Use Shortcuts (iOS) to Trigger Macro Remotely [Featured "Choose from Macro List"]

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What are the cases that the remote triggers are useful?

Hi @henryone, in the following posts times 2 examples, how I execute KM actions on my iMac via Siri Shortcuts. Thereby the scan is triggered via SSH action and the snapshot with the following alarm and the locking of the keyboard via iCloud Drive....

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Notifications via Pushover Service & Keyboard Maestro

Hi @JimmyHartington, I use 2 types of Siri shortcuts for this. (1) If I use the same network, I use a SSH script action for it. [IMG_2420.PNG] (2) If I am not at home, then I send a text via iCloud Drive to a KM watched folder to run the KM macro. [IMG_2419.PNG] [10)MacBookFoto - iCloud Drive <84FB 210602T091247>] In this video, an example of how to pass a scan to the Finder via Siri (iOS): The possibilities are manifold. With a Siri shortcut in conjunction with a KM mac…

Notifications via Pushover Service & Keyboard Maestro

Thanks for the tip @JimmyHartington I'll check it out. @JimmyHartington and @JMichaelTX here's an example of how I secure my Mac's a bit against unbfuge access: Video The alarm sound at the end is much louder. I only lowered it a bit for the video. In addition to the alarm sound, the keyboard is locked with the app Foil, so that no more inputs can be made. I use this KM / Hazel 5 / Foil - workflow next to the KM 1Password Autofill macro also when waking up the Mac's or wh…

What I do on a daily basis is use Hey Siri to wake my Macs up from sleep and then use a Keyboard Maestro macro to unlock them.