From wood we saw ourselves two 10cm x 10 cm squares. Also, a U-piece opened from one side with the same dimensions. The remaining bars of the U-piece are only 1.5 cm wide.

From the leftovers we now build the cable gland by sawing a piece so that it fits into the opening of the U-piece. We drill two holes in this piece with a 12 mm drill bit and then file them flat.

With white glue and two screw clamps we glue the bottom side, the U-piece and the cable gland as shown in the picture above.

Now we insert the cable and roll it up inside the wooden block. With cable ties we can fix it inside and also protect it from being pulled out too far.

When the cable is tucked away, we also glue the head plate to our construction with white glue and a screw clamp.

Because I value high initial strength and fast hardening in white glue, I always use only Ponal Classic (Amazon Affiliate Link) as white glue.

This glue is simply excellent to work with, becomes transparent after drying, and is harder than most types of wood when hardened. If something breaks, it’s usually not the glue that breaks, but the wood around it.

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Anyone who wants to use the HomePod to open security-relevant actuators and devices such as doors or gates will find that Siri requires verification on the iPhone before performing the action. Closing these devices, on the other hand, always works flawlessly.

In my case, I wanted to have the garage door opened via voice command to the HomePod. Siri then replied to me from the HomePod “To do this, you need to log in on your iPhone.” On the iPhone screen, I got a pop-up saying “Someone wants to control secured devices”.

I first searched the Home app for a setting option that would allow me to turn off this security prompt for my garage door. Unfortunately, to no avail.

The reason for this is a security precaution of Apple. Apple wants to avoid that burglars, who are in the house, can open other parts of the building with their voice and a HomePod. And that is also logical. At the same time, this explains why an uncritical close command is possible at any time.

With the Apple Watch, for example, there is no such feature. I can open the garage door directly with a voice command. However, the watch also ensures that I am currently wearing it via the heart rate monitor. If the watch were taken from me, it would lock itself – until I entered the PIN.

The HomePod does not support voice recognition and therefore requires verification on the iPhone via FaceID or TouchID.

If you command Siri to open a gate via CarPlay, for example, you will also succeed. In the end, that’s all that matters to me, because I want to open the garage door on the drive home.

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