#HomePod listens for alert sounds, can we integrate into HA?

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simple tinsel
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Yesterday was a first in our household: all three of my linked FireAlerts started beeping. (luckily, there was no apparent reason for that...)
Since these are from before the HA era, they are not integrated.
I do have an Apple HomePod, and that has a function to listen to these types of sounds. And yes, that threw a notification on my iPhone via the Home app.

It dit make me wonder though if/how we could integrate this into HA. There is the Homekit Device integration, but that does not see any HomePod entities/alerts. Nor do the Apple TV integrations. Homekit Bridge goes the other way, so I see no obvious way to bring any of the functionality the HomePod offers into HA?

Would be of great value though, so hope anyone else has some ideas.

slate surgeBOT
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If you have a feature request for the frontend you can open one here, for Home Assistant itself please post on the forum. All other feature requests should be made to the developer of that custom card/component.

scenic plaza
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So HomeKit device technically supports HomePods. If you pop open an mdns tool you should see your HomePods under _hap._tcp.local. Mine are called things like HomePodSensor 123456. The problem is HomeKit devices can only be paired to 1 controller at a time, and when you add the HomePod to your account it gets added to the iOS HomeKit controller.

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I think I did add mine to HA once. But had to basically root a macOS device and mess around with system integrity to extract the secret keys from my iCloud. There wasn’t anything too exciting, just temp and humidity, and I lost access when the “new HomeKit architecture” came out:

simple tinsel
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Yeah was mostly interested in the alert . Not so much the temp/humid sensors. Must admit I never thought about this, but the occasion of the false firealarm made me realize how useful it would be.