Trick to get Siri to run Smart things - Such as Non Philips bulbs or anything else

[JDRoberts]

Sorry, but I’m confused by the premise. Phillips does not lock out SmartThings from requesting actions on non-hue bulbs attached to the hue bridge. Many people do that, myself included. You could have, for example, GE links attached to the hue bridge and you can still access them from SmartThings.

Or did you just mean that Siri can’t be used to turn on the non-Hue bulbs attached to the bridge? If so, that was an Apple restriction not a Phillips one.

Anyway, Regarding using Phillips hue as a go-between, yes, that can be done and some people do it. The problem is usually lag. For example, there are some people who will turn on a Phillips bulb in yonomi and then when SmartThings realizes that that bulb has come on they have some smartthings event occur even though yonomi and SmartThings don’t work together.

As far as using Siri with SmartThings, that’s easy. Just use Siri to send a voice text to IFTTT as the IF and use the SmartThings channel as the that. You don’t have to tie up any physical devices at all that way.

Voice Control Using Siri and IFTTT (not using HomeKit, just voice text)

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…

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