3 EASY Shortcuts for your HomePod! Get the most out of your HomePods!
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Take advantage of automations and shortcuts from your HomePod! In this video we'll discuss 3 EASY ways you can use shortcuts to get the most out of your HomePod or HomePod Mini!
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Once again, you had a video that fit perfectly with something I was doing. I had a blinking light automation based on another video you did and that works fine. I didn't know about the Signals App that is really slick. I know now and have it. Thanks, Shane.
Great video, Shane! The last example with the wake up (or not to wake up 😊) is the most functional automation for everyone! Thanks for breaking it down for us!
Thanks for watching Jim!
THX did not know the signals App. Super usefull
I really like the Signals app and just created the flashing light shortcut you did. Since this video is a little older, do you know if there is now a way to get this shortcut to run based on a certain time of day? I can’t seem to figure it out but it may be because it is just not possible.
What a great video, we haven't done any shortcut or automations specifically for the HomePod itself, great work!
Thanks for stopping by to check out the video!
Good stuff Shane. Gotta love the signals app.
Thanks Eric!
Very well-made and informative video. Love the fact that you do time breakdowns in the ‘more’ section, I have now subscribed and I will follow you from now on thank you so much.
Thanks very much for the kind words. Thanks for subscribing!
Great video as always.
I made a similar shortcut like the one you made for the alarm. One difference though. To turn off all alarms, I did this: get all alarms, repeat with all alarms, turn off alarm.
Thanks! That's a good tip!
Great ideas! the flashing lights is brilliant. I’m gonna have to try that out 👌🏼
Thanks for watching Adam!
Great video! I’ve already downloaded the Signals for HK app!! I’m also going to setup the HomePod volume automation!
Awesome! Thanks for stopping by to check out the video Brad!
Just got my homepod mini today, was actually looking for this video. Thanks man!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Great video, and thanks for the shout out for Signals! I love the trick to use the 'repeat' command to extend the effect :)
Sure thing! Thanks for making a great app!
Hey Shane keep up the amazing work, love the videos with the instructions.
Thanks Frank!
Great video...I have been wondering and wanting a way to turn Siri's response volume down after a certain time. You provided the answer. Thank you!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Hi Shane ! Thanks for the videos. I am searching for a smart multipoint door lock for an aluminum french style front door. Any ideas ?
Yale Linus or Ultion Smart Lock
I've been using shortcuts to remotely shutdown or restart services on Windows and Linux PC's over SSH.
Cheers Shane loved the video
Thanks Paul! 🙏
Great vid as always Shane. Quick question on the custom volume for HomePod. If I’m setting an automation to set the volume to 20% after 23:00, Would I then have to set another automation to increase the volume back to its normal volume at a certain time? Say 09:00. Thanks.
Thanks Raymond. Yes the volume will stay wherever you set it until you change it again.
It would be great to have a setting inbuilt that adjusts Siri’s voice independent of music/podcasts etc.
Exactly. I called Apple about it but I think I need to check the developers forum. I tried once but the page was either frozen or I'm a moron, probably the later. The other thing is I like to sleep to Stream sounds but when I add the Apple TV to my room in Home, I get about 10 minutes of stream sound then it cuts off. So I now just Airplay my Apple TV 4K to the Homepods. I must be doing something wrong.
Hi Shane, I have set a conversational shortcut with “choose from menu” via iPad according to your steps shown in the video, it works fine on HomePod mini, but Siri didn”t ask the prompt question I entered, Siri only provided the answers. How can I make Siri to ask my prompt question? Thx
I’m about to add more HomePods especially after this video. I also need a few more light strips for flashing colored light via Signals.
I’m ultra excited to start using conversational Shortcuts. Having my HomePods ask me which alarm I want to set will be killer.
But all of these great HomePod suggestions will not work for me, because I’m very hard of hearing, as good unless I can adjust HomePods speaking volume separately from media volume. This ability is available on HomePod 14.4 but is buggy. I hope Apple fixes it soon and will make it where a HomePod user can use Audomations, where you can control boath Siri’s speaking and media volume sort of like the slider during your “whisper” section.
Oh, I thought the part of your this week’s video where tv you were interrupted by “you on your phone, was awesome and I hope you do this a little in future UA-cam videos.
@cartermw thanks for the kind words! And I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate the feedback!
I agree, it would be great if we can control Siri's speaking volume separately from the media volume. Hopefully Apple will get that worked out soon.
Nice videos, Shane.
I am building a smarthome, it seems homekit is my way to go. Going to take a homepod nextweek.
Will shortcuts automation work without the presence of my iphone? Who is the executor of the automation? The iphone or the homepod?
Thanks Alvin. "Home" automations run on the HomeKit hub, while "Personal" automations run on your personal device (iPhone).
I would love to see a video of how to make a Shortcut that can be run in the HomePod mini that does the following: Function as a Time for Bed, that gets the actual day when you are running it, and based on that reads you the entries for the next day on your calendar, and after that asks you if you want to set your alarm for classes, but coding an if that based on the day of the week, knows which alarm to turn on (for example I have classes since 8:30am on Mondays and Fridays, but Tuesdays-thursdays at 7am). I would love to see you do it! Great video by the way. I think making this creation of shortcuts or automations a series would be AWESOME!
Thanks for the feedback Eduardo!
What about a volume switch kind of like the Sonos you can use the pico remote is that possible with a button or switch?
Sure that should be possible. WIth the pico remote, you'd probably have to use homebridge or something like that to expose the button actions to HomeKit. But any homekit button should work. I think you'll have to "convert to shortcut" in order to control the HomePod, but it should work.
Good video man!
Thanks Johnny!
When I see this video I suddenly wondered if and how you would set up a "Star Trek - Red alert" action (including the flashing and the audible repeating "Red Alert" on all available homepods in the house) when a smoke alarm sets off, until someone stops it...
I think that can be done!
Very cool stuff. That crazy guy that kept interrupting you might be right...
Perhaps talk about some other stuff? Cars? Fashion? Cooking? Motorcycles? Maybe some 'how to' videos on BMX Freestyle tricks?
Or. Just keep the great HomeKit videos coming... :)
😂 oh yea...
Cooking with Shane! 👨🍳
Yea on second thought...maybe I’ll just stick to HomeKit...
Hey man love the vids, is there a way to make it so Siri doesn’t read out the options from choose menu? So basically it’s not asking me ‘yes or no’?
Thanks Theo. Well, I previously did that by using the "ask" or "speak" actions and then using the "dictate" to get the answer, so on an so forth. But at some point, with an update to the HomePods, that stopped working like it used. So there might be another way, but I haven't found one that works reliably on the HomePod lately.
Great video and the Signals app suggestion, purchased. Is there a way to run a Signal in a HomeKit automation? I had a leak under my sink and I was lucky I was on my iPad when I got the Aqara notification that a leak was detected. It would be great if I can flash the lights also.
Thanks @Vito D! No, unfortunate you can't run signals as a part of a home automation at the moment, since the signals app requires your personal device to run (like Siri Shortcuts from all apps). You can however natively create a flashing effect using "convert to shortcut." You just won't have some of the nice extra features you get with the signals app, like returning lights to the original color, etc.
Check out the chapter: "Create a Home Automation/Convert to Shortcut" from this video that shows how to do it: ua-cam.com/video/GHnnNjoTBCo/v-deo.html
@@ShaneCreates thanks for the reply.
Hey there! First of all thanks for all your videos, I really appreciate, This is Gerardo from Argentina. I wanted to ask you something, I’ve done time ago an automation with NFC to open my door with my Danalock V3, after update to iOS 15 any time I try to use this automation HomeKit ask me to “define open door” before continue even if I disable already the option “ask” in shortcuts app, same for my garage door, and this is not happening when I use NFC to turn off or on the lights for example, any suggestion how to fixed up ? Thanks in advance for your help !
Thanks Gerardo! Yea, I don't think there is anything you can do about that. It appears to be an update that Apple has implemented regarding nfc automations with secure HomeKit accessories such as a lock or garage door. Other types of automations with these secure accessories always required user authentication to execute, so it appears that they have implemented the same thing with nfc automations.
@@ShaneCreates yeap, I supposed that! Anyway thanks Sir! Keep doing your videos .. really cool!
Shane, very super cool video. I loved the way you did the advertisement in your video. That was very creative. It actually had me watching the entire advertisement without groaning and rolling my eyes. Your production quality is top notch and you have come a long way since first putting videos out on UA-cam. A lot of other UA-camrs could definitely improve by watching your videos and incorporating some of your production values into their videos. A lot of them have good things to say but their videos are so hard to watch. Yours on the other hand are a pleasure to watch and I look forward to each Sunday to see what you will come up with next. Hey, maybe you need to start another channel on production quality of videos and how to make your content better and more presentable. That should help probably over 80% of the UA-camrs out there.
One thing I found was that you can set the volume level for SIRI in SIRI shortcuts to a specific level. For instance in my Morning Routine Shortcut, the first thing I do is set the Volume level to 60%. Then I have SIRI give me all of the pertinent information that I need, like weather forecast, my first appointment on my work calendar, the time it will take me to get to the client's residence, and so forth; then I set the volume level back up to 100%. That way when my Wake Up Alarm is turned off and the short cut is run, SIRI talking to me isn't so jarring and I don't disturb others in the house who may be sleeping in later than me.
I did get several new ideas from your video. Please keep them coming as they are greatly appreciated.
Quick question: How did you fix the misspelling in your video that you showed where you removed the letter "b" and replaced it with a space? Whenever I make a spelling mistake, I try to touch the screen with my fingertip to put the cursor where I want it without much success. I usually end of getting it close and then using the backspace key to erase everything though the mistake and then retyping in the information. This is extremely frustrating and time consuming. You made it look so easy.
Thanks for the kind words Frederick! It is much appreciated!
Great tip in setting the volume of the HomePod in your shortcut. Glad the video gave you some more ideas. That's the goal! 😃
To answer your question... (buckle up, this is a lifesaver and may blow your mind) when typing, press and hold on the space bar. Then you can drag your cursor around the screen and find the right spot much easier. I use it ALL the time!
02:38 Isn't this setting the volume control for the _songs_ played on the HomePod? The sheet is event entitled "Media" top of the page. It seems to me that the volume of _Siri's voice_ is *independent* of it. For example, one can vocally ask Siri to lower the sound volume of the music playing, while asking separately Siri to speak louder. So I wonder if the setting that is shown here is what you really want to achieve.
Okay okay! Good job on the sponsorship integration!
Hi Shane, great video as always. I downloaded and paid for signals app, and I created a signal. I now go to the shortcut app but I do not get the possibility to choose “signals” from the proposed actions !
Any idea why ?
Have you created a "signal" in the Signals for HomeKit app? Once you do, and choose the "Run Signal" action in the shortcuts app, you should be able to choose any of the signals you have made.
Great video Shane , very useful tips , looks like you got a bit of Tan. Hahah must be loving that sunshine 🌞
Haha thanks Han!
Learn something new every day. Never knew there was a “back-tap” feature.
Awesome, thanks for watching!
Great video. Can anyone in the home run those shortcuts from the Homepod? Or are they only tied to the specific user that created the shortcut? Thanks!
Great question! I should have mentioned that. Shortcuts are tied to specific users so I believe you need to have “recognize my voice” turned on so you can run personal requests from the HomePod.
Luckily, you can easily share a shortcut to a family member or roommate if you wanted to. Once it is on their device they should be able to run the shortcut also.
Flashing lights trick is pretty neat, I’m setting up manually using If statement so that it goes back to previous state and put it in automation. The bad thing about Signal is that you have to manually trigger it.
Well you can use it in any “personal” automation. But yea, for home automations you would not be able to.
When you say that you are doing it manually, are you able to get the light’s exact state (brightness and color) and return it to that after flashing the lights?
@@ShaneCreates My bad, I should rephrase that. I set my lightstrip to orange at night and blue to denote the temperature is comfy. One of my automation is to flash my lightstrip to blue five times once my air-conditioner turns off.
By adding an IF “Formatted Date” is between “7” and “19” (the number refers to time in hours), set the lightstrip in another IF statement in it as well.
Eg; If my bedlight is on between 7am and 7pm, set the lightstrip to off once the comfy automation ends, otherwise (outside of those hours), the lightstrip turns orange (which denotes night time) as long as bedlight is off.
Tried my best to explain it here, a screenshot would’ve been easier haha
@@AhmadNazirAfiq That makes sense, thanks for the explanation! I've done similar things based on time or other factors with the IF statement. I've been able to "get" the state of a light, and I could then turn a light back on or off to whatever color I choose, but still haven't found a way to return the same exact state as it was before like Signals can do (other than on or off). That would be great if there was a way to do that.
Great video Shane! Question, have you had issues with conversational shortcuts not working dependably on the the original HomePod since 14.4? Approximately 50% of the time, shortcuts which require Siri to speak don’t complete...
There have been issues off and on for a while as the HomePods continue to update. But I haven't had any issues with the Choose from Menu action, which is why I included it in this video. All my shortcuts that use choose from menu still seem to work on the HomePod.
For example though, I've had some issues with the "ask" action lately that used to work on the HomePods.
Do you have to make a second shortcut to raise the volume in the morning after a certain time? I didn’t see a screen that sets an end time.
Yes, that's correct. Set a second automation to turn the volume back up in the morning.
Amazing videos, really, ! Great content. I had a question I feel only you would have an answer to - I’ve been using shortcuts and automation for a while, but I’m unable to use shortcut automation with my HomePod Mini, the Siri text always comes from my phone and not my HomePod (despite setting my HomePod as the destination in shortcuts). Have you ever dealt with this issue and found a solution ? Thanks !
Thanks Michael! I haven't tried any automations using the speak action. is this a time based automation?
@@ShaneCreates actually trying to do an automation that would be initiated when a turn off my wake up alarm, which would have Siri say good morning, let me know the weather, my morning schedule/diary and will subsequently start up some relaxing music. So far, Siri does all that, but only from my phone (as opposed to Airplay on HomePod; although it’s using the HomePod when testing it in Shortcuts)
HI Shane! We have an app on the wife's phone that we'd like the two HomePods to announce with a custom text string. Is that possible? It's not a homekit app. Just one of the apps on her phone (Etsy).
Hey Shane, Great Video! Question for you as I can't seem to find it anywhere-
I am thinking of moving from Echo's to Homepods in my home since I've also been converting to Homekit. With the Echos, you can create speaker groups, for example; Upstairs, Downstairs, Everywhere, etc. Is this possible with Homepods using zones? The only answer I can find is to say "Play music in the kitchen, livingroom, den, and bathroom" or "Everywhere".
Thank you! Sure you can do that. In the Home app, go to room settings for any room and you'll see a "zone" option. You can add the room to a zone or create new zones here.
Then just tell Siri "play music upstairs" or "play everywhere" and you should be good to go!
@@ShaneCreates Awesome, thank you! I never get responses lol
One last question for you- without using airplay, can you stream SiriusXM?
Great video! Still wish we could just simply have a feature in shortcuts to have an action to be done at the end of a timer. Would be great with the signals app!
Thanks! Yea, that would be nice.
You could name a shortcut to a specific length of timer. “Run 10 minute light timer” then the shortcut is just, “wait” for the length of the name on that timer, then have signal app action after the “wait” command is over right?
@@danphillips6656 hey thanks :) yea have already tried that but to be honest the 'wait' feature really doesn't perform well if its longer than 2 min of waiting. At least in my experience.
The censored Alexa 😂😂😂
have you done a video on your network set up please
Last week we had a video all about routers and I shared what I am currently using for wifi and have used in the past.
Great video Shane! I have a quest: I have a HomeKit lg tv and a want to make a shortcut in order to set the tv to close after 30 minutes with Siri! Do you have any idea?? It is very nice to give a command and for example close the tv after some time! (Wait maybe is a command)??
Thanks for watching! There's not really a great way to create timers natively with homekit or shortcuts. And I find that the "wait" action can be problematic when using it for more than just a few seconds.
If you use homebridge or hoobs, then you could use the dummy switches plugin to create timers for homekit. But that's really the only way I know of.
@@ShaneCreates thanks for the answer I hoped you know the way because you know too much!! The “wait” is a way but Siri when the time is big tells you that something went wrong but in reality after the minutes you have set it it executes the commands!! Maybe is a way with the time now for ex now is 2:00 so after 15minutes so 2:15 do this command!!
Hey Shane, I'm trying to setup a shortcut/automation to do a simple thing, for my homepod to speak a text announcement when I come home. For some reason, I cannot find the usual way of doing this (selecting TEXT and then SPEAK TEXT), the option just isn't there, could I be doing something wrong?
No, you aren't doing anything wrong. It's because you are trying to set up a "home" automation, and when doing that, we don't have all the usual actions available to us as when creating a "personal" automation. Home automations must run on the homekit hubs (as opposed to our personal iOS devices) therefore we are much more limited to what we can do.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but when the signal finished, my lights don’t go back to their previous state. They just turn off. And I don’t have the checked in the “finished” section of the Signal
So looks like it works when run from a shortcut, but when testing the signal in the app it doesn’t go back to previous state
Will it go back to normal after a certain time or do I need to do another automation to bring up the volume during the day?
Yea, I set two that run each day. One in the morning that turns the volume back up to a normal volume and the one at night that turns it down.
@@ShaneCreates awesome thanks for the reply. And good videos bro I really enjoy them. Helps me a lot on which products to buy for my smart home.
Anyway I can get my HomePod to call out the weather each morning? Is that an automation I can create? I like my Alexa device does that but can't see a way for my HomePod to do that.
Hey I’m trying to get an announcement made through Siri on my HomePod. Athlough every time the shortcut runs it’s happening on my phone. Any ideas?
Can you access Signals via "Convert to shortcuts" within an automation in HomeKit? Or can you only access it via personal shortcuts?
No, it is only accessible within personal shortcuts or automations since it requires the app running on your iPhone, as opposed to "convert to shortcut" or home automations that run on your homekit hubs.
@@ShaneCreates Yeah, unfortunately this is a limitation that Apple has in place -- as far as I can tell, no third party Siri Shortcuts can be tied into this. It severely restricts the usefulness of the 'Convert to Shortcuts' options, but I'm hoping that Apple opens this up in the near future!
@@mattcorey3145 Thanks Matt! That would be pretty amazing if Apple opened that up. Then the things we could do (thanks to awesome app developers like yourself) would be limitless!
Lol. Look at you killin it on the sponsored ad game. +100 points for creativity.
haha thanks Kyle!!
Does Signals work when the iPhone is out of the house and someone else wants to run the shortcut? Ir does it need to be installed on each user's phone and configured?
Good question. Yes, it would need to be installed on each device as it does does require the iOS device to run.You can easily share your shortcuts to others for them to use in the house.
@@ShaneCreates That's right -- this takes advantage of the 'Personal Requests' feature of the HomePod, and runs the shortcut directly on the phone of whoever made the request. Signals does allow 'Family Sharing' with the Signals Plus purchase (not sure how obvious Apple makes this), so you won't need to purchase the app more than once
Hi Shane. There is a huge discussion on Danish homekit social media. Is it possible to activate a scene by only turning on the Apple tv. Ex. If you turn it on with your remote then it starts a scene or something. I have tried for days now but i cant find a way. I know its possible on homekit enabled tv’s, but other ways around i cant find. Do you have a solution or maybe someone? Thanks. By the way i need a discord pass.
The only way I can think of is to use a smart plug that monitors energy and plug the ATV into that. Then make an automation when the plug starts to draw more power, set the scene. I’m assuming that would work. Maybe there is another way using homebridge but I haven’t explored that.
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@@ShaneCreates Thanks Shane.
Hey, I have big problems to run mz morning routine. Every time I build it everything works fine. Even if it’s an automation it works BUT with no acceptable voice output of spoken texts. There was a time everything worked. Since months I have this problem! Can anybody help me. I would shar my shortcut, because maybe my dumbass made a mistake. Please anybody help me. It drives me crazy
Alexa’s whisper mode is super useful, but super creepy. Great workaround!
lol, agreed. It’s a little creepy. Thanks Dustin!
I’m having issues with a “hey siri good night” shortcut. Sometimes it works sometimes Siri just says goodnight like it doesn’t recognize it on my HomePod mini. Any suggestions?
You can now set volume directly in HomePod 👍
Hey Shane, I think it's worth pointing out that the alarm doesn't actually set on the HomePod but instead the iPhone. This was a bit confusing for me at first too.
Been watching a ton of your videos, but sometimes my actions won't match yours. When I pick choose from Menu, it doesn't give me the optional field across from the prompt? Any suggestions?
Thanks for watching! The shortcuts app UI has changed a little, but most functionality is still the same. It looks a little different but the prompt field should still be available when using "choose from menu."
Can you make a shortcut for HomePod to welcome you home when you come in?
Check out this video here: ua-cam.com/video/b2lhGIwrGDg/v-deo.html
Of course u can get back to the previous state within shortcuts. u just need to read out the current values, put them in a variable and use them in the end to set the devices back to those values.
So how do you set the device’s values based on your variable? I know you can get the value and even add it to a variable. But how to set the device based on that?
Hi Shane, have you ever had an issue with HomePod not running shortcuts? I get a message saying “please make sure you install shortcuts on your phone” which of course I have and where I created the shortcuts. I have personal requests enabled.
I haven’t had that issue yet. Maybe try restarting your HomePod and/or HomeKit hubs. Maybe your phone too. Possibly an iCloud sync issue? Often restarting hubs, phones, etc will kick everything back into place.
I think my HomePod might have some problems. I followed the same thing, created the "Dinner Time" shortcut in my iPhone, but my HomePod refuses to run it.
When I say "Hey Siri, dinner time" it always reply "I'm not sure I understand". The same happens for all the other shortcuts. Also, very often Siri loses the internet connection and is unable to add notes/reminders and what not.
Do you have "personal requests" enabled for your HomePods? That is required for running shortcuts.
@@ShaneCreates I do. I've downloaded the beta for the 14.6 and it's working again. I don't know what Apple did.
I am having a really difficult time generally getting things to happen on the device that I want them to using shortcuts and automation. As a couple of examples, I setup a personal automation that says when I start a running workout, start playing a particular playlist. Well when I started the run on my watch, the music started playing on my phone, rather than my watch. When I turned my phone off, I ran it again and the music didn't start at all.
Another, I set up a shortcut called "Laundry" where I simply just want Siri to set a timer for 68 minutes. When I say "Laundry" to siri on my HomePod, she starts a timer on my phone. This isn't helpful as if I am out and my wife is doing laundry, she will not hear the timer.
How can I get a better feel for how to correctly make things happen WHERE I want them to happen? Are these shortcomings of the ecosystem or am I screwing things up?
This is more about understanding how the shortcuts run. Standard shortcuts actually are running from your iPhone, even if you trigger them somewhere else like a HomePod.
So if you run a shortcut from the HomePod, for example, that is considered a personal request and can only be done by the individual with the phone close by. Home automations and the "convert to shortcut" feature, run on the homekit hubs (like a HomePod) but are more limited in their functionality. So anyways, that is why if you set a timer through a shortcut, it will set it on your phone rather than the HomePod. For this application, you'd be best to just tell the HomePod "Hey Siri, set a Laundry timer for 68 minutes." Hope this helps.
@@ShaneCreates Thanks! That does help with the HomePod issue. Any thoughts on the apple watch bit?
You set off my HomePod a few times
Oh, I'm sorry! I tried to mute the "Hey Siri" parts... guess I need to mute out more of it... Siri is just so good at hearing that wake phrase I guess. Thanks for the feedback.
@@ShaneCreates It’s all good I probably shouldn’t sit next to the HomePod when I’m watching tech videos really
Damn Signals wasn’t able to do what I hoped. I wanted the use Signal to flash my lights certain colors depending on who arrives home. Unfortunately Signals isn’t exposed within Shortcuts Home Automations 😩
iPhone apps cannot be used when setting up home automations unfortunately. And Signals is still an app that must run on the personal device. Hopefully this changes one day.
You can still flash your lights by setting up a home automation, you just have to script it out natively using convert to shortcut. And you won't get some of the added features you would get by using the Signals app, like returning the light to the exact color and state as before. I discuss this method in the "Home Automation" chapter of this video: ua-cam.com/video/GHnnNjoTBCo/v-deo.html
Does any one know why Hi Siri on my partners phone will not make anything happen on the home app? She is invited and can use the home app, plus the home pods recognise her, but her phone Siri keeps saying “nothing like that on your home app”. Very frustrating. Cheers
Does she happen to have another "home" in the home app? Maybe a default one that is empty? If so, I'd try to delete that home and see if that does the trick.
@@ShaneCreates That was the solution, brilliant thank you. Interestingly there a people on Apple help sites asking the same question and getting no answers. Keep up the great videos. I have installed many your suggestions since getting my first HomePod mini at Christmas. Cheers
That’s great, glad to hear it that solved the problem!
Anybody who can share any news on when the homepod mini will come for sale in more countries, like in Norway :(
I was thinking. Could you make siri read sport results automatically. Like when you're favorite team makes a score, she automatically tells you the score, without any action from you.
Hmm.. not sure about that one off the top of my head. Not sure how you'd be able to automate that to constantly check the score.
Hi, I often whisper to Siri on my HomePod late at night to turn off the lights and he doesn’t say anything, just turns the light off👌🏻
So is this shortcut on the phone or HomePod?
And will the alarm is run on the phone or the HomePod?
The shortcuts in this video run on the iPhone. The alarm example is also on the iPhone. Unfortunately we don't have the ability to set or modify HomePod alarms through shortcuts as far as I know.
So handsome 😍😍😍
I like to play my UA-cam Music, please make a shortcut for my Homepods.
Watch in 1.5x speed
I want a shortcut that plays April 29, 1992 every April 29th
You can have a party with Alexa
HomePod is being discontinued. This is disappointing.
Hopefully it'll get replaced with an updated version...