Introducing Siri Shortcuts Voice Control for Forest Security/Alarm.com

If you’re a Forest Security/Alarm.com and Apple user, your voice just got way more powerful.

Siri Shortcuts for Forest Security/Alarm.com is a new voice control integration that lets you activate Scenes by talking to Siri, using customizable voice ‘shortcuts. These shortcuts integrate into your existing routines and reflect how you naturally talk, making it even easier and more intuitive to interact with your smart home.

You can activate your Siri Shortcuts for Forest Security/Alarm.com with any compatible device with iOS12 installed. These include your iPhone, iPad, HomePod, Apple Watch, and—in another Alarm.com first—your CarPlay-enabled vehicle dashboard, enabling you to voice-control your home from the road.

As well as setting up easy shortcuts for your Forest Security connected devices, you can even blend Forest Scenes with other apps in your Apple ecosystem (see below for details), making things even more convenient.

Here’s what you can do with Siri Shortcuts.

1: Let Siri know it’s time for a Scene

Forest Security/Alarm.com Scenes let you control any or all of your smart devices – lights, garage door, locks, thermostat, or Forest Security system – with a single command.

Siri Shortcuts gives you a new way to activate Scenes with your voice alone. Just use your Forest Security/Alarm.com app to set up a custom Siri voice command to trigger any scene—you can be as creative or as natural with your commands as you like—and get talking.

You could start the day with a cheery “Hey Siri… good morning!” command to activate your Wake Up scene, which turns on your lights and disarms your security system.  Later on, a whispered “Hey Siri: baby’s nap time,” could activate a custom scene for your nursery that turns the lights down and switches on the smart plug for your baby’s sound machine.

2: Voice-control your home from inside or outside

Siri Shortcuts extends hands-free voice control outside your home to wherever your iPhone is. Next time you pull out of the driveway and wonder if you armed your security system, you can confirm it by triggering your Away scene with a pre-set Siri Shortcut like: “Hey Siri: secure the house!”

When you arrive home, you don’t even need to open your Forest Security/Alarm.com app. Just use Apple CarPlay or your iPhone to activate Siri and use your shortcut phrase to trigger your “Home” scene.

Note: As a home security precaution, Alarm.com requires your phone to be unlocked for Siri Shortcuts to activate a Scene.

3: Combine commands with other apps

You can also use Apple’s Shortcuts app to create multitasking shortcuts that combine actions with other app commands. It’s a new way to eliminate ‘app overload’ and weave your smart home’s useful abilities closer together with the other technology you use every day.

For example, you could incorporate your “Sleep” scene into a “Good Night” Siri shortcut. As well as turning your lights down, locking the doors and arming the security system, you could have this shortcut set your iPhone’s morning alarm and activate its “Do Not Disturb” mode.

For the morning, you could incorporate your “Away” Alarm.com scene into a “Heading Out” Siri shortcut that not only secures your house and turns the thermostat down, but also pulls up directions to your next calendar appointment via car, walking, or even metro.

 

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Oct 08 2018 (From Alarm.com)