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Thor

Thor

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Share your setups here.

I'm new to IOS and by far and large this is the most powerful feature I've ever come across.

I'll share some of mine, just need to document them a bit better I use APIs on some.
 
That's useful. My iPhone goes from 20% to empty faster than an employee leaving the office on a Friday. Usually, because I forget to disable the power-hungry crap.

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I have a Network Utility that makes common tasks for me easier.

I actually want to do the speedtest differently, I want it to run hourly and log to a spreadsheet in iCloud.

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Thor said:
I have a Network Utility that makes common tasks for me easier.

I actually want to do the speedtest differently, I want it to run hourly and log to a spreadsheet in iCloud.
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They the same in the sense that the setup is much the same, shortcuts are manual triggers while automations are event/state driven

Not sure it will allow you to automate that one, they kinda fussy about what can be run unattended.

Also a phone, WiFi in general has a tendency to give less reliable results, my hourly test is run on the only device using a hardline. My phones always lower by around 10 to 15%
 
CranialBlaze said:
They the same in the sense that the setup is much the same, shortcuts are manual triggers while automations are event/state driven

Not sure it will allow you to automate that one, they kinda fussy about what can be run unattended.

Also a phone, WiFi in general has a tendency to give less reliable results, my hourly test is run on the only device using a hardline. My phones always lower by around 10 to 15%
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Good point

I actually should make it location based, I have blue tooth beacons in each room so if I can detect the strength I can do a proximity calculation.

End goals is if I can do a speedtest in each location automatically over the course of a few months I could map out with extreme accuracy where I need to improve the wifi in my house.

With WiFi 6 the effort should be worth it.

We are geeks after all.
 
Thor said:
Good point

I actually should make it location based, I have blue tooth beacons in each room so if I can detect the strength I can do a proximity calculation.

End goals is if I can do a speedtest in each location automatically over the course of a few months I could map out with extreme accuracy where I need to improve the wifi in my house.

With WiFi 6 the effort should be worth it.

We are geeks after all.
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Bluetooth is the one thing I know you can’t automate. You need to confirm it each time. Tad annoying, you specify a device the assumption should be that both are within your control, anyway.

I finished my mesh, house if fully covered, but was pretty easy being not very big.

Read last night about a guy with Major WiFi issues on his phone, personally the first time I heard of it and he does have WiFi 6 so I speculated a possible link.

Something about the Adhoc WiFi that Apple uses for things like Airplay and handoff causing interference with the WiFi channel he used.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ouks9d

Maybe worth reading in the event it’s not isolated and is related to WiFi 6, my mesh is not 6 and personally have no such issues.

Would suck to spend all that and go through all that effort only to create a problem.
 
Thor said:
I have a Network Utility that makes common tasks for me easier.

I actually want to do the speedtest differently, I want it to run hourly and log to a spreadsheet in iCloud.

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Pro tip: you can share a link for that shortcut via the Share button at the bottom.
 
I have a few shortcuts and automations - the most useful one is my "Daily Brief" automation which reads out the day's weather forecast, checks my calendar and reminders for the day as well as one or two specific countdowns depending on my routine for the week. I have a bunch of variables built into it which triggers different categories to be included or excluded in the daily brief...
 
So the shortcuts app got some upgrades which make triggering a bit better incl WhatsApp which now allows u to send messages.

Still have to check if sending msgs are fully auto but some stuff is if you make it trigger with “focus” changes which can be automated based on location or device connections (like Bluetooth, CarPlay etc).

Anyway.. hopefully it doesn’t disappoint as much as the introduction of automation.

Eg I usually auto switch off WiFi when not at home or office, auto send arrival or departure from work, arrival at home during week etc send msg to kids aftercare that I’m <5m away so they get kid ready for pickup etc
 
The only shortcut I have/use is the ability to direct download a YouTube video for PiP mode.
 
krycor said:
So the shortcuts app got some upgrades which make triggering a bit better incl WhatsApp which now allows u to send messages.

Still have to check if sending msgs are fully auto but some stuff is if you make it trigger with “focus” changes which can be automated based on location or device connections (like Bluetooth, CarPlay etc).

Anyway.. hopefully it doesn’t disappoint as much as the introduction of automation.

Eg I usually auto switch off WiFi when not at home or office, auto send arrival or departure from work, arrival at home during week etc send msg to kids aftercare that I’m QUOTE]

You know there’s no actual benefit to turning WiFi off hey.
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Yeah was about to say as long as you have “Ask to Join Networks” permanently turned off I don’t see how it would make for a major presumably battery benefit.

I guess a slight paper value.

But happy to be proven wrong.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah was about to say as long as you have “Ask to Join Networks” permanently turned off I don’t see how it would make for a major presumably battery benefit.

I guess a slight paper value.

But happy to be proven wrong.
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Yeah you're right, with most modern devices, leaving Bluetooth and Wi-Fi permanently on has a negligible battery hit, it's only when they're connected and actively used that a difference comes in to play. Some people (including me) still do it out of old habit, and there is a legitimate privacy advantage, but in South Africa it's not a real issue comparatively.

Location Services is a bit trickier as some reports have shown slight loss with it permanently on but in a perfect scenario it should be the same, just a pity it takes extra steps (without Siri) to disable it and doesn't have a shortcut event yet.
 
Crumbl0x said:
Yeah you're right, with most modern devices, leaving Bluetooth and Wi-Fi permanently on has a negligible battery hit, it's only when they're connected and actively used that a difference comes in to play. Some people (including me) still do it out of old habit, and there is a legitimate privacy advantage, but in South Africa it's not a real issue comparatively.

Location Services is a bit trickier as some reports have shown slight loss with it permanently on but in a perfect scenario it should be the same, just a pity it takes extra steps (without Siri) to disable it and doesn't have a shortcut event yet.
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Location Services are on permanently anyway and then each app just asks for the information that’s already there so there is no additional usage.

In the old days it was different when the software addressed the hardware every single time and in doing so drained the battery if many apps did it all day long.

Not the case any more.
 
I guess it was just habit.. the msging thing is awesome and use it for alerting safe arrival. Prior use to use SOS app thingy.

Other stuff I use it for is setting time tracking. I see there is also sound initiation which could be handy for auto record or save video recording being sent to a dash cam if paired with hooter sound.. though depends on how uniquely it identifies your hooter sound.
 
Hmm I wonder if there is finally a trigger for connecting to a BT device.

Actually I remember now that was there all along it was the app I wanted to use it with that didn’t support any actions.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Hmm I wonder if there is finally a trigger for connecting to a BT device.

Actually I remember now that was there all along it was the app I wanted to use it with that didn’t support any actions.
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Indirectly..

So you can change focus by location, time etc and also device connection type? So my car Bluetooth is set to car-stereo and in the drive focus I change to it when connecting to car.. (not car Bluetooth)

I dunno still playing with it but it works and allows automation of things where previously you needed to tap to run.
 
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