A siri solution
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:18 amI've been going down a few different paths trying to find a good solution to use siri to open my garage door. Most of them are horrible work arounds so I decided I'd build an iPhone app to do this instead.
It works on the principal that you ask siri to launch an app... and all this app does is open the URL as configured in MyDoorOpener Elite.
So I can now say to siri "Open Sesame" and assuming that I have no contacts by that name and that I have an app called "Open Sesame" installed it launches the app, does a 5 second countdown (giving you enough time to stop it and jump into the configuration) and then launches the callback URL obtained from MyDoorOpener.
I've just ironed out a bug or three. It's a pretty basic app - but never the less solves the problem for me.
I've just now submitted it to the App Store for review.
It works on the principal that you ask siri to launch an app... and all this app does is open the URL as configured in MyDoorOpener Elite.
So I can now say to siri "Open Sesame" and assuming that I have no contacts by that name and that I have an app called "Open Sesame" installed it launches the app, does a 5 second countdown (giving you enough time to stop it and jump into the configuration) and then launches the callback URL obtained from MyDoorOpener.
I've just ironed out a bug or three. It's a pretty basic app - but never the less solves the problem for me.
I've just now submitted it to the App Store for review.