

#HOME ASSISTANT SIRI SHORTCUTS BLUETOOTH#
Get perfect car presence in Home Assistant by toggling an input_boolean in Home Assistant when you connect or disconnect from CarPlay, or connect to your cars Bluetooth system.When finishing a workout on your Apple Watch, use Home Assistant to turn on your fan to cool down. When starting a workout on your Apple Watch, use Home Assistant to play your workout playlist.Trigger your Home Assistant "morning routine" automation after stopping or snoozing the Wake-Up alarm on your iPhone.You can trigger a Shortcut from Home Assistant using a notification like so: Back Tap (iOS 14) - Under iOS Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap, you can launch any Shortcut via double tapping or triple tapping the back of your iPhone.Įxecuting a Shortcut via Home Assistant Notifications .Push Notification - Shortcuts can be launched via push notifications.You can customize the name and provide a custom icon if you wish. Add to Home Screen - When editing any Shortcut, press the (.) button in the top right to see options, and press the "Add to Home Screen" button.From here you can type the name of a Shortcut and run it with one tap. Spotlight Search - When on your iOS device Home screen, swipe down from the center of your Home screen to bring up Spotlight search.Apple Watch (watchOS 7) - With iOS 14 and watchOS7 you can launch Shortcuts from either the Shortcuts Apple Watch app, or via complications on the Siri watch face.There is a search bar at the top to quickly filter your list of Shortcuts if needed. Shortcuts app - On the "My Shortcuts" tab, simply tap on the shortcut you want to launch.
#HOME ASSISTANT SIRI SHORTCUTS PLUS#
At the bottom of the widgets screen, press "Edit" and then the green plus button to add the widget to your Today View. Widget - Shortcuts has a widget on the Today View which can be accessed by swiping right from the Home or Lock screen.If your shortcut is named "Bedtime" the command would be "Hey Siri, Bedtime." Siri / Voice - You can launch any of your created Shortcuts using Siri from an iPhone, iPad, HomePod, or Apple Watch.The final shortcut should look similar to this: Tap next and enter or record a name/phrase to use with "Hey, Siri" to trigger the shortcut.If you prefer not to use the Dictionary action, you can select "Show More" and enter the service data in JSON format in the "Service Data" field. As long as the Dictionary action is above the Home Assistant action there is no need to enter anymore details.Tap the arrow next at the end of the "Call Service with data" line and in the "Server" field select the Home Assistant server you wish to call the service on.Scroll through the list of available services and find light.turn_on.Tap "Service" which is highlighted in "Call Service with data".Tap the large plus to add another action, search for "Home Assistant" and select "Call Service".In the Dictionary item, tap "Add new item", tap "Text" then add entity_id as the key and light.porch as the text.


Open the Shortcuts app (included by default with iOS, can be re-installed from the App Store if you deleted it).Getting Started - Example Shortcut Īs an example, if you wanted to create a shortcut to turn on a light ( light.porch in this example): I've looked at getting IFTTT to run the trigger (which it can do - for example, based on my location, or based on the start of an event in my Google Calendar), however the 'most' I can then do is to get that trigger to run an IFTTT Rich Notification on my iPhone - yes I can then click on that notification pop-up (which launches a shortcut via shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=), but that still relies on me clicking the shortcut.Ī couple of people have run iOS shortcuts as the trigger for an IFTTT action, but I'm trying to do this the other way around.With iOS 13 or later and the Home Assistant Companion App, you can take advantage of the power of Siri Shortcuts to carry out Home Assistant tasks with a tap or by using voice commands. I've yet to be able to get another app to run it automatically (yes, I'm sure this is to do with security/privacy implications, but if it's based on a shortcut that's only on my phone, then I'm happy with the security/privacy). you have to manually do the trigger - either by pressing a button, getting Siri to do it (by 'manually asking') or by (manually) getting another app to run it. I've done a lot of research and it looks like the only way to run Apple iOS shortcuts is manually - i.e.
