I see some versatility in iPhone shortcuts capabilities but I just don't know what to do with it.
If you are using Shortcuts and Indigo together can you list your success stories here?
ryanbuckner wrote:I see some versatility in iPhone shortcuts capabilities but I just don't know what to do with it.
If you are using Shortcuts and Indigo together can you list your success stories here?
anyone wrote:I use a Siri shortcut to open and/or close my garage door. This addressed the inability of my cars transmitter, which is in the front near the headlights, to communicate with my garage door opener. This was needed because I back into my garage.
"Hey Siri, shut the garage door" or "Hey Siri, open the garage door", executes an Action Group that simulates the pressing of the garage door button. A Insteon Garage I/O controller presses the button. A Z-wave Garage Door Tilt sensor reliably monitors the status of the door.
So so simple but it is the most frequently used iOS Shortcut I have setup.
One other I setup was for my wife which allows her to control the blinds in her office. It is a Choose from Menu type of iOS ShortCut. It provides her with a list of options; "Open All, Close All, Preset 1, Preset2, Exit".
This to me was a better alternative than a Control Page. She can either click an icon on her iPhone's Home Screen to launch and interact with it or say; "Hey Siri, adjust my office blinds" and then she can say the option she wants".
CliveS wrote:anyone wrote:I have been using Joe's HTTPd2 plugin for my shortcuts and it works beautifully but he has just discontinued it so I expect when 2022.1 arrives it will not work and my attempts at getting a replacement have failed so far, and Apple Watch just tells me to use my iPhone!
FlyingDiver wrote:Let's revisit this after 2022.1 is out. The current plugin should work just fine in that version. If we can't work out a reflector solution then I'll update it to Python3 for Indigo 2022.2.
mundmc wrote:It’s great for when I am not home and I want my wife to pick up her phone. I have the house yell at her.
DaveL17 wrote:Oh, I’m sorry if I implied this use-case was without peril.mundmc wrote:It’s great for when I am not home and I want my wife to pick up her phone. I have the house yell at her.
Yeah, that would go over well here.
I was just dictating to my iPhone from the other room to have Alexa argue with her.
mundmc wrote:Nice!I made a Shortcut that lets me type or dictate something easily from my iPhone and it uses indigos rest interface to update a variable with that text message. I then use a trigger upon change of the variable to broadcast that message throughout the house using Alexa, Sonos, whatever I am currently playing with.
It’s great for when I am not home and I want my wife to pick up her phone. I have the house yell at her.
CliveS wrote:anyone wrote:I use a Siri shortcut to open and/or close my garage door. This addressed the inability of my cars transmitter, which is in the front near the headlights, to communicate with my garage door opener. This was needed because I back into my garage.
"Hey Siri, shut the garage door" or "Hey Siri, open the garage door", executes an Action Group that simulates the pressing of the garage door button. A Insteon Garage I/O controller presses the button. A Z-wave Garage Door Tilt sensor reliably monitors the status of the door.
So so simple but it is the most frequently used iOS Shortcut I have setup.
One other I setup was for my wife which allows her to control the blinds in her office. It is a Choose from Menu type of iOS ShortCut. It provides her with a list of options; "Open All, Close All, Preset 1, Preset2, Exit".
This to me was a better alternative than a Control Page. She can either click an icon on her iPhone's Home Screen to launch and interact with it or say; "Hey Siri, adjust my office blinds" and then she can say the option she wants".
Can you share some info in how you have set these shortcuts up please.
I have been using Joe's HTTPd2 plugin for my shortcuts and it works beautifully but he has just discontinued it so I expect when 2022.1 arrives it will not work and my attempts at getting a replacement have failed so far, and Apple Watch just tells me to use my iPhone!
So used to asking Siri to open\close the garage door, open Front Door and control all the lights
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