HomeBot for Shortcuts is a utility app developed by Pedro Jose Pereira Vieito. Available for $5.99, it was updated to v2.00 on September 11, 2024, and currently holds a 4.24 out of 5 rating based on 17 reviews. Before downloading, make sure your device has at least 5 MB of free space and runs Android 16+ or iOS 17.0+.
Shortcuts Actions for HomeKit
Description
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.
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User Reviews and Ratings
★★★☆☆ Very useful but buggyI have used this app to create several HomeKit shortcuts to do more complicated or specific automations, such as gradually dimming a light which is not something HomeKit supports.
However, learning how to use the app’s actions takes some time as there aren’t any useful instructions, just some basic examples. And I continually get the error “Could Not Run Run Home Action: Missing entitlement for API”
★★★★★ Hidden Power Within this Add-On AppIt’s easy to overlook the power of this app. When you look at the Homebot actions within Shortcuts, you only see two listed. However, you can extract very specific details regarding each of your HomeKit devices. For example, I was able to generate a csv file that listed each device (and it’s name, room, and service type) by using HomeBot.
If you’ve got numerous HomeKit devices, this will allow you to organize or control them in new ways.
Also, open the separate HomeBot app installed on yo
★★★☆☆ Entitlements issueWas 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!
★★★★★ I'm not certain that nytimesloverinHongKong has that rightI 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)
★★★★★ 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.
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