HomeBot for Shortcuts

HomeBot for Shortcuts

Shortcuts Actions for HomeKit

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price
$5.99
Reviews
4.7 (10)
United States United States
Description
Shortcuts Actions for HomeKit
HomeBot for Shortcuts allows you to automate your HomeKit setup in a powerful new way. HomeBot exposes the following Shortcuts actions:

• Run Home Actions: This powerful action allows you to apply four types of HomeKit actions in bulk to the input items: Trigger Scene, Switch Device Status,  Change Device Property and Change Primary Home. 
• Get Home Items: Lists all HomeKit items and allows you to filter them with lot of configurable parameters like type (scenes, devices, device groups, rooms and homes), service type (like lightbulb, outlet, thermostat), name, room, home, activation status and a lot more! The action output includes all these fields, device properties (like light brightness or a thermostat target temperature) and additional sensor information (like temperature, humidity, air quality).

Action Types:
• Trigger Scene: Allows you to trigger one or multiple HomeKit scenes.
• Switch Device Status: Activate, deactivate or toggle one or multiple device or device groups.
• Change Device Property: Allows you to change any supported device or device group property (like light brightness or thermostat target temperature; see the notes below for the full list).
• Change Primary Home: Set the default HomeKit home. Changing you primary home will propagate the change to all your devices and Siri will also automatically use your selected primary home by default

With these actions you can automate HomeKit in a lot of new ways and HomeBot includes some example shortcuts to show its power in action:
• Trigger Scenes: Lists all scenes available in you primary home and allows you to choose the ones to trigger in bulk.
• Switch Lightbulbs in Room: Allows you to toggle, activate or deactivate all lightbulbs in a room.
• Get Home Status: Dumps all home items status in your primary home to a JSON file.
• Get Temperature Measurements: Shows the measurement of each temperature sensor in your HomeKit setup.
• Set Thermostats Temperature: Set the target temperature of one or multiple thermostats.
• Set Light Brightness in Room: Set the light brightness of all lightbulbs in a room.
• Change Lightbulb Colors: Iterates through multiple rainbow colors and  updates the lightbulb hue accordingly.
• Change Primary Home: Lists all available homes and allows you to choose the one to set as primary home.

HomeBot supports macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

Notes:
• HomeBot can detect and control the status of the following type of devices: outlets, lightbulbs, switches, thermostats, fans, air purifiers, heaters, dehumidifiers, windows, window coverings, faucets, valves, irrigation systems, doors, garage door openers and locks!
• HomeBot also supports reading measurements or detections from the following types of sensors: temperature, humidity, air quality, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, contact (doors, window, window coverings), smoke, leak, motion, light and occupancy sensors.
• HomeBot supports changing and reading the following device properties: light brightness, light hue, light saturation, light color temperature, thermostat mode (auto, cool, heat or off), thermostat target temperature, heater-cooler mode, cooling threshold temperature, heating threshold temperature and door, window, blinds or shades position.

Privacy by Design: HomeBot works completely on-device and does not store or send any information outside of the protected app sandbox.
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Reviews

Concept Stage

I like the concept as it adds two nice features to Apple’ Shortcuts for getting and changing HomeKit data. The major downside is the almost total lack of documentation (except for a few limited examples. The issue is that though there are only two new Shortcut items, each has lots of sub-values which can be entered…. Manually debugging with the sample screen coming up each run is annoying . How do I turn that off? A little polishing is needed

Mr Bruce JonesSun, Apr 21, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Awesome app!

Just wish there was a way to round the temperature sensor measurements report to display temperatures to a whole or a tenth degree.

iPhontasticTue, Nov 21, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Wrong App Still Charged

I requested a refund because I have never used the app and didn't mean to download this - I was looking for Homebot the Real Estate app. He refused to refund. Cheap and not great way to do busines..

WhitLewWhoMon, Nov 13, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Please update

The choice to open the app and bring it to the forefront rather than letting it run in the background is less than optimal. It seems to have been a recent change, as I have no recollection of the app behaving this way before... well, at least not to my memory.

di11ardThu, Nov 2, 2023
United StatesUnited States

I'm not certain that nytimesloverinHongKong has that right

I am fairly certain that the app isn't required to be open; not sure why they felt the need to slam the app/dev for what appears to be their own mistake (not dev)

Big AppletiteThu, Sep 7, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Revert to Previous Status?

I am trying to figure an automation for the HomeKit to allow a motion detector to trigger an action to first record the Power State, Hue, Color Temp, Saturation, and Brightness on a specific light. Then set to a specific scene for a few minutes that changes that light. Then the trick…. Revert to those recorded settings. I see these two shortcut tools that your app adds are in the true ShortCut app only, not in HomeKit ShortCuts that I can find…. How would I ever trigger anything for your tools with a HomeKit Motion Detector? Probably not the right application. Hopefully Apple opens the power of HomeKit ShortCuts to tools like yours…. I might have bought this without any real purpose for me…. Unless you tell me a way to do my Revert to previous status effort? Looks more powerful than I understand. But at the same time, apparently limited by Apple…. Giving a good rating as I bet it does what it says it does properly….

BarclayMcRaeMon, Mar 6, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Entitlements issue

Was not clear when purchasing this that the shortcuts you make with this only work when the app is visible. That makes this much less useful than I thought it would be!

nytimesloverinHongKongMon, Dec 5, 2022
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 1.3KApr 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$5Apr 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.pvieito.HomeBot
Min Os. Version
16.0
Release Date
Wed, Feb 24, 2021
Update Date
Thu, Sep 7, 2023
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
3.4MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English
What's New
version
1.11
updated
8 months ago
 you can now set thermostats and heater-cooler temperatures with decimal numbers (use dot decimal separator and specify the temperature in degrees Celsius) using the “Change Device Property” action type.
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