Why is this not possible? I want to be able to say “open garage” and then get a voice response on my apple watch that says “garage is opened”. Likewise, I want to be able to get voice notifications on my Apple Watch when events occur, like “front door just opened”. With all of the advancements in AI recently you would think this would not be hard. Frustrated!
Hard to comment without more information. What’s your Voice set up?
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Homekit and Siri will do almost all of the above on my Apple Watches, minus voice notifications of events which are still sent via Apple’s iOS/Watch/MacOS notification systems.
Apple imposes limits on third-party Watch apps for power budget and processor resource reasons, so it might not be possible to add these features beyond what Apple has graced us with in their customer-doesn’t-want-that benevolence. As an example, third-party Watch Complications can only update every 10 minutes or something like that at the fastest. If a programmer tries to update the Complication’s data more frequenrtly, the Complication system will freeze updates until they are back to that average pace. Obligatory disclaimer that I’m not a programmer, but was working with one last year who was trying to get real-time data into a Complication and ran into this limit…
I am not using any voice setup. I am willing to, I just have not set it up. My watch has complications which are tied to trigger HA events and I can trigger those complications with Siri shortcuts. Just just dont get a voice response back.
Full disclosure, I was able to get this to work by playing a .wav file uploaded to the HA companion app, but that only works when my apple watch is not connected to my phone. When my Apple Watch is connected, the companion app then sends the alert notification to the watch, which does not support palying the .wav file. I am assuming this is a limitation of Apple?