Woohoo, finally a cheaper homepod! I was looking forward to something like this to be able to remotely control my Home Assistant setup through Homebridge Hue.

Woohoo, finally a cheaper homepod! I was looking forward to something like this to be able to remotely control my Home Assistant setup through Homebridge Hue. Without having dedicated Apple TV/iPad/Homepod at home, you can't access devices in Home app, even if you have VPN. This meant that even at home I had to unlock the phone and wait for it to connect to Wifi before Siri would do anything with devices. This delay made it impractical to use Siri for controlling devices through Siri. Maybe it's possible to make it work with VPN by also forwarding some autodiscovery packets, but I'm not sure.