HomeBot for Shortcuts

I like the concept as it adds two nice features to Apple’ Shortcuts for getting and changing HomeKit data. The major downside is the almost total lack of documentation (except for a few limited examples. The issue is that though there are only two new Shortcut items, each has lots of sub-values which can be entered…. Manually debugging with the sample screen coming up each run is annoying . How do I turn that off? A little polishing is needed

Just wish there was a way to round the temperature sensor measurements report to display temperatures to a whole or a tenth degree.

I requested a refund because I have never used the app and didn't mean to download this - I was looking for Homebot the Real Estate app. He refused to refund. Cheap and not great way to do busines..

The choice to open the app and bring it to the forefront rather than letting it run in the background is less than optimal. It seems to have been a recent change, as I have no recollection of the app behaving this way before... well, at least not to my memory.

I am fairly certain that the app isn't required to be open; not sure why they felt the need to slam the app/dev for what appears to be their own mistake (not dev)

I am trying to figure an automation for the HomeKit to allow a motion detector to trigger an action to first record the Power State, Hue, Color Temp, Saturation, and Brightness on a specific light. Then set to a specific scene for a few minutes that changes that light. Then the trick…. Revert to those recorded settings. I see these two shortcut tools that your app adds are in the true ShortCut app only, not in HomeKit ShortCuts that I can find…. How would I ever trigger anything for your tools with a HomeKit Motion Detector? Probably not the right application. Hopefully Apple opens the power of HomeKit ShortCuts to tools like yours…. I might have bought this without any real purpose for me…. Unless you tell me a way to do my Revert to previous status effort? Looks more powerful than I understand. But at the same time, apparently limited by Apple…. Giving a good rating as I bet it does what it says it does properly….

Was not clear when purchasing this that the shortcuts you make with this only work when the app is visible. That makes this much less useful than I thought it would be!

It’s easy to overlook the power of this app. When you look at the Homebot actions within Shortcuts, you only see two listed. However, you can extract very specific details regarding each of your HomeKit devices. For example, I was able to generate a csv file that listed each device (and it’s name, room, and service type) by using HomeBot. If you’ve got numerous HomeKit devices, this will allow you to organize or control them in new ways. Also, open the separate HomeBot app installed on your iOS device - the author included example Shortcuts that you can add into your library that helps you see how it can be used.

I have used this app to create several HomeKit shortcuts to do more complicated or specific automations, such as gradually dimming a light which is not something HomeKit supports. However, learning how to use the app’s actions takes some time as there aren’t any useful instructions, just some basic examples. And I continually get the error “Could Not Run Run Home Action: Missing entitlement for API”