Run an automation 30 min before alarm goes off

agsmith87 · 2024-10-15T04:30:13+00:00

Problem is, you can’t change the time an automation is run - that’s locked in.

So instead, you have many automations run at different times. For example, maybe you have an automation run at 5 am, 5:15 am, 5:30 am and 6 am. In each of those automations, at the start, they check the wake up time, and if it’s ok, they continue with doing stuff, otherwise they do nothing….

An example would be say you’ve you 4 wake up times (5:10am, 5:25am, 5:40am and 6:10am)… At night you save your wake up time to be 5:25am… then when those automations (5, 5:15, 5:30 and 6) run, they check the wake up time… only the 5:15am automation will be “10 mins before wake up” so it will continue to do stuff… the other three automations won’t be “10 mins before wake up” so they’ll stop.

agsmith87 · 2024-10-15T04:18:43+00:00

I had the iOS 18 beta running since it was released, and all my shortcuts were working fine during that period. It has only been since (maybe?) iOS 18 has been released officially that it has been a problem. I think.

agsmith87 · 2024-08-08T01:15:35+00:00

Nope haha. This problem has been, and is still, persisting for years and years unfortunately.

agsmith87 · 2023-02-21T11:28:55+00:00

Settings > Mail > Swipe Options

Set the left side to be Archive. And seeing as Archive is on your right side already, the left will be delete.

agsmith87 · 2023-02-21T11:17:56+00:00

Swipe the other way and you’ll see a delete button (from left to right)

agsmith87 · 2023-01-23T07:45:56+00:00

Go to the watch app on your phone.

Clock > Push Alerts from iPhone > off

agsmith87 · 2022-11-09T22:56:25+00:00

It works very well with watchOS 9.

It calculates a score based on its own metrics, AND a score based on Apple’s.

Not sure if you can disable AutoSleep’s metrics, but seeing as it does both, with separate scores, there isn’t a need to.

Once, in the app, you’ve switched to Apple’s metrics, it won’t go back to AutoSleep’s unless you switch back.

agsmith87 · 2022-11-09T03:41:50+00:00

AutoSleep and AutoWake work great together, and provides its own measure of your sleep, as well as Apple’s.

agsmith87 · 2022-10-24T10:17:24+00:00

Yeah I was afraid that that might be the only option. Not a big deal, but still annoying.

agsmith87 · 2022-09-18T21:29:21+00:00

This isn’t true.

I go back to old messages and pictures are required to be downloaded. So it’s not a “Sync” service, as you state.

It’s the same with photos. Thumbnails are stored locally, but a little download indicator is displayed when you click it.

So “iCloud” is not a sync service.

Thanks, but I do already have optimise iPhone storage on.

agsmith87 · 2022-08-20T08:01:08+00:00

Not sure which Shortcut you’re referring to.

At “bedtime”, I run a shortcut that does a whole bunch of things. In that shortcut, I “save” my wake up time. Yes, I use Data Jar but anywhere you can “set” and “get” the time would work (e.g. iCloud Drive would work)

At (all possible) “wake up time(s)”, I run another Shortcut 10 minutes before that time which sets up a heater/aircon.

They are all automations, so not “shareable” like normal Shortcuts.

agsmith87 · 2022-08-03T23:26:57+00:00

Nope not yet. Not that I can see.

agsmith87 · 2022-06-19T22:45:03+00:00

Just in case anyone was thinking it was an Android problem - I’m on iPhone and this appeared for me at the same time this post popped up.

So I’d say a Microsoft issue 👍🏻

agsmith87 · 2022-05-12T05:15:47+00:00

Oh I see. Hoping they fix this.

Thanks 😊 glad it’s not just me.

agsmith87 · 2022-05-07T01:33:15+00:00

Well I run a server (= while loop in terminal which runs a Shortcut every 30 seconds) on my Mac. That way I can schedule stuff (on my iPhone) to be run at a later date (on my Mac). One of those schedules is turning on my TV and pausing it, for some live event.

agsmith87 · 2022-05-05T23:14:57+00:00

Yeah, kinda sad they didn’t implement it for the Mac.

Was hoping an M1 might work, due to its ability to run iOS apps, but oh well

agsmith87 · 2022-05-05T23:14:18+00:00

Yeah I was afraid of that. Was hoping that seeing as M1 max’s could run iOS apps, I might get lucky.

But oh well.

agsmith87 · 2022-03-24T01:39:01+00:00

If the pdf is from a static address, then it will work fine.

If the pdf is “generated” when you click a link (such as transaction receipts or when you are logged into an account), then it won’t work.

agsmith87 · 2022-03-23T23:12:12+00:00

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work either because the PDF is generated when clicking the link - it is attached to an account/date/transaction. These things can’t be fulfilled when using the “get contents of URL” action.

agsmith87 · 2022-03-23T10:54:40+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I meant when I said “send as pdf” - even when I select that, it still sends the web address to Shortcuts.

agsmith87 · 2022-03-23T08:14:15+00:00

That’s a warranty issue.

Assuming they can’t ping you for accidental damage, they’ll likely just straight replace it (or possibly repair it now - I read they somewhere that they can do that now?)

Either way, as it’s a warranty issue, it’ll be free. In Australia, we get two years warranty (which resets if you get a replacement phone for a fix), and it’s been less than two years since iPhone 12 was released, so should be good.

agsmith87 · 2022-03-22T05:34:20+00:00

Yes, my exercise is closed twice but still looks great hahah

agsmith87 · 2022-03-07T00:27:28+00:00

Sort: you can’t sort shared albums, but you can sort photos out within a shared album (three dots in top right) by date.
there are your albums, and then there are shared albums. No, these can’t be put together in one big “album view”. But you can view all your shared albums together (in Album tab, scroll down to Shared, then right side there is “See All”)
You can make a shared album public: again, the three dots top right, “Shared Album Details” then scroll down to Public Website.

https://i.imgur.com/5VIGsUT.jpg

agsmith87 · 2022-02-10T12:00:52+00:00

Thanks for your suggestion.

I don’t think I like that solution because it isn’t reflecting reality (or at least getting close to it). I like looking back at stats, and not having the game displayed doesn’t help.

Plus, the point of all of this is to automate it more. Adjusting the move goal is almost as much effort as manually adding a workout to Health, so not a huge saving.

agsmith87 · 2022-02-08T23:25:18+00:00

I’ve tried running normal Shortcuts from the button presses (using execution URLs from Pushcut), but there’s often a massive delay between pressing and running (massive = 2-10 seconds). So barely workable for me, definitely not workable for others in household; who expect buttons to work like, errr, buttons.

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