Activate Sound Recognition
Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.
Monitor The House
Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
Shortcut Information
This shortcut is designed to activate all the Sound Recognition options relevant to being in your home – run this when you want extra awareness of your surroundings at home.
Category
Complexity
Interactivity
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Monitor%20The%20House
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Monitor%20The%20House
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Monitor The House”
end tell
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