Apple HomeKit compatible television

I swear it wasn’t intended.… but in the last few days My TV LG has gone to a better life. It was a 6-year-old LG, Smart-tv but without the operating system. webOS that has made LG TV very popular, so for a few years it has been abandoned… and I’ve been looking for a TV that is compatible with Apple HomeKit for a few days.

It gives me a lot of anger when a device gets abandoned. I’m not talking about you leaving maintenance after a reasonable number of years, I mean when a manufacturer adopts a new technology and abandons the previous one, leaving it without support, maintenance or updates. That happened to my previous TV, as soon as I bought it, LG changed the previous Miracast system and began to include the operating system in the new television. webOSthe previous one was no longer updated and new applications were included. Service applications such as

pana.com «rel =» nofollow noopener «target =» _ blank «> HBO, Move + or Apple TV + which have come out later were never added. Yeah, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video were available, but little more.

As for Prime Video, months ago it began to fail and not be able to do login, so it was easier for me to access a Apple TV I had in the living room and from there to the other applications.

The problem: It does not turn on

The point is, A couple of weeks ago it started to fail. TV… when you lit it. He stayed in the LG logo and no longer passed from there.. Sometimes by taking the cable off and putting it back on, it passed the LG and turned on normal, but then it went off and again the same thing. It is true that sometimes it was a good light and it was not a problem, but it was the least.

Now… some of you who have knowledge of these things will tell me that this is a very silly fault, that making a re- dancing is fixed, that if I didn’t get the boot on the plate. My friend. Carlos Gomis, responsible for the entry on how to tame blinds with Shelly 2.5He’s one of those who like to mess with this kind of breakdown and dismount to death to finally change a 50-cent condenser that’s what’s been ruined… but hey, I wanted to change TV, what’s going on? Jaj

Raja. The truth is that the new TV has cost me less than €700, that while it’s a lot of money is less than it costs a mobile phone today or a computer… and it lasts many more years. Let’s end the idea of changing television every 10 years!

The point is that the new television is another LG but on this occasion a 55 «NanoCell with WebOS 5.0… and best of all, compatible with AirPlay 2, Apple TV + and HOMEKIT!! Let’s see what this means:

AirPlay 2 Compatibility

Some colleagues from Telegram group He asked me if I could send the TV sound to HomePod. But no, you can’t. What we can do is send both music and video from any updated Apple device with iOS or MacOS. I mean, that I can play movies or videos by launching them directly from my Macbook without using an HDMI cable, exactly as if I had an Apple TV. I can also release music even with the option of not turning on the TV screen

ong >, so the music would sound on the speakers but without showing any rare scarves or anything on screen.

This functionality is specific to AirPlay, so… what does the AirPlay 2 ‘2’ mean? Well, basically it’s that You can do several things at once.. For example, You can make the music follow you around the house… if I am playing music from my iPhone in the living room (on TV for example or on HomePod) and I go to the room where I have a HomePod Mini, the music will pass from one speaker to another without interruption as if we played with the balance of a stereo device. This is so cool, it’s like having music in the whole house.

On the other hand, from the same iPhone I can send music to an AirPlay 2 compatible speaker and another song or other content to other speakers.

And of course. I can make the same music sound on every speaker in the house. whether it is the TV or a HomePod or HomePod mini or any other type of AirPlay 2 compatible devices.

Let’s say my new TV is an AirPlay 2 ‘input’ device, so I can send you things to play but I can’t from TV send the image or sound to other devices wireless.

Compatibility with Apple TV +

There’s a little bit of a mess with the names and it’s just that right now. We have two different things called Apple TV.. On the one hand we have the life-long device, the Apple TV HD or 4K, which is basically a small device that will make ‘smart’ a non-smart TV, although of course you can connect it to any type of television that has an HDMI input.

From Apple TV we can install applications to access the most common services we have discussed before, watch Apple Keynotes, play YouTube videos, etc.

On the other hand, we have the Apple TV + service, which is a streaming video service like HBO or Netflix. The particularity of Apple TV + is that all the content is Apple production, so much detail is taken care of and nothing is included in the catalogue… but obviously the catalogue is much smaller.

In this case, my TV is compatible with the service, so you have Apple TV + application to access the content of this service. And for the same reason I no longer need to have Apple TV connected to TV because the services that give me access to the contents and AirPlay already incorporate them on TV. Mola, a free plug to connect any other home hub! xD Remember that Apple TV is a HomeKit concentrator And it allows you to launch automations even when you’re out of the house, which doesn’t do television.

HomeKit Compatibility!

This is really cool. The TV is compatible with HomeKit and you can add it directly to Home and program automations other than turn it on / off with Siri. Unfortunately you can’t say «Hey Siri, change the channel,» but you can do it from your cell phone.

The installation process is almost almost transparent, in the connectivity menu we have the HomeKit option and when you press it shows you the QR code you have to recognize with your mobile to add it to Home.

Once added, you can switch between HDMis, mode of use or turn on / off the TV.You can also change the channel, increase the volume and so on, but these functionalities are not within the House directly but at the iOS Control Center. I want to believe that in time it will be integrated, there is no point in having some functionalities inside and others outside of House.

Automations

The truth is, I’ve done very few automations since the use of TV is not directly conditioned on someone at home or not. For the moment I added it in the ‘Get out of the house’ environment to turn it off when all the devices come out. But we’ve never really left the TV on, it’s something that always goes off because you see clearly that it’s on when you leave the house.

The only most useful automation I’ve ever done is that when I turn off the TV and it’s very late at night (from 0: 00), it lights up to 10% of the light in my room because it means I’m going to sleep, so I’m not going to dark down the hall and I don’t have to light any other light. Pretty simple as you can see.

Well, as you can see. I haven’t talked about whether it looks good, size, luminosity and so on… all that’s bullshit, the important thing is HomeKit even if it’s not good enough yet! Jajajaja. The truth is that all the teles today look very good, and more so considering that it’s 4k with a very good panel… but the previous one also looked very good, so in that sense I haven’t noticed much.

I hope it’s useful if you’re thinking about what TV to buy and you’d like it to be inclusive with HomeKit from Apple!

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