Anyone can explain how to connect the Apple HomePod mini to Homey 2023 Pro?
I have been surfing to all settings and not able to find.
Thanks in advance
Connect how? What do you want to do with them?
I use Home Assistant to “control” the music, not brilliant but it works.
There is no clean connection because Apple does not publish the API…
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Setting up the speakers, so that I can control music and configure flows for Alarms and other stuff.
As @cgHome already said: you probably need to use Home Assistant with its Apple TV integration if you want to be able to do that. Homey doesn’t have such an integration.
I use the Media Player…
The Apple TV integration creates the media player entities.
Thanks!
Does it mean that I need to setup a homeassistant instance?
Yes, you need a Home-Assistant server, including the Music-Assistant plug-in
It looks like this for me:
Apple Music > Plex server (Docker) > Music-Assistant plug-in (Home-Assistant server) > Home Assistant Community app (Homey)
Thanks, but it will not work for me anymore as I moved away from the setup. I just want to have a single system. A bit disappointed, but it is what it is.
I use a HomePod in combination with homey as well:
- HomeyKit installed on homey to control light/heating devices etc through HomeKit (e.g. on HomePod mini)
- Srii shortcuts van be used to trigger flows in homey e.g. to group old non AirPlay Sonos speakers with AirPlay enabled speakers.
- Music control is directly done on the HomePod
