Your Apple Home can run Shortcuts for you!

Shortcuts are helpful to make things faster on your Apple devices, but did you know you can also run special Shortcuts as part of automation in your smart home? This can take your smart home to a whole new level!

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Converting automations to Shortcuts
03:25 Adding If condition
04:23 The Shortcut I use
05:06 Scenes with Shortcuts
05:55 How I use this Shortcut

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[ONSVNTHR]

Great video, Eric! I use Flic buttons in my home. Your if/then automation is just what I was looking for. Thank you!

[rivertonrock]

Great video, Eric! Convert to Shortcut is a great feature that feels very underutilized.

[uniqueflh]

Great video Eric.
I use a lot of 'advanced' Automations within my Home, and the Shortcut option adds a whole additional level of functionality.

Where things REALLY get fun/interesting is (if you have an 'always on' Mac for it to run on) when you incorporate the Signals App...so that even more actions/scripting is available.

Thanks for the content!

[csearle]

This was helpful for setting up a timer for me

[FabianoChagas]

Awesome awesome as always.
This is a cool way to introduce the DevOps world to people😂.
Thanks for sharing, bro!

[seanvinci]

This is the single most helpful Home app/homekit video I've watched in a long time. You just helped increase the usefulness of so many accessories in my home. Thank you!

[bagrubmeister]

Hi Eric, great video. I have been trying to figure out to run a short cut I created. on my phone with my home kit home and not my personal device. Example if I cancel the alarm on my home pod IF date is not FRI then turn on vanity light. If FRI turn on all bath lights. I do not use my phone for my alarms

[spamjunky]

Hi Eric, what camera do you use with your homekit? i'm looking for a camera to show live feed on homekit when you open up the Home app. Thanks.

[ennolueckel]

Really nice video - one question. How many workflows if I want to call them this do you have in your home? I am a bit concerned that it can get quite messy?

[trynnacomeup]

Hi
Can you create a shortcut or automation with level lock so your HomePod announce when door open and close.

[Dr_Cole]

I’m a fan of using scenes myself but having the upper limit of 100 scenes can really limit the broad use of these. I really hope they either get rid of the limit;might be impossible) or they increase it markedly.

[joeprior]

Off subject question, Eric.

I’ve tried a few different ways to force iPhone’s always on display to stay on while plugged in to use it as a bedside table clock. My recent attempt was different automations hoping to “wake up” the phone. Haven’t had any success yet.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Of course, I realize there are apps that do this.

[gabrielegelfofx]

Hi, Is it possible to assign to a single switch consecutive cascading states like using a commuter? For example I'd like to turn on 5 lights pressing 5 times a button.

[D.Hansen]

Great video, Eric. Is there a way to make an automation in the Home app where a motion sensor is activated only if the motion is a person? I wan’t to use the motion sensor in my Logitech Circle View camera to turn on the outdoor light when the motion sensor picks up motion that is a person.

[robertbrown]

2:35 Are you sure you need the get state function first? I run very similar automations just starting with an if function.

[ericschmidt]

Can you set this shortcut to run at a specific time? For example, I run The scene when my front door opens between 7pm to 11pm, but if it is not opened, I want to turn the light on at 930pm?

[gnsirk]

will these shortcuts work for other members in my home? i am using my phone to create these scenes and shortcuts.

[marn]

Does the shortcut run on the home hub like Apple TV or HomePod (mini) or still on your phone?

[adammachin]

Can I do if Apple TV wakes from
Sleep/standby turn on the tv light strip?

[freespeech]

I am Looking for an automation like if iutside temp is higher dan indoor se d message to close Windows