General Shortcuts for Homepod

[Skeptical.me]

Hi,

Today I received my new Homepod, and so far so great! Ever since it was released I was in two minds about purchasing one. I was using a Google Home mini and while Google Assistant has some extra features that SIRI doesn't, I simply don't have a need for those, other than a few things I'm hoping Shortcuts might help with.

I was wondering if anyone here is aware of Shortcuts that can run on the Homepod like a morning routine? One were I say something like "Good Morning" (or whatever) and Siri turns on all my Homekit devices then gives me the weather and plays the latest news headlines from my favourite news sources?

I'm a bit of a noob to shortcuts and I'm not familiar with how to create them in the Shortcuts App.

Any suggestions, like where to find already created examples, would be very welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks

 

[yass31]

What you want to do it totally possible!

For your HomeKit devices you have to create a scene in the home app, one which turns on the devices you choose. And then, add it to the shortcut among the other tasks like the weather etc…

As your iPhone and HomePod are on the same Apple ID, every shortcut you create on the first will be available on the latter if you configure a Siri command. To do that you'll have to go in the shortcut settings.

You can find examples of shortcuts here :
https://sharecuts.app

 

[ZEEN0j]

As mentioned you can do this. And here’s one from Federico Viticci to get you started

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9889b4b8f74461d933e838acae9bd58

More shortcuts from him can be found here

https://www.macstories.net/shortcuts

No pre made routine shortcut will do exactly what you want. So you’ll have to configure it. But it’s filled with comments so it should help you some.