Control your smart home with HomePod
If you have HomeKit or Matter-enabled smart home accessories such as lights, thermostats, and window shades, HomePod acts as a home hub, letting you control those accessories when you’re at home and away from home. You can also run automations that control your accessories based on the time of day, your location, or the action of another accessory, such as a sensor.
The requests and automations that work with HomePod depend on the accessories in the Home app. For details, see the Home app section in the iPhone User Guide or iPad User Guide.
Control accessories
Siri: Activate Siri, then say something like:
“Turn on the porch light.”
“Turn off the lights in here” or “Turn off the lights in the bedroom.”
“Set the good night scene.”
“Turn on the lights at sunset every day.”
“Is the porch light on?”
“Is the front door locked?”
Check the temperature and humidity of a room
You can ask HomePod about the temperature and humidity in the room where it’s located.
Siri: Activate Siri, then say something like “What’s the temperature in here?” or “What’s the humidity in the basement?”
Temperature and humidity sensing is optimized for indoor, domestic settings, when ambient temperatures are around 15° C to 30° C and relative humidity is around 30% to 70%. Accuracy may decrease in some situations where audio is playing for an extended period of time at high volume levels. HomePod requires some time to calibrate the sensors immediately after starting up before results are displayed. Temperature and humidity sensing aren’t available on HomePod (1st generation).