AMAZING Siri Shortcut for HomeKit! 🤯 You Gotta Try This!

This is a tutorial showing how to create a Home Status report for your smart home using Siri Shortcuts. It will check the status of your HomeKit accessories and provide a report showing you only the things you need to know. Towards the end we'll discuss a few variations and possibilities to take this further.

This will utilize the power of variables in Siri Shortcuts and serves as a good introduction to variables if this is new to you. An iPhone or iPad and HomeKit accessories are required to follow along.

*You will still have to configure the shortcut with your Home accessories and menu Items. As mentioned towards the end of the video, there are multiple methods that work for something like this. Find the best method for your needs.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Overview
1:37 About Variables
2:16 Adding Info to Variable
10:57 Creating Notification
11:43 Add to Home Screen
12:50 Other Methods
13:25 Running on HomePod
14:37 Creating a Menu
19:09 Get Creative!

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#HomeKit #SmartHome #SiriShortcuts

[ShaneCreates]

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[gregghayes]

Nice job Shane. I love it when you do these shortcut tutorials. I always learn something.

[ogb]

Shane - thanks from Germany. I really like your videos because you’ve got a different approach then other Tech-Youtubers - your more on the practical side and that’s awesome. And your videos are really good to watch!

[TheBradLloyd]

Great video Shane! You explained this shortcut really well and broke it down in an easy way so everyone can follow along. So helpful to monitor your smart home!

[nickkincanon]

Excellent. I like your videos that go into shortcut integration. They provide great education and generate ideas on leveraging HomeKit.

[leftverture]

Hey Shane, thanks so much for this. So much of the shortcut related stuff out there seems aimed at folks who have a good grasp of scripting to begin with - I don’t. This was not only practical in terms of being a shortcut I can copy and use in my own home, but you did it in such a way that it helped me understand a couple of concepts that were fuzzy to me before. Thanks for that! 👍

[johnhubbard]

Nice Shane! I can see that it would be easy to get carried away adding too many devices and choices. You gave me some good ideas with this . . Thanks!

[rcoletti]

Great work as always! Good call on using duplicate actions too. Saves a ton of time on complex or repetitive shortcuts.

[ecoheliguy]

Honestly this is one of your best videos

[deralte]

Realy cool. Did not know that Siri Shortcuts is that mighty. Will play around with that in my home as well. Thanks for showing, great video.

[niftymac]

Another awesome video Shane, I learn so much form these instructional videos. I had one glitch though, I built the shortcut on my iPad, when I ran it, it just popped up saying Notification but no detail even when I had some devices ON or open etc. Ran the same shortcut on my iPhone worked fine! Found I had some settings incorrect on my iPad for showing Notifications! all good! thank you. (although you are costing me heaps! Have just ordered 2 x new garage doors, ordered 2 x Meross door controllers, just installed Yale Assure SL door lock, 3 x new Eve power switches (thread ones) Loving it )

[rexhua]

It becomes amazing when used with Siri! Thank you.

[jackwong]

Wow this make the HomeKit even more useful! Thanks for all these tips!

[djard]

Shortcuts are amazing. Thank you Shane

[raymondhuey]

What an awesome tutorial! With this shortcut, I have also added the battery state of my door/window sensors. A low battery state will prevent me from arming my system.

[tombe]

Oh wow 🤩 Thanks, Shane, great video! This really renewed my interest in shortcuts. For some reason these long (complicated) shortcuts put me off, to be honest. But so much is possible with those. It would be stupid not to use all that potential.

[davidmanjhu]

Fun and easy to follow video! Great production value!!

[areyouafraidoftoast]

Awesome shortcut mate. Just about to start building it. 😎. Bring on next Sunday!

[dadfixdit]

Thanks Shane! This exactly what I had asked you about a few weeks back. Can’t wait to go home and start configuring 😁

[michaelthompson]

Any chance of sharing the shortcut? Just so I have something to go back to in the future 👍🏻