![]() Now that we’ve got the three letter abbreviation, we use an IF statement to check whether or not the three letter abbreviation returned by the FORMATTED DATE feature is in the LIST we created in step 2. We do this by using the FORMATED DATE feature in shortcuts and use a custom format to only return the three letter abbreviation for the name of the current weekday. Now that we’ve built a list of days we want to water, we will first check to see if it’s a day we want to water. This is using the LIST feature in the Shortcuts interface. Step 2.Ĭreate a list of the weekdays that we’re going to want to water the lawn. Step 1.Ĭreate Time-based automation trigger to run at 12:00am every night. I find this useful to first write out the automation in this format as it easily let’s me see the nesting conditionals (if statements) which isn’t always so obvious to see within the Apple Shortcuts interface. This shows the basic logic of the automation documented in the MindNode application. ![]() – Only if there’s less than an 80% chance of rain the following dayĪll of this in a single Apple Homekit automation that will run on your Apple Homehub whether or not you’re home.Įve Weather ( with Thread ) (for checking weather ) (future use)Įve Aqua Sprinkler controller( for watering the lawn ) Īpple HomeHub (required for all automations) Software:Īpple Home app – Convert to Shortcut Automationįirst let’s go through the basic logic of this automation – Only if the predicted low temperature is above 5 degrees Celsius – Only on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday’s In this video, I go through the details of creating a complex automation that will only water the lawn under the following conditions Spring is here and I wanted to improve on my existing watering schedule using the power of Apple Homekit’s Convert to Shortcut’s based automations. If you’re interested in adding some new devices to your smarthome, please consider using my shop Įve Aqua Homekit Smart Sprinkler with Thread – Scroll down to see screen captures of the Shortcut used in this video.Īffiliate links below may result in my earning a small amount of money.
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