In January 2023, when the new HomePods were announced, it was promised that the two existing models on the market, the HomePod and the HomePod mini, would be able to recognize smoke alerts and act on them. Right now this feature is already available and you’ll want to enable it because it’s one of those features you hope you never have to use, but if so, if it prompts you quickly, can do a lot of good.
Both HomePod and HomePod mini have acquired a feature that can help save lives. With this premise, you surely want to install and activate it as soon as possible. A feature that was promised to be present in Apple speaker models and promised in January 2023, at the same time as the announcement of the HomePod 2. Right now it is finally available for all models.
We’re referring to the feature that when the HomePod hears an alarm sound, like a smoke detector, for example, it will alert you so you know exactly what’s going on even if you’re not home at that time. that time. Sending an alert to the user’s iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. This is all set up through the Home app.
It should be noted that neither the HomePod nor the HomePod mini contain a smoke detector, so this relies entirely on soundwhich means that users must have a smoke detector for it to work.
To activate this function we open the Home application and select the HomePod. By clicking on it we will have to enter the sound recognition and activate where it says smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. By the way, do not forget to activate notifications from Home, because otherwise we will not receive the alert.
