Hello all:
I have A Security camera from A company called Ezviz, And each time i need to talk to the person outside my door, i have to open the app, click on the Device name, and search for the talk button, which takes about a minute,
am thinking of creating a short cut that i can use siri to toggle the Talk button just by my voice, is it possible to do this? and if yes, can i have some steps please?
By Ramy, 11 October, 2022
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iOS and iPadOS
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Unfortunately, probably not
The way Shortcuts works is that the author of the app has to expose features for us to use in Shortcuts, and a lot of app creators don't. The way to find out is to go into the Shortcuts app, create a new Shortcut, bring up the Actions list and find the Apps section, where all the apps that offer Shortcuts actions get listed and see if your app's there. If it's not, you're probably out of luck.
If you're really desperate, you could probably create a Voiceover gesture to open the app, which might speed things up. After that, my suggestion would be you spend time finding exactly where on the screen the buttons you're looking for are, and train yourself to go there to speed things up as much as possible. Not what you're looking for, but the best I can suggest.
Actions in shortcut app
I wonder if there are any actions in the shortcut list of functions that might emulate some of the commands you can give using voice navigation. I'm thinking of the commands like "flick right 3 times", or some such commands that mobility impaired users can use. Then you could make a shortcut to open the app, move to the element you want, and activate it. Don't know if that is possible.
--Pete
Unfortunately, that doesn't exist either.
Sadly no, and I wouldn't hold my breath for that kind of thing in Shortcuts, to be honest. As far as I can tell, the primary purpose of Shortcuts is to do things inside apps in the background, preferrably without ever opening them, so you can use them with things like Siri. It doesn't know anything about the user interface or how to operate it, although even on the mainstream Shortcuts forums a lot of people want it to.