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How does the new Apple HomeView compare with my custom Home Assistant dashboard? Let’s find out!
How does the new Apple HomeView compare with my custom Home Assistant dashboard? Let’s find out!
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3:50 The Bad / Mixed Bag
7:13 The Ugly
10:27 My thoughts
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Of course we have smart home devices Aly likes but the HomeView might top them all!
How does the sound feels compared with HomePod mini?
a potato?! We had someone dress up as the grinch and passed out onions lol
It’s basically a “home version” of CarPlay
It’s just okay but it’s good enough, I’m going to get one to try. 🤷♂️
I’ve been in the Apple camp for years but as the prices of phones became ridiculous, I couldn’t do things I wanted with my devices like stream Apple Music on my Eversolo at a bit rate I wanted or wait 10 years before the Apple TV could do it, flakier and flakier software and death by a thousand subscriptions, I’ll less likely be buying Apple again. I can do so much more with Home Assistant and it can actually run on a potato.
0:59 What Music Assistant app are you using?
looks like a apple fail again. They lost their innovation long time ago.. I switched away from home and use HA only anyways..
I need to test it to decide if it's good enough for a family member who can't even remember the word "FaceTime" but uses FaceTime weekly.
It’s like a giant Apple Watch.
Can you pls let me know if you can use AirPods on the home view?
I built a dislike for Apple as far back as the earliest Macs and that hasn't changed so there won't be any Apple products in my home, ever. Thanks for the comparison, though.
waaaaaaay too expensive for how little it does
If this came out in 2021 or 22, maybe. I am betting Apple had this sitting on a shelf while it tried to figure out Siri AI. Once Siri AI came out, this was behind the times, out of sync with Siri’s ability and Apple is trying to sell outdated tech. This is clearly so yesterday I am surprised Apple didn’t scrap it. The bezels alone look hideous and are out of sync with every Apple product.
I also think you are being too nice, as you always do. This is $300. For what? A big Apple Watch? For $29 more you can get an Apple Watch. Then buy a $10 magnifying glass and voila. A better Apple HomeView. Portable, no cord to worry about and waterproof! This is a big NO for me.
What about Unifi? Do they have an app to see cameras?
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Thanks Reed.
Just the beginning
No surprise apple does not understand smarthomes.
ps. Can you load HA dashboard in the browser and make it full screen?
It is a 1.0.
I have been frustrated with Apple Home lately. The last update broke most of my more complicated automations. I also run Home Assistant and had to move the automations there. This involved figuring out how to get Lutron remote switches working there and rewriting the automations. For the music, I do have HomePods that work with the hand off feature. I also have OwnTone running on a couple Raspbery Pi computers. I was able to imbed the OwnTone web UI into home assistant dashboards which I think is a better experience than Music Assistant. Owntone Also works with the original iTunes remote app.
Explicit music? I am calling your Bishop… 🤣
I know you have to make content, but seems pretty crap to me.
Not even considering the price. If free, I would still not use it. I just take my phone and add on the counter, and does the same. It is just clutter, and cables.
Maybe the ethernet one on the wall, maybeeeee.
The fatal flaw with the apple device is that it's a family device that requires you to be an apple user, so if you have even one person in the home who does use apple they will be excluded from the experience.
best vid I've seen so far on the practical uses of this new Apple device, it was much more informative thanks!. Paul Hibbert is the goat though I agree hehe.
For the size of the apple thing, you would want one basically in every room but at the cost it would be ruinously expensive
I started making our home smart 4 years ago with just 2 wall switches and never known or thought about using home assistant for it. But now I'm adding smart devices regularly and I thought I should start using it. I start to setup home assistant on my 6 year old Samsung tablet very recently and your tips and advices helped a lot. Thanks Reed
For what you have to cough up for this one, a pair of Vanatoo zero speakers would be insignificantly more and absolutely pulverize this on sound.
The reason I'm no longer subbed to Paul Hibbert is his AI overuse, so there's that.
Kind of trash for any home automation aficionado. For someone 100% in the Apple ecosystem starting from zero, then maybe it's worth something. Apple does like to lock people in. I'd honestly rather have a 4-inch ESP32 screen for 20 bucks connected to Home Assistant with Tessera in it.
I'm buying it to be a speaker in my kitchen. I don't expect much from apple these days.
I think maybe you can add the home assistant devices via matter to home kit with the Home-Assistant-Matter-Hub Addon
apple gonna lock though third party widgets behind a paywall
I’ll have to see if I can listen to one in the Apple Store. We currently have a Sonos speaker in our kitchen and I’m curious how the Homeview compares to that.
No actual HA app is insane.