Really Useful CarPlay Automations!

Use Shortcut Automations to get the most out of CarPlay!
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Today we are taking CarPlay automations to the next level! Automatically send a custom text message to your significant other when you connect to CarPlay (including ETA home) when you leave work. Have Siri announce a custom morning brief (weather, calendar, etc) each morning when you connect to CarPlay.
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Get the most out of CarPlay! (3 Easy ShortCuts To Set Up Today)
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Leaving Work Custom Message Shortcut
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0:59 Sponsor - EcoNet Bulldog
2:15 Download My Shortcuts
2:36 CarPlay Shortcut 1
3:12 CarPlay Shortcut 1 Setup & Demo
3:19 Bonus CarPlay Shortcut
15:25 Bonus CarPlay Shortcut Demo
16:04 Share Your Automations & Shortcuts!
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[@mikerisner]

We have a vehicle we park on the driveway, so leaving a garage door remote in it would be a security vulnerability. Inspired by your CarPlay automations, I created a shortcut that checks location and then state of the garage door. If at home when phone disconnects from CarPlay AND the garage door is closed, then it will open the garage door. If any checks are not true, then nothing happens. Thanks for covering CarPlay automations!

[@morells09]

So how do you open the garage door to park before you disconnect your phone from CarPlay? (i.e. turn off the car)

[@mikerisner]

@@morells09 It’s a solution for a vehicle we leave outside on our driveway.

[@morells09]

@@mikerisner oh ok, so you enter your house through the garage then regardless of if you park in it? That might have been the part I was missing

[@mikebedford4362]

I just love the 'welcome + weather ++' Car Play message shortcut!! Thats absolutely awesome. Now I just need to find the link so I can use it 😂 Absolutely fabulous content Shane, thanks mate!

[@Auchitya01]

I have downloaded the shortcut but what's with those numbers that it asks us to enter? 8? 6? Please explain.

[@olivieringold7669]

Hi Shane! Thanks for your cool video! You don’t need necessarily carplay for that… I use « when my iphone connects to the bluetooth of my car’ s radio » then I execute my shortcut… have a good day!

[@ShaneCreates]

Very true! Great automation for those who don't have CarPlay. Thanks for sharing!

[@jayabbondanza2042]

A while back, I attempted to do a personal shortcut that would text my spouse telling her "I just got to work. I love you have a good day." Once it sensed I was in the location of my job. I'm not allowed to have my phone on me at work so I thought this would be a good way for her to know that I'm now at work and she has to call my work phone and not my cell but I could never the get the location to work. This is an awesome alternate! thank you!

[@ShaneCreates]

Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

[@GG-Turf]

I’m so happy you showed how to do the between hours with the Format Date Action! I’ve been looking how to do that correctly without having to use the automation section. Game changer for my Shortcuts now. Love your videos, Shane. Keep em coming 👍

[@Nelson_T]

Thanks Shane! great video and tutorial! Finally understood the location and time part of shortcuts!

[@uniqueflh2941]

Great video Shane. Going to try (with some slight edits) your ‘Start My Day’ Shortcut. Lots of cool stuff can be done. 😊 Thanks, as always, for your content.

[@ShaneCreates]

Thank you!! I look forward to seeing how you modify and what you do with it!

[@niccip5982]

I have an automation/shortcut that says hello then brings up a menu of my favorite Apple Music playlists so I can select what I feel like listening to. It’ll then play the playlist on shuffle. :)

[@williammartinez8381]

Hey Shane, great CarPlay video automation. It was definitely helpful and it gave me a lot of great ideas when picking up my daughter from school as well as my wife. Thank you so much for all the great content. Keep up the great work..

[@ShaneCreates]

Glad it helped! Thank so much for the support!

[@johnsills1]

Shane, I really appreciate you posting this idea. I wanted to expand on it a bit if you don’t mind. I created a stateful dummy switch in HomeBridge named SMD Trigger (Start My Day Trigger). I then created an automation that resets it to Off after 9am. I then added to the top of your Shortcut the following: If SMD Trigger is On/Stop Shortcut - Otherwise - Set SMD Trigger On - End If. This will keep the shortcut from running more than once if you make stops before you arrive at your final destination. Keeps my wife and kids complaining that it runs more than once per day. Hope this helps someone out there.

[@ShaneCreates]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing John!

[@MTAdventures406]

That was Awsome thanks for the easy link!!

[@leonid3472]

Veeery good! Thank you, man

[@rcharge799]

I've used a shortcut for years on my phone that I just say "heading home" to Siri and she sends a message to my wife that says "Heading home. I'm X mins from home." 'X based on my current GPS location and total travel time to my Home location".

[@ShaneCreates]

Love it! That's a great one!

[@morells09]

Same here!

[@ramrajgg]

Very nice I implemented in such a way that based on format hour i find out its morning, afternoon or evening and based on that it greet me saying Good morning myname have a safe and nice drive

[@TechMedDurra]

Thanks for the inspiration. After watching the last video I immediately created an automation that checks if the temperature is low and tells me that it is cold and that I need to drive carefully 🙂

[@ShaneCreates]

That is awesome! Thanks for watching!

[@cgpandre]

Thank you for the video, an Home automation for me is to turn on the lights at home when I arrive anytime after sunset.

[@mathewcaron1459]

Hi Shane, thanks for the video. I took your “start my day” shortcut cause it’s awesome, and I took the open maps shortcut from your other video. However both of them made me click on continue on my iPhone when they started up, even though I have them both set to run immediately without notification. Not sure what’s going on….but this is the first day so maybe it’s only the first time it runs?

[@troystravels615]

I've had one for a couple years that when I plug my iPhone into my Jeep it says "Hello Troy, What is today's adventure?" I Think I'm going to add the weather report, I like that!

[@MrDingleberry31]

Good stuff thanks

[@Mapleri]

Do you think you can make a shortcut to tell me about traffic on my way to work or home my state has closed the major H195 due to bridge claps. Thank you

[@davesredcorvette]

I have a homekit meross garage door opener, for months it showed up on my chevy infotainment screen using carplay and I could use it to open my garage door. About a month ago the icon that showed up in the carplay app on the infotainment screen would no longer operate. The app on my phone works fine but using carplay it no longer works. The icon still shows up on the infotainment screen but is inoperative. I've tried everything I can think of to fix it but cannot get it to work anymore. Any idea why or can you do a video on this? Thanks!

[@marcus3jankowski]

These videos are soooo helpful! I don’t know if you’ve done this already, but I just bought an Aqara Vibration sensor. I’m trying to make it so that when my washer finishes that it goes off and notifies me. I kept getting alerts from the sensor when I just have it go off when motion isn’t detected. Do you know of a way to write an automation so that when it the wash starts and then finally ends that I can then have my HomePod do a custom alert notifying that the wash is done? I’ve tried building it out but I can’t get it to work right. Help would be much appreciated. If you have a video already, I could just watch that. Thanks!

[@JonasTroyer]

I have tried to do the same thing with an eve, smart plug, but have not accomplished it yet

[@5CROMEXd]

Is there any product similar to the econet which is sold in europe/germany?

[@MyMahery]

Thanks!

[@ShaneCreates]

Thank you!! 🙏🏼

[@mattsynth]

The "Start My Day Car" shortcut is great. Downloaded it from your site, thank you, I could have never made that shortcut myself, shortcuts are just way too confusing to me. How would you have Siri ask me "What music would you like to hear" at the end of the shortcut??

[@ShaneCreates]

Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful. You should just be able to use "Choose from menu". That would be the easiest method I think.

[@brianrebimbas5550]

Awesome video! I use to personal use the car play automation to open garage door when CarPlay disconnects. Then to close garage door when it connects. Of course before it does so it check location to be sure. Worked great and was awesome until MyQ decided to stop allowing other apis to work.

[@ShaneCreates]

Thanks!! Great automation idea. Yea MyQ kinda screwed everyone. I've been using the Tailwind Garage Door opener lately and have been very happy with that one. Full video here if interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZPZoWBmZsmAgq8

[@WFORacer]

How do you set a shortcut to launch when you are 1/2 mile radius from house or gym. So as an example, MyQ will launch to open garage door or gym app will launch on Apple Watch as you approach entrance. Thank you sir.

[@ShaneCreates]

Location based automations are a little different because they require you to authenticate on your device. I use the action button on my Apple Watch to check my location, and IF I'm at the gym, run my gym shortcut. You can see how I set that up here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHvZdGx6aal6eas

[@WFORacer]

@@ShaneCreates thank you for taking time to reply. Normally make my sons figure this out but boy is learning how to do war shit in South Carolina 🤣

[@jason8anthony]

What triggers this to start? The other shortcuts us “when connected to CarPlay” but I don’t understand what starts this one

[@ShaneCreates]

Same thing. I would use "when connected to CarPlay" as the trigger.

[@mattsnyder4754]

Hey gang. Bit of a problem I’m trying to solve. My living room is lit by 1 overhead fixture on a conventional switch, and 2 lamps plugged into standard wall plugs. I’d love to get to a place where all 3 are controlled by the same switch (ideally a dimmer, but I’m willing to give up on that if need be) - without adding a second switch or remote into the equation. Basically I want the existing light switch in the room to also turn on the lamps. The problem that I’m finding is most smart switches (Caseta, etc) aren’t able to also actuate a smart plug. I could theoretically “pair” the devices with a string of automations, but I’d love to actually just have the thing work on its own. Any suggestions?

[@bencramer4313]

Nano leaf essentials A19 bulbs in the lamps. Lutron Caseta switch (I highly recommend and have dozens in my home for years now) or similar for overhead light(s). HomePod or HomePod mini to control the show. Set two automations in the home app. One that turns on the lamps when the overhead is on and one that shuts off the lamps when the overhead is off. You could exchange the smart bulbs for smart plugs if you prefer.

[@shayweiss5251]

Hi Shane! Indeed great video and great ideas. I followed both link to the EcoNet Bulldog valve and both seems out of stock...:(

[@ShaneCreates]

Thanks for watching! Both versions seem to be in stock for me. Maybe it's location? Are you using Amazon US?

[@shayweiss5251]

@@ShaneCreates You are correct... now they are available, but very expensive... (215$)

[@ShaneCreates]

@@shayweiss5251 Yes they are not cheap, but I've found worth the cost in the long run. I compared it to some cheaper alternatives a while back (before they ever sponsored me or knew who I was). The cheaper ones never had enough torque to actually turn my shut off valve.

[@AlfredoGarcia-sr5io]

I have an idea for a CarPlay shortcut. How about siri saying something like, don’t forget your baby or something in that line to avoid babies forgotten on the back seat of the car. Maybe using the location of the daycare if the parent is in a hurry and forgets to drop the baby. I have heard a lot of news of this happening.

[@Alexxxi80]

what happens if I don't go to work after work?

[@natelasley18]

wait do you live in Lexington Ky too!!!!

[@ShaneCreates]

No, South Carolina actually. I get that a lot though lol

[@natelasley18]

Awe man@@ShaneCreates

[@Micha3D555]

Nice🚙

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[@whiteandnerdytuba]

At least rent a car that has half decent carplay if you're going to make a video on if