Stop Monitoring The House
Pauses Sound Recogntion and disables the option to listen for home lifestyle sounds.
Activate Sound Recognition
Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.
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Monitor The Office
Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and shouting – anything you’d definitely want to know about in a work environment.
Monitor The House
Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
Reset Sound Recognition
Turns off all the sound recognizer options, while leaving Sound Recognition active.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Activate%20Sound%20Recognition%20
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Activate%20Sound%20Recognition%20
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Activate Sound Recognition ”
end tell
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