
Blessing Dragon
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio, just out of curiosity, are you not using the SC/Alexa solution because you don’t have an Echo?
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio, do you actually mean a shortcut? Or do you mean giving the request to Siri for the Home app? I can report that geofencing within the Home app works the same as a geofence automation withi...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio, funny. Well, I've posted the instructions for anyone who might need them. FYI, my understanding is the Homebridge service should always run. It's just a software way of doing a hardware (t...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio Actually, I don't think you need the Shortcuts. (But, I'll do an explanation in a second.) I just added my Kasa plugs to Home via Homebridge. And assigned the plugs to rooms. With Alexa, if...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Another very cool thing about Homebridge: I have other smarthome devices which are not homekit devices per se. With Homebridge and the plugins, for example TP-Link Kasa, all my devices are now show...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Homebridge, for the record, is a free GitHub service which can be added to a computer. Once the service and the myq_Homebridge plugin are added, Siri shortcuts work a dream. Did I say free?
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio if you saw my post above about using Homebridge, you can then create a new shortcut using the Home app and the Control my [Home_Name] action. Don’t know yet about using these with geofencin...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Adding to this thread: In doing some research on this MyQ mess, I came upon (or knew from the past) Siri Shortcuts which had been posted through Reddit related to MyQ. Of course, now, with the API ...
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Blessing Dragon commented, Steevio SMS? Simple Messaging Service? Only place I get the “Not possible…” is when I try to run the shortcut SC creates.
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Blessing Dragon commented, I've found location triggers to often be hit & miss. Not only with Alexa, but when I was using SmartThings before the MyQ API broke that, many times the location trigger would work, then I'd get to...