Webalab

[Note: This can be done with Siri only. The following enables the ability to do it with a tap, instead of talking. ]

The home intercom / PA is a great and easy things for the modern house. Can be as intricate as your budget allows. There are many many ways to do this, and this is one of them.

This system works using the homekit intercom action in shortcuts, does not work on mac, this needs to be triggered from a phone.

Usecases:

• Letting everybody know Dinner is ready
• Text message alert
• Informing the kids when its time to go to bed.

Ingredients

• homepod
• Ios phones
• shortcut
• Datajar

The heart of these is a shortcut that will push the action to read text outloud to a desired homepod. For convenience we use data jar to hold a list of standard messages. “Almost Home”, “Dinner Ready”, “Its Bedtime”, “Text Message”, and a “Custom”. On the shortcut we ask which we want. If its custom we then show a text capture field for custom input. Once the message is set, we ask to which homepod broadcast this message, can be single or different combinations of rooms. Once that is set, the shortcut action will sent the text to be read by the given homepods.