Vifa Copenhagen 3.0

The Vifa Copenhagen 3.0 is a Danish portable wireless speaker, wrapped in Kvadrat wool fabric with a leather strap, designed to be carried between rooms and to look like an accessory rather than a gadget.

Vifa’s whole proposition is that a speaker should be a soft, textile object rather than a black plastic box, and the Copenhagen is the largest in the range.

What Apple Home actually does with it

This is an AirPlay 2 speaker rather than a HomeKit accessory.

• It appears in the Home app as a speaker you can play to, and as an AirPlay target in Control Centre.
• You can assign it to a room and group it with HomePods for synchronised multi-room audio.
• Siri can send music to it by room name.
• It can be the audio output in a scene or an automation.

You cannot switch it on or set its volume from the Home app the way you would a light. Those stay with the speaker and its own app.

Away from Wi-Fi it falls back to Bluetooth, at which point Apple Home cannot see it.

Before you buy

The fabric is a genuine consideration in a house with pets or small children, as it is with any wool-wrapped speaker.

Battery life on a speaker this size is measured in hours rather than days, and playing loudly shortens it considerably.

It is heavier than it looks, which is usually a good sign in a speaker and a bad one in something you carry.

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