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Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:37 am
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I'm really looking forward to HomePod, even though I have a whole house audio solution. Partly because the one place audio isn't quite what I want is also an excellent place for an always-on Siri.
But I think I'm really close to whole-house HomePod for now, and of course for not knowing exactly what HomePod will do. Much to my surprise, my old iPad Mini 1 running iOS 9 still interacts with HomeKit even though it can't run the Home app, so I have room-level voice rec in our great room. My wife and I pretty much *always* carry our iPhones and we both have Apple Watches, so we can voice control most anywhere--though my wife essentially never does this.
Hopefully AirPlay II will play nicely with AirFoil! I've only been using AirFoil for about 10 days, but it has made a big difference in the reliability and expandability of my system. Where before I would have had to put a dedicated AirPort Express in order to have reliable audio, I can now repurpose any of 3-4 old iOS devices as audio sources. (Though my experience with Fire tablets as Android clients, or any Android client on any device for that matter, has been very poor.)
I haven't tried Sonos with AirFoil because I don't have one, but if you can cast to it or AirPlay to it, it should integrate.
Sonoma on a Mac Mini M1 running Airfoil Pro, Bond Home, Camect, Roku Network Remote, Hue Lights, DomoPad, Adapters, Home Assistant Agent, HomeKitLinkSiri, EPS Smart Dimmer, Fantastic Weather, Nanoleaf, LED Simple Effects, Grafana. UnifiAP