HomeKit Automations & Shortcuts EXPLAINED - HomeKit 101
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- As a part of my HomeKit 101 series, this video explains Automations and Shortcuts from the ground up. What are Shortcuts? What's the differences between Personal Automations or Home Automations? What is "convert to shortcut" and when to use it? We'll also create a simple Shortcut, a Personal Automation, and a Home Automation (convert to shortcut).
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:37 What Are Automations?
2:02 What Are Shortcuts?
2:36 Overview
3:15 The Shortcuts App
4:05 Personal VS Home Automations
6:25 Create a Shortcut
11:51 Create a Personal Automation
15:15 Create a Home Automation / Convert to Shortcut
20:46 Resources
21:10 Bonus Tip
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One of my favorite personal automation - I have my desk iPad always plugged in but I don't always want it charging. So, it's plugged into a smart plug and when the battery level goes below 15% the plug will power on and start recharging the iPad. Once the iPad battery level is over 95% the smart plug powers off. It's a good way to make sure the iPad always has power but not always charging.
Nice! I love all the trigger options we have for creating personal automations. I want to do more with them. So many possibilities!
That’s genius. Would have worked great when I relied on a unlimited data iPad. Kept it plugged in for my home internet, of course battery is fucked now.
hey man that sounds really cool, can you share the link perhaps?
@@jdb6284 I'm not really a UA-cam content creator... But here's a video on how to make the two automatons.
ua-cam.com/video/5g9hwT6xff4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=JustinSmith
Concur, genius!
lol Dude this helped so much. I figured out a bit on my own, and clicking around definitely helped me follow along but you’re the man. Out of all the HomeKit UA-camrs you’re my go to guy.
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching! 😃
Another great video! I love your shortcut examples. The shortcut scripting feature is a key to the power that is available. I’m glad you continue to give us great examples of what is possible. ES
Thanks Eric!
Shortcuts are really powerful, but can be daunting. You explain them in a simple way. Good stuff!!
I enjoy watching your videos so much Shane! Thank you for all the hard work that you’re doing! Stay safe and keep these great videos coming buddy! 😊🙏
Thank you Brake! I appreciate the support!
I appreciate your videos so much and I’m thankful there are guys like you who are kind enough to share all this awesome HomeKit/shortcuts/automations stuff!
I’m pretty smart when it comes to tech, but man shortcuts threw me for a loop, but I’ve finally gotten the hang of it!
Thanks to you, I’m hoping to have my entire home automated and HomeKit enabled (as far as the tech allows) by end of next year!! Keep up the awesome work man. Thanks again!! 🙌🏼
Hey Payton, thanks so much for the kind words. I'm glad the videos have been helpful and I greatly appreciate the support! Good luck with that HomeKit setup, keep up the good work!
Yes!!! Can’t wait. Thanks Shane.
This was so well explained! This has me brainstorming all new main automation ideas!
Mission accomplished! Thanks for watching! Can’t wait to hear what you come up with!
Yet another great job, Shane. A year-and-a-half after you published it, it's still useful. I'm wanting an automation that will alert me if I lock my front door when it's open. Surely someone has done this one already, but I'm having trouble getting started and not having much luck searching. Sort of like "if the front door is locked and if the door is actually open the alert me in some fashion". I have a storm door so our front door is open a lot.
I love this video showing the integration with Shortcuts and HomeKit. Our favorite automation is using an NFC tag to trigger our Goodnight scene. The best part about this shortcut setup is that we can also trigger the AutoSleep app to tell it we are going to bed and start tracking the apple watch, and we open dark noise to play pink noise over the Sonos speakers. Then the GoodNight scene runs in HomeKit and shuts off all the lights and TVs in the house. As always, great video Shane!
Thank you! 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
That’s an awesome automation for an nfc tag. Nice job!!
New subscriber - great video thank-you! I have to say as a beginner to shortcuts your real life examples are extremely helpful in showing the possibilities - please keep sharing!
Awesome, I’m glad it was helpful! 🙏🏻 Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Well done! This video tied up several loose threads i had in this topic. Thank you!
Awesome, thanks for watching!
So happy to hear someone talking about shortcuts and automatons. Both of these are so underrated by lots of smart-home channels.
My favorite automatons that I’ve set up are for my smart lights. They like most HomeKit lights don’t have the feature that changes the color temperature with the time of day so I did it myself.
I have it change color temperature at sunrise and sunset and I use if statements to check and make sure it doesn’t mess with any current settings (like waking me up in the morning when it’s off).
Nice! Thanks for watching David! And thanks for sharing. I love hearing creative ways people are using automations and shortcuts.
Such a great inspiration to make my own smart home. Greetings from Mexico 🤟🏽
Awesome! Thanks for watching Erick!
Great video! Shortcuts are awesome. You explained this very well 👌🏽🔥
Thanks Adam!
Wow! Great video Shane.
Thanks Jerry!
This guy is the best. Greetings from Portugal
Thanks for the support!
I tell everyone about how great and how fun Shortcuts can be, but they always give me the “oh, that is confusing... I wouldn’t be able to do that.” Great intro video for me to share to those that are overwhelmed by it. It really opens up another dimension of smart home / automations.
Thank you Kyle!
Great review!!!!!
Hello Shane, Thank you for your videos, It really helps me.
Thanks for watching! Glad they are helpful.
Hey Shane, good stuff bro. It would be great if you could do a video on the limitations on HomeKit such as max time a shortcut can run, etc.
Awesome man, great video!
Thanks!
More of these! 🤩
You give very good information.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the overview, as an entry tip, I used these steps to use the single click mode on an Aqara Switch Mini to toggle a light in Homekit rather than 1 click for on, 2 clicks for off.
This is trivial in the Aqara app, but as my lights are Niko Home Control based, I want to do as much as possible the Homekit interface. So I start from Homekit assign a task to the single click, convert to shortcut, insert an if statement. If the status of the light is on, turn the ligt off, else if turn the light on.
That means that a single click on the Aqara Switch mini now results in toggling the status of the light, exactly what I wanted!
Thanks
That's great! And a perfect use case for something like that. Thanks for watching!
cool, gotta get that nightlight! PS: got it, love it!
Well that was interesting! And useful and doable. I am starting to think about the possibilities. They are really only limited by our imagination.
Awesome! Yea the possibilities are endless. Thanks for watching!
@@ShaneCreates One question tho, Shane (or others). The idea about waking up (with) the Apple TV is great. But how do I wake up my tv screen as well? It’s a smart tv but it’s not a HomeKit tv. 🤔 It’s in standby and it won’t go on when Apple TV goes on.
@@tombe1412 if you have HDMI-CEC enabled your tv should turn on when you wake the Apple TV. That’s how I do it. Here’s some more info: support.apple.com/en-us/HT205225
Another great video, especially since I learned a few more things. It even got me to dust off the Shortcuts App and add a few new shortcuts and modify a few existing ones.
Suggestion: Maybe we could send you a few of our favorite Siri Shortcuts. Then you could do a video on fan favorite shortcuts that you really liked. We could also submit suggestions for automations that have made our lives easier that others may want to take advantage of.
Thanks for watching Frederick! Appreciate the suggestion!
Hi Shane you have The best videos when it comes to starting with HomeKit. It is a LITTLE overwhelming in regards to the shortcuts haha but I am sure the more I use it the easier it will get. I want to start w some automations and I like the one you have where lights come on with alarm snooze. However, when I try to add an automation I do not have the option to do personal versus home. Looks like only home comes up based on it how yours. No where do I see a personal option. Is there a reason that is not an option for me? Phone is updated, I have HomeKit enabled products. 🤷🏻♀️ Thanks in advance
Is it possible to start an automation with an existing shortcut? For example, start my Roborock Vaccum when I leave the house. (Roborock has pre existing shortcuts). Love your channel and what you are doing! thanks!
Very nice instructive YT Video. Have an iPhone, IPad, & use automation in my home, just not Apple. I wish I could use HomeKit to run all my devices that SmartThings control! Someday, maybe!
Thanks Dan! It's never too late to convert!
Homebridge is worth a look.
Great video!
Do you know if there is a way to re-use a shortcut I've created in a 'convert to shortcut' automation?
For example, if I have 2 wireless switches that I wish would work the same?
Thanks!
My man Shane on some next level ish.....
Haha thanks Devin!
Hey Shane you are the GOAT when it comes to HomeKit! We have a scene when waking up and walking down the stops I say “Good morning” and kitchen lights are on at 50%. We want to convert this to a shortcut to add weather and scripts, but no trigger. We want it to start at ANY time of day when walking down the steps. Not when we press snooze, etc… Is this possible just using our voice?
Sounds like you just need to create a personal shortcut in your iOS device. Whatever the name of the shortcut is can be used to trigger it via Siri. The only caveat is that it only works for each person’s device, so you have to share the shortcut to each family member in order to use it.
Hi Shane. I'm not sure if this happened with IOS 16.1 and the HomeKit update, but my friend Hugh pointed out that the "+" shown at @18:22 has been removed, and now you need to "swipe up" to get the additional steps
Great video, Shane! I have my ‘triple tap’ set up for screenshot because anytime I try it the normal way I end up turning my phone off :)
Haha nice! I do that all the time too lol. Good idea.
My 2 cents for anyone who looks for ideas: I have a couple of shortcuts connected to NFC tags: (iphone Xr and newer). If anyone from our household puts in laundry, they can tag the tag and set a program through shortcuts when then sets reminders for the whole family. This makes it very easy for us not to forget (which happened a lot before).
Second I have a personal shortcut that if any alarm goes off, through some homebridge dummy switches, my music starts playing on a bedroom homepod, my lights come on gradually. After 10 minutes, a dummy switch toggles off my lights but keeps an LED strip bright under the bed which signals me to get up. This turns off automatically after another 5 minutes. When i get out of bed, this will engage the homepod downstairs to a playlist to wake me up further.
Third, and this is probably the easiest. I have a third automation that disables all alarms when i turn off my airplane mode (eg, when i wake up). Why you ask? Cuz i hate to wake up earlier than my alarm and the alarm still goes off afterwards despite you being awake already. This eliminates this. Then, another personal automation enables all my alarms again (completely invisible in the background) at midday. So, this means:
If we want to sleep in, i make sure i disable all alarms myself before going to bed. no alarm, no morning routine in the bedroom and no unnecesary toggling automations on & off. If i get up for work, my morning routine runs, if i wake up a few hours later due to different appointments, i don't need to reprogram all automations just for that. In the weekends if i wake up earlier than my wife, no automations will run because i woke up before my alarm, hence all alarms disabled hence no automations and she can keep sleeping.
Having this set up, this is what automations is supposed to be, set and forget and it just plain works.
For me, this is such an improvement to my life and i love it!
Oh and also, made some personal automations that when i charge my phone at night it goes into full airplane & DND, when i disconnect from power in the morning, everything turns back on automagically. Siri shortcuts & automations are the best!
That's great, thanks for sharing your automations and ideas! Nice job!
Hello Shane, is there a hoobs plugin for yeelight? Im having issues on the brightness
Hi Shane! Love your videos....keep it up man! I honestly just started diving into shortcuts after getting a Hoobs device. After watching this video, I wanted to make the following automation but can't pull Apple TV remote into the automation:
When I turn on ATV - workout room - Open a certain app on the ATV. It is a workout app that I can't set time of day or any other triggers outside of me turning the ATV on when I'm ready to workout. Any ideas please? thank you!
Thanks for the support! So I don’t believe you can use the Apple TV to trigger the automation, unfortunately. You should be able to creat just a regular personal automation to turn on the Apple TV and then open up the app. You’ll just have to manually run the automation, use siri, or use something like an nfc tag.
Great video!! There is something that I would like to but don’t know if is possible, and if it is how could be.
In the blink automation that you did for example, is there anyway to change the light color in the shortcut automation??
For example, to turn on in green if something are on, and blink in red if not!
Yes you can do that. Just specify the color when setting up the automation like you would any other automation. For example I just turned the light on or off in my automation, but for you, tap and hold the tile during setup and change the color to whatever you want.
Informative video as always. Have you found a way to have your phone or perhaps a bedroom HomePod mini play the new Apple Daily Briefing when you hit snooze on your alarm? I haven’t found a way to add it but just because I can’t find it doesn’t mean it’s not in there somewhere 🤪
Thanks David! No I haven’t yet. I keep thinking eventually they’ll have to give us access to that daily briefing in shortcuts. It only makes sense.
Love your videos! I’m new to this stuff and I’m trying to make my HomePod mini read me the weather and then play a certain playlist when I say “hey siri, good morning”. Is this a possibility?
Yes that's possible via a personal shortcut.
Ok ok ok, that Apple TV trigger was great. I’m going to have to do that for mine and see how that runs. Thanks for this. How long have you been doing shortcuts? You have a great handle on it.
Thanks for watching! I’ve been playing around with shortcuts here and there since Apple first introduced it in iOS 12. But like said, I’m only scratching the surface. There are some folks out there doing some AMAZING things with shortcuts.
@@ShaneCreates oh wow, for real?? I see you scratched the surface and then some. There’s a difference, you break it down for folks like myself and others getting into it. Again, always appreciate what you do.
Hi , you have presented interesting automation about opening garage gate and flashing lights to inform you about gate opening. How to do similiar automation but with home pod mini saying : 'Gate opening ' instead of flashing lights. And for the home, not indywidual . Thanks
That's a bit more tricky but it is possible. Actually, my new video this week will discuss how to create custom Siri announcements just like that. Stay tuned...new video will publish this Sunday morning at 8am EST.
Great video shane thanks. Is there a way to add an actual timer (beside the wait feature because thats not great for longer than a few seconds). I know homebridge has a dummy switch but maybe you had a tip ? Thanks
Thanks for watching! No I don’t have a great tip for that. I’m not sure what the best way is. Maybe someone else will chime in. I agree, the wait action is problematic for anything more than a few seconds.
@@ShaneCreates Alright appreciate it :)
Hi Shane, do you have a plan to make another videos for creating shortcut? Trying to make some shortcuts but not really straightfoward. I just want to use my motion sensor in my office only when weekdays and daytime.
Yes I'll be doing some more stuff with shortcuts soon.
Do you know if there is a way to create automations that only run on specific dates? For example, I have a "Christmas" scene that makes our dining room chandelier red and green for Christmas. A "Halloween" scene that makes it green and purple at Halloween, etc. And then I have my "Everyday" scene that just makes it normal warm light. I have an automation that turns those lights on every night, and I would love if it just automatically adjusted to the correct scene during specific days of the year - like October 1 - 31 use the "Halloween" scene, but in December use the "Christmas" scene - without having to manually change them. Does that make sense?
Great. Should I understand that Automations which executes Actions of type "Shorcuts" will work only if iphone is powered on?
Honestly I'm not sure if I've ever tried it when the phone is off. I know they should still work even if the phone is asleep/locked.
Hi, how do I set up home kit automation/short kit to turn a lamp off 15 minutes after the door is locked. Thank you. John
Great video Shane. Quick question: How can someone automate a non-homekit light via a Aqara motion sensor.
I have a yeelight monitor lamp which doesn't support homekit but runs well on siri shortcuts. Is there a way that I can automate it like this: "When Aqara motion sensor detects motion, run Siri Shortcut to turn on yeelight monitor lamp" ?
Thanks for watching. No, unfortunately there isn’t a great way to automate non-homekit accessories with other HomeKit products.
I have problems with Kasa’s existing shortcuts, so I got a HOOB to try to add it to homekit so it would be more reliable?
I always get errors from the shortcuts, especially when using HomePod
Hi man. Could I know which security HomeKit allarm do you have? Any advice about yours or others better would be appreciated. Thank you 😊
I have used the Aqara hub as a security system as well as the Abode system. I like both and both have their pros and cons. I've done reviews and videos on each. Unfortunately there still aren't too many other options for DIY HomeKit Security Systems out there. I would look into those two first and see if they meet your needs.
Hey.
New subscriber here. All new to using HomeKit and testing with IKEA Trådfri and really enjoying your videos. Do you know if you can use this Home automation to start a light in the morning and slowly bring the dimming up? Fx from 5% to 65% in first 5 min.
Hey Jan. Thanks for subscribing! Unfortunately, that's not super easy to do in HomeKit. However, there are a few options to consider if this is something you really want to accomplish...
I've seen some people do it by creating a series of automations to gradually increase the brightness, but that is less than ideal as it leaves you with many automations.
Also, there is an app called Follow the Sun that allows you to setup automations like this for HomeKit, as well as things like color temperature throughout the day. This one works best on a Mac that is running all the time, which is something to consider.
And finally I've heard of an app called "Wake Up Light" that supposedly does exactly this using your homekit lights, but I have yet to try it out.
Hope this helps!
@@ShaneCreates awesome. Thanks I’ll give it a try. :)
Hey Shane, how would you do that garage flash to flash regardless if light was initially on or off, but return to the state where it started? I have lutron smart dimmers and I want them all to flash if the doorbell is rung, but I also want them to return to previous state. If the lights were on, I want them on, if the lights were off, I want them off
I believe this video answers that question: ua-cam.com/video/SQx8r_kwnbk/v-deo.html
Just need to get the state of the light first. Then use an If statement to turn the light on or off after the flash, based on that initial state.
That is exactly what I need, very basic level, introductory video 😊 Thank you! You did give me ideas for automation and shortcuts. Question: In automation, although I set up a podcast to play daily (because I did not know how to choose only weekdays), can I still choose from the Menu and write each individual weekday to "force" the automation to do it only on weekdays? or...
Thanks for watching! Yes you can choose which days you want it to run (weekly option) in personal automations.
Hi there. Great work. Is there a away that when a Home accessorie is triggered, Apple TV opens a app?
Thanks Filipe. The reason that won't work is to open the Apple TV app, the shortcut must run as a personal automation because it uses the remote app on your phone/personal device. Home automations run on the homekit hub so it can't access those actions. Hope that makes sense.
how about if i want an app to open to a specific tab? within that app? based on location?
Timely topic... was just setting up my inside garage lights to turn on when my garage door opens. Used the “Wait” action to leave them on for a specified period of time then they shut off. What’s your experience with the maximum amount of wait time? Seems that in my case I can only do two minutes, anything past that and the lights won’t shut off. I haven’t figured out if it’s a limit of a home automation or shortcut
Hey Brett. Yea I’ve noticed that the wait action can be problematic when the wait time is too long. I haven’t tested it thoroughly so I’m not sure the limit but I typically don’t use the wait action for anything more than a few seconds because of that.
Ok, thought maybe you had ventured deeper into some of the actions than I have. Just wondering if it’s a limit of home automation waiting or a shortcut waiting. Will probably try a shortcut only to see if it changes how long you can wait
Could you use nfc stickers and Apple Watch trigger the automations to start ??
Unfortunately Apple Watch cannot be used for NFC automations currently.
Great video!!!
I have a question that not related to this video. I’m having problem with my HomeKit setup in iOS 14.4
After I updated my phone and HomePod mini to 14.4, one of my accessories didn’t work quite right. I have a roku TV and it does support HomeKit. Also I have an automation when I turn on my TV the smart led strip installed in the back will turn on as well. That’s not the case anymore in iOS 14.4 cause after I turn off my TV for about 20 mins or so, the home app said that’s the TV is on. So when I turn on my TV again, it doesn’t trigger the automation.
Idk if Apple changes something related to HomeKit in iOS 14.4. Everything works fine at 14.3
Thanks for watching! That's strange, I'm not sure what would be the cause of that. It may be an issue with the homekit accessory itself (roku TV) if homekit is not registering it's state properly...not sure. Maybe try restarting your HomeKit Hub and see if that helps anything.
@@ShaneCreates I tried to reset my phone my HomePod mini and my Roku tv. I even removed the tv from HomeKit and added it back but still no luck. And I found a post on Reddit that talked about the same problem that I’m having. There’s a person who have 3 roku TVs and all of them act the same way. Must be another bug of iOS 14.4. You know where I could report the problem to Apple?
@@binhvuong6174 www.apple.com/feedback/
@@ShaneCreates thank you
Hey amazing advice! Do you know any way you could get siri to read back to you the menu options listed in the shortcut you created? If I say “hey siri” and trigger it, it displays the options on the phone and asks “which one?” But i’d like for it to read back each option and then I can tell it which one to run.
It will speak the menu options when running the shortcut from a HomePod, but not the iPhone. If you want that on the iPhone, you'll probably need to look at using some combination of the speak action, dictate action, and IF actions. It will be a little more complicated to setup.
@@ShaneCreates I figured... Thanks so much for the reply! I actually found a simple workaround for this by just writing each option separated by a comma in question format on the "Prompt" tab of the "choose from menu" command. Now when I trigger the shortcut by voice, the prompt is read back to me. It's not ideal and it sounds kinda robotic but it works!
How can I create an Apple Automation to notify power cuts when at home?
I'm super new to this, I find a lot of videos like this one get the the part to select the actions that are triggered when you select the shortcut and the person says "I have a scene already...etc". My question is where do you make the scene initially? That part seems to always be jumped over and is a tad confusing to a newbie. Thanks in advance if you know and can share the answer :)
Hey Brad. Sure, you can create a new scene by simply tapping the "plus" icon from the home tab or the room view in the Home app. You'll see options to add a new accessory, automation, room, or add a scene.
I wonder if these types of sequences could be used to automate an 'alarm system' only using an eve door/window sensor, which then would trigger both, a nanoleaf bulb to flash red indefinitely and a HomePod mini to sound a very loud alarm, also indefinitely, until disarmed say after 10 PM from Sunday to Thursday?
Yea I think that can be done. Only thing I'm not sure about is flashing a light indefinitely. You can flash it for a long time but I think eventually it would have to come to an end if using shortcuts to flash the light.
Shane, do you know if it is possible to create a shortcut that starts multiple timers on a HomePod?
A scene or automation could be good too
I figured it out with alarms instead but I can’t set them to the HomePod.
Hey Kevin, last I checked we don't have the ability to create HomePod timers via shortcuts. Would be nice.
Having a couple issues with HomePod/Shortcuts/Automations...
Just recently got a HomePod mini and I’m trying to create a shortcut to use first thing in the morning where i will say “good day” to my HomePod and it will turn on some specific lights and read me the forecast for the day. I set it up to turn on some hue lights, turn on some non hue lights using web hooks and ifttt and then added the weather app bit that is supposed to get daily forecast at current location. It does not do anything with the weather action. Is there a way to get it to tell me the forecast on the HomePod?
Second issue. We have moved from google assistant to HomePod. On google we setup routines to just say "laundry" to google and it would start a time for 66 minutes. We had another called "towels" that would start a timer for 90 minutes. I tried to recreate these in shortcuts using the timer action but it only starts the timer on my iphone, not on the HomePod. Is there a way to achieve this?
Not sure how you have it setup, but you have to do something with the weather information. You have to either use "show result" or "speak" or something to get the data presented to you.
Personal shortcuts actually run on the phone, even if triggered by the HomePod. Unfortunately, there currently isn't a way to access HomePod timers or alarms from shortcuts (hopefully one day). It may take a bit longer, but for this application right now, I'd just say "Hey Siri, set a 90 minute Towels timer" and then when the timer goes off on the HomePod, it will say the name of the alarm (towels) out loud also.
Hello sir! I have a quick question. Is it possible to make a shortcut or scenes where it’s automatically put a timer on the music being played?
Not easily. There is a “wait” action that you can try, but I find it can problematic when using it for more than a few seconds in shortcuts. You can “start a timer” but I don’t think there is a way to use that timer to trigger anything.
Additionally, if you are using Home bridge or hoobs, you can use dummy switches and create timers to include in scenes and automations.
A bit late I know but can anyone help with 2 Aqara door sensors I have one at my front door and another at the top door of my stairs so I have them working to switch on my ceiling lights at night when either door is open, but they over run if I open one door the lights come on but close that door and then open the other door the timer starts again, anyway to have this ignore the second door if the first has been activated?
Thanks
Hey Shane is there a way i can trigger a shortcut from a Philips hue button 🙏🏼
You can “convert to shortcut” like discussed in this video, but you cannot trigger a personal shortcut.
@@ShaneCreates thank you for your reply, I’m just trying to set a timer for when my bath is full lol its take forever and then i forget. So I figured if i could just press a button it could tell me when the timer is up on my homepods. Ive tried Pushcuts but it just seems so confusing. 🤯
Really hope you can help me with this. I want to create automation or short cut where I can switch on my fan heater in my summer house for 5 mins then turn it off for 15 mins then turn it back on for 5 mins then turn off , and I want this to carry on until I have done in there for the night
Hope that make sense
Is it possible to choose an announcement on a homepod as an action?
In iOS 16.4 it's possible via personal shorcuts only (intercom action).
How come I cant access my Yeelight App from the shortcut script screen?
Hey Shane, I’ve been trying to get informed (call/txt,alarm) every time my entrance eve door is open. I am a newbie and I have not found any ways of doing it. Am I trying something HomeKit/shortcut can’t do? All I want is a Burglar alert when I am not home. I’ve got HomePod mini and eve door for now.
Hey Geraldo. That's a tricky one because actions like calling and texting must be done using personal automations; i.e. they require that personal device to execute.
And automations using a door sensor are home automations. They run on your homekit hub (HomePod mini). And you cannot have a home automation send a text or call at the moment.
There are some more advanced, pretty complicated workarounds, but not sure it's something I'd recommend.
You can, however, set your door sensor to send you notifications everytime the sensor is opened when you are not home. That can be configured in the Home app settings. Hope this helps!
@@ShaneCreates man, I was already I fan and now even more. I figured it was something tricky. I’ve spent hours trying a way around it and haven’t got anywhere near something that works. Much respect for reaching out! Take care.
In google home routines you can make the assistant ( google mini ) talks, For example you put in the routine ( Say good morning ) then when the routine works the speaker says good morning, Is this thing availble in apple homekit speaker ???
Yes it can be done. There is a dictate action and Siri can say whatever you want. Also "set destination playback" action would be used to pick which HomePod or speaker to play from if you wanted.
So I’m gradually adding smart plugs and smart switches to my home. They become kind of a mishmash of different brands. The one thing they all have in common is that you can convert the commands to Siri shortcuts. The question I have is do I have to throw out all my smart devices once a company stops supporting them? Secondly, if I buy products which are HomeKit compatible will I protect myself from this obsolescence?
The best bet is to buy products that support Apple Home. Then if the company does got under, they should still work in the Apple Home app, since they do not require any cloud servers or communication.You can also use different brands, etc. all in the Apple Home app as long as they all support Apple Home.
That makes sense thank you!@@ShaneCreates
I dont know what happened but after i updated my iphone to ios 14, the automation “play songs” which in one of them it was my alarm and in others motivation songs stopped just working and I couldn’t fix it, anyone can help.
so to use automation you need sensor for the lights etc...
Hey Shane - I have a Smart power strip and I added it to my Homekit app on iphone & the Manufacturers app. i am able to control the strip thru both these places. Then thru Shortcut, I created an automation which says when my battery level rises above 80%, switch off the powerstrip. My battery reaches 80% on my phone, and it triggers the shortcut automation, however, I get an error - Accessory not reachable. Do you know what could be the issue?
Hey Rick. I'm not sure, usually that error would mean that the accessory has a "no response" error in HomeKit.
@@ShaneCreates - Thanks Shane. I had to actually hard reset my phone and re-created the automation and that seemed to work.
Can my husband and I BOTH have Home app on our individual phones and have access and controle to all the same devices?
Yes you can. I would recommend using one phone and Apple ID for setting up new devices in the Home app. Then you can "invite" the other to join the home and it will show up in the home app.
@@ShaneCreates Awesome! Thank You! I appreciate that you take time to answer my/our questions! Have a great day!
wow I still have not figured this all out... any suggestions to look up or make an automation that at 10pm asked to start then ask to turn off a light and turn on another, ask to set the alarm (or not) ask to turn on light In the morning (or not) when you wake up to the alarm..... I have not got any of this even watching some videos not sure if I am going out of order but the basic is just not clicking with me any for dummies ideas to get a step by step setup???
I have been searching but not getting a question and timed based automation to just turn my lights off at night as I am going to bed. enjoying your videos but I am missing the connection so how... sorry
Thanks Dennis. I put some resources in the description that may help.
You can use the "ask" action or "choose from menu" to ask for input at a certain time. Then based on the answer do certain things. Hope that helps. Good luck!
i wanna ask a question, is there any way to make the lamp flash when there is a phone call incoming or a notification incoming (like messaging)?
for example as the accessibility for deaf people where the flashlight came on.
thanks
Unfortunately there isn't a way to trigger automations via phone calls or messages.
@@ShaneCreates i've tried also to make work the nfc tag with my iphone X, downloaded third part app and associated tag with the name of scenario in shortcut but doesn't work at all :(
Yea for native scanning of NFC tags you will need an iPhone XS/XR or later. That is probably the issue.
Thanx for that! Do you know if there is a way to trigger notifications in shortcuts. Like when I want to get the lamp to blink? Not bye time but with activate it like the panikbutton to arm it.. if you know what I mean
Sure you can do that with a homekit button or just a regular shortcut.
@@ShaneCreates hmm i tried but cant figure it out... have to try again. Looks like I have to activate some lamp or so to have it to work.
@@studiosjuttionio638 you trying to trigger the lamp flash with a button?
@@ShaneCreates no, I want to trigger that funktion with a shortcut. Some times I want to have the camera to set on a lamp with blink but not allways. I want to have a option with a shortcut to have it on and off.. but it seems to be hard to fix. I guess you can but it ”if this lamp is on” then it can trigger. And when lamp is off then its not gonna trigger. Thanx for all your answers, hope you understand my crapy english:)
@@studiosjuttionio638 No worries. I'm trying to understand what you are hoping to do. The steps taken in this video to flash the light can be done in any regular shortcut also. It doesn't have to be an automation. Hope it helps.
Hi ! GOOOD Video ... start to geht nur ABO too... Please, can you give the Shortcut in your Videos? First for to learn and Second to use this super ideas ?!
Plz help
I am trying to create an automation with the following steps:-
1. My ipad(acting as a hub) will recognise door bell sound and automation will kick off
2. If light(hue strip) is on it will set three variables huePower,hueColor and hueBrightness.
3. Than activate a scene on hue light strip and turn it red and than wait for 15 seconds.
4. NOW I WANT LIGHT TO GO BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE EITHER TO OFF OR TO PARTICULAR COLOR AND BRIGHTNESS USING ABOVE SET VARIABLES.
Is there a way to convert a shortcut to a HomeKit automation, I have a Dyson that works with Siri Shortcuts but doesn’t work with HomeKit
No, unfortunately. It's because personal shortcuts require your personal device to run, and homekit automations are executed on the homekit hub. I'll actually be discussing this some in this week's upcoming video.
Help I get the message "Action set execution partially succeeded" that is over the ok option with no other explanation?! I followed your steps exactly and deleted and re did it with no better luck. Btw I'm doing the same thing with the garage door. Any Ideas?
I believe this error occurs when the shortcut tries to control an unresponsive homekit accessory.
Is there anyway to make a home automation trigger a personal animation? Tony stark style? Open my closet (contact sensor) a airway speaker ready the weather and my reminders for the day
Not easily. It depends how bad you want to make it happen. In this video I used an automation server via the Pushcuts app and a dedicated iOS device to accomplish this. ua-cam.com/video/CW-39Ec8Qzk/v-deo.html
I had it setup when every family member leaves the house it would turn alarm on automatically using shortcut. But I notice it doesn't work anymore with iOS15. Are you having same issue?
I have seen some unexpected “weirdness” with some of my automations. Most are still working as it seems, but I have noticed a time or two when they don’t seem to be, since updating to iOS 15. I haven’t been able to determine a common denominator. I always try restarting your HomeKit hubs, if you haven’t already. That is usually my first step when troubleshooting automations that aren’t working right.
When I want to repeat an automation the most frequent option appears to be once per day (Daily, Weekly or Monthly are the only choices.) So if I want to do something once per hour I have to create 24 automations. Ugly.
I have a HomeKit temperature sensor INSIDE my fridge and I want to trigger if the temperature rises more than 5 degrees above the freezing point. How do I do that? I don't think it's possible. EDIT: during the last few hours I found there's a way to get an Automation to invoke an SSH command on another computer. That's fabulous, and is probably how I will solve this problem, but so far I can't been able to get this feature to work at all. Do you have examples of how to use the SSH action in the Home App? I have used SSH on UNIX before but I can't seem to get it to work in the Home App. (Yes, I have Remote Logins enabled in the System Preferences.)
You can create temperature automations using 3rd party homekit apps, such as the Eve app or Home+.
@@ShaneCreates Fair enough. Thanks. However, I'm getting pretty close using the SSH action in iOS, so I'm going to try to get that working before throwing in the towel and downloading third party software. I don't give up, and using the SSH action seems to be opening the door to lots of education for me.
hello, can you please set this somehow? I have an automation that turns off my apple watch always on after going to the address. but after arriving at the place, only the notification of the shortcut pops up, and after clicking on it, I have to press to start the shortcut 🤷 ♂️ ... I saw that you set the notification to be turned off, but then it plays itself???
location based automations alway require an interaction with the notification. Only certain automation triggers will give you the option to turn off "ask before running."
Can you help me with coding shortcuts for motion sensors? I’m trying to automate the motion sensor to turn On lights only when it’s Off, I don’t want the motion sensor change the light settings when it’s On, for example I controlled the lights in the room to be Blue while the motion sensor is programmed to turn on White light 40%, every time I change the light color or brightness with my phone the motion sensor got triggered and rest it to white 40%, so the best way to do it is to program the motion sensor is to trigger the light only if it’s Off but unfortunately I don’t know how to write the code in shortcuts
Thanks
Just use If and Else statements. If [Name of] Light is on, stop, If [Name of] Light is off, set [Accessory] to … …
@@GreeniusGenius I can’t start the coding with IF statement, I think i have to start with “Get status” first but still fails, I couldn’t let it work
I’d use something like node-red for complex logic.
Please give me a short cut that locks the screen. Thank you
I made a personal automation so that when the morning alarm goes off, it starts my morning scene. However, the automation fails because my iPhone is locked on my charger when I wake up. The automation does trigger but asks for FaceID or access code. Anyone knows how to fix this?
Do you happen to have any "secure" accessories being controlled in the scene? Certain accessories will require authentication like garage door, locks, alarm system, etc.
I have an automation that open an app when I disconnect from carplay.
But it wants me to confirm before opening, so it is useless for me.
Shortcuts can't open apps when connected via carplay. Another big thing that I hate with shortcuts.
It should work automatically if you turn off "ask before running."
I can't get these to work, I have made a short cut to open Disney+ on my phone and it works with my Apple TV, but when I tell my gomepod to do it, it just tells me it can't open apps.
Try naming the shortcut something else. My guess is that’s the problem when running from the HomePod.
Does the wake up personal short cut have a selection for calming down your wife after the lights kicked on while she was still sleeping?
😂 😂
Apple Watch in Family Mode.... I have a son with autism who has one. He has not phone of his own. When he arrives and leaves, I'm able to get "Find My" notifications. On his watch, I have the "Find My"-> "My Location" field set to "This Device".
The automations do not trigger. I have an automation that makes an announcement when his bus arrives, but it never fires. Bug?
I'm not sure. I believe my location based automations are still working ok. But I don't have any setup using an Apple Watch. My child just got an Apple Watch as well (with no iPhone). Maybe I'll try setting up some to see. I like that automation idea with the bus. Very clever!
@@ShaneCreates my location based automations work fine, but the watch doesn’t trigger them. I think people are saying it’s not the watch..it’s the watch in “family mode”.
I'm not seeing the "+" at 17:13. Did I configure something wrong?
What I found out that is if I start from Shortcuts, I get the If/Wait options. If I start from Home- Automation I don't vs 15.3.1
@@faengelm Hey Frank, if you create an automation in the Home app, then "convert to shortcut", you should be able to search for and use IF and WAIT actions.
@@ShaneCreates Wow! Thanks... I didn't notice purpose of the search...
@@ShaneCreates I just noticed that I need to search for "Control" not "Set". Thanks for your help. I just signed up for membership (faengelm)
@@faengelm Thanks for the support! Feel free to ask questions over in our Discord or shoot me a DM over there if you need to.
Is it possible to make Siri say something when a sensor is triggered without using Music?
It's possible but it's a workaround. And you still have to use the Music app, but you can use pre-recorded Siri phrases. I did something similar in this video: ua-cam.com/video/b2lhGIwrGDg/v-deo.html
@@ShaneCreates meaning you still need a Music subscription? It's so bad on Apple's part not to support a way to announce via Siri like Alexa does natively. 😑
@@delatroy yea, you can do it via shortcuts. But just not in home automations unfortunately.
@@ShaneCreates there’s no workaround with IFTTT or something else?