I already do almost everything on ST through Siri and IFTTT, and I have three ST IFTTT “DO” recipes set up as notification screen widgets now.
Hi All - see the below instructions for executing simple SmartThings commands using Siri. The solution involves sending a text to an IFTTT phone number which acts as a trigger to turn on or off devices via SmartThings. You can setup a contact called ‘home’ and then send a message to ‘home’ (use command ‘Tell Home’) with the proper tag to trigger the event. I’d love feedback on the approach. I would rather use more natural language like ‘Tell Home to turn on the kitchen lights’ rather than ‘Tell home hashtag kitchen underscore lights’. Regardless, the approach below executes simple ST actions with use of Siri alone, which is pretty cool.
BASIC SETUP
Setup an IFTTT account
Add the Smarthings channel to IFTTT - make sure to provide access to any devices that you want to control
Add th…
no HomeKit required for that.