Control iPhone from HA?

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I have a “bath time” script that enables DND on Echo Dots, turns on bathtub bulb to 1 % and plays soothing music. I would love to be able to turn on DND mode on iPhone also for this time. How would you do this? I run this script from HA app or, most times, voice command to Alexa. I know I could make a Shortcut on iPhone that would trigger the HA script but is there a way to initiate this from Alexa? Thanks!

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You can’t.

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I am WAY too late to this party, but although (as tom_I said) you cannot do this directly, you can do it using two, third-party integrations. In fact, you can trigger any iOS Shortcut by calling IFTTT and then integrating IFTTT with Pushcut Server (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pushcut-shortcuts-automation/id1450936447) . Pushcut runs on a dedicated iOS device (any old iPhone or iPad will work…)

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Any particular reason you involved IFTTT? Seems like Pushcut has custom webhook support, should be able to just hit it directly from HA with a rest command.

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Great point!

I’m a transplant from Homekit itself (I just discovered the amazing HA about a month ago and my pushcut and IFTTT integrate was a necessity from back then. So it was just a left over. I have not dug into the power of HA’s webhooks yet as I am still coming up to speed on the many other aspects of HA, so I had not yet integrated Puscut directly.

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That´s a liiittle bit too far for me but very interesting, thanks!

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I know I am late but I do the exact same thing with an nfc tag I sticked on the wall in my bathroom.
The nfc tag triggers an ios shortcut that can set the iPhone to DND and at the same time triggers an home-assistant event to do all the other stuff.
Very conveniant in my eyes.

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You still have to confirm running these ios shortcuts, right? IOS 13 and older didn’t, but AFAIK 14 and 15 do, which makes these so much less convenient.

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You do not have to confirm them. There is an option to run without conformation.
Only thing: the display of the phone has to be active and you always get a push message that the shortcut was startet

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Too bad the option to run without confirmation does not apply to Bluetooth triggers (as in, triggering by connecting a BT device). But that’s another story, thanks.