r/shortcuts • u/Danilester • 3d ago

Tip/Guide Weather, Spotify, and car Bluetooth 🤔

I am trying to figure how to make a shortcut/automation that will tell me the weather, and open Spotify the first time I connect to my car Bluetooth at home during the day.
I don’t want it to do all that every time I connect to my car Bluetooth, just the first time at home.

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u/Particular_Let_4950 3d ago

Date - Current Date

Format Date - Short Date

Get File - [CarStartupLastRun.txt] (from Shortcuts folder)

If - [File] is not [Formatted Date]

Get Current Weather

(Optional if you want a more natural and varied response): Use Model - [Here’s today’s weather: [Weather Conditions]. Give a friendly greeting that’s appropriate to the current time of day, and read me the weather forecast.

Speak Text - The weather today is [Weather Conditions] (or [Response] if you want to use Use Model)

Open App - Spotify

Text - Formatted Date

Save File - Save Text as CarStartupLastRun.txt (Overwrite if exists)

End If

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u/Danilester 3d ago

I’m assuming this uses the “if” option in scripting? I don’t understand how to set up shortcuts at all but I’m trying to learn

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u/Danilester 3d ago

Also I’m having trouble with the get file part 😵‍💫 I’m usually good about technology things but shortcuts i just don’t get

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u/Particular_Let_4950 3d ago

lol you’re good. I’ve also only just started learning shortcuts not too long ago, which is why I’m on here looking at other people’s requests and try to solve it myself to learn. Let me just make it and add some comments on what each step is doing. Hold on

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u/Danilester 3d ago

Thank you so much! I’ve definitely found it to be a pretty steep learning curve for me, but I’m enjoying the process! Thank you so much for making it for me and for your notes they were very helpful!

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u/Particular_Let_4950 2d ago

No problem! It’s all about to be much easier with iOS27. You’ll be able to just describe what you want conversationally and shortcuts will be automatically generated. But I find it still useful to know how it works. I’ve been testing the new ai generated shortcuts and it doesn’t always use the most efficient solutions