What's up everybody I'm brian this is the apple bias and today we're going to be unboxing
the HomePod mini it's been out for a while but yeah I bought another one why what is the best
use cases for these things and why do you need multiple throughout your house that's all in
today's video let's go ahead get this all hooked up and then we'll kind of talk about
why buy a HomePod mini why did I buy one I already have a few but yeah I still bought another one all
right so I have it all set up it's right here I gotta say I love the color of this orange it looks
so good but what what what's a home pod for like why would you buy a home pot well obvious reason
is music they do play music it is a great speaker I have multiple of these I have two home pods two
HomePod minis this is the third HomePod mini now so we have five home pods in this house which
means that I can play different music in every room or even that I can play the exact same song
throughout the room at the exact same point so as I'm traveling room to room I can hear the music
playing I find this really great when I'm cleaning up the house and I'm like going room to room
it seems like no matter where I go I can hear the same song the music just travels with me
it's so powerful and so good I mean even the mini size is a great speaker now obviously the
original was a better speaker it was 350 dollars this is only 100 bucks a hundred dollars for
so much power in a little device that you can put anywhere in your house same thing with the
personal assistant that's another good one like you can say hey you know who do this do that set
this reminder now let's move on to a few things that you may not know that you can use it for
intercom this is a newer feature it came out when these HomePod minis were introduced
and this feature is awesome so like let's say I'm on my way home from picking up dinner and I have
multiple cups multiple bags of food usually what I'll do and I even did it tonight I said hey you
know who intercom the house hey I'm gonna need help and then next thing I know as I'm pulling
up in the driveway my kids are coming outside to help now at the same time my dog got out and it
was just a big mess but they tried and the HomePod did its job it let them know that I was just about
there and that I needed help same thing goes when it's like time for bed and they're in their rooms
I can specify their room because each of them have a HomePod in it and say hey come down brush your
teeth get ready for bed intercom has been like one of my favorite features but the one feature
that I just continue to buy the home pod for more than everything is home kit the HomePod works as a
home bridge which allows you to control all your home kit accessories from inside or outside your
house and then it also allows you like there's so many home kit accessories now I have smart
plugs smart light bulbs even a smart lock in my house and I can control so many accessories
with just my voice and it's just wonderful so how does all this work well I can just go
around telling siri just to to trigger different events we have these smell good items throughout
the house that we can just say hey you know who turn on this smoke turn on that smell good
turn off the smell good when I leave the house just turn them all off and it detects that thanks
to these home pods all throughout my house I can just control those and then also in my kid's room
I have a light bulb and that light bulb I can set to a different color so at night a lot of times
I'll set it to red so it's a good night light but the one room that I use it in the most is
right here in my office I have every light in here it's set up either with a smart switch or a smart
plug and I can trigger them with a scene a scene is a way that you can just set up everything in
just one phrase and just turn everything off turn everything on and it works a little bit like this
Hey Siri done filming that's done brian just like that Hey Siri time to film
Okay there you go so it's awesome now if you noticed the blue light stayed on if I wanted
that to turn off I can say Hey Siri done working now everything turns off Hey Siri time to film
okay just wait a second and the blue light will come right back on it's wonderful so I
have a couple different phrases like if I'm just going to work obviously I don't need the studio
lights on so they don't come on if I just say it's time to work or if I say I'm done working
all these kind of phrases you can set up very easy in homekit and just trigger them with a 100
smart device little speaker that's just one one little feature that it does that just makes my
life so much easier not to mention like I said the smart lock I love this thing I can
tell Siri to lock the door whenever I want boom just like that it's locked but here's the thing
can you unlock it let's try hey unlock the door you'll need to continue on your personal device
why do they do that well that's because apple just thinks of everything ahead of time and let's say
it's the summer I leave my windows open but my door is locked well anybody could come up to the
window and say hey unlock the door and she would unlock the door but she doesn't work that way
because what she does is she sends a notification to my phone and then I have to trigger it that way
it's just that little extra security that apple always thinks of just makes everything so much
better it's awesome so is the HomePod worth it yes is it more than just a music player definitely
do you need one yes I think you do I think you need more I personally like I said I'm up to five
right now and I want more I want one for every room in the house I want to put one everywhere
so that I can have full control of my house from anywhere that I am I know I have my phone
I know I have my watch but there's something about just being able to not look at any device
and just say hey you know who do this and it just gets done so if you're in the market for
some kind of smart speaker HomePod is the way to go if you like this video please hit that thumbs
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do you have I'd love to hear what color which version model all that kind of stuff I am a big
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bunch of them ready to go I will see you all in the next one God bless Hey Siri done working