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I wonder if this will my original homepods interesting to talk to or if they won't provide this on older devices.

Not sure if that's too much of a crutch for you, but it's quite easy to create an "Ask Gemini" shortcut that calls a Cloud Function and returns a spoken response. I use this on my HomePods all the time, and it's working great.

How do you do this on a HomePod? I could definitely see Apple limiting this to newer hardware, as a way to bump sales.

Let me get back to you on this, but it'll take me a few days

EDIT: Here you go, it's very barebones, but it's better than nothing (I hope): https://github.com/cockbrand/siri-gemini-shortcut

As you'd expect, the code is vibed by Gemini :)

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