t figure out, like playing specifically our local radio station, but other than that it’s amazing. “Hey Siri, play ” while we make dinner. “Hey Siri, turn it up!” Hey Siri good morning, turn the lights on, set a timer, she m…
I'm glad you're happy about it, but for me, Siri is a disaster. It only has about a 75% chance to get a simple music command right. Pretty hopeless.
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I was gonna say it, but then you did. My non-tech partner 100% agrees. “Love it” is a term that I’ve heard. I do have a few (literally a few) custom shortcuts for weird things that it just couldn’t figure out, like playing specifically our local radio station, but other than that it’s amazing. “Hey Siri, play ” while we make dinner. “Hey Siri, turn it up!” Hey Siri good morning, turn the lights on, set a timer, she m…
I'm glad you're happy about it, but for me, Siri is a disaster. It only has about a 75% chance to get a simple music command right. Pretty hopeless.
I'm not sure if I have just adapted my commands to ones that work, if Siri is improving, or it's both.
I'm sure my wife is going to drive me up the wall with the intercom feature though!
I have the iPhone now and have always used MacBooks, but so far I have refused to buy other products from them because they insist in keeping the ecosystem so closed. No Spotify support is why I’m not buying this. I’ve had Spotify for years and I’m not looking to switch. And Siri, unfortunately for me it’s now a selling point. It struggles so much on my phone that I can’t bring myself to use it often enough to care a…
They already announced earlier this year that they had a new program to integrate third-party music services. And in today’s event they specifically called out “services like Pandora and Amazon [Music]” as being available “in the coming months”. I don’t know whether Spotify is included, but I would hope so.
I would have switched back to Spotify but after the Apple One announcement, it’s too late. They lost me.
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I was gonna say it, but then you did. My non-tech partner 100% agrees. “Love it” is a term that I’ve heard. I do have a few (literally a few) custom shortcuts for weird things that it just couldn’t figure out, like playing specifically our local radio station, but other than that it’s amazing. “Hey Siri, play ” while we make dinner. “Hey Siri, turn it up!” Hey Siri good morning, turn the lights on, set a timer, she m…
I must be getting old because playing an audio track, looking up some information or changing the volume seems a first world "problem" and is still incredibly easy just by using the device that is performing the task, eg. playing music. Back in the day, using my CD player or cassette player didn't seem like hard work. The gulf between the "issues" that these devices solve and real problems in the world (starvation, w…
Why did you have a CD player if cassettes worked for your? Was rewinding the cassette really too much trouble? Kids these days...
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Motion sensor: https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Motion-Sensor-Installation-Fr... Power strips: https://www.imore.com/best-homekit-power-strips Most philips hue products are Homekit compatible, if you have a hue bridge. As far as the “best” lighting/switch products, I would recommend Lutron Caseta. Not cheap though! If you’d like to reliably detect when someone is home (their phone is on wifi), you can dive into Homebri…
I should have specified that I live in Australia, so US power boards are useless. It seems that vendors aren't manufacturing these for all regional power outlet formats.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/hzc7lr/powerboardp...
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I'm glad you're happy about it, but for me, Siri is a disaster. It only has about a 75% chance to get a simple music command right. Pretty hopeless.
I'm always pretty surprised by the disparity, I wonder if its an accent thing. Quite frequently we use our HomePod from the other room since they were too pricey (before today) to put in each room. I cant think of a time where its had an issue with us giving it commands even when we're hollering from the adjacent room.