You can call any service set up in Home Assistant (see the Services Page in Developer Tools). By default empty fields will try to use data on your device's clipboard if no other flow or payload data is provided. These data can come from other apps or other actions provided by Home Assistant, such as Render Text to get the state of an entity in Home Assistant. In the previous example we will used the Dictionary action to define our service data, this is an example of one action provide data to a subsequent action in the Shortcut flow. The final shortcut should look similar to this: Shortcut Flow Tap next and enter or record a name/phrase to use with 'Hey, Siri' to trigger the shortcut.If you prefer not to use the Dictionary action, you can select 'Show More' and enter the service data in JSON format in the 'Service Data' field.

As long as the Dictionary action is above the Home Assistant action there is no need to enter anymore details.

Tap the arrow next at the end of the 'Call Service with data' line and in the 'Server' field select the Home Assistant server you wish to call the service on.

Scroll through the list of available services and find light.turn_on.

Tap 'Service' which is highlighted in 'Call Service with data'.Tap the large plus to add another action, search for 'Home Assistant' and select 'Call Service'.In the Dictionary item, tap 'Add new item', tap 'Text' then add entity_id as the key and light.porch as the text.Tap Add Action and add a 'Dictionary' item.Tap the Plus icon at the top right to create a new shortcut.Open the Shortcuts app (included by default with iOS, can be re-installed from the App Store if you deleted it).Getting Started - Example Shortcut Īs an example, if you wanted to create a shortcut to turn on a light ( light.porch in this example): With iOS 13 or later and the Home Assistant Companion App, you can take advantage of the power of Siri Shortcuts to carry out Home Assistant tasks with a tap or by using voice commands.

Shotcut app