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